And so now I have a great time!" On the first day of South By Southwest 2010, word came of the death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Alex Vatanka,a senior Middle East analyst for the Britain-based Jane's Publishing Group, says that compounded official anger about Western broadcasts to Iran when it was already the target of broadcasts by Voice of America's own Persian News Network.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Alex Ocean, an elementary school teacher whose Port-au-Prince school is now closed because of the quake, says he hopes that aid distribution in the camp will become better organized and that there will be international help with reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02