Category: Getting to Know
While a career in public relations wasn't a good fit for Mary Roach, her curiosity and fascination with strange topics like elephant wart removals and cheetah-sucking flees helped her to take a different career path - as a freelance writer. She wrote columns, essays and feature articles for …
It's fitting that Megan Hilty's fairytale rise to stardom would come via Wicked, a Broadway musical based on Gregory Maguire's reimagining of the classic fairytale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Seattle, Washington native always dreamed of one day performing on a Broadway stage. Hilty began singing at …
Last week, we ran a feature story on John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers, creators of International Talk Like A Pirate Day. One of the topics brought up during our interview with The Pirate Guys was one of the Internet's most heated debates: "Who would …
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is perhaps the only holiday that began as a sport's injury. On June 6, 1995, John Baur and Mark Summers were playing racquetball together when one of them strained a muscle and let out an "Arrr." They had no idea this one …
Most junior high school students can only daydream about making a grand entrance on the red carpet at a big Hollywood premiere and being interviewed by the likes of Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood. But, then again – Zach Cumer isn't most people.
