Chris McNamara

If a martian were to visit Earth and judge people based on their behavior during ethnic holidays, he'd determine that the Chinese love fireworks, the Italians are passionate about food,...

Extraordinary Knowing Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD (Bantam Dell, $26) When her daughter's harp was stolen and a dowser--a specialist...

Arrest-Proof Yourself by Dale C. Carson and Wes Denham (Chicago Review Press, $14.95 paper) Dale C. Carson, a former cop, reveals officers' motivations in stopping citizens and suggests ways those...

Most men have evolved to the point where we see nothing feminine--nothing threatening to our manhood--about child-rearing. And that's a wonderful thing. But diaper bags still hark to an era...

It's not every day you get invited to a gin tasting. And that's a good thing, considering that five glasses of liquor awaited me at our table at David Burke's...

It must have been fate. I rarely read the obituaries, figuring that there is enough depressing news about the living in the paper each day that I don't need to...

And Baby Makes Three The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives by John M. Gottman, PhD, and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD (Crown, $24.50) Based...

Heavy snowflakes fell outside the frosty windows while a grimy Brown Line "L" car rumbled through the dark night at eye-level. But inside the rooftop lounge at SushiSamba Rio, 504...

No Why Kids--of All Ages--Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It by David Walsh (Free Press, $23) It's a simple word--no--that many parents can't bring themselves to...

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living," said Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. Of course, the good doctor passed away before the boon of fantasy football, but his quote holds true...