SOUR SWEETS

There’s nothing like that big heart-shaped box of chocolates that you’re bound to get for Valentine’s Day each year. Unless, of course, sweets just aren’t your thing. Now, treat yourself to something sour and your taste buds dance.

If that’s the case for you or any of your friends, surprise them this Valentine’s Day with a bag of Sour Marshmallow Hearts ($5) from Jelly Belly.

LITHONIA, Ga. _ Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the civil rights movement, went home on Tuesday and hers was a funeral service that made angels of singers and preachers of politicians and beloved mourners of the 10,000 who poured into New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta.

A giant iron gate was opened and lead guests to two rows of trees draped in white lights that glistened every so slightly with rain beating down hard on them. Umbrellas were opened and moved towards a gothic style mansion that towered over the ground below with its high roofs, turrets and tall chimneys.

In his new book, Poeticized Culture: The Role of Irony in Rawls’s Liberalism, James Hersh, director of Via and professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University, raises the question of whether liberal democracy allows citizens to hold literal or absolute religious beliefs.

Ben Banning is the youngest and newest member of Abbey Rhode at age 39. He grew up liking the Beatles, but not to the extent of Flanders, Davis and Sullivan. At the age of 15, he began playing the drums, and has since been in such bands as Powerhouse and Third Generation Roach Bomb.