We'll see better days

Moving can be exciting. It’s offered me a chance to redefine my life and my goals and find opportunities I didn’t have before. But it also requires a maze of phone calls to cancel electricity at the old place and start it up at the new place, finding a decent moving truck and begging friends to help lift the heavy stuff, not to mention changing out the license plates and insurance. I couldn’t imagine the steps it takes to move to another country.

HDTV Guide

The chili is simmering on the stove, and it’s time to crack open a beer. This is the Super Bowl; even the commercials matter. You’re ready for some football, but is your television? Time out. Vox has all the plays to make your screen ready to rumble.

Immigration bust

Master at Work

When Natalie MacMaster performed at the 2005 Midwest Arts Conference in Indianapolis, she didn’t just fiddle — she clogged.

Not-so-shabby chic

For many people, the new year represents a clean slate. It’s a time when one can bask in the long-awaited calm that follows the chaos of the holiday season. Taking down holiday décor means something different to many apartment renters. Without the glow of lights and tinsel to cover up the cracker box they call home, renters are faced with the question of what to do with the stark white walls and empty space staring back at them.

On the Job: Malia Parnell

Settling disputes among family members may not sound like an ideal way to spend each day, but Malia Parnell says that’s business as usual at Smith & Parnell LLC, where she concentrates in personal injury and family law. Her job is more than just divorce and custody battles. Her ability to help others is the main reason Parnell loves being a lawyer — the career she’s dreamed about since she was a girl. “I think my parents said that I started talking about wanting to be a lawyer ever since I was around 6 or 7,” she says. “I guess I just never changed my mind.”

Recovering from Blunt trauma

The sound you heard on Jan. 22 was thousands of common-sense loving Missourians choking on dinner after hearing Gov. Matt Blunt announce he would not run for a second term because: “we have achieved virtually everything that I set out to accomplish and more.”