Earlier this month, nearly 1,000 people trekked to Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa to watch Vietnamese performers Hoang Thi Thi Band, Quang Ha and nine other acts, despite wildfires that closed freeways.

Well, what can I say about the Little White Horse except to say I love love love love it. I read it when I was about fifteen when I discovered a copy of it languishing on the shelves of the library at my convent school. This library was incredibly out of date, no new books were ever added as far as I can recall and I remember finding the contents totally dull. With hindsight, I now have a sneaky feeling that there were probably a lot of books there that I might now be interested in, but too

The Camille II series blends transitional styling with a handsome feel of comfort. The graceful wood back accent panel along with its interior curved steel lines is a signature of this stool’s elegant design. The fabric, wood and metal finish are customized to meet your needs. The stool comes with armrests for added support. For an added feature, there is an optional memory swivel that returns your seat to the same position for every time you get up. The Camille II stool would make a great ad

Until today or tomorrow, the typical turkey enjoyed a fairly decent life, commented our friend Nassim Taleb, in Zurich yesterday. Yesterday, the stock market was quiet. The Dow ended up 36 points. Oil held at $50. Gold too...it stayed right where it was, at $820 an ounce. But the slaughterhouses and gold mints worked overtime. You can understand how fraudulent most economic analysis is, Nassim explained, just by looking the life of the turkey. The animal is fed for 1000 days...and then

I’m happy to announce some winners to our last How Did You Know trivia hunt. First, Nathan Richards from Seattle successful prevented our reigning champions from the trifecta. Congrats Nathan! I’ll post his pic and bio below, and his answers after the jump. But first we have more winners! The team of Jeremy Burgher and Mikaela Brown were our random winners this month, proving that, yes, you can submit all the correct answers a day late and still win here on HDYK. Congrats guys. And nice job p