An Expat's View of the Conventions: End of Summer in America and Back "Home" to Europe
I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?
I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?
Tom Gregory | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media
As your sandy summer read dwindles down to its final pages Dan Rattiner's latest book In the Hamptons arrives offering life's saltiest stories told with more heart than a Oprah book club pick.
Mary Lou Song | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
We looked over to see this Arizona native sipping warm coffee. "How do you do that?" we wondered. "I don't know," she says, "I guess I just sit really still and accept the heat. It's not going to change, so why fight it?"
Marta Mondelli | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green
Plenty of people switching off their units when leaving the apartment or when the temperature is not terribly hot, but there are still many of them carelessly wasting away energy and ozone.
Lea Lane | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
August is more melancholy than October: farm stands with fragrant peaches and fresh corn, concerts under the stars, top-down drives, warm bay breezes, and twilight walks for Italian ices are all fading.
Real Simple | Posted 08.04.2008 | Living
21 ideas to make the most of this season, from finding the ultimate beach reads to making a lobster roll. The Best Way to Cut Jeans into Shorts What...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 08.01.2008 | Living
There is a part of me that feels very guilty about doing all of this nothing. But I'm working on coming to terms with the notion that what I really wanted was something as simple as, well, nothing.
Washington Post | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green
Climate change will have a "substantial" impact on human health in the coming decades, making wildfires and hurricanes more likely, cooking up more sm...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living
I'll treasure their summer camp moments vicariously, even if my children don't. Those carefree days never return to you the same way, not even in memory.
Grist.org | Umbra Fisk | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
Q. Dear Umbra, I'm a girl trying to make it in a big, hot, airless city -- New York, that is. We're in the middle of a heat wave that will soon end, ...
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living
Every August from second grade to freshman year of high school, Mom and Dad packed my cedar trunk into the Plymouth Voyager and drove me northeast acr...
Collin Dunn | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
Summer is heating up, and all the pools, barbeques, lawn-watering and the like that put our water use under the microscope, even more than it is the r...
Laurie David | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
Tens of millions of people will spend a portion of their summer vacation traveling through an airport. Airports are essentially like small cities, and greening them will make a big impact.
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Obama has excelled in fund-raising, particularly the small gathering of small folks in the small towns across America throwing in a buck or two in the hopes of change.
Kate Clinton | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home
Upon coming out of the Democratic primary bubble, I had been lulled into thinking that everybody was now trying to work in an adult, democratic, progressive, civic manner. Silly me.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living
Here are six places in Manhattan where you're unlikely to run into anyone you know and where, for once, you might actually be able to hear yourself think.
Collin Dunn | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
Depending on where you live, summer is here or just about here. And, unless you've been living under a rock, you know that gasoline is spendy -- over 4 bucks a gallon, on average -- and it's going to get more expensive as the summer wears on. While the ultimate solution -- driving less -- is easy to say and difficult to implement, there's one thing we all can do, starting right now, to make a difference in our wallets and for the planet.
Treehugger.com | Kenny Luna | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green
With the warm weather fully unfurled, you've got some free time and some hot days before you. That means time off to spend at the beach, with the kids...
John Farr | Posted 06.01.2008 | Entertainment
My picks for the ten best summer movies ever.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living
Not everyone can afford to rent a beach house for the summer, but here are six spaces in Manhattan that will place you in the center of the warm weather action.
Josa Young | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
It always seems to happen so fast. One minute everyone's huddled in coats, the next they're displaying highly unnecessary bits of themselves to an unappreciative audience on the underground.
John Farr | Posted 04.23.2008 | Entertainment
Just as an action movie sends messages to our brains to release adrenaline, which excites us, other films transmit signals that promote reflection, relaxation, tranquility and overall well-being.
Mark Wahlberg is not a fan of a "Saturday Night Live" sketch from October 4th called "Mark Wahlberg Talks...
E&P reports that Sarah Palin was greeted with a chorus of boos at the Philadelphia Flyers game where she...
The state of the McCain campaign is drawing fire from its own ostensible allies....
At a rally in Bethlehem, Pa. last week, Cindy...
Imagine an election where one of the participants...
Does John McCain "pal around with terrorists?" Certainly...
This week in the best of...
Tina Fey told TVGuide she'll be "done" if John McCain and...
With the presidential campaign approaching its final...
**SCROLL DOWN FOR SLIDESHOW** It looks like Sarah Palin has traded her...
Now that a full-scale economic crisis is upon us, many are left asking the complicated but necessary...
I don't know if Sarah would be into trying yoga. It can be a fairly...
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics