Passover is four weeks away, so tonight my mother and I started putting together our menu. I'll be making gefilte fish, as I always do, plus my vegetarian matzoh balls and a Middle Eastern-inflected salad of butter lettuce with grapefruit and avocado. We'll have classic Ashkenazi charoset, of course...

There you see Sarah receiving her first belt at her taekwondo class. The final part of her belt test involved kicking through a board. I expected it to be some kind of styrofoam or balsa or something–she’s only four years old after all. But no, it was a pine plank, and a decently thick o...

In this week's Star: hilarious and slightly depressing "gossip" from Levi Johnston's bitchy, MySpace-y sister Mercede! Do you care about the petty dramas of unwed teen parents in far-off Alaska? You do if it also involves Parallel Universe Vice President Sarah Palin, who ascended to the post of Empr...

Chuck Norris wants to give up.  He doesn't think it's worth fighting anymore, and that we should just get out.  Who's "we" and what does "get out" mean? In this case, "we" is apparently those who hate most or all the rest of America, and "get out" means seceding from the union: When I appe...

Filed under: Celebrity Fashion Mistakes Celebrity StyleFoul The NME awards are notorious for eccentric fashion choices, but none of them could compare to the outfit "created" by "music artist" La Roux. Wow. Getty Images Naomi's extra-long gown at the Vanity Fair Oscar afterparty seemed familiar. So ...

  Hillary Clinton told everyone about falling in love with Bill Clinton. Of course, they only want to hear about how she fell out of love with Bill Clinton. By the way, where did Rielle Hunter get the name Frances Bean from? Young women mistakenly think men want potential female partners to dri...

Granted, British comedian Russell Brand isn't for everyone, and I think there are some people at the BBC who would agree. But, I just love the guy to bits. Sure he's strange and a little bit of a lecher, but damn is he funny. When rumors first started to surface that Brand was being considered to ta...

Our favorite domestic terrorist, and poster child for hippies with Daddy issues, Kathleen Soliah (aka Sarah Jane Olson) is coming home! That's right gang, coming soon to a neighborhood near you, we'll be having all the fun of the 60's and 70's again now that our favorite progressive thinker (and SLA...

The Newspaper is Dead; Long Live the Newspaper By Sarah It is time for the daily newspaper as we know it to die. I say that not only as a former newspaper reporter, but also as someone who came into this world supported by a newspaperman's salary. Growing up, the Axis of Evil went something like...

Remember David Kernell? He's the punk who allegedly hacked into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A University of Tennessee student charged with hacking into the personal e-mail account of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor and former Republican vice presidential nominee, plea...