A new documentary, “Riveted: The History of Jeans” (out Monday, Feb. 7, on PBS),
unfolds the untold story of America’s most iconic and ubiquitous garment.
Joy Wiebe was one of the nation’s fiercest tanker truckers, driving precious
fuel up the treacherous ice road to the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, at the very tip
of Alaska and north of the Arctic Circle.…
Fashion designer Carol Spencer spent her career creating covetable clothing for
a highly unusual client, one who stood just 11 ¹/₂ inches tall: Barbie. Spencer
designed the doll’s wardrobe for more…
In the olden days of the Internet (think 2008), a successful blogger had one goal in mind: finding “real” success, off the web. A humorist telling jokes on Blogger just wanted a book deal with a ma…
It’s easy to romanticize the past, especially the Victorian era. It’s been given so much Hollywood gilding in films such as “The Portrait of a Lady” and “The Age of Innocence,” depicting it as a ti…