News (Updated 8/26/08)
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Watch for Dave's coverage of the political conventions at MiamiHerald.com, beginning Monday; columns are on this page.

Dave Goes to the DNC

1 - Mile-High Drama
2 - Denver - It's Not Easy Being Green
3 - The Floor Exercise

Dave Goes to the Olympics
... .......
Dave at the Great Wall. And at the other Great Wall.

1 - Lost in Translation
2 - Is This Wall Great or What?

3 - Tastes Like Chicken

4 - Dave Gets Around
5 - A Night At The Opera
6 - The Name Game
7 - This Little Columnist Goes to Market
8 - Are You Ready to Rock and Roll?
9 - The City of Harmonious Harmony
10 - Beijing: It's Been Real

Visit Dave's photo gallery.
And don't forget to check the blog for daily updates.

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Videos of Dave

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BREAKING BOOK NEWS: Dave and Ridley have signed with Disney Editions for a fourth book in the Starcatcher series:
Peter and the Sword of Mercy

Publication is scheduled for Fall of 2009

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New Book News: The new YA book from Dave and Ridley Pearson is called Science Fair. Publication is scheduled for October 2008; see the Events page for book tour details.

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NEW COLUMNS:

Dave and the Dolphins (June)

Miami Drivers (April)

Dave Hits the Silver Screen (April)

Dave Does His Taxes (April)

Florida's Presidential Primary - Voting Method (March)

Dave's World - The Colonoscopy (Feb.)

Florida's Presidential Primary - South Beach (Feb.)

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Two classic columns (Just for Being Americans and 100 Years of Ineptitude) have been added to the Stuff page.

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Dave's World makes it to DVD.

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The Presidential Campaign Surging Juggernaut Random-Question Interview
has moved to a new site.

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Miami Herald links have changed. Dave's columns are now on this page; please email us if you find links to the old site!

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Check the Events page for upcoming public appearances

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Dave chatted live about presidential politics here

Dave's newest column about Florida's primary

Dave's campaign video
(Purchase items featured in this video from the Dave Barry store)

For all of Dave's coverage of the other candidates in their futile race to beat him to the White House, click the "Columns" tab to go to the column page at MiamiHerald.com

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A new interview is available

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2007 Year in Review


Read the chat with Dave about 2007.

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The FAQ has been updated and a new column added to the "Stuff" page at some point. This is not, technically, news. It may not have been updated recently. Yet this item remains on the News page just in case.

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Gift Guide 2007 - For all your holiday shopping needs
Check out previous Gift Guides here

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New Book News

Recently published: The sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers and Peter and the Shadow Thieves, written with Ridley Pearson:

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

Dave and Ridley spoke Saturday at the Miami Book Fair. It's available for viewing at iTunes.

Dave and Ridley are currently working on a new book together; it's called Science Fair.

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The campaign juggernaut keeps rolling.

The Presidential Campaign Surging Juggernaut Random-Question Interview
New questions "answered" nearly every day

The Presidential Campaign Surging Juggernaut video

The Presidential Campaign Surging Juggernaut Store

Wear your support for the candidate¹ on your sleeve. (Or chest, head, or dog.)

Bumper stickers are now available

Thanks to Jen Smith for website/image assistance for the 2008 campaign.

¹You know.

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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

Book tour highlights:

Q&A

Book Review 1 - Review 2

Book excerpt

Report on Ft. Worth event

And of course, the presidential juggernaut Q&A

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American Idol Miami: It's early Monday morning, and on the north side of AmericanAirlines Arena is a densely packed crowd of thousands of people who truly believe they have exceptional musical talent. They've been herded between barricades, where they've been waiting patiently in the humid darkness, some of them for hours, not unlike cattle, except that instead of mooing, every minute or so somebody deep in the sweating mass belts out a random snippet of a song such as Unchained Melody, as if this person simply cannot hold his or her talent inside any longer without exploding in a blinding fireball of musical excellence. . . .

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ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS

New Remainders videos are here.

The Rock Bottom Remainders played the BEA on May 31 and June 1, 2007.

Video and photos of the performances at Good Morning America and Webster Hall are available here.

Video with Steve Martin interviewing the band (begins on May 4th blog item), and band members committing various acts of music, for which we are not responsible.

INTERVIEW with Dave and Ridley

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The FAQ has been updated. This is not, technically, news. Nor has it been updated recently. Yet this item remains on the "News" page.

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Dave visited University of Miami's "Off the Wire" TV program

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Dave writes about the Weirdness Magnet of South Florida and its effect on the Anna Nicole Smith trial

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INTERVIEW on blogging about "24"

INTERVIEW - MEET THE WRITERS with BarnesandNoble.com

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Dave blogged LIVE from the Super Bowl

Dave's Super Bowl columns:

Visitors Guide

We're on our Best Behavior

Media Day

Security Update

Game Day Guide

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A new column about Dave's vacation

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It's 2007(yes, it's true) but
we can look back at 2006 with Dave's
YEAR IN REVIEW
12/31/06

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YOUR ONE-STOP HOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE for 2006

The CBS-4 promo for it is here.

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Looking for an old column?
See the FAQ on the "About Dave" page.
Or check out the miscellaneous columns on the "Stuff" page. (And let us know if you have a favorite you'd like to see there. Newest addition: Dave's cover story on the weirdness of Miami, also known as The DeSillers Effect.)


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News about Dave's column
Dave's interview with Editor and Publisher, reprinted by permission of the interviewer

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From US News and World Report:
Dave on his college life

From Al.com:
Archived chat with Dave

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Dave Takes a Break
from
his weekly column,
beginning in January
(Just the column! Really!
Everything's fine!)

Dave's "final" column

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Interviews with Dave - updated 4/4
"My Newspaper Career" on the About Dave page
New columns added to the Classic Columns page

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New stuff on the stuff page
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Bored at work? No life, no friends? Might as well waste some time at:

Dave's Blog

Submit an item for the blog:
daveblog@herald.com

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