As I check job websites daily and look in every newspaper classified I can get my hands on, I realize that a good job today is like finding a needle in a haystack.

"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." These immortal words, published in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance in 1841, represent just one of the thousands of shimmering diamonds of wisdom imparted by the man known as the "Concord Sage."

It looks like it's time to put my old Subaru Outback down. Over the last five years I've put about $5,000 into its care and upkeep, but like a workhorse with a broken leg, there's just not much more that I can do for it.

Summer is all about the music for me. I love going to every amphitheater show I can squeeze into my schedule and out of my wallet. While this summer was not filled with as much music as I might have liked I did get the opportunity to see No Doubt, a band I have been listening to since middle school.

Iron Man was the second largest grossing film of 2008 and breathed new life into the comicbook movie genre. It should be no surprise that the panel dedicated to Iron Man 2 was a packed house on July 25. While those lucky enough to attend got to see a clip from the film, the rest of us got the latest images from the set.

Nominated by President George HW Bush, 1991 Last week, as Article Two of the Constitution was played out yet again in the Capitol, Justice Sonia Sotomayor's journey brings to mind some of the other memorable confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court of the United States.

If you're like me (okay, there aren't many people like me), you don't have much free time, but you need frequent breaks and you don't want to spend a lot of money. I joked with my girlfriend this morning that this installment would be 10 best things I would do if I had more time to hang out with her.

Two weeks after his passing, Michael Jackson is still news, not so much for the circumstances of his death or the freakish behavior of his later years, but because he was the penultimate pop star, the likes of which we will never see again.

Before we get into the list of best jobs during this recession, lets have a moment of recognition for the industries that have been getting creamed over the last couple years.

Rhinoceros Times Editor John Hammer has been working a story about the Greensboro Downtown Design and Compatibility Manual without any competition for the past couple weeks, but Im still in the dark about the manuals actual content.