Drat. Just sank $70 into a spiffy yoga mat, only to come across this story in the New York Times magazine. "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body." Hey, my body is already wrecked; that's why I've been doing yoga!

The piece was hammered by critics who say its...

In case you think I'm being insensitive about the horrifying allegations enveloping Penn State, I'm not.

I'm being realistic.

With a partner who graduated from what's now the university's law school, I'm even more saddened. Especially because an otherwise decent school will remain sullied for a long time to come.

Planning a trip to Manhattan? How about dodging the hotel crowds and staying in hideaways that even know-it-all New Yorkers know nothing about?

Savor the real Big Apple in neighborhoods with character, as opposed to characters. Experience digs that feel like country inns. Many are historic buildings painstakingly fixed up...

Take any Little Italy in the Northeast or Midwest, add palm trees and T-shirt weather most of the time, and what do you have?

Little Italy in San Diego.

Geddowdaheah.

Yes, San Diego isn't just that other southern California city known only to the...

This has absolutely nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with food. Jewish comfort food. I'm not talking hummus; that's Middle Eastern. I'm talking the traditional Eastern European stuff I was raised on; that stuff that helps keep cardiologists in business. Matzo balls. Corned beef.

I was...

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Like everyone else reeling from the daily body blows of life, I need a serious time-out. The last straw is the news that my beloved dachshund has a disease that's only going to get worse.

Mind you, this Type-A New York native has tried all kinds of...

It's something you never think about, especially in vacation mode savoring that incredible meal.

Where did that tasty eggplant in the main course come from? And what about that luscious mango concoction for dessert? And the stuff that makes the house brew... the house brew?