The season for giving has begun
A spin around great lake country, and Gatorama too
Comfortable furniture designed for smaller places coming soon
Old-fashion craftsmanship suits him.
Searching for Mary Poppins: Everything you need to find the perfect nanny
As if turkey recipes, Black Friday bargain hunting and year-end vacations weren't enough, here's something else to work into your busy schedule: The holiday film avalanche is upon us.
I'm inclined to be skeptical of food trends. Heirloom vegetable varieties, heritage animal breeds, artisan everything -- I can appreciate the concepts, but they have so little to do with the way most of us cook and eat. And there's an elitist gloss to it all that doesn't suit my farm-girl sensibilities.
"The glamour is back,''an unseen announcer proclaimed to the crowd as the lights dimmed to start the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Surely she was speaking about the renovated Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, which hosted the event. The seductive lingerie line has always been about making the masses feel glamorous.
Consider the challenges faced by the early Americans trying to get their first Thanksgiving meal on the table: Outsmart the wild turkeys, clean the codfish, grind the grain into meal, gather the corn and be grateful that Native American chief Massasoit and his 90 men contributed five deer to the feast. (Today, a nice bottle of wine or homemade pie would be considered sufficient.)
Aggressive new HIV testing is identifying more people infected with the virus, but more than 20 percent of ...
A 14-year-old South Carolina girl, the first pediatric patient to live for 118 days on an artificial-heart ...
A 14-year-old South Carolina girl, the first pediatric patient to live for 118 days on an artificial heart ...
On The Biggest Loser, contestants arrive fat and leave thin. And in between, they go through an intense fit...
For this Thanksgiving-prep edition of Supermarket Sleuth, we're looking at products that will give you a he...
A lot of things have changed in the past 80 years, but the design of your local supermarket isn't one of th...
When David Katzberg lost his job at a local Lexus dealership, he never thought he would be unemployed for s...
The 33rd annual Broward County Fair offers family fun and thrill rides.
So SuperNanny seems to be too busy to take your calls, and you need some in-home child care. Where to start...
Dinosaurs made of aluminum and Lycra come to life in a stage production created in Australia.
Buying a suit is time consuming, even if you're buying one off the rack. For customers of tailor Oliver Wri...
Here's what's coming to the rescue from the hair care world: Pronto Colore Instant Hair Color Pen is like a...
The Miami Herald has composed a panel of readers to try products for face, body and hair. Here are their op...
Q: I am looking for a Cranberry Fluff dessert recipe. I believe it had a graham cracker crust. I first saw ...
Maybe yours is a ''mashed-potatoes at Thanksgiving'' family. Maybe you're a ''rice'' family. But have you e...
Three furniture makers soon will launch lines of coastal cottage-style furniture -- all designed to mimic t...
Does this sound like you? You are doing The Right Thing. You are thinking globally and acting locally. You ...
The official name of this store is Alex's Flamingo Groves and Gift Shop, but some regulars simply refer to ...
Some major housing groups want hefty home-buying incentives from the Obama administration.
Q: I own a condominium with garden-style buildings. The board decided we needed to replace the roof on one ...
My recent column on vampire energy -- also known as standby power -- generated well-deserved heat. Standby ...
Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain assumed two distinct personalities over a weekend in January 2008. It was almos...
Many of the ski runs built for the 2010 Olympic Games in and around Whistler will be open to the public thi...
It's an unproven yet widely acknowledged fact that Two Buck Chuck decanted from a Nalgene bottle while snow...
Forget the beach. Bridget Kerr, 10, would rather play in the snow. ''Winter is my favorite season,'' declar...
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