Videogum blogger Gabe Delahaye does not love it. Not even a little bit. He's spent what looks like countless hours compiling every instance of this ph...
AP | MELANIE DABOVICH | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
TAOS, N.M. — Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking f...
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who sig...
Deborah Jiang Stein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
With two names in my pocket, I've come to hold vast curiosity about naming and how our lives are impacted by what people call us. (Yes, even the curse words we've been called.)
Politco | Erika Lovley | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style
Nearly 25 percent of Capitol Hill lawmakers have surnames that are hard enough to pronounce that they're listed in the Congressional Quarterly pronunc...
Kevin Smokler | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media
Just from asking around, missing the LA Times Book Festival this past weekend was the social equivalent of toilet paper on the shoe.
Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 06.04.2009 | Style
Sometimes, the answer is that a name was just too popular too recently for parents to appreciate its intrinsic wonderfulness: for example the lush biblical Deborah.
Arthur Fournier | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
Is there any hard evidence that Whites have historically considered Blacks as less than human? The answer to that question is "yes," and it is to be found in a study of Haitian names.
Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 03.06.2009 | Entertainment
Just when we think we've heard it all, along comes a new celebrity baby name -- Twitty Milk, new daughter of singer Erykah Badu and rapper Jay Electronica -- to stump the masters.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy
It's fun watching kids learning stuff they didn't know. Grownups are more knowledgeable, of course. But we may not be as knowledgeable as we think.
Jillian York | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
What is Moroccan identity? Is it Arab identity? The official language of Morocco certainly is Arabic, but it is estimated that 23 of Morocco's 30 million people speak one of three Amazigh dialects.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
To "name" an issue is to frame the issue, and ultimately to own it. That's why Barack Obama is having such a hard time answering questions about our recent successes in Iraq.
New York Times | J. Marion Tierney | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Studies showed that children with odd names got worse grades and were less popular than other classmates in elementary school. In college they were mo...
New York Times' City Room Blog | Jennifer 8 Lee | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says the most popular name for boys last year was Michael, according to its 2006 baby name d...
Posted 11.05.2009 | Comedy