04.09.2008 01:04
If not for the humble, scrap-wood produce boxes strewn behind grocery stores and local produce markets, my roommates and I would have gone without a number of essential furniture items during our University California State Long Beach days.
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24.08.2008 22:02
Opera is usually associated with the shower, but sometimes opera moves out of the shower and over to the toilet. A clogged toilet has many qualities of an opera; it's dramatic and there's screaming.
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16.04.2008
Manitowoc Co.'s $2.1 billion offer for a British food-equipment manufacturer would create the largest company of its kind for products such as ice machines and restaurant fryers, Manitowoc CEO Glen Tellock said Monday.
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16.04.2008
A vodka and gin distillery on Milwaukee's north side is moving to the Walker's Point neighborhood and will begin offering weekend tours. Great Lakes Distillery plans to be in its new location at 616 W. Virginia St. by July, said owner Guy Rehorst.
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16.04.2008
A new line of milk debuting in three Milwaukee-area stores next week banks on the willingness of consumers to pay twice as much for milk labeled and marketed as "humanely produced.
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16.04.2008
Q: What's the best product for painting my concrete basement floor? It has a few small cracks. Is there a product that can be used to fill these gaps before painting? A: The best basement floor coatings do three things well.
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16.04.2008
If you still have wimpy daylilies in your garden, with stems as limp as old celery and flowers that look like wet crepe paper you're living in the past. The newer daylilies are robust specimens with cosmic coloured flowers, and stems sturdy enough to club a mugger.
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16.04.2008
Good marriages change people, and some of my own post-nuptial recalibration involved vacuum cleaners. My wife was raised in a central-vacuum household. I came from a strictly hand-pushed, upright-vac tradition. "Central vacs are overkill", I used to preach. "Nobody needs to get that fancy.
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09.04.2008
Q: Do I need to do something about the metal rod holes in my poured concrete basement walls? The house was built 20 years ago, and a contractor who specializes in removing the metal and patching the cavities has fixed the rod holes below the existing insulation along the top of the wall.
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09.04.2008
Mequon - Mark Metcalf, a Bayside resident who won fame in the movie "Animal House" and has continued to act locally, has sold his interest in the Libby Montana restaurant to his former wife, Linda Wick.
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09.04.2008
The beer that made Milwaukee famous hopes to stage a comeback by returning to a brewing formula discarded over 30 years ago. Schlitz had been available only in cans for several years until the brand's owner, Pabst Brewing Co., began selling it in bottles last year in Minneapolis and Tampa, Fla.
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04.04.2008
Three new craft beer spinoffs from Miller Lite will be launched nationwide as Miller Brewing Co. continues to exploit a growing consumer preference for craft beers.
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