"He's Just Not That Into You" isn't exactly a romantic comedy - at least, not in the most traditional sense. Yes, the characters work themselves into the same sorts of tizzies over falling in and out of love - or finding love in the first place - but mixed in with the fizziness is an unexpected seriousness, an attempt at injecting realism and even failure. ...more

February 6, 2009

Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned. So claim many historians, although the tale seems a tad apocryphal. ...more

September 27, 2008

Jane Becker, a composer and solo pianist, celebrated her 50th birthday at the dermatologist, paying $1,500 for shots of Restylane and Botox. But three months later, their wrinkle-smoothing effects wore off. So she turned to a less artificial youth tonic: facial acupuncture. ...more

December 16, 2007