Mrs. Obama on the line at Miriam’s Kitchen; photo courtesy of Choice Photography. Last week, Michelle Obama made news by serving a meal at Miriam’s Kitchen, a DC social service agency. Miriam’s Kitchen feeds 4,000 people each year, mostly from fresh, wholesome ingredients. I caught up with...

When WREG-TV in Memphis began investigating complaints about local locksmiths recently, the station discovered that locksmiths would quote customers one price when they started a job. After it was complete, they would hand the customer a much larger bill than expected. News Director Bruce Moore said...

A few days ago, I had a facial (more on that soon), and at the end of my session, my specialist applied Juice Beauty’s SPF 30 tinted moisturizer. Woah. Now, I realize that we are all especially dewy and glow-faced after a fabulous facial (which this was), but can I say, my face felt even bette...

An influential former Iranian prime minister said Tuesday that he will run in the upcoming presidential election, posing what could be a serious pro-reform challenge to the hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....

I talk a lot of smack about sustainable food. About the unexpected pleasures of farmer’s markets, about voting with one’s fork, about “local economies” this and “food miles” that. But here’s my dirty little secret: it wasn’t that long ago that I fed my daughter a stea...

Image courtesy of Pawel Maciejewski You’re stressed, overworked, and tired. You feel like you’re dropping the ball on so many things. You find yourself lying awake in the early hours, thinking about those items still on your to-do list, those emails not yet cleared. One day, some little incident...

Trying to decide what denim to add to your wardrobe? The trends are constantly changing, and it’s hard to stay on top of them. As a way of help, I chatted with Kim McGowan, co-founder of a newly launched Markdown Alert. They track sale apparel, accessories and shoes from designers and retailer...

Toward the end of last year, something happened. I still can’t say what, exactly, I just know it happened almost overnight. For two years, I’d been reading and blogging almost exclusively about food. I’d devoured articles about CAFOs and corn, downer cows and diabetes, subsidies and school lun...

In the days and weeks since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, conservatives have distorted its provisions in a desperate attempt to mislead the public about what the package will do. First they mocked parks preservation funds as spending on “grass.” Then ...

During his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, Rush Limbaugh got some of his loudest applause when he declared that President Obama’s policies represent a “bastardization of the Constitution.” He attempted to prove his devotion to the document...