70 years ago Monday, Rosa Parks declined to give up her seat to white riders of a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Her arrest kicked off a 382 bus boycott that helped lead to the end of bus segregation. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Luke Knox, Creative Director at ESPN, on digital sports storytelling newspaperdesign.org/2025/11/27/d...

BREAKING: after being responsible for the asylum granted to the DC shooting suspect, Trump awards himself dictatorial rights to "reverse" immigration and expel anybody he doesn't like

Elvis mustered out of the Army in 1960, returned to the U.S. and resumed his recording career. He had three giant No. 1 hits that year. The third of those, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" hit No. 1 65 years ago today.

Some of what we know — or what we think we know — about the first Thanksgiving in 1621 has been overtaken by myth. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review is a Turkey Day fact check.

Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity. What did the theory say? What did it mean? And whaddya mean he had TWO Theories of Relativity? My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review attempts to explain all...

Everyone swoons over Elon Musk and space travel but let's remember Wallace and Gromit went to the Moon for a cheese holiday in 1989.

Refs in Kansas City caused CBS' Jim Nantz to initially call a TD on this Rashee Rice out of bounds catch Tony Romo: "He was out a by a tushy"

A half-century ago today, "Opening Soon at a Theater Near You" featuring newspaper movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert debuted on Chicago's WTTW. Perhaps you'll give a "thumbs up" to my Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review...

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

Quiet, piggy. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia...

Quiet, Piggy

Me: "Do you want me to look into your eyes when I put it in my mouth?” Cop: "Ma'am, just blow into the breathalyzer please."

The first Pixar movie, "Toy Story," opened 30 years ago Saturday. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review takes readers "to infinity ... and beyond!"

When John Lennon was my age, he had been dead for 23 years.

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Christmas gifts. You know you need to start shopping. Make it easy on yourself. Give the gift that any book lover will enjoy: "Further Review: The Stories Behind the History You Thought You Knew." Find it at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Further-Revi...

Mama ... Just built a page ... About Queen and singer Fred, don't waste a minute 'til it's read ... My Further Review on this hit song, a half-century old now, in today's Spokesman-Review.

Paul Simon said it best in his lyrics to "The Boxer"... "Lie-la-lie / Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie / Lie-la-lie / Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie / Lie-lie-lie-lie-lie." www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/p...

I thought some of you might be hoppy to know that Mark Twain published his first short story, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," 160 years ago today. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Somebody mentioned my career a couple of weeks ago, so I thought it might be time to update my career job longevity chart... Yeah, I've held my current job much longer than any other job I've ever worked.

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Heads up, everybody... www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

"Home Alone" starring 9-year-old Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern and Catherine O'Hara was released 35 years ago today. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher was released a half-century ago next Wednesday. It would win five Oscars, including Best Leading Actor and Actress, Best Director and Best Picture. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

So we get back to Rock Hill today ... we decide to stroll through the buildings where most of my art and communications classes were held ... and we run slap into Terry Plumb, who was my editor at the Rock Hill Herald from 1988 to 1993.

85 years ago today, Walt Disney's orchestral masterpiece "Fantasia" premiered at New York's Broadway Theater -- the same venue where "Steamboat Willie" had debuted, 12 years before. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Well! This quote seems particularly timely today. I've never seen this quote before. Came across it today while researching topics to consider building pages on next year.

Sharon and I are headed back to our old college town (Winthrop College) of Rock Hill, S.C., this week for Sharon's 40th graduation reunion. This will be the first time we've set foot in that city -- where we lived for so long in the early 1990s -- since my aborted move back there in 2008.

55 years ago next Monday, Douglas Englebart of the Stanford Research Institute was granted a patent for the computer mouse. Most of us didn't see a mouse until the introduction of the Macintosh computer, 14 years later. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

India-born Journalism professor Sonora Jha @sonorajha.bsky.social released her fourth book last month. It's getting all sorts of great reviews. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

35 years ago Sunday, "Dances With Wolves" produced by, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, went into limited release in U.S. theaters. The film would be nominated for 12 Oscars. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

60 years ago today, the U.S. and Cuban governments agreed to allow regular emigration airplane flights aimed at reunifying Cuban families who had loved ones in the U.S. Freedom Flights would begin Dec. 1, 1965. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

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The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior a half-century ago next Monday. And a year later, Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot released a song about the sinking. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

85 years ago this coming Friday, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state twisted and danced in a windstorm and then collapsed. The bridge was only four months old. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

The best TRUE Halloween story you'll read this year. (Gift article from The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Also in today's paper is our basketball preview section, which is themed with Halloween, and trick-or-treating in comic book hero costumes. In my page about Gonzaga, I focused on the treats. Text by our sports editor, Ralph Walter.

15 years ago tonight, the zombie apocalypse TV series "The Walking Dead" debuted on AMC. It would last for 11 seasons and spawn several spinoff series. This is the first of my two Further Review pages in today's Spokesman-Review.

95 years ago today, "American Gothic" by Iowa painter Grant Wood first went on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. The models were Wood's sister and his dentist. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Squeaky wishes you all a very happy National Cat Day.

75 years ago Saturday, while renovations were going on at the White House, two men attempted to shoot there way into the Blair House to assassinate President Harry Truman. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

“You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why having wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

Alexandre Calderón, Graphic Editor at El Financiero, Mexico, on the creative process behind developing infographics and data visualizations. newspaperdesign.org/2025/10/27/r...

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Travis Kelce is teaming up with activist investors in hopes of transforming the embattled theme park operator Six Flags. No word yet on a Taylor Swift-themed rollercoaster.

55 years ago today, "Doonesbury" was launched in 28 newspapers across the country. By the next year it was in 150 daily papers. By 1975, it won a Pulitzer Prize. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

“That's like an existential threat for congressional power…How do you negotiate a longer-term spending deal…when you don't believe the executive branch is going to implement whatever choices it is that you put into that law?" Via Reuters