Blog Posts by Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

The cast of The Bling Ring. In real life, the teenage burglars needed a lot of help. They targeted the young, rich, and famous -- people like Lindsay Lohan, Audrina Partridge, and Paris Hilton -- breaking into their homes, some of them several times, and stealing millions of dollars worth of cash and jewelry.

Now their crimes are being played out on the big screen. Directed by Sofia Coppolla, "The Bling Ring" hit theaters on Friday. Of the seven youths involved in the burglary ring, only one -- Rachel Lee, who has been labeled as the ring leader -- has so far refused to talk about the film. But her prison coach is speaking out.

"If somebody is really trying to change their life and not looking for their 15 minutes of fame, what good does it do to talk right now?" Lee's prison coach, Wendy Feldman, told the LA Times. Lee was sentenced to four years in state prison for breaking into Partridge's home; she was released to a fire camp, where she and other inmates helped fight brush fires, after a little more than a year.

Feldman played a curious role in the aftermath of the

There's plenty of Royal Baby Buzz right now, and some retailers are already rushing to commemorate the royal birth, which isn't slated to take place until the end of July. "We do have some things in the pipeline," British Designer Jan Constantine told Yahoo! News in England. "We are thinking along the lines of mugs, baby blankets and small cushions to mark this momentous occasion. Similar designs we did for the Royal Wedding and the Queen's Jubilee sold amazingly well, so we are hoping these will, too." We're sure that once there's the paparazzi manage to snap a shot of the real royal baby, production will really ramp up -- that's what happened when Prince William was born, after all. -- By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

Discriminatory, or just smart business? This restaurant doesn't allow kids under 18. (Photo: WUSA-TV)A new sushi restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, has caused a stir by insisting that it's for adults only. In fact, it's gone so far as to ban kids completely.

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"Welcome," reads the black-and-white sign on the door of The Sushi Bar. "This is an adults-only environment. No children under 18 please."

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Some outraged parents have promised to boycott the upscale eatery, which opened just last weekend in the Del Ray area.

"Great way to keep me out of your spot," griped one commenter on the Sushi Bar's Facebook page. "As a single parent, thanks... we will dine at another sushi bar!"

"In case anyone is wondering, no, I won't be patronizing this establishment if I'm ever again in the area," added another commenter.

But co-owner Bill Blackburn told Yahoo! Shine in a telephone interview that they had always planned to make the eatery a child-free zone.

"We were not expecting

Cherie Alvis gave her son, Clark Alldridge, up for adoption in 1991. They're reunited, thanks to Facebook. (Photo: Facebook)Clark Alldridge of Houston, Texas, always knew he was adopted. Still, it was a surprise when a stranger reached out to him and suggested that he check out Cherie Alvis' Facebook page.

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He didn't know Alvis at all. But there, on her wall, were his own baby pictures. At 22 years old, he had found his birth mother living just a couple of hours away—and he hadn't even been looking for her.

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Alvis told KTRE-TV that she gave up her son for adoption when he was just a few months old. She was 17, a teen mom without a steady home; her baby was sick, and after spending days in the hospital with him, she knew that she couldn't give him the care he needed.

Giving him up "was the hardest decision I have ever made in my life," Alvis told KTRE-TV. "It was something I did not want to do but it was either give my son life with someone else, another family that could take

Dads do big things for their kids all the time, but only a few get to see their good deeds go viral. Here are 10 who stole our hearts with their great displays of loving commitment to their kids. Happy Father's Day! -- By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

It took eight years, but Joselyn Martinez finally found her father's killer. (Photo: Joselynmartinez.com)Joselyn Martinez was just 9 years old when her dad, Jose Martinez, was gunned down in front of his Bronx restaurant in November 1986. The police immediately identified the shooter as 16-year-old Justo Santos, but Santos managed to slip out of New York and flee to the Dominican Republic. Twenty-six years later, long after the New York police had lost track of the shooter, Joselyn found her father's killer.

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"I always kept the name in mind," Joselyn, now a singer and aspiring actress, told The New York Post on Tuesday. "After so many years of not being caught, it wasn’t a reality to me anymore."

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Jose, then 41, kicked Santos and two friends out of the Dominican Express restaurant on Dyckman Street in Inwood after they reportedly started sexually harassing his wife, Idalia Martinez. Witnesses told police that, once on the sidewalk, Santos pulled out a pistol and shot Martinez in

Michele Kobke has worn a corset all the time -- even while sleeping! -- for three years. (Photo: Michele Kobke/Facebook)Taking the idea of an hourglass figure to the extreme, a 24-year-old German woman has squeezed herself into a corset 24/7 for the past three years, whittling her waist down from a healthy 25 inches to a dangerous 16 inches in circumference.

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"It embraces me and gives me [a] pretty, defined waist," Michele Kobke told Sky News recently. "Some people find my shape really attractive."

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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average waist size for a 20-something woman in the United States is 37.5 inches, which means that Kobke's original 25-inch waist was pretty tiny to begin with. But going from 25 inches to 16 inches isn't enough, she says. While she's happy that "my movements are more feminine," she'd like her waist to be even smaller -- just 14 inches, she hopes, to beat her idol, Cathie Jung. Jung, whose waist is a crazy-small 15 inches in circumference,

The Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe, invented by state fair food vendor Chicken Charlie's, is the real deal. (Photo: Chicken Charlie's)It sounds too gut-busting to be true, but it is: A glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut, split open and stuffed with savory sloppy joe, doused in a tomato-based sauce and sprinkled with cheese. It's not a response to Dunkin' Donut's new bacon-and-egg-on-a-donut breakfast sandwich, though. The Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe is the brainchild of Charlie Boghosian, owner of Chicken Charlie's, which has been providing food to county fairs in Southern California for 17 years.

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Boghosian is no stranger to outlandish menu offerings. He is, after all, the same guy who perfected deep-fried Kool Aid and Oreos. This year he's also serving deep-fried bacon-wrapped pickles, cookie dough bites, and waffle dogs (think corn dogs, but with waffles).

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Still, the Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe sandwich is something new, even for him.

"We're known for crazy fried foods, so this is a little bit different," Boghosian told