Pass the gravy - plus the phone and the remote control. It's dinnertime in America. ...more

November 16, 2009

Already in a new location at 2190 Lakeview Drive, Gilbert Drugs' owners Jack and Patricia Kasmer will seek a $1,350 façade grant at today's Community Redevelopment Agency meeting for three new Norman Rockwell-style murals. ...more

November 9, 2009

Most new murals are now banned from the historic district, even though an artist whose painting touched off a controversy said his work was misunderstood. ...more

October 21, 2009

How best to ensure the bird will stay moist? Give it a bath. ...more

November 14, 2008

There are some moments when members of a political movement come together as one, sharing the same thoughts, feeling the same emotions, breathing the same shallow breaths. One of those occasions occurred Thursday night when Republicans around the country crouched nervously behind their sofas, glimpsed out tentatively at their flat screens and gripped their beverages tightly as Sarah Palin walked onto the debate stage at Washington University in St. Louis. ...more

October 5, 2008

"First, we're going to do giant big steps," proclaimed Brice Holmes, 6. ...more

May 4, 2008

Kindergarteners teach fathers to play along. ...more

May 3, 2008

The English colonists were grateful to live to see their first harvest in the New World. Prayers were as important as food that Thanksgiving. ...more

November 18, 2007

Roll out of bed and swallow your customized vitamins, then decide: the gym, the Olympic-size pool or the track? ...more

September 30, 2007

Sure, we were all disturbed by last week's video of a student hectoring John Kerry and then getting Tasered by cops as he yelped 'Don't Tase me, bro!' But let's keep it in perspective: Had Dick Cheney been at the lectern, that kid wouldn't be alive. ...more

September 25, 2007