Knight-Ridder Tribune

Most people would be leery of keeping a giraffe in the living room. While cute, these safari animals are too tall for the average ceiling, a challenge for modern decor...

We've seen orange and mint-green clothes on fashion runways recently and pink and blue household appliances on the market. Now make way for banana yellow and luminous teal automobiles. It's...

The handsome, sweet date did everything right--up until he admitted to his nightly abductions by space aliens. Then there's the supportive boyfriend who lent his girlfriend money so she could...

Carrie, Carrie, will you ever marry? Will you stay in Paris with your Russian hottie, Petrovsky, or return to New York with Mr. Big? Or are you destined to strap...

Kenny Chesney When the Sun Goes Down Chesney's last CD, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems," hit No. 1, and, with the accompanying concert tour, he became one of the...

In articles about Henry Rollins, the phrase Renaissance man is often used. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, a Renaissance man is "a person who has wide interests and is...

The Internal Revenue Service's new boss has revised the tax-collection agency's mission: to be kinder, gentler--and tougher. Saying that cheating has jumped alarmingly since the IRS sacrificed enforcement to make...

Could dress suits really return full force to American men's fashion radar? The Italian designers, undoubtedly the top tailors in the world, seem to think so, judging from their fall...

Jennifer Campbell just liked how the painting looked. It was simply a couple of pears, painted in green, blue and yellow hues, but it caught her eye. "I've ended up...

Notes from New York's Fashion Week Fall 2004: - Kenneth Cole's show featured colors uncharacteristic of the designer, sending female and male models down the runway in bright red overcoats....