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Got a classic car, like a 1960s-era Mustang or a gull-wing Mercedes? You could be paying too much to insure it. Roughly half of classic car owners put their collectible vehicles on a standard auto insurance policy without realizing that they could be paying too much for inadequate coverage, said Ford Heacock III, chief executive of Heacock Classic, a Florida-based insurer of antique and collectible cars. "A lot of people who are into car collecting as a hobby might not be paying attention to things like insurance," he said.

With this app, collect and organize vacation ideas before your trip, as well as digital memorabilia afterward. Name: Springpad Available for: iOS, Android What it does: Saves notes, photos, videos, to-do lists, audio, books, music and more to notebooks that multiple users can share and collaborate on. Cost: Free What's hot: This is not a travel-specific app, but it works nicely as one. For my pre-departure trip...

Herbert and Nora Kaye Ross' eclectic collection--containing everything from blue chip artists' prints to ceramic cheese keepers and silver snuffboxes--will go on the auction block at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Butterfield & Butterfield's new Los Angeles facility.

WASHINGTON - The Senate gave strong bipartisan approval to landmark legislation that could largely lead to the end of the nation's decades-long Internet sales tax holiday. Now the issue shifts to the more skeptical, Republican-controlled House, where the debate will revolve around one fundamental question: Does helping governments collect an existing and owed tax constitute a tax increase? The Marketplace Fairness Act, approved 69-27 Monday by the Senate, gives states the authority to require larger online retailers with no physical presence in those states to collect sales taxes that residents already are obligated to pay. Many states, including California, are expected to jump at the chance to start collecting an estimated $23 billion in total sales tax revenue that is lost to online, catalog and other so-called remote sales each year.

Any parent who shops at Old Navy or the Gap sees the usual selection of skinny jeans and T-shirts emblazoned with skateboards and cheeky slogans. There's a sameness to the rough-and-tumble designs of boy's clothing that is particularly underwhelming to the fashion-forward mom who strives to not only dress her child but dress him well. But a new online boutique is broadening the field for children's clothing. One Jackson crowd sources its collections, allowing designers with fresh ideas to showcase new styles and potential buyers to vote on what they like.

A minor mystery surrounds my grandmother's collection of salt cellars. No one in the family seems to know when she started collecting them, or exactly how many she had. "After somebody goes, you think of all these questions that you wished you had asked them," my Aunt Ellen told me over the phone the other day. My grandmother's name was Beulah Schrag, but everyone called her Boo. She died at home in Natick, Mass., just over two years ago. At 91, she had spent 30 years without her right leg, which was amputated due to cancer the year I was born.

Showmanship reigned as designers introduced their fall/winter 2010 collections in Paris. Not Killing Kenny Several of the looks from the Comme des Garçons Homme runway collection were accessorized with fur-lined funnel hoods reminiscent of "South Park's" Kenny McCormick, the kid in the orange parka who suffers a gruesome demise in many episodes of the Comedy Central show. As it's hard to imagine designer Rei Kawakubo spending her evenings watching "South Park," it's a safe bet it was an unintentional pop-culture punch line.

Silent-film stars come in two categories: those everyone knows and those whose fame has diminished over the decades. Two new releases by Milestone Film & Video highlight one from each category. The silent-film star whose name has been inextricably linked to the era is Mary Pickford, generally considered the first actress whose fame went all around the world. "Rags and Riches: The Mary Pickford Collection" collects three of her most popular features: 1917's "The Poor Little Rich Girl," 1919's "The Hoodlum" and 1926's "Sparrows.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, best known for its contested antiquities, Impressionist irises and gorgeous grounds, has been diversifying in gruesome black and white. Since 2003, the museum has bought up several photographic prints that count among the 20th century's most iconic journalistic images of death by violence: Malcolm Browne's picture of the 1963 self-immolation of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk; a print from the Zapruder film of the 1963 shooting of John F.

Marlene Daab is a woman with a passion. Taken with the television series "Star Trek," Daab has spent the past decade collecting comic books, lunch boxes, Christmas ornaments, plates, pins, paperbacks, technical and medical journals all relating to the starship Enterprise. She's now got several hundred items, and the collection is growing. "It's an obsession," laments the Portland, Ore.-based investor.

