Spending time with model and actress Patricia Kara:
a very good deal

Upon its initial airing in 2005, NBC's Deal or No Deal became a television phenomenon, and since day one the gorgeous Patricia Kara has been making contestant's dreams come true as briefcase model #9. In addition to Deal or No Deal, Patricia, who was born and raised in Chicago, has worked as a special correspondent on Extra, hosted numerous shows and events, and starred in hit shows such as NBC's Las Vegas, All of Us, Passions, Mad TV, The Young and the Restless and Beverly Hills 90210. She has appeared in dozens of commercials and modeled for major magazines from Cosmopolitan to Forbes. ...(view entire article)

The cars of our dreams
They where part of our American dream

by Dimitri C. Michalakis

My uncle owned all the cars I ever wanted. In the early 1960s when he still had hair, combed into a pompadour, he visited us in Montreal in a two-toned Chevy that he parked in our driveway, and we all ran out to gawk at the very first car in our family. We even got to jump on the seats with the leather stitch and fiddle with the lids of the chrome ashtrays that kept flipping open and shut, the height of elegance. ...(view entire article)