When I was 13 I was writing a novel. Unfortunately (or luckily — probably luckily), the file has long been lost, so I cannot even guess what weird plot I slaved over all those years ago. If I remember...

Do you remember the last time you got that tingling in your toes? You know, that almost shaking cold sensation like a flickering fluorescent light that travels up your ankles then up your spine? It happens...

Time Magazine is reporting that the South American Pacu, a “ferocious testicle eating fish” has been found in the River Seine in Paris. So we here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering what is each...

As I grow older, I tend to enjoy more and more time alone, whether that consists of walking downtown by myself, or having a nightcap and quietly reading on a Thursday instead of going out. It’s not...

“L.A. is just a shallow, soulless place,” the somewhat prominent speaker said as he wrapped up his talk on “making it” in the entertainment industry, which had devolved mainly into a scathing critique...

So, Miley Cyrus and the MTV Video Music Awards are still in the news. This time Miley is doing the talking and responding to the endless commentary on her performance with Robin Thicke. MTV scored an...

Sweet Cakes By Melissa, a small bakery in Gresham, Ore. that reportedly refused to bake a cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding closed its retail location on August 31. The bakery shut their doors and...

My summer has been a blur of cab rides, pinot grigio, beaches and museums. I’ve spent most of the time either worrying about my future after graduation in the spring or being nostalgic about the past,...

You know that feeling when you get woken up during the climax of a dream? Your bones feel like sand, your bed sheets suddenly feel like Egyptian cotton and all you need is another five minutes? Well, I...

12 years since the U.S. intervened in Afghanistan and 10 years since launching military action against Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama faces the decision of whether to enter another country in the Middle...

Dear Readers, As illustrated by a posting on XOJane on Thursday, the Crime Logs sections of The Daily Free Press have repeatedly published callous sub-headlines making light of serious issues and inadvertently...

I can still remember the “Yes” on Proposition 8 commercials. They opened with a little girl excitingly telling her mother she learned in school that she could grow up and marry a female. (Cue ominous...