CHICAGO — Rosie O’Donnell, whose new Chicago-based TV talk show debuts next month, is under contract to buy a 6,000-square-foot home in the Lakeview neighborhood, according to two sources. The home, which is listed for $2.5 million, is owned by a top executive of the Oprah Winfrey...
Fiction is an arena for audacity, where a writer’s imagination, love of language and avidity for story, description and inquiry blossom.
Sure, we love good old-fashioned yarns, when the telling becomes invisible, and we’re utterly caught up in the characters and their predicaments. But there is also profound pleasure to be had in...
SAO PAULO — Newly crowned Miss Universe Leila Lopes wants to help her native Angola further escape a history of war and impoverishment and said she plans to focus on combating HIV around the globe.
Speaking in a timid voice early Tuesday shortly after taking the crown in South America’s largest city, the 25-year-old Lopes said that “as...
As promised last month, let’s get going on some top techniques that are mainstays of stamping.
These don’t take a lot of time and the payoff is the “wow” factor.
CHALK: There’s no need to be intimidated by chalks. They can be used to color backgrounds OR to color an image as you would use crayons OR to scrub over...
Jackie DeShannon
“When You Walk in the Room”
It’s been an amazing 50-plus years for singer/songwriter Jackie DeShannon. She started out in the late ’50s, a young woman in the predominantly male songwriting game. A sunny blonde with a voice both delicate and sultry, she made her name as a performer as well, even...
