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A new father is inspired to show the world kindness. Ryan Garcia's new baby encouraged him to start a blog, 366randomacts.org, and resolve to perform random acts of kindness for the entire year. For all of 2012, he will do at least one random act of...

We moved from the brickyard company town of St. Charles to a 40-acre gentleman’s farm near New Bethlehem when I was in the first grade. I remember gathering peaches from the aging peach orchard the next summer. These unhealthy looking peach trees...

Firefighters believe a cigarette may have caused a fire in an east side apartment complex early Friday morning.  Crews from the Indianapolis Fire Department responded to the complex, which houses the Trinity House Community Outreach Church, located in...

Assembled from spare parts of "Footloose" and "Sister Act," the serviceable gospel contraption "Joyful Noise" takes place in an economically hard-hit Georgia town, where the multiracial members of the Divinity Church Choir raise voices and spirits under...

Oh, what a Sunday night it was. I wish all of you could have been with me. My home church was hosting another musical concert "Sunday Nights in Lakeland." We were there to experience and enjoy the voice of the number one male soloist of the Southern...

The fireworks at Disneyland had ended. It was past closing time and the crowds were pouring out the gates, but we lingered. Layla Alshawi, the 63-year-old mother of our friends, didn't want to leave. She hugged a light pole, joking that we would have...

Happy Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us. It's 14 years since "Seinfeld" introduced Festivus to the popular culture....

ATLANTA — If only it were about 20 degrees colder here, this would be the perfect Christmas. For once, Georgia would actually see a White Christmas. Instead, it's rainy, about 50 degrees, and kids in the neighborhood can't go outside and play with...

The prompt for this year's "Songs of Good Cheer" reader contest was simple: "Write a short essay about a memorable moment involving a holiday song." My co-host for the "Songs..." concerts, Mary Schmich, writes about the results in her Wednesday......

Opinionated in a way only a dyed-in-the-wool Bronx native can be....

Since 1989, Lonie Walker’s Underground Wonder Bar was inside a tiny garden-level spot at 10 E Walton. About a year ago, they moved to an interim location beneath The Joynt at Dearborn and Erie. Finally, on Sunday, the late-night lounge will...

Many religious texts use the adage “give and you shall receive.” Two new studies show that adage just might be true, especially when it comes to being happily married. Researchers have found, for instance, that a reward center activates in our...