“I almost didn’t come,” she said, stepping into my mother’s apartment. “I was too ashamed.” She didn’t say why. She didn’t have to. The face of this woman, who was maybe in her mid-70s, was entirely ...

At first blush it would seem Barbara Meislin, Tiburon’s Purple Lady, wouldn’t have much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day. For the past month she has been forced to live out of a hotel after ...

If there’s one thing for sure about Lady Gaga, it’s that she always makes a statement on the red carpet and that’s exactly what she did at the House of Gucci film premiere in London on Nov. 9. Gaga, ...

A grand birthday party and homecoming is planned Sunday for a Suffolk woman whose character became one of the area’s most popular urban legends. Known only as the “Purple Lady” for many years, Rachel ...

The signature house of Tiburon's beloved "Purple Lady" went up in a hellacious, roaring inferno Wednesday and, while nobody was hurt, neighbors said the tincture of the town was changed, possibly ...

Sonia Young, better known as "The Purple Lady," was a colorful fixture in Chattanooga and an advocate for animals, the arts, education, children and so much more. She died Thursday and is remembered ...

TIBURON — A fire has ravaged the Tiburon home of author Barbara Meislin, a local icon known as the “Purple Lady.” The fire at 116 Lyford Drive was reported at 9:34 a.m. Wednesday by Meislin, who was ...