When the world falls apart some things stay in place/Levi Stubbs' tears run down her face. ...more

October 24, 2008

I've never thought of myself as the classic tea-sipping type, all gussied up in floral prints and a lasso of pearls. But I once threw an elaborate, Second-Hand Rose tea party when my youngest daughter, Lauren, turned 7. ...more

October 22, 2008

I'm not a car buff – far from it. But during the 2008 Caladium Festival I spent an hour or so walking around the Classic Car Show. It quickly became a stroll down memory lane. ...more

September 12, 2008

Cylinda McKibbin sat quietly at a work table in the corner of the room, carefully swirling a brush into paint colors in a dime-store paint set. ...more

July 9, 2008

Cylinda McKibbin sat quietly at a work table in the corner of the room, carefully swirling a brush into paint colors in a dime-store paint set. ...more

July 9, 2008

Cylinda McKibbin sat quietly at a work table in the corner of the room, carefully swirling a brush into paint colors in a dime-store paint set. ...more

July 5, 2008

Kermit Love, a costume designer who helped create Sesame Street's iconic Big Bird character, has died at the age of 91. We never met (I'm speaking of Kermit. Big Bird and I both appeared in an off-Broadway production of "Road House: The Musical" back in the '80s. Ah, good times...wait, that wasn't me.) ...more

June 30, 2008

The lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy in Mississippi in August 1955, riled black America as nothing had done before. But what happened to him in Mississippi had already happened to a black child in Florida a decade earlier, and there was no national outcry for justice. ...more

November 18, 2007

The owners of Casa Tina's Mexican Restaurant, the eatery that cooks up the city's yearly Cinco de Mayo street festival on Main Street, plans to almost triple the size of their restaurant by the new year. ...more

October 20, 2007