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Father's Day gifts: Skip the grill and let your kids get creativeFather's Day gifts should come from your kids' imagination, so skip the generic grill or tie and let them create something from the heart. The simplest gift is often the best.
'True Blood' season premiere is too stuffed with storylines'True Blood' has good character moments in its season 5 premiere, but too much is going on.
Amber Portwood: MTV 'Teen Mom' a role model for better or worse?Amber Portwood, the MTV 'Teen Mom' star headed to a five-year jail prison term for drug charges, apparently has some real influence with teens. A poll shows she has convinced 77 percent of teens that pregnancy and parenting are really, really hard. But what about the 23 percent who said she made it look easy?- Grow the roses that starred in Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebrationThousands of David Austin English Roses perfumed the Thames during Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebration. You can grow many of them.
- Whipping by belt: California official resigns for beating stepsonWhipping by belt: A California irrigation official in the Imperial Valley resigns after a neighbor caught him on video beating his stepson during a game of catch.
Tony Awards: 6 memorable moments From the emotional to the humorous, here are the highlights of the 2012 Tony Awards ceremony.
'Once' completes its Cinderella story with a best-musical Tony'Once' won eight Tony awards聽in all, including for its lead actor, Steve Kazee, who brought movie-star looks and a soulful singing voice to the part of Guy, a street musician in Dublin who falls for a Czech immigrant flower-seller.
Youth sports: The problem, say kids in a new poll, is adultsYouth sports, through the eyes of kids polled by i9 Sports, have a problem: the adults who run them. Eighty-four percent of kids said they either want to or have quit a team, and a third wish adults didn't watch their games because it makes them nervous.
Creflo Dollar: Megachurch pastor denies choking daughterCreflo Dollar, the World Changers Church International megachurch pastor, was arrested Friday for allegedly attacking his 15-year-old daughter. He sermonized Sunday calling the incident an exaggeration of an "emotional" family conversation and he denied choking her.
Meatless Monday: Mushroom and tomato thyme stew with polenta gnocchiA new use for polenta 鈥� as a gnocchi with聽simmering hot stew on top.
'Car Talk' to end, leaving void in mechanics-who-talk-like-No毛l Coward nicheTom and Ray Magliozzi, the Tappet Brothers of 'Car Talk' fame, announced that they will end their 35-year run on public radio in September. The unique show was comedy 'of the first order.'聽
How to make strawberry jamIf you're new to canning, strawberry jam is a great place to start since it's straightforward and the end result is both yummy and beautiful.
Car Talk hosts, Tom and Ray, to avoid all radio workCar Talk hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi say they will retire in September. 'My brother has always been 'work-averse,' Ray Magliozzi said. 'Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him.'
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding: movie review (+trailer)Life is a journey, but Fonda tripped out.
Lola Versus: movie review (+trailer)Protagonist Lola is a believable heroine for our times, and the movie avoids tying everything up in a big bright bow.- 'Ultimate 海角大神 Wrestling' directors discuss their documentary about the unusual sportThe new documentary will have its world premiere at the Korean American Film Festival New York.
David McCullough: Wellesley teacher says grads 'not special'David McCullough, Wellesley High English teacher, slices and dices teen exceptionalism. 'You鈥檙e not special,' he says, 'Your planet ... is not the center of its solar system, your solar system is not the center of its galaxy, your galaxy is not the center of the universe.'
Dog hero in Ghana rescues newborn babyDog hero rescues newborn baby in Ghana and joins the ranks of other African dogs who've become national heroes.- Bob Welch, Fleetwood Mac guiarist, 'just wanted to make the music he loved'Welch聽was a guitarist and vocalist for Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He formed the British rock group Paris in 1976, and had hits including 'Sentimental Lady' in 1977 and 'Ebony Eyes' in 1978.
Coronation chicken saladCoronation Chicken, as Poulet Reine Elizabeth became known, was created as a balance between necessary thrift and needed elegance.