HONOLULU (AP) Officials have closed Hanauma Bay after dozens of box jellyfish were spotted in the bay. A spokesman for the Honolulu Emergency Services Department says the bay was closed around 7:30 a.m. Sunday after lifeguards counted more than 40 box jellyfish in less than an hour.

Hanauma Bay was closed Monday, for a second day in a row, because of an influx of box jellyfish.

City officials will decide today whether to reopen Hanauma Bay, which was closed yesterday after a box jellyfish influx.

Marine biology in the desert? Mesa Community College has a program and is studying an unusual invertebrate.

Nature's most majestic, mysterious, and captivating creature is the inspiration for American DJ's new, unique LED-powered effectthe Jellyfish. Like its namesake, the Jellyfish radiates color through a clear outershell.

Intellpuke: This commentary was written by Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, writing from Manchester, England. In his commentary, which appeared in the Guardian edition for Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, Mr.

Has it been long enough since the Great Pork Belly Craze of 2005 to stage a revival? The people who care about fashion have sneeringly returned bacon to its populist origins, though bacon is still giddy from the attention and just starting to realize it can't get into the VIP lounges anymore. Bra...

What with Valentine's Day around the corner, Nob Hill Gazette (a local publication whose motto, "...an attitude, not an address," let's you know that Nob Hill is the neighborhood in SF) released its Annual Eligibles List , a directory of crestfallen, lonely locals, which was made famous back in the day by SF Weekly 's Laurel Wellman . A few notables who made the 2010 list: Anna Alioto ("water ...

Imaginocean, a new family musical adventure created and written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Avenue Q, Shrek the Musical) will begin performances at New World Stages March 17.

When visiting museums, children are accustomed to seeing signs reading Do Not Touch, however, when one natural history center brings its exhibits to the children, it encourages just the opposite.

Late flowerings that rage against the imminent dying of the light are not especially unusual. Titian painted into his 80s; W B Yeats, late in his 70s, wrote, in the final stanza of a late, great poem, of nymphs and satyrs boisterously copulating in the foam. John Cowper Powys wrote the finest of his novels during his 70s. Call it, if you like, a kind of manic exuberance before the shutters ...

CHICAGO - Jennifer Stark of Madison, Wisconsin has joined New Dimension Media as Director of Instructional Technology for Wisconsin.

Originally, I intended to start this column with the following: "Here we are, two days into 2010 and nothing bad has happened."

Akiko Higashimura's story of all-female-otaku apartments with 1 special guest

Leviathan By Scott Westerfeld 2009 Ages 12 and up The history of the beginning of World War I takes an explosively imaginative turn into science fiction in Leviathan. In Scott Westerfelds creation in the steampunk genre, remnants of historical characters and events provide the backdrop for conflict between machines and

Sundance Channel is following sister Rainbow Media network AMC into the scripted series realm, leading off this fall with a three-night miniseries, Carlos, starring Edgar Ramirez as the famed international terrorist.

Some movies need but an open mind and open arms to achieve something memorable. While "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" is a flighty and, at times, lost example of one, it is indeed one of those films. Crafted by co-writer/director Terry Gilliam, whose noticeably French-influenced style of filmmaking makes him particularly interesting to keep track of, "Parnassus" will keep you as confused ...

Korean woman, 24, thrown from buggy after driving it over a rock face on Hamilton Island.

PLEASANT PLAINS There was a short time, a little more than four years ago, when Paul Kastner wasnt sure he would return as the girls basketball coach at Pleasant Plains High School. But he saw the potential that was coming in a group of talented freshmen.

Scientists film the giant serpent-like oarfish in its natural deep sea habitat in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time.

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Beaches across far north Queensland reopened yesterday afternoon four days after they were closed due to the potentially fatal irukandji jellyfish.

Passion is the reason Dr Bryan Fry does what he does. Zoe Nikakis reports.