Privacy rights groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County's two major law enforcement agencies after they refused to turn over information collected by electronic license plate scanners, the suit claimed. The Los Angeles Police Department and L.A. County Sheriff's Department have made use of the plate-reading technology for several years. Typically mounted on patrol vehicles, the small cameras continuously scan license plates and check them against criminal databases in search of stolen cars and cars registered to known fugitives.

Paris-based jewelry designer Aurelie Bidermann is in L.A. this week showing her fall 2013 collection. I stopped by her room at the Sunset Tower hotel to take a look. While her spring collection was all about Southern California, her fall collection nods to some of her other favorite places to travel, including Marrakesh and the South of France. In Marrakesh, the Majorelle Garden has inspired everyone from Matisse to Yves Saint Laurent, and now Bidermann, who created a gold collar and ring with twisted vines and flowers evoking a secret garden.

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next month on a bill that could require online retailers to collect sales taxes from customers in every state that imposes them. The measure has been bashed by opponents as a tax increase that would cripple small Web businesses. It's not, and it won't. Instead, the Marketplace Fairness Act would eliminate an outdated restriction that favors those who can shop online over those who can't or won't. That's reason enough for it to become law. For much of the last two decades, Internet retailers collected sales taxes only from customers in the states where they were headquartered or had employees.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has released its second Wear LACMA collection of fashion accessories created by Los Angeles designers and inspired by the museum's permanent collection. And the creations are so spectactular, they are practically works of art themselves. Custom perfumier Haley Alexander van Oosten of L'Oeil du Vert , accessories mavens Maryam and Marjan Malakpour of NewbarK and women's clothing designer Juan Carlos Obando were tapped for the collection, which is for sale at the LACMA store and online, with all proceeds benefiting the museum.

Barbara Butkus bought an airline ticket in November to fly from Palm Springs to Washington, D.C., a month later for a family reunion. Just to be on the safe side, Butkus, 80, also bought travel insurance while booking her flight through Orbitz, the online travel agency. The coverage was from Allianz, a leading provider of travel insurance. As it happened, Butkus had to cancel her trip for health reasons. She began experiencing shortness of breath in early December, and her doctor advised her not to travel.

Compton High School has two tennis courts, a coach and now, all the gear it can use, including rackets, balls and even shoes. What's lacking is a team. But that's beginning to change. The school started signing up prospective tennis players last week as a donation of equipment and regulation nets was being unloaded. Curious students approached the tennis court to ask what the commotion was about and left as team members with racket bags filled with gear. "Guess we play tennis now," Tatiarria Hayes, 16, joked with her best friend, Robin Butler, 15, both holding black and green bags.

The UCLA Library has acquired the largest private collection ever assembled of materials on the life and career of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan. Compiled over more than 30 years by Southland lawyer Howard Holtzman, who died in 1990, the roughly 1,500 items include unpublished letters, manuscripts, photographs, sculptures, dance programs and contracts, and other materials. UCLA paid "slightly less" than the $1.

SACRAMENTO -- California motorists can get specialized license plates with pictures of whales, firefighters and palm trees to benefit certain state programs, but the state auditor said Thursday the state has failed to collect up to $22 million owed for the plates. In addition, state Auditor Elaine Howle found that state agencies that receive money from the special plates have not properly handled the cash. "This report concludes that the State has not collected all revenue due from special plates and has spent some of the special plate revenue on expenditures that were unallowable or unsupported,” Howle wrote to Gov. Jerry Brown.

Style icon Paloma Picasso has been creating jewelry for Tiffany & Co. since 1980, famously reinterpreting Xs and O's in bold silver and gold and celebrating the raw beauty of colorful stones in her modern-looking Sugar Stacks rings. Her newest collection for the jeweler, Olive Leaf, is more naturalistic than what has come before, with prices ranging from $150 for a thin silver ring band to $975 for a silver cuff to $100,000 for a diamond and white-gold bib. Picasso, 64, is married to French osteopathic doctor Eric Thevenet and splits her time between Lausanne, Switzerland, and Marrakech, Morocco.