Archive for January, 2010

BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIE SPLIT RUMORS CONTINUE TO SWIRL, by Rita Watson
NEW YORK – For anyone questioning why there are so many rumors about a Brangelina split, just take a look at photos of the two. She is always standing with her body turned away from him, or clutching his jacket, while posing for [...]

CARESSA CAMERON, FROM VIRGINIA, IS CROWNED MISS AMERICA 2010. The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS – Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron won the 2010 Miss America title Saturday night after strutting in a skintight yellow dress, belting Beyonce’s “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” and telling kids they should get outside more often. Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., won a [...]

Rita Watson, Love & Marriage
ITALY – Sometimes it is a wedding song that makes a marriage so memorable.  For my children, it was the cannolis. We are pastry people. Growing up, my grandmother believed that any argument could be settled once people sat at the table, ate her cannolis, and drank her demi tasse coffee.  [...]

ALTHOUGH SUCCESSFUL, PERRY’S FILMS SPEW NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES by Courtney Young
ATLANTA, GA – Tyler Perry has rapidly become the most bankable African-American moviemaking brand in Hollywood and an entrepreneurial heavyweight. The seven feature films he has conceived and produced have earned more than $300 million at the box office, with an average opening-weekend gross of $25 [...]

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS OPENING THE DOOR FOR PALIN PRESIDENCY, by Jon Jeter
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House [...]

Dana Carroll, Sex & Relationships
TO AVOID CONFLICT, IS IT EASIER JUST TO LIE SOMETIMES? by Dana Carroll
KANSAS CITY – The truth about lies, everyone tells them and they always come to light. Is there ever an appropriate time to lie? Yes. But you have to be prepared for your lie to come back and bite [...]

Dana Carroll, Sex & Relationships
THE GAME OF DATING CAN GET QUITE COMPLICATED, by Dana Carroll

KANSAS CITY – Get in the game is not just the EA sports slogan. A lot of daters choose not to participate in the very complicated game of dating and relationships. A good percentage of people are single out of choice. [...]

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST WALKS AWAY FROM NBC, the Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — On his final “Tonight” show, Conan O’Brien said walking away instead of accepting a demotion is the hardest thing he’s ever had to do. Despite the rancor that led to his $45 million buyout, the red-haired comic urged fans not [...]

Dana Carroll, Sex & Relationships

2010 PROMISES TO DELIVER A FRESH START AND NEW LOVE, by Dana Carroll
KANSAS CITY – Along with the New Year comes a new start, new love and potentially a new relationship. The best thing about ending a year and starting another is the since of hopefulness and the feeling of completing [...]

EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
NEW DEVELOPMENT IS NICE, BUT FOCUS SHOULD SHIFT TO EDUCATION. by Wayne Hodges

KANSAS CITY, KS – If there was ever a concern the Cerner Corp/Kansas City Wizards project would end up in Kansas City, Kan., it has been put to rest. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County erased all doubt by approving the highly [...]