Penny Jordan: Churned out love stories in her socks

| January 31, 2012

Penny Jordan worked as a secretary in a bank before she fired off a manuscript to Mills Boon and became one of the worlds biggest-selling romance authors, selling more than 90 million copies of nearly 190 titles. In books such as The Dutiful Wife, The Reluctant Surrender and The Sicilian Bosss Wife, Penny Jordan (whose [...]

Love, the law, and Lana Del Rey

| January 31, 2012

Her major label debut, Born To Die, refines the formula set out on that early material. A sweeping epic of doomed love affairs and bruised glamour, it could be the lost soundtrack to a film noir. Del Reys vocals have a cinematic quality, too. One minute, shes a breathy femme fatale; the next, a languorous, [...]

DFG Offers Late Season Goose Hunting

| January 31, 2012

The California Fish and Game Commission has approved a third 2011/2012 late season hunting opportunity for geese.   Licensed hunters can now hunt white-fronted geese and white geese during the late season for geese in the Balance of the State Zone. This is in addition to the already established late season goose hunts in the [...]