Everyone’s worried about pesticides on their food—but since organics can really jack up your food bills, you may have to pick and choose what organic products you buy. Instead of guessing which ones have the biggest chemical load, you can download EWG’s Safe Food Guide (even to your smartphone), so you can skip the safer foods (avocados and pineapple), and splurge on the important stuff (strawberries and celery).
Or, of course, you can simply grow your own…
They often say celebrity deaths come in threes. And they often say that they follow the adage “the old, the sick and the sudden.” And this week’s losses—Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson—definitely fit the bill.
The passing of any of these luminaries would have dominated news coverage, but adding the King of Pop to the mix gave the other two the short shaft as far as headlines go. And who could blame the media for glomming onto the story, with the possibility of sordid prescription drug addiction, Jackson’s amazing glory days and his fall from grace and years of eccentric living? It’s like Elvis revisited.
The only good thing to come out of Jackson’s death is that it’s reminded many people (including me) why he was named the King of Pop…his music. The man was a consummate entertainer, and created fabulous pop songs that still stand up and sound fresh decades after they were made. If only his personal life had been half as successful.
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One of the toughest challenges out there is effectively translating a book to a movie or TV show. Odds are, whichever one you’ve seen or read first ruins you for the other. For instance, I adore the show Dexter. The books, meh. And the book Twilight, however flawed, is much better than the movie.
There are a few rare exceptions—the Harry Potter movies I find just as entertaining as the books, and I know my husband, a huge Tolkien fan, loves Peter Jackson’s trilogy as much as the Lord of the Rings series.
And so I have quite a bit of trepidation about the upcoming film adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, a book which I loved immensely. It’s a very nontraditional love story, between an average woman and a man regularly disappears and reappears in another place and time, without any control over his ability to travel. It’s a very touching book, and one that I have shared and recommended to dozens of people.
I saw my first trailer for it today. It looks…interesting. But I’m worried that it will not live up to my vision of this wonderful book, and I’m not sure if I’m willing to see it for that reason. Would you?
Summer’s usually the time for reruns, but networks and cable channels have started stocking their hottest shows for the hottest months. Sunday’s return of True Blood appears to be the most anticipated, at least among my circle of friends—I actually reupped for HBO just so I could see what happens next in the scorching hot town of Bontemps, Louisiana. Especially since the season ended with one of my favorite characters, the flamboyant LaFayette, missing—and a dead body in everyone’s least favorite sheriff’s deputy’s car.
I’ll be savoring every moment of the season premiere on Sunday. —Lisa Milbrand