At The Wine Rack, where sales from the $10-and-under shelves are booming, Jocelyn Vorbach says aloud what most of her customers won't: Friendships now have price tags, and dinner guests are gauged.

Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King.

Mitchell Wool owns the Bean Bag, an independent coffeehouse and deli in Bethesda. The store has been in his family for 30 years.

Last week, Dan and Joan tackled the question of “What do you do with your ex?” Say goodbye forever? Keep her around as a friend? Take him to the exchange desk at Macy’s? The topic got our binary stars of the dating universe really twinkling, so they keep on where they left off.

Oklahoma City officials want Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz to know they expect the Seattle SuperSonics to relocate, regardless of who owns the team.

Carly Simon was worried about preserving her voice as she rehearsed for her first public performance of tunes from her new CD, but she couldn't restrain herself as she got swept away singing the sexy title song, "This Kind of Love."

Britney Spears will have expanded visits with her sons following a child-custody hearing that went off without a hitch Tuesday, capping a three-month period of relative calm and stability for the troubled pop star and mother of two.

A car smashed through a plate glass window at a Bellingham Starbucks injuring five people before it stopped at the rear wall.

The state better known for basketball than barnstorming is witnessing politics at its most frenzied this weekend as the race to Indiana's primary and the Democratic presidential nomination reaches a fevered pitch.

Like Dandy Don Meredith used to croon on “Monday Night Football,” “The party's ooooovvvaahhh.” The guy gets the dog, she gets the goldfish. Now what? Do you never see this person, with whom you shared your thoughts, dreams and frozen yogurt, ever again? Is a clean break the best for all? Dan and Joan, who have broken up relationships more times than an audience at a Chris Rock concert, offer their insights.