If ads for popular beauty products leave you skeptical, relax. Our 4you Beauty Board's veteran testers are ready to try the latest and greatest when it comes to all things beauty. We'll share what worked and what bombed with the hope of making your life a little easier. This week: Will these glamorous glosses leave our lips shiny or slimy? ...more

September 5, 2008

There are few things more grating than a self-consciously retro soul singer, painstakingly aping his heroes' every inflection to the point that any question of actual "soul" becomes moot. ...more

August 29, 2008

Better tools to help you find the best college values are coming, but you will have to supply the mental muscle to make them work. ...more

August 26, 2008

As prices for crude oil and other commodities ease, consumers have gotten a small dose of relief at the gas pump. But don't expect less pain at the grocery counter. ...more

August 25, 2008

Another Summer Olympic Games have come and gone, and once again, the United States retained its position atop the medal count for the fourth year running. Although host China firmly walks away with the top tally for attaining gold, most America sentiments should be ones of pride and accomplishment. ...more

August 24, 2008

Nadia Renaud began shipping bags of rice, beans and other foodstuffs last spring to struggling relatives in Haiti, helping her brother ease the worries of providing for a sick mother who needs constant care. ...more

August 23, 2008

A shoe lost by a Florida man while fighting off a bear that hurt his 8-year-old son has been found in the stomach of the bear authorities killed because they suspected it in the attack. ...more

August 19, 2008

My all-time favorite commercial is the one from a few years back where a father with an ear-to-ear grin is pushing a shopping cart through a Staples store, gleefully tossing in school supplies as his dejected children follow glumly behind and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays in the background. ...more

August 18, 2008

Walking into Trang Viet Cuisine, you may think you've traveled back in time to the '80s. Do you hear Glenn Frey playing in the background? The restaurant's carpet and fabric vertical blinds, a faded mix of "Miami Vice" pastels, make you feel a bit out of date. ...more

August 14, 2008

When you can find as many fishing guides on the golf course as you can on the water, you know we are in the summer doldrums. ...more

August 6, 2008