Efforts to tell children It Gets Better often focus on the gay, lesbian, and bisexual kids who are bullied at recess and at the dinner table. But a  new study shows that straight kids are persecuted in childhood, too—when they're perceived to be gay. And sometimes, the abuse comes from their own parents. The study, published in Pediatrics , charts the "clothing choice, activities, mannerisms ...

Sac-town dance punk band !!! (Chk Chk Chk) play Casbah Wednesday night. Thursday 23 From New Orleans, the “Ninth Ward’s torchiest torch singer,” Linnzi Zaorski , visits America’s finest this weekend. Zaorski is what Grampy would call a “blonde bombshell” because she’s got that movie-star style.

It was the last week of January, 1994. Hundreds of people, still jittery after the Northridge earthquake, crowded a gymnasium full of folding chairs, tables and cots, a makeshift receiving center so common after disasters.

My two boys were wild the other night, laughing uncontrollably at absolutely everything, chasing each other around the house and entirely unable to settle down.

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