Advice Columns and Columnists

Pauline Phillips, more popularly known as "Dear Abby," the internationally famous advice columnist for nearly 50 years, just passed away. I think she was so successful as an advice columnist because she kept up with the changing times (she realized that...

(Reuters) - Facts about Pauline Phillips, better known as Abigail Van Buren, the Dear Abby advice columnist: * Phillips and her identical twin, Esther, who wrote the rival Ann Landers advice column, married their husbands in a joint ceremony in 1939 at...

It's only work if you would rather be doing something else... Pauline Phillips, the original Dear Abby This line was quoted in many of the obituaries of Phillips, who died last week at 94. It's a wonderful sentiment that reflects......

Jenny McCarthy says her mission with her new late-night talk show is to “bring sexy back” to the genre. This seems like an eminently attainable goal for the former Playboy centerfold, who describes The Jenny McCarthy Show as “Playboy...

Great White singer Jack Russell’s plan to donate proceeds from a Feb. 7 gig in Hermosa Beach to a memorial in Rhode Island to victims of a deadly fire that broke out during the L.A. heavy metal band’s show there 10 years ago has been nixed...

A soccer coach was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony lewd conduct with a 15-year-old female player he coached at a private Irvine soccer club, police said Ian M. Ebert, 26, was taken into custody in Los Gatos, where he......

A day after an elaborate hoax was revealed involving Notre Dame's star linebacker Manti Te'o and his supposedly dead girlfriend, there remained much confusion over whether several people in Southern California were involved in the scheme. A deadspin.com...

It's winter (almost)! (Also, gross). That means it's time for another quick 'n' dirty-style advice column. Grab some mulled wine and come sit on my knee. If you missed the fall quickies, read 'em at your leisure. It is winter, after all, what else are you...

An undercover drug investigation at Temecula area high schools led to the arrest of 22 students Monday on suspicion of illegal drug sales....

A few weeks ago on "The Savage Lovecast," Dan Savage's podcast, he played a call from a woman wracked with pain over the unexpected death of her fiancee. "I just don't know how to live," she said through sobs. "I......

"If the whole universe had no meaning," C.S. Lewis once wrote, "we should never have found out that it had no meaning." Pithy observations like that — rooted in logical argument — have made the writer one Christian whom many agnostics and...

Ethel Silver Sorokin was one of handful of women lawyers of her generation, and a persistent defender of the First Amendment. She spent decades promoting the Center for First Amendment Rights, which she established with her late husband, Milton Sorokin,...