It’s Christmas time again! The first week of December is recognized as the week of hope. Church goers celebrate the hope of a coming Savior. Most of the West recognizes a long Christmas to-do list that includes: gifts, parties and family g…

Eceter's Festival of Trees held its annual gala at Eagle Brook Country Club inGeneva on Nov. 14. One could not help but be excited with a room filled with 39 beautifully decorated trees, three wreaths and a table full of sought-after silen…

Because we’re smack dab in the middle of a holiday, I must give thanks to Lee Daniels for blessing us with this episode of Empire, titled “Sinned Against.” Thank you for allowing an entire den full of my family members to come together in …

Like most employees in America — save for hardworking sales associates and other heroes who brave Black Friday — sample sales take Thanksgiving weekend off. But there are a few that are opening this weekend, all of which are offering disco…

Christina Chaffin Anderson was frantic during the 911 phone call. A neighbor had shot her husband, and was still in their Hilltop home, she told a dispatcher. “Please come,” she cried. “Come now!” In the call from early Monday evening, the…

Before this month, if you wanted a copy of Grace Coddington's 2002 retrospective, Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue, you'd have to shell out thousands of dollars. It was never meant to be limited edition, but the original run of only…

As the procession of Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution and the Frederick Town Fife and Drum Corps wound through downtown Frederick on Saturday, the crowd of people tagging along continued to grow in size. Downtown shoppers in h…

A few years ago, Roselyn Sanchez received a Latin Grammy nomination for her song “Amor Amor” and, ever since, she holds the annual award ceremony close to her heart. For several years now, the “Devious Maids” actress has been a presenter, …

I've learned the hard way that looking good while pregnant takes a lot of little tricks and tips. How so? Well, since I work in TV, I knew I'd have bright lights and that additional few pounds the "camera adds" to contend with, along with …

Thanks to Muhammad Ali, plenty of people think that the name of Jane Lewis’s clothing line, Goat, is an acronym for Greatest of All Time. In fact, it was so named because of the collection’s early emphasis on cashmere, but Lewis said she’s…

In the late ’70s, “New York was dangerous, dead and dirty,” recalls Fred Schneider, frontman of new-wave band the B-52s. But places like the Mudd Club, where Schneider was a regular, made it so much fun. Less famous than CBGB, the Tribeca …

Milin Patel gathered up the young men of the family inside the Anniston Meeting Center on Saturday night and asked them to serve food. Hundreds — most of them Patels now living in the area with roots in western India — were in line for the…

Welcome to Style Crush, a new biweekly feature that shines a light on LA's best-dressed rising stars. Jennifer Puno loves creatives. But like, really. She even co-founded a digital classifieds site and called it I Love Creatives since it's…

Walk into Maria Pinto's new shop in the West Loop and a black orchid dress triggers flashbacks of a famous grape sheath she designed almost a decade ago — one that favored Michelle Obama more simply and memorably than any other since her h…

In April, 1945, U.S. pilot Alan Golub performed a simple act of kindness whose long-term ramifications he could never have anticipated. That month, Mr. Golub found himself face to face with the horrors of the Holocaust. Serving with the Am…

Fashion and fitness — both are fields in which being aspirational is the key to sell-out success (whether it's clothing or classes being purchased en masse). Luxury fitness e-comm Carbon38 has been betting big on that approach, specificall…

It is unclear exactly how the user tracking works, but it is likely just based on a user’s web browsing history. This Sponsored Google Now card could have been triggered in a more conventional way with cookies stored from Google Shopping, …

On a Sunday last spring, after locking up the office at my old job, I turned into the hall and saw a little girl. She was eight or nine, and wore a hair band that glistened with purple sequins. The girl was alone – I could make out some ad…

Many people experience cabin fever during the winter months, craving fresh air and activity. That can be double trouble when people struggle to keep their weight down amid all the extra calories. "It's so important in the winter to find wa…

Welcome to Wedding Guest Wednesday, an occasional feature in which Solo-ish explores the joys and woes of attending other people’s weddings. Because it’s not all about the happy couple — it’s a big day for guests as well. Phew! I just fini…

Mary Rollins, 62, and her 83-year-old mother, Trudy Wilson, fell in love with Civil War history about 38 years ago. Rollins left Wyoming in 1980 and resettled in Platte City, where she met a historian and developed an interest in the Civil…

The lights come up on Thomas Derrah as the macho George in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production of Casa Valentina. As his conversation with his wife unfolds, we see George changing out of his suit and into something more comfortable…wome…

They traveled more than 100 miles from a Tennessee jewelry store after hearing about the woman with the unique name who conducted same-sex unions at a law office in downtown Decatur. Walking hand in hand down Second Avenue, the men, partne…