By DIXIE REID, Sacramento Bee

Your second home, that summer place, is no farther away than the backyard. And where better to spend an evening as the sun sets and a breeze cools down the overheated city?

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Whew! So many bra styles -- and so many that don't fit worth a darn.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - From Sacramento to Washington, D.C., social media and the mainstream press are all atwitter about Mayor Kevin Johnson's upcoming marriage to longtime love Michelle Rhee, the chief of District of Columbia public schools.

When does ice -- mere frozen water -- become a status symbol? When a single "cube" costs $8.

Glace (pronounced gloss) Luxury Ice is an extravagance, the cocktail-hour equivalent of look-at-me Christian Louboutin stilettos or a screaming-red Ferrari 458 Italia.

What do you eat when no one is watching?

One man's trash may be another's treasure, but when the "man" is the federal government, trash is supposed to stay trash.In the comedy "Mad Money," Diane Keaton plays a pearls-wearing Kansas City socialite who works as a janitor at the local Federal Reserve Bank after her husband (Ted Danson) loses his job.