>> Sigh. It's the last night of Fort Reno, which means summer is officially ending soon. Hopefully it'll dry out in time to make this a great final concert -- scheduled to play are drag-rocker Edie Sedgwick, Sentai, and the adorable Eyeball Skeleton, a Maryland band featuring brothers age 8 and 10 (plus their dad) who are known to sing the lyric "eyeball skeleton" over and over again in what sound almost like fake... more ›

We don't know about any of you, but last summer we got pretty excited about the race for the future -- that of privately funded and manned space travel. The showdown for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which culminated in the victory of Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, was a welcome distraction from the daily grind. Instead of worrying about an endless inbox of unreturned e-mails, we worried about whether the The Da Vinci team had finally secured a launch license. more ›