Never has there been a more remarkable time to be a woman. Or more specifically, to be a female consumer. Manufacturers and marketers are working overtime to cross the thresholds of our all-important purses, knowing full well the power we wield with the allowances bestowed upon us by our husbands.
I spend a great deal of time each week Downtown. I have set lunches on Monday and Fridays that put me on the Third Street Promenade. Friday dinner means that you can usually find me at T’s Thai on Fourth, sitting at a table with my travel buddy and his wife, who rarely travels with us to exotic loca
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig recently struck out, big time, by stubbornly refusing to relocate the 82nd All-Star Game from Phoenix, Ariz.
Two weeks ago, a doting grandmother enjoying the beautiful, sunny weather with her infant grandson on Wilshire Boulevard was attacked by a disheveled, middle-aged man who forcibly tried to wrench the strapped-in 1-year-old from his stroller.
When Shakespeare spoke of Brutus betraying Julius Caesar, it was such an awful act that Shakespeare broke the rules of grammar when he said, “This was the most unkindest cut of all.
Q: I am a business owner and recently had my business broken into. It appears as though the suspect jumped my fence to get onto the property. I was thinking about placing barbed wiring on top on my fence to prevent people from jumping over.
As a boy I loved almost all sports — but not tennis. The game seemed too “country clubish” for me. Plus it was slow and the scoring was strange. For example, zero was called “love.
In the 1980s, the South African government considered HIV/AIDS a “gay disease,” and so they ignored it. In the 1990s, they saw it as a gigantic conspiracy, with political and racial motivations, and so they ignored it.
Dear New Shrink, It seems to be the season for vacations and getaways. As a result I have booked a vacation and would like your advice for making the most of it.
It’s happened three times since Christmas. We have met three honorably-discharged Iraqi and/or Afghanistan war veterans that were homeless. They were all very young and had one thing in common.
These are the good times. I was driving through the country last Saturday, looking at deer happily chowing down in wheat fields. Every place is a drive-through if you’re a herbivore at this time of year.
