The sun’s gone dim, and The moon’s turned black; For I loved him, and He didn’t love back. My daughter came home from school the other day with this Dorothy Parker poem scribbled in 11-year-old penmanship down her palm and onto her wrist. “I got in troub

Let’s put it like this. Suppose you claim that 60% of Americans support policy X. The truth is that only 40% of Americans do. If you’re a Democrat, you’re a filthy liar. But if you’re a Republican, you were two-thirds correct. Hence, “mostly true.” Repub

As England’s national spirit, gin has typically generated every bit as much excitement in these parts as British cuisine. Which is to say, no excitement at all. But gin’s dowdy image has been getting a makeover. It started with the surging interest in re

NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Celebrity super-couples, such as TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes) or Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), seem like a modern-day fad. But the popular media had its own super-couple back in the 1920

A good Cole Porter song — is there another kind? Just when you think it can't get better, it reveals new complexities. "Let's Misbehave," the new show that opened Friday night at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, testifies to

They were defending muffs: big, bouffant ones.