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Chutney tacos? You betcha! Top chefs offer up fresh takes on taco night

Friday, May 24, 2013

When salsa overtook ketchup as America’s favorite condiment in the 1990s you had to know that “taco night” wasn’t far behind. Simple, satisfying and inexpensive, hard or soft tacos filled with meat, cheese and a what-have-you of veggies have become a staple for busy families. Sales of taco shells, seasonings and other products have grown steadily over the last decade, … 0

Lou & Lucy’s Leftovers: There’s more than one way to cook an asparagus

Friday, May 24, 2013

Well, it’s high-on asparagus season, better get your “grass” recipes made soon. I always see good recipes for asparagus, but I am usually so bent … 0

Online reviews can make or break a restaurant

Friday, May 24, 2013

It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet. An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance … 0

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Cathy Pantelic, 21, of Santa Monica, Calif., left, was Dr. Frank Kellogg's last patient. ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Retiring pediatrician: Vaccines changed everything

Friday, May 24, 2013

If you think today’s world can be a perilous place for children, imagine life in the 1950s. Seat belts in cars were not widely used, much less required. A kid wearing a bike helmet would have been mocked … 0

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Healthy note

Friday, May 24, 2013

Searching for the  safest sunscreen This year, sunscreen manufacturers are required to make a few important, and helpful, changes to their labels. But there’s still plenty of homework for you. New Federal Drug Administration guidelines force manufacturers to … 0

Dr. Suzanne Kilmer uses a laser to remove a tattoo from the forearm of Brad Frazier at her office in Sacramento, Calif. last month. SACRAMENTO BEE

No picnic, but expert has developed right tools for better results

Friday, May 24, 2013

Let’s say you are living in the moment, feeling giddy — a little tipsy, maybe — and you decide to go for it. You decide to get that tattoo. Dr. Suzanne Kilmer has a warning for you: Think … 0

Check it out

Friday, May 24, 2013

COUNSELOR ADVOCATE TRAINING The Center for Women and Community (formerly the Everywoman’s Center) at the University of Massachusetts offers a training for volunteer counselor advocates, who work with those who have experienced sexual, physical and emotional abuse or violence. The advocates are trained to provide individual peer counseling … 0

Jim Lumley stands amid lilac trees in Lilacland in Pelham Friday. JERREY ROBERTS

Colors, scents aplenty at Jim Lumley's Lilacland in Pelham

Thursday, May 23, 2013

As Jim Lumley, proprietor of Lilacland in Pelham, headed down the gently sloping hills of his country oasis on Harkness Road one day last week, he was spotted wearing a purple shirt and a purple striped tie. He … 0

Jim Gipe. KEVIN GUTTING

ID: Jim Gipe

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Jim Gipe is a freelance photographer and digital imaging consultant based in Florence. His photographic career has taken him from the newsroom of a metro daily to the wheat fields of Montana to the doorsteps of dignitaries. In … 0

Toni Hochstadt of Northampton. KEVIN GUTTING

Style Stop: Toni Hochstadt

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Toni Hochstadt’s eye-catching professional flair drew the attention of the Style Stop team as she walked along Main Street in Northampton recently. As a housing services coordinator for Community Action, Hochstadt says, she has to dress for housing … 0

Boy Scouts salute early Saturday morning, May 21, 2011 during New Jersey's Boy Scouts Camporee in Sea Girt, N.J. The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)

Boy Scouts of America accept gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders

Thursday, May 23, 2013

GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections … 0

Most US states see decline in teen births

Friday, May 24, 2013

NEW YORK — The nation’s record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia … 0

Greg Cantori is pictured with his 238-square-foot tiny-home, left, parked near his current home in Pasadena, Maryland, March 21, 2013. He and his wife intend to downsize into the tiny-house in the future and taking it with them as they travel. The tiny-house was built onto a trailer frame that can be towed. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun/MCT)

Smaller, cheaper, beloved: Tiny house fans inhabit their niche

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet — one-tenth the size of the average new American house — and sits in his Anne Arundel County, Md., yard. … 0

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