We walked into our favorite restaurant in Queens the other night, The Flagship Diner, and there at a long table were a group of women in red hats, and also wearing various shades of purple clothing. They were The Red Hat Society of Forrest Hills. I positioned myself for a ring side seat, quietly listening to…

Well, it wasn’t classically “romantic” but it certainly was unique. The first “Apple Wedding” took place in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store. I guess you can call it a MacMarriage.   “Today’s tale of geeky nuptials comes to you from that gleaming, subterranean realm known as Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store,” reports AOL News. “Ya Ting…

Figure skater Joannie Rochette’s story is a difficult one to write because it’s a very personal one: Just a few days before the individual female figure skating competition was to begin, Rochette’s mother, Therese, arrived in Vancouver but suffered a sudden, massive heart attack instead.  Rochette’s father, Normand, found his wife passed out in the apartment they were staying at;…

The insane story about the troubled man who flew his plane into a building last Thursday also brought some heroes to the rescue as the building burned.  Robin De Haven, a 28 year old Iraq war veteran, was one of them.   Andrew Joseph Stack III, and one other person were killed when Stack literally…

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