Bean Bag Chair

TEACHERS have promised that a "breathtaking" new city school featuring revolutionary classrooms will be one of Exeter's most significant modern buildings. The people co-ordinating the new development, for the Royal Academy for Deaf Education have ...

The stay-at-home dad from Pleasant Hill, Ore., came from out of nowhere Monday to win the 34th annual pumpkin weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, shattering the competition's old record by almost 300 pounds. He beamed with pride as the weight was revealed ...

Dining Tables

Open since 1988, the Texican, near the far end of Manchaca, specializes in what they call "El Paso-style Tex-Mex." This means a full menu of border cuisine utilizing the flavors of West Texas and southern New Mexico. Whatever the label used, the ...

Dining Table

When a house is recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, you expect to see a structure that's beautiful, unique and stately. What you do not expect is sex appeal, but that's exactly what makes Jennifer and John Eagle's Preston ...

Mille Fleurs' fixed-price menu on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights features fare such as Multicolored Tomato and Chevre Salad. Reason No. 462 why living in San Diego is so awesome: Usually when you want to go out to a nice restaurant, getting a ...

Baker Furniture

Mr. Stowe of near Fennville has invented a novel folding chair, and John C. Stein and others are using their influence to try to get it manufactured. The chair when folded looks like an ordinary block of wood, about 18 inches tall and 8 inches ...

Camp Chairs

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, flanked by his wife, Cindy, and former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, campaigns Friday during a stop at Conway's Red Top Restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colo. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Sen ...

Camp Blanding's MOUT Facility near Starke, Florida is one of the US Army's facilities used for training soldiers how to fight effectively in an urban setting. The Army regularly leases out the facility to paintball producers who want to put on a game ...

Dining Table

A former Good Earth server is drawing a connection between losing her job and a phone call KARE11 meteorologist Jonathan Yuhas made to the restaurant's management. A woman who identified herself in a phone interview as Kari Notaro told me that she ...

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Chauffeur-driven black Lexus and Mercedes sedans glide down narrow, darkened streets, past beautiful women in elegant gowns, who welcome clients to private clubs. A pale green $215,000 Lamborghini gleams in a showroom. This is ...

Office Chairs

Joanna and Al are hip, young professionals who live in an architecturally unique house with an open concept layout, several catwalks and open stairwells connecting different levels. The couple loves to entertain, and the house has served as party ...

A group of Dhaka University (DU) students under the banner of Bangladesh Madrasah Students Movement Council yesterday vandalised the vice-chancellor's office, as the university authority didn't lift the restriction imposed on madrasah background ...

Dining Furniture

HIGH POINT, N.C. Even before these days of shrinking economic expectations, furniture makers were getting the message from consumers: Small is the new black. One trend at this week's High Point Market is for smaller furniture that fits into ...

T he furniture industry has become something of a scratch-and-dent event in recent years. Long before the credit crunch went global, furniture stores were getting banged around as the once-hot housing market began to chill, and consumers began using ...

Sauder Furniture

A LA CARTE THURSDAY Fairmount Museum Days/Remembering James Dean Festival Playacres Park, Fairmount; 765-948-4555 or JamesDeanArtifacts.com; ends Sept. 28. Ballroom Dance 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.; Starr Commonwealth Gymnasium, 15145 Lincoln ...

Connecticut Fairfield Bridgeport Farmers' Market I McLevy Green, Intersection, Bank and Main Streets Fridays 9am - 2pm, July 20 thru October 26 Farmers market Connecticut Fairfield Bridgeport Farmers' Market II United Congregational Church, 877 Park ...

Contemporary Furniture

(By Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press) Even before these days of shrinking economic expectations, furniture makers were getting the message from consumers: Small is the new black. A trend at this week's High Point Market is for smaller furniture that fits into smaller living spaces. The twice-a-year furniture industry trade show in High Point, 80 miles northeast of Charlotte, displays thousands ...

Dining Room Furniture

Five years ago, a South Baltimore property on Jackson Street was a vacant lot next to a bar and littered with bottles and debris. Andy Weltlinger and his wife, Gina, living across the street at the time, saw great potential when they purchased the ...

The Mar-a-lago collection: Castello buffet ($3,469) with Spanish limestone, left, and the Concerto mirror ($1,039). The Palladia dining table ($4,189), right, stretches to seat 12. Venezia side chairs ($629) make the meal comfortable. Mar-a-lago ...

