MASTERS OF THEIR DOMAIN I don’t want to really review the show itself, but more the change it made in our world. If I was to focus on individual events in the 9 year span of the show, I could be here for days. We all have our favourite moments and characters. Far be it from me to tell you whic...

This blog has often been silent for long periods while I’m working hard on something. This time I think it was worth it. With a few good friends, I’ve started Minds + Machines, and from now on most of my posting is happening on the Minds + Machines blog. While I was searching for a regis...

— With its change to a Web-only feature, Poet’s Choice is evolving. We’ll be asking a different poet each week to share with us a poem he or she has written. Mary Karr, who has been our eloquent columnist since March 2008, starts us off on this new format — — Saudi men ...

Elaine Paige loves feeling on top of the world in Les Arcs and tennis in Miami but will only take a dip if the water's warm....

For the last eight years, America's workers have had the crap kicked out of them by the Bush administration and Republicans on the Hill. We had an anti-labor Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao, who is married to the vehemently anti-labor GOP Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell. Those two are worth millions ...

  A Guide to Women’s Shoes for Men By Elaine Viets The Lipstick Chronicles works hard to promote understanding between the sexes. Today, I’ve volunteered to help men translate this sentence: "I need a pair of black shoes." These simple words have different meanings for men and wo...

  Get Me a Live Human By Elaine Viets "Get me a live human, you idiot!" I screamed into the phone. My husband, Don, in the other room, asked, "Did you say something?" Yes, dear. I was arguing with a computer-generated voice. I used to hate these robot voices, but now I find...

Killer Cold By Elaine Viets Recently, I woke up under a pile of blankets, bathrobes and two cats. The Fort Lauderdale temperature had plummeted to 29 degrees. Weather forecasters called it an "Arctic cold front." I called it freaking cold. It felt like two below. Go ahead, TLC readers who ...

  Shakira is 32 Christie Brinkley is 55 Tom Smothers is 72 Graham Nash is 67 Bassist Ross Valory is 60 Farrah Fawcett is 62 Ben Mize is 38. Michael Talbott is 54 Bo Hopkins is 67 Robert DeLeo is 43 Rapper T-Mo is 37 Elaine Stritch is 84 Marissa Jaret Winokur is 36...

Smell that fresh air? A new breeze is blowing. Ever since the Wagner Act legalizing unionization passed 74 years ago, right wingers have been trying to gut it. Corporations at first ignored it altogether until forced by the Supreme Court to surrender their opposition. With a post-Roosevelt Republica...