Lights twinkling, sleigh bells ringing, blah blah blah.

Truth is the culture of the holidays has become a bit, well, cultureless. Every year you pray for gift inspiration, only to buy another tie for Dad, another robe for Mom.

There’s ...

It all started with karate class in fourth grade. Off you’d go each week, determined to be a black belt by 16.

Since then, your extracurriculars have included yoga, photography, basket weaving, water polo, tennis, even silversmithing … You could ...

Funny thing about theme parties: You outgrow them sometime around adolescence (ever tried to get a 15-year-old into a costume?), only to grow right back into them in adulthood.

So you’re probably just about the right age to appreciate ...

Angelenos are so resilient. We brave Malibu fires, surf polluted waters, and unflinchingly accept the brown layer of smog that coats our wonderful, hazardous city.

But God forbid you light a cigarette.

In this town, tolerance travels only so far. ...

In a world where irreverent can refer to a morning talk show and hilarious shows up in reviews of American Pie 3, it’s hard to know how to describe The Naked Trucker Show.

Okay, how about this: It’ll make you ...

Sagging is to beauty what rain is to a parade: a total spoiler. But with Pilates, hiking, and maybe some cardio booty yoga, you’ve got it pretty under control.

Still. What about your face? (No, flapping your gums all day ...

You Excel. You Xerox. You PowerPoint. You’ve been interviewed, reviewed, and passed over. You e-mail incessantly all day, and you’ve shuffled enough paperwork to fill an airplane hangar.

You, friend, are in corporate hell. And, as Erma Bombeck once said, ...