Oz the Great and Powerful – director Sam Raimi's pretty but rickety prequel to The Wizard of Oz – begins with huckster magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) backstage at the traveling circus. The year is 1905. The place is Kansas, of course. And there's a storm blowing in. It appears that Oscar – the ladies [...]

You're standing before a wall of white in the toilet paper aisle of your local retailer, thinking: How much difference can there really be between brands X,Y and Z?

June 18 is National Splurge Day. So said Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, who calls herself “America’s premier eventologist,” when she invented it in 1994. Somehow it got traction.

If you thought the video games you play today were cool, in the immortal worlds of Bachman–Turner Overdrive, "baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet." The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo ("E3") recently wrapped up in Los Angeles, where video game journalists, analysts and retailers got their hands on hundreds of tomorrow's …

This year I have been making a lot of changes. I have dramatically improved my diet and no longer eat Sour Patch Kids several times a week (my dentist is thrilled). My wine consumption has been greatly reduced and reserved for special occasions only. Finally, I have vowed to workout at least 3 times a [...]