Today, Amanda Gordon wrote a piece on “cheap eats” for AskMissA.com’s NY Empress column, and reminded me about a new phrase an acquaintance of mine shared with me recently: Nouveau Poor. I think everyone is familiar with the Nouveau Riche, but do you know about the Nouveau Poor? My friends told me story about how he took a [...]

Yesterday America lost two of its most beloved icons, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. There aren’t enough words to express the shock and sadness that most of us are feeling about these two tragic events. For those of us who came of age in the 70’s and 80’s, Farrah and Michael were staples of our [...]