Culture |
Millennials are less likely to buy and use a car than their
baby-boomer parents, the US Public Interest Research
Group (PIRG) concluded earlier this…
Culture |
“Taboo,” as defined in the online dictionary I consulted, is “a ban
or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.”
If you and I…
Culture |
President Obama gave two commencement addresses in one to graduates
of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend. It would be
easy for this conservative…
Music |
Younger listeners, enchanted by the warm and open sounds records
offer, are setting aside their iPods and dusting off their parent’s
old turntables
Culture |
The ad starts with a soft choral singing of “California Dreaming,”
and small white balls falling out of the sky like snowflakes onto
sequoia forests, the…
Newsworthy |
Easier being green. The IRS is not the only federal agency making
it difficult for conservative groups. The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is getting…
Culture |
Columbia University announced this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners
yesterday. Although most of the awards are for journalism, both
reporting and photography,
Parenting |
Twenty-two years ago, my military-wife friends and I used to spend
our Friday evenings at Victoria’s Secret looking for something
special to wear when our…
Movies |
Famed movie critic Roger Ebert, who wielded one of the nation’s
most influential thumbs, has died at age 70. Ebert first started
writing movie reviews for…
