Five Filipino immigrants in Tel Aviv work by day as live-in caregivers to elderly Hasidic men but by night they form a gleefully low-rent drag act. You couldn’t make it up, and guess what? They didn’t ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs. When a new Sears catalog arrived at our home, the old one was set aside, available for play. My sister and I would pour through it, looking for just ...

Artist David Wolfe will speak about the history of paper dolls in "Paper Dolls Past and Present" Saturday, Oct. 1, at Kent Memorial Library. An expert on the ever-popular paper playthings, he will ...

After what seems like the longest five months ever (riiiiiight?), we’ve finally reached the unofficial start of summer — the end of May in Los Angeles — and nothing speaks volumes in the City of ...

Give Mark Hampton and Barbara J. Zitwer a point or two for sheer chutzpah. In their biographical wallowing in the life of Jacqueline Susann, they have dared to be as trashy as Susann was in her ...

A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, they enticed us ...

A good friend told me that she and some family members went to the movies to see the new “Barbie.” She shared that the movie was packed, and this was not a surprise because she was aware that it had ...