Lisa Abraham: Feed your family and your soul with new books
Two Ohio authors have new books out that offer food for the body and the soul.Hudson chef Carla Snyder is celebrating the success of her first solo cookbook, One Pan, Two Plates: More Than 70 Complete...
View ArticleCarbon monoxide exposure more dangerous for elderly
Carbon monoxide can be a silent killer.People who are exposed to excessive carbon monoxide often initially exhibit such nonspecific symptoms as headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea and vomiting that...
View ArticleAsk Mary Beth: Removing hard-water stains from Formica
Q: Any tips on how to remove hard-water stains on my Formica countertops around the dish drainer trays?— Marguerite HarrahCuyahoga FallsA: I would try Bar Keepers Friend. It’s a mild powdered cleanser...
View ArticleTips on hiring and working with a home decorator
Home-decorating television shows and shelter magazines have many people dreaming about inviting an interior designer into their homes.It looks so effortless when a designer arrives in a whirlwind of...
View ArticleCandice Olson overcomes design obstacles in new book
Candice Olson knows all about the challenges that can come with decorating a room: ceilings that are too high or too low, spaces that are too big or too small, couples who have different tastes,...
View ArticleGlasses made from recycled wine bottles
Wine bottles are getting a second life as Glacier Glass glassware.Glacier Glass was created by Paula Sansone-Johnson, a designer with Rolf Glass in Mount Pleasant, Pa., who called on her knowledge of...
View ArticlePlant Lovers’ Almanac: Spring slow to arrive this year
Spring is inching forward, but our degree days, a measure of how warm it has been since the start of the year, tell the story of 2013 thus far. These degree days (heat units) drive both flower...
View ArticleHome and garden happenings — week of April 6
Nine Northeast Ohio quilt shops are teaming up for a Sweet Treats Quilt Shop Hop, starting Wednesday and continuing through April 20.To carry out the theme “Strips and Dips,” the stores have designed...
View ArticleNew garden technique grows plants in straw bales
When Joel Karsten was growing up on a farm in Minnesota, he noticed how lushly weeds grew from rotting bales of straw.That made him wonder: If straw worked so well for growing weeds, wouldn’t it work...
View ArticlePlayful pup nips can escalate to biting
Q: We have a 1-year-old, 75-pound black Lab, Conan the Barbarian, who is a great dog in some respects, but exhibits a behavior that we would like to correct. He is a high-energy dog who can’t seem to...
View ArticleBirds on the wing again thanks to Florida Keys center
TAVERNIER, FlA.: Combining the annual pilgrimage of spring breakers to Florida and the vats of alcohol they consume can only mean trouble for the locals — human and winged ones alike.Just a few weeks...
View ArticleThree Holocaust survivors to share stories to Akron-area audiences
Leo Silberman was 14 years old when Nazis invaded his hometown of Rymanow, Poland, in 1939. After two years of occupation and forced labor, the Jews were brought to the town square and separated by age...
View ArticleNorth Carolina A & T State University Choir to perform
The North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University Choir will perform at 6:30 p.m. April 13 at Wesley Temple A.M.E. Zion Church, 104 N. Prospect St., Akron.The Greensboro, North Carolina,...
View ArticleJudge making morning-after pill available to all
WASHINGTON: The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin.In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year politics trump science, a federal judge ruled...
View ArticleOklahoma: Art deco style, music and more in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla.: As an Oklahoma transplant — a native New Englander who moved here for love — I’ve had fun getting to know the Sooner State. I also host the occasional out-of-town visitor, so I’m always...
View ArticleBook review: ‘Burgess Boys’: Pig’s head is just one plot point of many
THE BURGESS BOYSElizabeth StroutThe Burgess Boys has the ring of a story about outlaws in the old West. But it’s about lawyers from small-town Maine instead. This new novel by Elizabeth Strout, the...
View ArticleBest-sellers
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Six Years, Harlan Coben. Six years after the woman he loved married another man, Jake Fisher discovers that neither she nor their life together were what they seemed, and he sets...
View ArticleBook talk: ‘The Red Chamber,’ ‘Phoebe & Digger’
‘The Red Chamber’ revives characters from epic taleIn her foreword to The Red Chamber, Oberlin author Pauline A. Chen acknowledges that the “daunting length” (2,500 pages) and more than 400 characters...
View ArticlePop reviews — Band Perry, Andrew Gross, Dido
PioneerThe Band PerryLike film director Tim Burton, the Band Perry puts an entertaining spin on the darker aspects of life and love. With their second album Pioneer, singer Kimberly Perry and her...
View ArticleJohn Rosemond: Let’s return parenting back to the people
American parents have been listening to psycho-babblers tell them how to raise children since the late 1960s. In graduate school, my professors thought the babblers were geniuses, correcting all the...
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