Thanks to Daily Candy for informing me of the grand opening of a new Thai Privilege Spa in downtown Manhattan. It sounds incredible. The photos of models on massage tables at the Bangkok-based company’s other facilities are sexy and lush. In truth, I rather dislike these sorts of places. Whenever I’ve gone–on assignment for magazines…

Thank you for all the sincere and supportive posts on the item I wrote last week about Alcoholics Anonymous. Beliefnet has an ongoing 12-Step Spirituality support group. And here‘s the last piece we ran about Buddhism and the 12 Steps, accompanied by excellent AA-related links including Paul O’Donnell’s interview with Susan Cheever about her biography…

Astrologer Shelley Ackerman is sending an email to friends entitled “In Vino Veritas.” In it, she says Mel Gibson’s astrological chart (which she discussed in The National Council for Geocosmic Research newsletter two and a half years ago when “Passion of the Christ” was released) is helpful now in understanding Gibson’s recent arrest and damning…

You know your kids are in a lefty summer day camp when the music teacher turns to the gathered parents at the final concert and says, “Now we’re going to sing a song that I learned in Cuba.” After the Cuban number, the kids sang a truly gorgeous hymn by Jewel called “Hands.” It made…

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