American Girl: The Shape Of Retail To ComeAuthentic -- and positiveI've got two daughters and have been through the whole AG experience, and I think I understand the appeal: the girls are real, not Barbie dolls. Each of the characters are based on real girls' lives, and each faces significant...
BURBANK, Calif. -- Following the successes of "Samantha: An American Girl Holiday" and "Felicity: An American Girl Adventure," Warner Home Video WHV will offer consumers another classic American Girl story with the release of "Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front" on DVD November 28. The DVD, featuring the...
BURBANK, Calif. -- Following the success of "Samantha: An American Girl Holiday," Warner Home Video WHV will offer consumers another classic American Girl story with the DVD release of "Felicity: An American Girl Adventure" on December 6. The full-length live-action movie, based on American Girl's best-selling 6-book series featuring Felicity,...
The American Girl doll franchise is coming to video, the result of a made-for-TV movie deal made by the WB network and Julia Roberts' production company with Mattel Inc.-owned American Girl. The American Girl doll franchise is coming to video, the result of...
Byline: lisa fickenscher After jeff sutton nearly let a deal with American Girl slip out of his hands, he launched an effort to regain it was so frantic it was almost comical. Cross-country flights. Architectural drawings. Two days of video foo...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- With millions of buyers and sellers, the eBay marketplace is a real-time barometer of what's really happening in popular culture and what products are the real "must-haves" this season. As an early glimpse into this year's holiday shopping trends, the eBay marketplace is showing that the...
Byline: EDDIE BAEB Coming soon to the Magnificent Mile: vacant store space. Lord & Taylor this year became the first department store to go dark on North Michigan Avenue in 15 years. The CompUSA store just off Michigan on Chicago Ave- nue...
cross country High school boys MVAL American 21, Irvington 36 At Coyote HIlls, 3.1 miles Dav.Brody A 18:30; Coronado I 18:57; Dan.Brody A 19:22; Chio A 20:17; Alexander A 20:46; Torres I 20:56; DeLang I...
Friday, Sept. 26 NAIA women's soccer -- Cal State East Bay at Chapman, 7 p.m. JC football -- West Hills at Diablo Valley, 7 p.m. JC women's soccer -- Cosumnes River at Los Medanos, 3:30 p.m.; Diablo Valley at West Hills,...
Broncos score landmark win The Northgate High School girls tennis team left the DFAL for the DVAL this season but the Broncos' 5-4 nonleague win over Miramonte on Oct. 1 was a huge deal nonetheless. Lauren Curry, Lauren Snowden, Kimiko Kearney and Kristen Curry all won singles...
Vikings start Big 8 on right foot The Diablo Valley College women's volleyball team got the Big 8 Conference season started on a good note on Oct. 1, defeating host American River 26-24, 25-19, 26-24. Kinsea Linden led the Vikings with 18 kills and Jennifer Kawakami added...
Mission San Jose High girls golfer Bonnie Hu was named HP Scholastic Junior All-American Tuesday by the American Junior Golf Association and HP. This year's team consists of 12 boys and 12 girls who demonstrated the ability to excel both on the golf course and in the...
Hit & Run... What does a girl with a healthy passion for shoes really need during these rain-sodden months? Why, a pair of buttercup-yellow wellington-boot shaped rubber bags to pull on over her feet, like two giant condoms, thus protecting her extremely expensive suede Christian Louboutin...
Kepler continues hot play College Park High School girls golfer Audra Kepler seems to be hitting her stride just as the season is beginning to heat up. Kepler, a senior, shot a 76 at the Deer Valley Tournament on Sept. 29, a 4-over score at par-72 Lone...
PHOENIX -- New studies that target Americans' expanding waistlines were presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society, an organization of researchers and weight-loss professionals. They include: Teens' timing can be bad Girls often become much less physically active during their teen years,...
NEW YORK -- The independent consumer organization announces its top picks for the best toys of the year for kids 5 & up. "We found a rich mix of products that include both innovative high tech toys roaring dinosaurs and night vision goggles and classics with a twist," notes co-founder...
A ghostly tale of a young girl's haunting heralds an eerie Halloween season in this just released suspense-adventure game WESTON, Conn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches" PC, the first adventure game to intricately weave the famed Welsh "Four Branches" myths into its...
WASHINGTON AFP — With US financial institutions foundering and credit tightening, Americans are rediscovering thrift as they shop more wisely, forego holidays and even barter in shops to live within their means. "I do the practical things people always used to do," Sandra, an unemployed, divorced mother of...
Fiction 1. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," by David Wroblewski. 2. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society," by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. 3. "The Given Day," by Dennis Lahane. 4. "Anathem," by Neal...
AMERICAN teen Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, has hired SIX bodyguards for her performance at the BBC Switch Live's gig at London's Hammersmith Apollo next week. Get early goss on the show online at www.bbc.co.uk/switch/the519show. FUNNYMAN Leigh Francis, aka Keith Lemon, has an even bigger reason...
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