Efforts to tell children It Gets Better often focus on the gay, lesbian, and bisexual kids who are bullied at recess and at the dinner table. But a  new study shows that straight kids are persecuted in childhood, too—when they're perceived to be gay. And sometimes, the abuse comes from their own parents. The study, published in Pediatrics , charts the "clothing choice, activities, mannerisms ...

Sac-town dance punk band !!! (Chk Chk Chk) play Casbah Wednesday night. Thursday 23 From New Orleans, the “Ninth Ward’s torchiest torch singer,” Linnzi Zaorski , visits America’s finest this weekend. Zaorski is what Grampy would call a “blonde bombshell” because she’s got that movie-star style.

It was the last week of January, 1994. Hundreds of people, still jittery after the Northridge earthquake, crowded a gymnasium full of folding chairs, tables and cots, a makeshift receiving center so common after disasters.