Arts & Science: Genderless Clothing

With a brief nod to my minimalist tendencies, Arts & Science is a newly launched genderless clothing line out of Japan.   Each piece st...

Cleaning Days

Remember, gang, Lent is the "desert"... and with B16 & Co. on retreat, the rest of the scene largely tumbleweeds for now, gra...

Ombre Hair Color at Paloma Beauty

I decided to go blonde for spring/summer. Thanks to Kate Gibson for the color and photo. She's the best!

GROWING Jewelry Trunk Show

My outrageously talented artist, jewelry maker, and florist friend, Christy , recently launched, GROWING , a new jewelry line that's ent...

Forget the Primaries and Oscars -- In the Church, It's "Election Day"

Much as the word "Lent" derives from the Old English for "spring," for this crowd, one of the 40 Days' most powerful...

"Now, This Is Coming Home": In Gotham, A Red-Letter Day

A hundred and forty-seven years ago, history happened in downtown New York: for the first time in the 1,500-year line of clergy to bear the ...

For New York's Cardinal, A "Red Light Special"

While much has been made of Rome's memorable kvelling over the neo-Cardinale of New York this last week, with the Eminent Tim's r...

"Gone Fishin'"

Much as the whole of Lent calls for a spirit of prayer, penance, generosity and renewal, it's no secret that Fridays have a special prid...

Into the "Desert"

From yesterday's General Audience, B16 on the Lenten journey.... A spiritual context is described by this recurring number forty, one t...

Old Church, New World

As new media moments from last weekend's Consistory go, this one's hard to beat: during a lull in Saturday's "courtesy visi...

Miserere....

Yet again, church, our Lenten journey begins.... And for a more upbeat take on this Opening Day of "spring training," an earlier ...

"Remember That You Are Dust...."

And now, the focus shifts.... Everybody ready? -30-

Meet the Bishop

Via San Jacinto -- that is, Houston Chancery -- a video introducing the freshly-named auxiliary of the 1.5 million-member church in the nati...

In H-Town, Finally, Merry Auxmas

And at long last, Houston, we have liftoff.... At Roman Noon today, the Pope named Msgr George Sheltz, 65 -- a veteran, highly-regarded pas...

So it sounds, gang, Rome's not sending the Stateside church into Lent empty-handed.... In other words, see you at "Noon." -30-

On President's Day, "The Atmosphere of Liberty"

Yet again, this third Monday of February is officially observed here in the States as Washington's Birthday, but known far better as Pre...