My favorite hole-in-the-wall used-book shop is gone. A sparkling, pastel-colored shop selling designer cupcakes has replaced it, and judging from the line of moms and their kids every afternoon, it ...

Cupcakes are everywhere. Those muffin-shaped cakes, with their teeth shattering sweet frosting, are front and center in the bakery section of my supermarket, the neighborhood frozen yogurt shop and a ...