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Oscar's Smokehouse brings out the wurst in visitors
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Did you hear about the two little piggies who went to the market? A few weeks ago, my cousin Kathleen and I discovered Oscar’s Adirondack Mountain Smokehouse, the famous pork palace of the North Country, where the Quintal family has been making bacon since 1943.
These 4 summer cocktails are simple, refreshing, versatile
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Summer is better with a signature cocktail. Not a fancy dinner cocktail. Not a party cocktail. And certainly nothing that anyone who goes by the title “mixologist” ever would deign to make.
DETROIT
Altitude with Attitude
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
It is the kind of treehouse that a kid could spend all day and all night inside. Patrick and Cindy Mifsud’s kids have in fact pulled all-nighters in the cedar and pine play set nestled in their backyard in Dearborn Heights, Mich.
ROTTERDAM
Abandoned storage units can be full of surprises – or junk
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Auctions are part of the self-storage business. Whenever people fall behind in their rents or abandon their possessions, business managers are allowed to sell the contents and find new “tenants” for storage areas. A lot of the auction commotion is thanks to “Storage Wars,” a reality television series that began on A&E Network in 2010.
Most snakes are harmless, interesting additions to garden
Sunday, May 19, 2013
With the arrival of warm weather, it is likely that gardeners and yard workers may soon come into contact with snakes. I am writing this week’s column on behalf of the snakes and asking that you who see them give them the benefit of the doubt before grabbing a shovel.
Jasmine Thai offers flavorful introduction to cuisine
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Jasmine Thai Restaurant is a great place to try if you want to sample Southeast Asian cuisine.
DELMAR
With exercise and better diet, Delmar woman has diabetes on run
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Helene Meckler leads a changed life, and she calls the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes “a blessing in disguise.”
GE’s Nancy Fitzroy is subject of latest Wizards of Schenectady video
Friday, May 17, 2013
Most of Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy’s friends were all about going to Skidmore College and finding a husband. She had other plans. “I didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go to Skidmore and get my degree in ‘Mrs.,’ ” said Fitzroy, a Pittsfield, Mass., native and a mechanical engineer at General Electric Co. for 37 years from 1950-87. And she did get married, too.
Good diabetic diet goes beyond cutting out sugar, carbs
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Diane Whitten, a nutrition educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County who teaches “Dining with Diabetes” classes, stresses that it’s not about eliminating carbohydrates all together or thinking that carbs are bad.
SCHENECTADY
Review: MacLean, audience team for intimate show
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
If Dougie MacLean was having as bad of a day as he explained he was before he kicked off the first of two sets Tuesday night at the GE Theatre at Proctors, he certainly turned it around during his performance.
SEATTLE
'Zero Energy Idea House'
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Before she got into the construction business 41 years ago, Donna Shirey was a teacher. Turns out, she still is.
Mother's Day especially difficult for military moms
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Tammy Lence wears the black and cobalt blue uniform for Laz Parking. She wears the black and yellow, star-spangled Army lanyard around her neck for her son, Michael McCarroll.
SCHENECTADY
Duryee AME choirs in sound hands with Tucker
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Larissa Tucker is director of the Duryee Voices of the Duryee Memorial AME Zion Church on Schenectady Street in Schenectady and also is in charge of the church’s combined choir and the children’s choir. Along with her duties of directing the groups and organizing them, she also lends her own voice to the music, and that is usually something very special.
There’s method in red-winged blackbirds’ mating behavior
Sunday, May 12, 2013
This week we’re looking at the world through the eyes of a female red-winged blackbird. What kind of challenges does she face? What decisions does she have to make?
Founder of fashion show feels at home in multiple fine arts
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Electric City Couture Fashion Show founder Joleen Button will be an interested observer at the popular event at Proctors later this month.
