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MINNEAPOLIS -- Scott Redd watched as five young men juked the basketball around defenders, putting up jump shots as music boomed and people trickled in and out. On a typical night, open gym at Sabathani Community Center draws 40-50 people from around the neighborhood.

To Redd, Sabathani’s chief executive, the scene in front of him is part of ...Read more

The 5-year-old child sat sullen before the birthday cake, refusing to blow out the candles. “Wishes don’t come true,” the child said. “I wish to be a boy and it’s not coming true.”

The child cried at the hairdresser’s because the cut wasn’t short enough and vomited at a kindergarten classmate’s girls-only party, pleading to go...Read more

'THE CONJURING: LAST RITES'

Rated R for bloody/violent content and terror.

What it’s about: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one of their last cases with their daughter Judy leading the way.

The kid attractor factor: This haunting horror movie is not for kids, but maybe some appeal for teens.

Good lessons/bad lessons...Read more

Q. My ex and I broke up 6 months ago. We have two kids, and we share custody. She has just informed me that she wants to start dating other people and I’m going a little crazy. It’s only been 6 months! Isn’t this too soon? What’s good ex-etiquette?

A. Too soon for whom? You or the kids? Probably for both, actually, but I’m not ...Read more

I’m stealthy about slipping outside each morning to retrieve newspapers from the driveway. I dread someone driving by, lowering their window and yelling, “Get with the times!”

Oh, darlin’, we’re with the Times — and the Journal and the Star and the News. Two papers in print and four online.

Back when an apple was still a fruit and ...Read more

Open the first page of Ann Hardcastle Kilgore’s "The White Cheyenne" for a quick peek, and you might find yourself reading long past sundown. Kilgore — a South Texas rancher turned novelist — writes like someone who has hauled hay and watched the stars from a back‑of‑beyond pasture, then carried those sounds and silences to the page. ...Read more

As a reader of "TART," you may have come for the promise of unabashed shagging and haute cuisine, but stay for the writing, which is crisp and unapologetic, a hard dive into an excess of just about everything. “I’m a greedy person at my core,” our protagonist writes right up front. “I don’t want my job to be a means to an end; I want ...Read more

Annie Guest, a lawyer, mental health therapist and family caregiver renovated her home and recharged her life. Her debut book, "Design for Your Mind: How a Family Caregiver and Mental Health Therapist Renovated Her Home to Recharge Her Life—and Didn’t Break the Bank," is far more than a home makeover story.

An uplifting blend of memoir and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man was arrested after stealing a car in East Los Angeles with three children inside, then crashing it in Malibu during a police pursuit Friday evening, officials confirmed.

The car, a light-colored sedan, was left running with three children inside at a 7-Eleven on East Olympic Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County ...Read more