Lifestyle Columns
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Matchmakers, would you want to be paired with him?May 04, 2012 11:53 am - Q. Is there a polite way to say to well-meaning family and friends, “Please don’t feel like you have to try to set me up with every gay man you know just because I am si...
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Super handyman: Get your A/C in tiptop shape now, before hot weather sets inMay 04, 2012 5:59 am - So far, so good for most of us. The really hot weather hasn’t hit most of the country yet. So now is a good time to make sure your air conditioner is ready to handle it....
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About real estate: Law raises difficult ‘disclosure’ issuesMay 04, 2012 5:50 am - A seller obviously must tell a buyer if the home’s roof continually leaks, but the law gets murkier when it comes to a problem that appears to have been fixed. Q. We had...
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Home inspector: Solar panels, radiant floors need additional evaluationMay 04, 2012 5:41 am - Q. I want to buy a 4-year-old house with solar panels and radiant floor heat. The home inspectors I’ve called say they don’t evaluate “nonstandard” things like solar pan...
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The nation’s housing: More inspectors to train on energy auditsMay 04, 2012 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — It may be the best-kept secret in home real estate: For a couple of hundred dollars, a potential buyer thinking about writing a contract on an existing hous...
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'Mother's Day' wastes a chilling performance by Rebecca De MornayMay 03, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life review: "Mother's Day" Very little of Charles Kaufman's 1980 unrated horror opus "Mother's Day" survives in this remake from "Saw" veteran Darren Lynn Bousman...
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Quirky cocktail concoctions and lively libationsMay 02, 2012 6:00 am - Working on the margarita story got me thinking about other fun and funky spirits that recently have crossed my desk so I thought I'd share a few with you. We here in the...
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Eating healthy even in the darkMay 01, 2012 1:00 pm - Power outages can happen any time of the year and the suburbs certainly saw their fair share of them last summer. And with the power out, it seems people's preference fo...
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Show your daughter the path you’ve taken with her momMay 01, 2012 12:43 pm - Q. My wife and I split up for a couple of reasons including that she’s likely bipolar but refuses treatment. Slowly over the years of working together to raise our child...
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Controlling mother-in-law wants baby named after herMay 01, 2012 12:41 pm - Q. When my husband and I were first talking about having children, he suggested my mother’s name and his mother’s name (“Elaine Nicole”) or our fathers’ names (“Timothy ...