Author's articles
Barbecue: An American South Culinary Tradition
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Barbecue, also known as barbeque, is one of the most popular dishes and way of cooking meat in the American Southern states. The term barbecue can refer to the method, apparatus, dish and even social ...
Sandra Bullock: Magazine Covers
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Sandra Bullock, an American actress, gained fame in the 1990s. In 2007 she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million. Despite a few lukewarm reviews at the ...
Michael Jackson: Media Coverage of the King of Pop’s Death
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Michael Jackson's death at age 50 on June 25 induced a bombardment of memorial media coverage by broadcast networks, web sites and magazines.
Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, the ...
Summer 2009 Movies
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Movies released between May 1 and Labor Day each year are considered to have the most potential for summer blockbuster status. This summer, most of the movies to be released are based on popular books ...
Paula Deen: Cooking Magazine Queen
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Paula Deen is an American chef, restaurateur and Emmy Award-winning Food Network television personality. Deen's primary culinary focus is Southern food. In 2005, Paula Deen also started her own magazine, Cooking with Paula Deen and ...
Nursing Magazines are Great Resources
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Nurses have many roles and work in emergency rooms, clinics, hospitals, doctor’s offices even schools in patient care, education and research in a wide variety of specialties. The nursing profession is often described as part ...
Celebrities and Surrogacy
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
While surrogacy, a method of reproduction, remains somewhat rare in the general American population, it is very popular among celebrities in Hollywood. The latest celebrity couple to announce they are expecting via a surrogate is ...
A Brief History of Basketball
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
In the U.S. basketball teams make up about 13 percent of franchised sports; an average of 17,558 spectators regularly attend professional basketball games played by the NBA. The combined revenue from the 30 NBA teams ...
Spring Forward and Fall Back: A Brief History of Daylight Savings Time
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
For as long as the practice of adapting daylight hours has been in existence, the practice has been controversial. However, of the countries that participate in the practice each is attempting to develop ways to ...
A Brief History of Black History Month
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
African-Americans contributed in every aspect of American culture including literature, art, agriculture, arts, and entertainment, social and technological among many others. February is designated "Black History Month," also referred to as African-American History Month, or ...
A Brief History of Martin Luther King Day
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American minister, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement during the 1950s-1960s. Today he is a human rights icon and the U.S. along with a ...
Top 2009 Food Trends
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
There are several food trends that are projected to continue strongly in the U.S. through 2009. These trends are community-supported agriculture, functional foods, organic food and slow food. These trends are reported on by the ...
How to Get Back on Track with Staying Healthy
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
We’ve all fallen off the eating healthy and exercising wagon before, especially during the holiday season. Even media diva and dieting guru Oprah Winfrey admitted last year she was off the aforementioned wagon and once ...
Holiday Movie Preview
By Jessica Vandelay · 15 years ago
Many movie buffs argue the holiday season is the best time for movies. Studios release Oscar-worthy flicks and family-friendly fare—there’s something for everyone. This year is no different. From dramas, historical stories and family-fantasies, this ...
Tina Fey is a Funny Lady
By Jessica Vandelay · 16 years ago
Talented comedy writer, comedian, actress and producer Tina Fey is making magazine headlines for impersonating vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, winning awards and most recently for signing a multi-million dollar book deal this year.
Fey ...
Anne Hathaway: Hollywood Princess
By Jessica Vandelay · 16 years ago
Anne Hathaway is an American actress known for her sophisticated style and her evolving movie career. In the last year she has made many magazine headlines because of her personal life but now the media ...
Perez Hilton: Celebrity Blogger
By Jessica Vandelay · 16 years ago
Perez Hilton is the larger than life persona of a celebrity-obsessed blogger who is both loved and hated for his style of gossip-blogging.
Perez Hilton is the fictional persona of Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., a ...
The Kings of Lowbrow Comedy
By Jessica Vandelay · 16 years ago
Lowbrow comedy—a brand of goofy, crass comedy is currently the biggest money-making genre at the box office. One group of comedians started this trend in the 1990s and continues the trend today.
USA Today dubbed ...
Essence: First Magazine for African-American Women
By Jessica Vandelay · 16 years ago
Essence magazine is a lifestyle magazine for African-American women. It is a groundbreaking publication with a turbulent history.
Entrepreneurs Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hollingsworth and Jonathan Blount founded the Hollingsworth Group with the ...
Bernie Mac: Breakthrough Entertainer
By Jessica Vandelay · 16 years ago
Bernie Mac, an American actor and comedian known for his fiery brand of humor and being one of the few African-American comedians to break out of the traditional "black comedy" genre, died unexpectedly in August ...