Sacramento Bee

Jimmy Dore isn't especially angry. Amused, yes. Bemused. And confused. But the stand-up comic and social commentator has found a way to cope -- charge people to watch TV with...

Ten men, all oozing testosterone, sit at a handsomely burnished square conference table. Beer bottles stand like sentinels before them but, oh, this is no party. Deep thinking abounds. "Man...

The lawn is patchy and pocked with weeds. Overgrown rose bushes and shaded windows suggest neglect. But inside the house in suburban Sacramento, a professional gardener's touch abounds. Sophisticated lighting...

There was a time when it was just Sega and Nintendo with their respective systems. Not anymore. Visitors to the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo in L.A. got a sneak peek...

Retired college administrator James Harold drives to his home on leafy Glen Aulin Court in Carmichael, Calif., almost every day to pick up the mail, but he hasn't dared live...

What goes around comes around, or so the saying goes. And for members of the Friendship Force, the world is an ever-revolving door. Take Joe Phelan and his wife, Rose....

Celebrities are the barometer of all cultural trends, so the omission was quite startling. None of the breathless coverage of Katie Couric's upcoming departure from the "Today" show to the...

Funky facial hair is everywhere today, especially beards, which haven't been this common since the late 1970s, says GQ magazine style editor Adam Rapoport. Brad Pitt has done it. George...

Celebrities are the barometer of all cultural trends, so the omission was quite startling. None of the breathless coverage of Katie Couric's upcoming departure from the "Today" show to the...

They snore. They scratch. They shed. They paw at the sheets and have no sense of personal space. But people love their dogs anyway--and increasingly, they are letting them into...