Ain’t nothin’ like a man in dress uniform. Sprinkle in a few medals and salutes, some polish, a shiny sword and broad shoulder to lean on and it’ll make a woman’s knees crumple. I know this because many, many moons ago, I attended a Marine Corps ball w …
What can we say about Disney revisiting yet again the charming tales of a hunny-loving stuffed bear and his curious, kindhearted friends in the Hundred Acre Wood? Quite a lot, actually. And all of it good.
Do you hate anyone enough to post a vicious YouTube video rant against them? (Please say no, even if you’re lying to me. It’s already been a traumatic month.) In our strident, express-yourself-even-if-you’re-being-a-jerk culture, there are plenty of pe …
Fresh-faced, bubbly and very much in love—or at least with the idea of love—Colbie Caillat returns with “All of You.” So is it all that or just a piece?
Warring robots? Check. Cities leveled? Check. Shia LaBeouf feeling underappreciated? Check. Gratuitous close-ups of a new actress’s curvy figure? Check. Must be a new Transformers movie.
I didn’t know who Ryan Dunn was until a few days before he died, when I happened to watch part of the NBC game show Minute to Win It when he was one of the contestants. And though I didn’t watch the red-haired, bushy-bearded 34-year-old for very long, …
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. The Catcher in the Rye. Bridge to Terabithia. Such were the scandalous teen fiction titles in the late 20th century. Though I read all of them as an adolescent in the 1980s, it wasn’t without firm counsel and conce …
Like melting, neon-colored popsicles, there’s a lot of sugar but not much substance when it comes to this infectious summertime collaboration between Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera.
For generations, parents have told their kids, “Shut off the TV and go outside!” And in the last decade or so, we can add iPods, the Internet, cell phones and video games to the “Turn it off!” list as well. But a recent study from The Barna Group (a Ch …
A colleague and I sometimes laugh about weird headlines. My favorites from the past week or so include “Fearsome Lawn Ornament Shot Dead by Cops,” “Proven: Sharks Love AC/DC” and “Roads to Close for Zombie Mayhem in Atlanta Suburb.” But this headline g …
Even though I was an English major, I still took two classes in anatomy and physiology in college. In addition to memorizing the names of organs, muscles and processes, deciphering genetics, denaturing proteins and dissecting cats, I learned that your …
Goku isn’t animated in this latest take on the ‘Dragonball’ brand. Will his flesh-and-blood status help or hurt him as he tries to gather up all seven dragonballs and stop evil from overtaking the universe?
There are professional storm-chaser videos, and then there are WHAT-are-you-thinking-you-lunatic storm-chaser videos. Not long after the most recent siege of devastating tornados ripped across the country, I saw the latter, amateurish type of video on …
I bite my tongue a lot whenever I’m let loose in public. The other day at a large, upscale mall in Denver, I almost bit it off. A toddler was dressed in high-heeled sandals, a very short skirt and a camisole. Her curly hair was pulled up in a frilly ba …
Tap, tap, tap. Hey, is this soapbox on? Because a good mini-diatribe needs amplification. A new Arizona State University study has found that (and I quote the research): [Women] were asked to choose whether they would rather be obese or have one of 12 …
