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Shopping With Lotta Anderson: Handy for the Holidays
By TIM McKEOUGH Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:08:13 -0000
Lotta Anderson, who runs the housewares studio Lotta Jansdotter in Brooklyn, scoured four Manhattan pop-up markets for Christmas gifts.
Is It Art or Their Shoes?
By PENELOPE GREEN Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:18:22 -0000
For a grab-bag of reasons — economic, philosophical and purely pragmatic — a new wave of gallerists are turning their homes into art galleries.
Renovating a Rental as if It Were Their Own
By TIM McKEOUGH Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:45:18 -0000
By striking a deal with their landlord, a Brooklyn couple not only got permission to renovate according to their taste, but also negotiated a significant rent reduction.
Shopping With Dennis Basso: Check Your Coat?
By JULIE SCELFO Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:53:44 -0000
Storing coats the proper way is no minor matter to the fashion designer Dennis Basso, who shopped for coat racks that are objects of art.
Seen: A New Pop-Up Concept: Design, Free, in SoHo
By JOYCE WADLER Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:46:14 -0000
At the Popup Design Clinic in SoHo, a half-dozen hotshot designers are offering their services free.
Currents | Q&A: A Sisterly Act in Williamsburg
By PENELOPE GREEN Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:49:48 -0000
“Responsible luxury” is how Pamela Katch, left, and Steph Katch, sisters who design furniture together in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, describe their new collection.
L.A. Times - Home & Garden
Bungalow gets modern makeover inside
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
David Ritch opens up the interior with contemporary lines and furnishings while retaining the 1906 exterior. Its exterior is classic California bungalow with beveled siding, wood-trimmed windows and a cheery gabled roof.
Rob Schneider's on the move
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
The former 'SNL' and 'Deuce Bigalow' star has put his San Marino manse on the market at $3.6 million. It may be hard to envision gigolo Deuce Bigalow in San Marino, but the comic actor who played him has owned a home there since 2003. Now, Rob Schneider has listed his French Normandy-style manor for $3.6 million.
Holiday hooch and December daze
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
All you need to celebrate the season is your own still and a nice downpour. I don't mind the rain, for that's when Posh takes tiny, cautious steps between house and car -- sexy little cocktail waitress steps, as if in heels. I'm a pig, I know, but here in the suburbs we take sustenance where we can find it. If I'm really lucky, she's wearing a sweater.
Christmas Tree Lane continues to glow in Altadena
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
The city's founders created the lane of cedars in the late 19th century. In 1920 city officials jazzed up the trees with holiday lights and Christmas Tree Lane was born. In 1887 along the San Gabriel Mountains, the community of Altadena launched with great promise to compete against mighty Pasadena to the south. Some wood and shingle houses by local architects went up, planted with showy flower gardens, but the hamlet stayed a countryside stop for year-end holiday visitors. Winter blossoms, orchards and poppy fields -- what more did a tourist need?
Eco-friendly driveway
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
Broken concrete and old bricks are used to create a permeable and decorative driveway. What started as a pile of rubble became a patterned driveway that's not only beautiful but also permeable, meaning winter rains will percolate into the ground instead of spilling into the street.
Peewee daffodils: The coquette of the garden
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800
It's bulb planting time, and sun-loving peewee daffodils are a perfect fit for SoCal gardens. Bulbs are the antithesis of an instant landscape, yet many gardeners will wait months for brown, desiccated nubbins to flaunt their foliage, raise their buds to the sun and finally burst into bloom.
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
Eggs: Cracking the mystery
djbrown@denverpost.com (Douglas Brown The Denver Post / ) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:29:49 -0700
At 7:15 on a recent morning, Dhiraj Gurung, a 10-year cook at Dot's Diner on 28th Street in Boulder, used one hand to crack the first two eggs of his shift, dropping the wobbly packages of yellow fat and clear protein into a non-stick sauté pan that had been heating over a flame for 10 minutes.
Outside Guide: Steamboat Springs
rbaca@denverpost.com (By Ricardo Baca / The Denver Post) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:26:19 -0700
Overheard on Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs' ever-bustling main street: "God, every single store here sells the same (stuff)." Sure, some of the low-rent Steamboat shops peddle gimmicky sunglasses, dated fleece jackets, cheap henna designs and clearance T-shirts with high-altitude jokes.
Rodeo Sandwich
editor@denverpost.com (The Denver Post) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:12:14 -0700
From "The I Hate To Cook Book," by Peg Bracken (1960). Serves 4.
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