The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films
A reader might speculate about other causes of her ... The script is peppered with high-end name-checks, and the camera steals loving, lingering glances at Louboutin shoes, Rolex watches and Birkin bags. The first line uttered on screen is ...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter ...

Kern beating victim's brother: 'This has got to stop'
... be home with his family -- his brother's funeral is later in the day. But he felt he needed to be at the vigil. His biggest fear, he said, is that justice would not be served. "I was just living in my own selfish bubble," Chris Silva said.

Keegan Bradley shoots course-record 60 at Nelson
IRVING, Texas—Keegan Bradley had no thoughts of a course record, or the possibility of a 59, after consecutive bogeys in the middle of his opening round at the Byron Nelson Championship. Until his 136-yard wedge shot on his final hole Thursday.

In San Jose school district, acrimony leads to talk of teacher strike
SAN JOSE -- In the award-winning Evergreen School District, there has been no districtwide science ... Bayshore elementary in Daly City; Las Lomitas elementary in Menlo Park; and the San Mateo County Office of Education, whose members have ...

Homophobia's Cruel Mother's Day
It was the Friday before Mother's Day. I had published a blog post on the nature of Mother's Day and the celebration of all who feel motherly love running through their souls. I was at work, finishing up a high-tech piece at my desk, when my work associate ...