Salon - adept at plainspoken poetry (”Somehow trust was caught / between the cracks on my lips / And the scars in my heart / And this burden on my hips”) and scathing putdowns (”Look out, your zipper’s gonna break / And out pops your little party favor Read more

Independent Online - In the morning, males throw water at females and spank them with a special willow rod whip, which is usually from half a metre to 2 metres long and decorated with coloured ribbons. The spanking is symbolic and normally not painful. A legend says Read more

MSN MoneyCentral - Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that Disney Princess Easter baskets sold at discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. contains a choking hazard. The baskets, made by Gemmy Industries Corp., in Coppell, Texas, has silver beads and ribbons Read more

Times Daily - Along Alabama 101 into the Hatton community, several of the ribbons decorated mailboxes leading to the school and could have been confused as having been placed in support of the Hornets’ athletic programs, which share the same color. But the blue Read more

San Francisco Gate - Swig said he remembers the ladies’ hats, straw bonnets decorated with orange and black ribbons, buttons and Giants pennants in a since-abandoned Opening Day tradition. Graf said many of the men had come from the office, wearing white shirts but Read more