The chief organizer of the third annual Month Without Metaphor says we're losing ground in the fight against the unncessary embellishment of the news. "Plain speaking is disappearing and not bit by bit, but minute by minute," says Alvin Tinamou, publisher of The Avian Messenger and one of the initiative's founders. In an interview with The Mammalian Daily, Tinamou quoted statistics that he says indicate the market for what he calls "the plain, … [Read all...]
Breaking News
OTD in 2016—Typos rule: Moth new face of Enforced Domestication Awareness Month
First, it was the missing letter in “Beasts” that turned the annual charity music festival into the “Beats of Burden.” Then, it was the Does of Peace, The Park's newest peacekeeping group and 2015 Mammalian Daily Animals of the Year. Now, the organizers of June's Enforced Domestication Awareness Month (EDAM) have named the campaign's first official ambassador. And she's a Moth. "We couldn't believe it happened again," Hercule Parrot told The … [Read all...]
OTD in 2016—Park Museum confirms basketball theft
BREAKING NEWS The basketball that belongs to Mammalian Daily sports columnist and balls specialist Bailey has disappeared from The Park Museum. The ball—seen in the middle at the top of the display at left— was lent to the museum by Bailey and formed an important part of the "Flyball and the Importance of Balls in the Everyday Life of Park Animals" exhibit, which opened on May 8. In a joint statement released early this morning, the museum and … [Read all...]
OTD in 2017—Tickets for Burrow Theatre’s Aracari gala opening performance go on sale today
Tickets for the gala opening of the second in Gianfranco Colocolo's three-part mystery series will go on sale this afternoon at one o’clock, The Burrow Theatre announced this morning. Aracari, which was written by the award-winning author of Murder at the Fishbowl, has been in previews for a few weeks and will begin its regular run on 3 June. The opening also marks the directorial début of the trilogy's star, Millicent Hayberry, for … [Read all...]
More Park News
OTD in 2012—Has Anixi Agrarian Jubilee become too politicized?
A day after the most successful and best-attended Agrarian Jubilee in history, a menacing question hangs in the air: is the annual celebration becoming too politicized? Organizers of the event, … [Read All About It Here...]
OTD in 2015—Park Finance Office head Valentina Abeja to present 2016 budget in August
Citing, among other things, the need for more time to consider the input of citizens, the head of the Park Finance Office (PFO) confirmed that she will not be able to present a 2016 budget before … [Read All About It Here...]
OTD in 2015—Anselm Alpaca, former Mammalian Daily reporter and columnist, dies at 19
BREAKING NEWS Former Mammalian Daily reporter and columnist Anselm Alpaca has died. In a statement released this morning, Alpaca's family confirmed that he died "of natural causes" last night at the … [Read All About It Here...]
Accolades from Margaret Atwood
The Mammalian Daily “Lightens The Morning Cup o’ Gloom,” says Margaret Atwood
