Dear Niki,
So I’m engaged to the most wonderful man, and he has the most amazing family. However I’m having a problem with the wedding planning with his mother. His parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner and are taking control of who should be invited, but it’s our wedding rehearsal. I also hate the place […]

By BEN SZMANDA
This is what I like about Elizabeth Inness-Brown: She knows that when you’re a kid, you lean backwards and put your hands behind your head because that’s what you do in cartoons and in old movies when you’re relaxed. She knows this fact, and innumerable other childhood truths, and details them in “Territory,” […]

By ROXY RETAIL
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[[Editor’s note: I know my mom reads the site, and so do her friends. And I’d advice them against reading this column. It’s not family-friendly]]
Jordan – ya know, ex-late night, ex-sex and relationships – and yours truly were helping our friend get ready for a date, recently.
Okay, it wasn’t a date. It was […]

By MICHELLE L.
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Children of Men (2006)
How would mankind react to the possibility of extinction? Some turn to God, some turn to violence, and others just wait to die. Theo (Clive Owen of Closer and King Arthur), a man who was once an activist against injustice, loses his will to fight after “chance” deals […]

by Cathy S
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Chris Sligh was almost everyone’s pick to be in the bottom three this week. He kept getting the same comment from the judges week after week that his vocals are good, but he is rushing the tempo. I think America could see that since he hadn’t been able to improve on […]

By LANIE PIMENTEL
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Oh, the life of a freelancer. No medical benefits. No retirement benefits. If you want the benefit of a day off, by all means, take it. But don’t look for that “personal day” benefit. We work holidays. We park further away than the staff employees.
Freelance has its ups and downs. […]