Looking for a place with a cool, laid back vibe, where you can read some poetry that you’ve been Working on, grab a cup of tea or coffee and just hang out with friends? Sucha place does exist in Newport. Empire Tea & Coffee, 22 Broadway in Newport, is the type of place where everybody knows your name.

ARIES (March 21-April 20) Unique social gatherings may offer surprising business introductions this week. Career contacts, new partnerships or potential investments should now be carefully considered. Aries natives born after 1976 may soon experience a complex series of job or financial proposals.

When Lakesha Hauser went off to Utica College, her mother warned her against signing up for credit cards.

She didn’t listen.

Without her parents knowing, Hauser loaded up with four pieces of plastic and now she’s paying the price. The 24-year-old East Harlem resident neglected to pay up on one of them, and three years after graduation she’s being hounded by her credit card company.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Signs of the new normal for young adults seem to be piling up like ripe sweat socks in the bedroom of your 20-something son down the hall.

We used to dismiss it as a “slacker” thing- an odd fad, we thought, of a generation that appeared content to take its sweet time before leaving the nest, finishing college, getting married and making commitments their parents began considering at 18.

“William Heydt moves through his subject matter, ‘comme un passion dans l’eau.’ Literally translated, “like a fish in water,” the French use this term to describe a person perfectly suited to his elements.”

William Heydt was born in 1949 and grew up in Westchester, NY.