Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: A two-time Grammy nominee is coming home to Youngstown this weekend to benefit an organization run by a childhood friend. Tenor Lawrence Brownlee headlines There’s Power in Music at 6 p.m. Sunday at Stambaugh Auditorium. All proceeds ...
DEAR ANNIE: My granddaughter, “Melanie,” thinks that she has a half-sister 24 years younger. Melanie believes that her father, long divorced from her mother, was asked by his former unattached girlfriend with whom he remained friendly, to “help” her have a child before it becomes biologically too late. Now, my granddaughter has become very attached to the 2 and 1/2 year old and visits her at least once a week. She finds a lot of physical resemblance to herself when she was that age. She sees her father participate lovingly in the little girl’s activities. She has asked him ...
This past week has kept us busy canning tomatoes and pickles. We have four-plus bushels of tomatoes here that need to be canned. The days go by so fast and pretty soon another week is gone. The wedding keeps getting closer and closer. Son Benjamin and Joanna are heading out to Ohio tomorrow afternoon with the Greyhound bus. Her cousin is getting married Thursday, and she is a tablewaiter at the wedding. In our community, they have a boy and girl tablewaiter to serve guests. In that community they only have girls. From one community to the next it is different. In some they take only ...
WASHINGTON — Full disclosure: this should really be two tales. How better to pay tribute to the natural and perhaps inevitable combination of two distinctly American icons: fast food and cars? Those two massive sociological forces had already joined up, Voltron-style, early in the 20th ...
I’ve never been to Maine for a lobster roll, but the ones I’ve had in other places have been so good that I knew I needed to make one myself. This version is from my cookbook “Home” and is made with perfectly cooked lobster meat that is plump, juicy, and tender but also firm, and ...
DEAR HELOISE: Regarding the person who complained about their toothbrush only vibrating instead of spinning, the fault isn’t with the toothbrush. I had the same thing happen to me, and I have a very well-known brand of toothbrush. The problem is with the brush head. I changed mine, and it works fine now. — Jan P., via email DEAR HELOISE: Your column about fake electric toothbrush heads got my attention. My toothbrush stopped spinning months ago, so after reading your column, I thought I must have a fake brush head. I ordered new heads, but the brush still didn’t spin. I read ...
