Buy nothing - the affordable choice
The economy stinks. It's not a good time to be throwing money at things that don't rate as necessities - a description that applies to many of the goods and services reviewed on this page.
Los Angeles Times-Washington Post
Holly Hunter keeps it professional
A word with Annie Proulx
Looking good despite the times
The good news about the worrisome economy is that it compels us to hunker down at home and spend more time with family.
Have 'Race', will travel, extensively
Dell goes stylish, compact
One of Dell's latest desktop PCs deserves an adjective that has rarely applied to its products: stylish.
The new Studio Hybrid owes nothing to Dell's other desktops.
'Brideshead Revisited' revisited
For months now, Brideshead Revisited fans the world over have been atwitter over the possibility the new feature film based on Evelyn Waugh's beloved 1945 novel would NOT include an appearance by A
Hollywood's bong show - a genre gone to seed
Online, on the road and on the ball
Jane Engel shares some tips for travelling with your laptop.
Travellers lugging laptop computers worry about losing them, with good reason.
Liberty or death
I looked death in the face. All right, I didn't. I glimpsed him in a crowd. I've been diagnosed with cancer, of a very treatable kind. I'm told I have a 95% chance of survival.