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Shopping With Liz Tuccillo: Weaving Her Cocoon
By JULIE SCELFO Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:54:38 -0000
A party girl’s guide to a cozy New Year’s Eve at home with pals.
Habitats: And for Compensation, the View
By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:01:01 -0000
Paul Moakley, a photographer and freelance photo editor, lives in a photography museum in Staten Island.
Because Sobriety Is Denial Enough
By PENELOPE GREEN Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:07:00 -0000
There is nothing bare-bones about the retreat for recovering addicts that Pete Hathaway, once a director at Sotheby’s, has made of his home.
House Proud: The Sultan Is in; Open the Bazaar
By JOYCE WADLER Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:30:46 -0000
Fancy a stuffed albino peacock? The display artist Kein Cross is turning his downtown duplex apartment into a holiday shop.
A Block Bound by Santas and Lights
By FERNANDA SANTOS Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:07:37 -0000
A small stretch of 60th Road in Maspeth, Queens, is home to a festive neighborhood-coordinated Christmas display undocumented by any city guidebook.
Road Test: Seeing Your Guests in the Best Light
By STEPHEN TREFFINGER Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:30:46 -0000
In search of the best candles to use at a holiday dinner, I tried two dozen, noting things like how long they took to burn down and whether or not they dripped.
L.A. Times - Home & Garden
Deluged in toyland
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
How do you limit the collection of playthings around the house for your little one? Here are some success stories and one misstep. Popular children's author and illustrator David Shannon put out a book last year that made kids laugh and their parents cry. The book is called "Too Many Toys" and tells the story of a boy named Spencer who floats happily around his house on a cascading river of toys. But when his dad steps on a Lego piece in his bare feet (ouch!) and his mom trips over race cars while doing the laundry (youch!) they decide that Spencer has too many toys. And so begins an epic negotiation in which Spencer tells his mom he cannot relinquish any toys. They are all his favorites.
Owen Dell: The 'sustainable' drillmaster
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
The landscape architect so wants to spread the word about eco-friendly gardens that he wrote a book about creating them. The idea that suburban gardens might be "sustainable" came late to Southern California. Modern Los Angeles was sold on the promise that anything grows here. Exotic plants were status symbols. Sunshine was constant, and the only worry about water was finding plants best suited to go next to the swimming pool.
Samantha Harris sells Westwood home for $1.64 million
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
Also featured: Homes of French Stewart, Jennifer Carpenter, Robert Conrad and David Niven Jr. "Dancing With the Stars" co-host and "The Insider" correspondent Samantha Harris and her husband, financial wholesaler Michael Hess, have sold their Westwood home for $1.64 million. Talk about a quickstep: The house had come on the market in late October at $1,595,000.
Recording family histories before it's too late
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
The holidays are an ideal time for collecting and preserving the stories we've heard all our lives. And new technology and support groups are making it easier to capture such moments. A friend of mine lost his job last year and hasn't found another. But he recently splurged, spending hundreds of dollars on a video camera.
Joyful, all ye relations arrive
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
The chicks have returned to the nest, and all's right with the world. There are a few things I still like about the holidays. I like the way store clerks ask "credit or debit?" -- words you can warm your hands by. I like the way Ann-Margret looks in "The Santa Clause 3."
A protege's perspective of Tony Duquette
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
In 'More Is More,' Hutton Wilkinson delves deeply into the designer's artistic process. Tony Duquette was more than a designer of film and theatrical sets, movie-star mansions, gardens, furniture, costumes and jewelry. The legendary Hollywood decorator (1914-1999) was also a conjurer, magically transforming plaster, paint, discount-store wares and mirrors into dazzling sculptures and exotic tableaux inspired by the storybook fantasies of his youth.
Christian Science Monitor | The Home Forum
Gifts that don’t gather dust
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:24:22 -0000
As Jake’s toys piled up, his mother steered neighbors and family to share their skills instead.
Ellie’s Christmas card
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:50:15 -0000
A card from a girl he’d lost contact with led down an unexpected path.
How do you say 'town hall meeting' in Mandarin?
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
After Obama's session with Chinese students, the Monitor's language columnist considers the nuances of town meetings, town-hall meetings, and town-hall-style meetings.
Appetizing hors d'oeuvres
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
Party starters to kick things off, in several languages.
Will words fail us at the Copenhagen conference?
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0000
Linguist George Lakoff maintains that humans lack good ways to verbalize complex issues like climate change; the Monitor's language columnist tries to imagine things otherwise.
All the news that fits, they write
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0000
A company uses an algorithm to turn popular Internet search terms into headlines, and then hires freelancers to write stories to fit them.
Denver Post: Lifestyle
A nightmare is a snap to put together
editor@denverpost.com (W. Bruce Cameron) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:25:28 -0700
Congratulations on purchasing your Wonder Fun Doll Dream House with Stables, Orchard and Shooting Range! These are your assembly instructions, so if you're a man, you're not reading this.
Beautillion Class of 2009 the pride of many parents
jadavidson@denverpost.com (By Joanne Davidson / The Denver Post) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:21:00 -0700
To a child, waking up on Christmas morning to discover that Santa has left a mind-boggling assortment of presents under the tree is a dream come true. For their parents, however, no toy or gadget or article of clothing is more wonderful than the gift of having a child that makes them proud and brings them joy.
The $25 Haiku
editor@denverpost.com (The Denver Post) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:12:48 -0700
Nine-year-old Jake Hefty of Denver, winner of The Denver Post's $25 Haiku contest this week, wrote this on the topic of "cookie":
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