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By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — I have no idea why my 3-year-old wants to be a cowboy for Halloween this year, because she won’t tell me. That’s OK. I don’t need to know her reasoning to make it happen. Thanks to her outdoorsy grandparents who live in [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Americans snicker over the sordid details of former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Internet escapades. But they pity his wife, Huma Abedin. They see an accomplished and beautiful woman betrayed by her husband’s Twitter posts. And she’s pregnant? The details just get worse and worse. Abedin [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter In Ali Liebegott’s The IHOP Papers, Francesca, a 20-year-old virgin, deals with coming out (and everything else) by cutting herself. She falls for her philosophy prof, follows her to San Francisco, and competes with a parade of male and female lovers. Fed up with the bi/lesbian drama, she moves out and gets [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter Long before tennis star Renée Richards broke ground for transsexuals in the late 1970s, Laura Dillon became a man in the ’40s. Pagan Kennedy’s The First Man-Made Man details the British aristocrat’s transformation. Dillon dressed like a man, took hormones, and underwent 13 operations courtesy of a plastic surgeon who had treated [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter High school cheerleader Lois Lenz is torn between make-out sessions with her best friend and a future that includes the local junior college and marriage. Then her new guidance counselor sets her up with a job at a mysterious Bay City ad agency. In Monica Nolan’s send-up of 1950s lesbian pulp novels [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter Years before Fidel Castro rose to power, José Antonio Cubeñas beat him up after a high school stickball game – Castro had struck out, then thrown his bat and injured a player. Like many of Castro’s ex-classmates at Colegio de Dolores, one of Cuba’s top Jesuit schools, Cubeñas grew up to fear [...] Quincy, Wash: Cave B Inn at SageCliffe The New York Times By Katia Hetter THE BASICS The Cave B Inn at SageCliffe in Eastern Washington’s wine country, which opened in April, is the latest project of Dr. Vince Bryan, a retired neurosurgeon, and his wife, Carol. The inn is nestled in their 130-acre vineyard above the Columbia River, [...] The New York Times By KATIA HETTER The violinist Elmar Oliveira and several members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are regular visitors to a little storefront string store in Decatur, Ga., where for nearly half a century both the professional and the beginner have purchased their string instruments and gotten repairs. Among the 1,500 string instruments in [...] Think you got food under control? One scientist says, ‘No, you don’t.’ By Katia Hetter People make about 200 food decisions every day, but they don’t actually think about most of them. To show just how mindless those decisions are, food psychologist Brian Wansink took to his laboratory. Here’s what he found: People whose chicken wing bones [...] |
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