The mayor of Los Angeles declared himself an LA cyclist…and promptly fell off his bike last month and broke his elbow. He’s recovering, but the painful experience prodded him to focus more on a basic question of transportation planning: how can cars and bikes co-exist? Do they need to be physically segregated by barriers or [...]
With Johnny Cash as her father and over 14 albums under her belt, it’s no doubt that music runs through Rosanne Cash’s veins. In her new memoir <i>Composed</i>, Cash recounts her childhood, marred by her famous father’s routine absence and drug use, and her rise to country music fame. “Composed” is a collection of memories [...]
Some movies solve a crime. Some fight a war. In some, it’s a love story. And some…well, in some movies there’s very little action, but instead they focus on the protagonist’s interior, personal journey. These movies can be incredibly meaningful when they work…and incredibly boring when they don’t. Eat, Pray, Love is the latest feature [...]
As you talk to your dog or cat about your day (admit it – all pet owners do it), do you ever wonder what your pets understand? How about when you point to them to sit down, why is it that they respond correctly? Are animals smarter than we actually think? In Time magazine’s recent [...]
You know him as a chimney sweep, the perfect son, and an all-American dad—Dick Van Dyke’s performances in Mary Poppins, Bye Bye Birdie, and his self-titled television show are unforgettable. The warm and gifted comedian joins Larry in studio to discuss his life and career on screen. What are your favorite Van Dyke moments? Read [...]
College may be the best 4 years of your life. But what about all those student loans you’re still paying off… when you’re 52? According to the Federal Reserves, outstanding student loans totaled around $830 billion in June while average college tuition is $26,000 – minus all those textbooks and room and board. When you [...]
Space may be the last frontier, but what intrigues us about this strange, quiet world? It’s farther away than anything that we’ve ever known, but wouldn’t you start to miss the little things? You can’t smell the start of spring in space, there’s no Chinese take-out, and you age faster. But, then again, it’s also [...]
As a distinct profession, life coaching is relatively new. But since its early nineties beginnings, the coaching business has been booming. According to the International Coaching Federation, there are now 16,000 coaches worldwide, specializing in everything from gardening and sewing to parenting and career help. There are also hundreds of schools offering training, but the [...]
Approximately one thousand chimpanzees are currently housed in U.S. laboratories for use in medical research, at a cost to taxpayers of over $60 million a year. A bill recently introduced in the Senate, and an identical House bill from a year ago, would phase out invasive research and testing on these animals and retire them [...]
What would inspire a successful short story writer and novelist to write an entire chapter using power point? Perhaps the same thing that inspired her to write about terrorism, oral sex, celebrity journalism, teen and adult angst, the digital age, and use more than a dozen protagonists to weave together a story loosely focused on [...]
