Towns are adopting “Do Not Knock” registries, the door-to-door equivalent of the “Do Not Call” list. But between the rise of the Internet and two-income couples, Do Not Knock initiatives seem to be a quaint answer to a rapidly disappearing problem.

Few things get people’s blood boiling quite like parkers who take up two spots. The culture clash continues despite declining sales of large cars and SUVs.

Long a backwater in the film industry, faith-based films and films with overtly Christian themes are gaining in popularity. With the money rolling in, Hollywood is beginning to see the light.

Sports terms are frequently used in business, but they can become clichéd and even divisive. As the workplace becomes more global and diverse, more people find these metaphors do not speak to them, either because they don’t live for the game or don’t buy the underlying message that business is a competition. Do we as a society need to touch base on the meaning of sports in business?

There was a time when middle and even lower income Americans could look like rappers. Golden grillz – the ostentatious oral bling popularized by hip-hop’s most outré stars – were fashionable and affordable. But times have changed. At the end of 2000, an ounce of spot gold cost $272; in mid-April it hovered just below $1,700. Gold has become a symbol of wealth for a declining number of people who can afford it, and this has led to a marked decrease in grillz sales at stores like Brooklyn’s Contessa.

Often stereotyped as disengaged and skeptical, members of Generation X have in fact been donating their time to various causes in record numbers over the past four years, partially as a result of the worst economic crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression. But as the economy begins to recover, will that continue?

Sentiments expressed in letters to a website known as “Occupy the Boardroom” are reverberating this spring at Wall Street banks, where shareholders have filed a series of proposals that echo concerns at the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

With funeral costs at an all-time high, companies are finding cheaper, alternative and sometimes unusual ways for loved ones to honor their family members using cremated ashes. Pets are welcome, too.

As Jeremy Lin recovers from knee surgery, Chinese American fans — and sporting goods sellers in Chinatown — wish him a speedy return to pro basketball.

Since 2005, at least seven companies, all with the word “Southern” in their names, have emerged to offer a classic alternative to what has, until recently, been a Northern monopoly on the preppy look. First came Southern Proper, then Southern Tide; next were Southern Marsh and Southern Point Co. In the past 18 months, Southern Frattire, Southern Dignity, and Southern Ties has each begun peddling its own Dixie-inspired apparel. The image has enjoyed a welcome worthy of the term “Southern Hospitality.”