(CBS News) Kimberly Dougherty’s life is filled with drama. and she’s learned that — try as we might to write the script for our lives — sometimes we’re forced to ad lib. CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman met her On the Road, in Riviera Beach, Fla. It isn’t a Broadway production. but don’t tell that [...]
There is a saying: when you marry your mistress, you create a vacancy. I think that is what has happened with me and animal print. I started out a decade ago secretly crushing on leopardprint, and ended up buying a leopard Betty Jackson jacket and a leopard Mulberry Alexa bag. what began as a affair became a matter of [...]
Host Steve Jones, left, and contestant Chris Rene onstage during "the X Factor" on Dec. 7, 2011, in Hollywood, Calif. (Credit:Fox) (CBS) “Maybe it’s personal. If they want a war, they’re going to get a war.” Were these the words of some extra-competitive warbler on last night’s “The X Factor”? Oh, of course not. They’re [...]
Angelo Moore on stage with Fishbone After completing his award-winning 2004 documentary Plagues and Pleasure on the Salton Sea, San Francisco-based director Chris Metzler went out on tour, roadshowing the film, meeting audiences and doing Q & as. He passed through Albuquerque, stopping briefly at the Guild Cinema. He’ll be back again this weekend with [...]
While I love the skirl of bagpipes, I want to let anyone out there who is considering getting me the private Johnnie Walker Scotch tasting – with entertainment supplied by an authentic Scottish bagpiper – that I appreciate the offer, but you really don’t have to. sure, it sounds like a lot of fun, but [...]
It is a strange sensation to celebrate 50 years of your country’s Independence when you are only two decades younger than it is. In many ways it is the perfect arrangement: just far enough away from colonial experience to be fascinated by it, and young enough to hope to see the centennial.In the past month [...]
The singles scene seems glamorous and exciting but my friends tell me it’s just full of married men trying to have consequence-free sex. Picture: Frankie Fung Source: The Advertiser WOULD you pay $3000 to meet the love of your life? How about $300,000? or $3 million? As a mature single, you can probably find love [...]
An introductory note: lest anyone feel the necessity of getting their knickers in a twist over this week’s piece, please note before reading that it is satire, herein defined as “a literary composition in verse or prose, in which human folly or vice are held up to scorn, derision or ridicule.” it will be left [...]
Tonight, Kik Axe Music™ was sent the first installment of ”Inside Rule,” what is promised to be an ongoing series of blog entries from the rapper. It’s actually dated ”July 11,” but we’ll just go with it. Check out ‘Rule’s blog below (presented completely un-edited), then listen to his new single Real Life Fantasy (on iTunes [...]
November 21, 2011 The love-hate relationship between fellow Minnesotans Michele Bachmann and Prairie Home Companion-host Garrison Keillor is surely one of the stranger ones to develop this election cycle. in Bachmann’s new book “Core of Conviction” (out today), she writes of her fellow Anoka High School alum, “His politics are very different from mine, but [...]