By LEIGH GROGAN, Sacramento Bee

When Martha Stewart moves, she takes everything -- pots, pans, hot-glue gun -- with her.

She's packing her nationally syndicated, Emmy-winning "The Martha Stewart Show" and heading to the Hallmark Channel. The show, airing each weekday, premieres Monday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Blogger Natasha Vargas-Cooper, 26, has been hooked on "Mad Men" since Season One.

Her new book, "Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America" (Collins Design, $16.99), uses the show to collect and chronicle symbols of the 1960s, from bras to beer, ads for shaving cream and what the author called "a huge cultural shift that no one could prepare for."

Marketing the "Sex and the City" franchise is so simple: Flings and fashion are easy selling points.

And four famous femmes fatales from New York winging their way to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates -- Louis Vuitton luggage in tow -- will likely make "Sex and the City 2" another blockbuster.

Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte are back. This time they're on vacation.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ann Robinson will always be an educator at heart.

However, she had to ask herself a question all too familiar to people with long careers that come to an unexpected end: "Now what am I going to do?"

The beauty of Joan Leineke's new dream kitchen is that it's absolutely, totally functional.A cook's candyland.-- She can boil water in a nanosecond on her induction stovetop.-- She can sous vide (vacuum-seal) salmon in her Rational SelfCooking Center.-- She can whip up a pizza Margherita (with basil from her garden) in her wood-burning oven.

Father's Day 2008 might be the day of the gas and/or grocery gift card.No bad ties, no grilling tools.Just a full tank and a loaf of bread.According to the National Retail Federation, consumers plan to spend an average of $94.54 on Father's Day gifts. Total spending is expected to reach $9.6 billion.

It often strikes in the dead of night.You hit the sack, your skin all clean and clear.You wake up, and there's been an overnight visitor -- an unwelcome one at that.Call it a bump, a blemish or a zit. If you're 35, even 45, you're just as frustrated by your rebellious complexion as you were at 15.

There's a decidedly new trend influencing maternity apparel this spring, heading into summer.Instead of everything being designed for an under-the-belly look, more pieces are designed to go over the bump.

America has yet to begin voting and there's already controversy (mostly online) over "American Idol" -- this time whether it should have included contestant Carly Smithson among its Top 24. That's because she once had a recording contract.