| Michigan State Fair highlights
The Michigan State Fair continues through Monday at the corner of Eight Mile and Woodward Avenue in Detroit. It's open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily, with contests, family entertainment, pony and elephant rides, cooking shows, the Miracle of Life birthing event and the new Michigan Hall of Fame Fan Fest exhibit. .
Food Network Personality and Chef Bobby Flay "Throwsdown" With Jamaica's Nigel Spence, Executive Chef of New York's ...
Food Network celebrity chef and personality, Bobby Flay, goes "grill to grill" with Jamaica's own Nigel Spence, owner of Ripe Kitchen and Bar in Mount Vernon, New York on "Throwdown with Bobby Flay" airing this Sunday, August 12 at 10 p.m. on The Food Network. .
Running a top-class restaurant is as easy as falling off a motorbike
FOR an engineer who literally fell into a hospitality career when he crashed his motorbike, Scottish gourmet and hotelier Maurice Taylor hasn't done too badly. With a portfolio of 12 mid-range hotels and about to open his third French restaurant in Scotland, Taylor, 66, is technically on the brink of retirement - but is refusing to take a back seat to his daughter, Nicola, just yet. .
Candidates call for war on cancer
Cedar Rapids, Ia. - Democratic presidential candidates vowed Monday to renew the "War on Cancer" that President Richard Nixon declared in 1971.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio headlined the first-of-its-kind forum, organized by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Armstrong, the cancer survivor and former bicycle racing superstar, helped question the candidates, who wore his group's yellow "Livestrong" bracelets.
The U.S. Cellular Center event drew about 2,000 people, including many wearing the trademark yellow of cancer survivors. They watched as the Democratic candidates attacked the Bush administration for cutting research money to the National Cancer Institute.
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