Lux Interior took the stage wearing a black vinyl jacket and slacks ensemble, with a pair of women's red, low-heel pumps adding a splash of color. ...more

February 12, 2009

During my youth, I developed a taste for fresh mangoes picked from my grandmother's tree in Miami. Once a year or so, a box of those tropical fruits would land on our doorstep in the Midwest. ...more

August 6, 2008

During my youth, I developed a taste for fresh mangoes picked from my grandmother's tree in Miami. Once a year or so, a box of those tropical fruits would land on our doorstep in the Midwest. ...more

August 6, 2008

Today, nearly itch free, I must thank the dozens of readers who stumbled upon last week's column about being, as we say in my neck of the woods, "eat up" with poison ivy and offered their sympathies, remedies and horror stories of gigantic, oozing sores that I will never be able to remove from my brain no matter how many times I jab myself in the ear with the sharp end of a No. 2 pencil. ...more

August 3, 2008