Japan Town [Worldly Adventures in our Backyard]

“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?” Newt Gringrich responded with this provocative question after Mitt Romney stated his life’s passions: his family, his faith and his country. His statement might have been a plea to end Romney’s periodic mention of religion,...

First and foremost, welcome to the Peer Help blog! Peer Help started about five years ago by mental health coordinator Shelly ball and counselor Tedra Tanner. Their job is to educate us so that we can educate you about important mental and physical health topics....

Herman Cain, GOP candidate and alleged sexual harassment instigator, recently stated, with respect to the Occupy movement, that “To be angry at somebody because they’re successful is anti-American in my opinion.” He remarked. “It’s anti-American because to protest Wall Street and the bankers is basically...

Seventy-two days after their lavish wedding ceremony watched by more than 4 million TV viewers, Kim Kardashian, 30, has announced that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Kris Humphries, 26. It is estimated that the wedding cost $10 million, while the Kardashians’ ended...

Need help lightening up your relationship problems? Let the upcoming Albany High School Musical The Drowsy Chaperone give you a comical perspective on things. According to director Andrea Hart, this refreshing romantic-comedy has “more depth of talent in the cast on all sides than we...

Just before midnight on the second Saturday of every month, the Albany Twin movie theater at the bottom of Solano attracts a crowd not often seen in our safe and mundane town. Mostly young people line up around the corner, clad in fishnets, lingerie, corsets,...