Customs and Tradition

He was born into freedom in Pusan, South Korea, 60 years ago. Still, Jong C. Jang of Marriottsville spent much of his boyhood hearing his father, Ok Kyun Jang, rhapsodize about growing up in a place about 350 miles to the north. Families were close-...

Works by Willie Robertson will be exhibited throughout January in the AEGON Gallery at Centre College. The exhibit is titled “Kentucky Landscape Paintings: Image/Object, Depiction/Abstraction.” Judith Pointer Jia, the Charles T. Hazelrigg...

In the past 12 months, some especially high-energy creators have relocated from other metropolises and set up shop within city limits. While a scrappy inventiveness isn't new here — far from it — it could be that the city is reaching a...

If you haven't yet heard about the Korean wave, get ready to be submerged. The annual Irvine Korean Cultural Festival, a free arts and food bonanza, returns for the third year Jan. 14 at the Irvine Civic Center. "There is a big wave nowadays about to...

The tree is up and strung with lights. The presents are all wrapped with ribbons and bows. Soon the smell of roast turkey will fill the house. We are waiting for that famous Christmas snow Frosty talked about in the original classic Christmas cartoon....

For the past 60 years The La Cañada Thursday Club has sponsored young women from the community in the “Bal Blanc de Noel” presentation of Les Fleurettes debutantes. This year, the Thursday Club will present four young women to society on...

You're deeply in love; you envision being a couple forever. Yet for whatever reason, a wedding ceremony officializing your commitment isn't on the agenda. Don't let that prevent you from celebrating. "So long as you're respectful of your guests, I...

After a year like this one, we need a month to relax and recover. Happy December, and may all your trivia come in lists of 10. 1 The traditional Christmas plant we call a poinsettia was known by the Aztecs as cuetlaxochitl. Its current name came from the...

Imagine a man named Jim. He's applying for a job at Google. Jim knows that the odds are stacked against him. Google receives a million job applications a year. It's estimated that only about 1 in 130 applications results in a job. By comparison, about 1...

Here they come: the relatives. And they're hungry too. So where are you going to feed them? Why not one of the new generation of brunches that have been popping up at some very good restaurants lately? Brunch is convivial and fun, not to mention much less...

With the political focus on the Republican presidential nomination early next month, President Barack Obama will return to his hometown on Jan. 11 to host a series of fundraisers, Democratic campaign aides said today. No details were immediately...

The fellow I met at a holiday party had just one question for me: Where do you find a great steak in this part of the country? He grew up in Texas on grass-fed beef and complains he's never found a steak here with as much flavor. He's disappointed every...