Life Style & Travel

UNITED STATES—Nothing cools down the excessive heat way of the summer, like a cold fruit salad. No, I’m not taking about those ridiculous pre-packaged fruit salads at your local market; I’m referring to a fresh one. Yes, I know chopping and cutting up fruit takes time, but the price you pay for a packaged fruit salad you can almost...

LOS ANGELES—Project D.A.T.E will be providing tools for the deaf, hard of hearing, blind and low vision attendees to make the viewing Centre Theatre Group’s production of Queen and Ben Elton’s “We Will Rock You” better. Centre Theatre Group’s “We Will Rock You” performance is a tribute to the band, Queen. The Centre Theatre Group describes the performance as a...

UNITED STATES—So many plants that were difficult to obtain years ago are now much more available online. The internet does more than give everyone access to nurseries and seed suppliers that sell online. It also makes it possible to communicate with others who might want to share plants and seeds from their own gardens. The advantages are obvious, but...

UNITED STATES—Building up stamina and agility is not an easy thing, but exercise is the key to maintaining a healthy body.  Some love to utilize the treadmill, others are fans of the bicycle, I however, am a fan of the elliptical. Look at it this way it’s a bicycle in the air, it’s a treadmill without all the excessive...

UNITED STATES—When it comes to summer, nothing is more refreshing than a cool pasta salad. There are tons of varieties to consider when making the perfect pasta salad. While many suspect it’s the veggies that you choose to include or not include in the salad, I think its all about the pasta used and the dressing. For starters, there...

UNITED STATES—Eat it all, I say. Not in the way your mother meant (i.e. cleaning the plate), but taking advantage of all nature has provided in neat streamlined packages called fruit. This is one of those times when it may behoove us to choose organic because, if we are going to eat skin and all, we’d best avoid a...

  It always seems that by the time the garden gets as productive as it can, it is already time to get ready for the next season. Pretty soon, cool season annuals will be arriving in nurseries to replace warm season annuals that had been so colorful all summer. If seeds are to be collected from summer flowers for next...

UNITED STATES—If you’re going to eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, it helps to know how to cut them cleverly. Then you can incorporate them into the busiest routine. Once upon a time a in the San Fernando Valley a volunteer at a charity kitchen chopped laboriously away at the stubby ends of zucchini squash. She did it hundreds...

UNITED STATES—Let’s face it, we’re all guilty of a fast-food craving every now and then. The problem with fast-food is that its unhealthy if consumed on a daily basis consistently. I’m sorry, but you can’t stuff your face with McDonalds seven days a week and think just because you’re eating you’re ok. It’s not just that your body is consuming...

UNITED STATES—Blue must be unpopular with the more common of pollinators. After all, colorful flowers are designed to attract some sort of vector to exchange pollen. It seems that most pollinators like yellow. Red and pink (which is actually a tint of red) seem to be more appealing to hummingbirds. Butterflies seem to really like pink and orange. Many...