Furniture Repair

ATLANTA--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The U.S. Small Business Administration reminds homeowners, renters, businesses and non-profit organizations of all sizes that less than two weeks remain to apply for disaster assistance. The deadline to submit disaster ...

Mayor Larry O'Brien chose the corner of Elgin and Lisgar streets to talk about what's wrong with street furniture in Ottawa and to launch a program aimed at tidying city sidewalks. Here, a jumble of newspaper boxes stand between a glass bus shelter ...

Camp Chairs

AMERICAN bishop TD Jakes promised to give South Africans a ?spiritual extravaganza never seen before and he delivered on his promise. The Potters House leader hosted MegaFest International for the first time outside Altanta in the US and ...

Dining Tables

It is a great idea to integrate the kitchen and the dining room, especially when you are a small family. You could go in for an island counter in the centre of the room now that you have a bigger space, as this can also be used for storage. However ...

Kitchen Counters

Tearful testimony and a surprise line of questioning filled the first day of evidence in the third murder trial of Vaughn Jones. In opening statements by prosecutor Ann Kirby and defense lawyer Dick McNeil, the jury got the outline of both sides of ...

A University student arrested preemptively before the Republican National Convention will be one of the first people prosecuted under a terrorism clause in the Minnesota Patriot Act since it was passed in 2002. Cultural studies junior Max Specktor is ...

Sauder Furniture

ARCHBOLD -- "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is in Toledo this week constructing a new house for Aaron and Jackie Frisch and their 11 children. Hundreds of people on site will all be united by the project -- with matching hats to prove it. As part of ...

Stocks of local companies plummeted and area residents expressed shock and concern yesterday after the U.S. House of Representatives turned down a bailout package for the country's financial industry. 'I'm surprised,' George Monger, a Toledo ...

A LA CARTE THURSDAY Fairmount Museum Days/Remembering James Dean Festival Playacres Park, Fairmount; 765-948-4555 or JamesDeanArtifacts.com; ends Sept. 28. Ballroom Dance 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.; Starr Commonwealth Gymnasium, 15145 Lincoln ...

Massage Table

Drink extra water in the day or two before your massage. In the hours after your massage, drink enough water so that your urine is clear. Stretch your muscles after a massage. Think about scheduling your massage after a workout. Your muscles ...

Dining Table

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 It's in perfect scale to the 38-seat space, which envelops you like a warm cocoon the moment you push through the cloaks of fabric at the door. Dark burgundy walls, antique wood furniture and soft lighting are ...

There is certainly no shortage of places to eat in Huntington Beach, but there are very few, if any, that represent the newest dining craze small plates. From New York to L.A. and points in between, Food and Wine magazine has named the ...

Furniture Outlets

The SAC has been sacked years ago. The Student Center reigns supreme. Oct. 1 marked the Office of Student Center Operations second birthday. It was an event to raise awareness of its purpose. With two large sheet cakes, hundreds of flyers ...

Keep warm air in and cold air out by adding insulation, caulking and weatherstripping around doors, attic access, windows, outlets and any area that can let the cold air in and the warm air out. Make sure floor and wall vents are not blocked by ...

Rocking Chair

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Thirty-seven pitches. Jon Lester threw 37 pitches to get his final six outs. You hear that, you figure there must have been a base runner in there somewhere. But nope, just six Angels batters trying get on base against a 24-year-old ...

Sauder Furniture

Connecticut Fairfield Bridgeport Farmers' Market I McLevy Green, Intersection, Bank and Main Streets Fridays 9am - 2pm, July 20 thru October 26 Farmers market Connecticut Fairfield Bridgeport Farmers' Market II United Congregational Church, 877 Park ...

A LA CARTE THURSDAY Fairmount Museum Days/Remembering James Dean Festival Playacres Park, Fairmount; 765-948-4555 or JamesDeanArtifacts.com; ends Sept. 28. Ballroom Dance 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.; Starr Commonwealth Gymnasium, 15145 Lincoln ...

Child Table And Chairs

Forty-three years ago, two men enrolled at Yale University. One of them dropped out a year later, volunteered to fight in Vietnam, then made a movie about his experiences entitled Platoon . His name is Oliver Stone. The other dodged combat and went ...

Stroll on a roll: At less about 14 pounds, which is about 4 pounds lighter than its nearest competitor, Evenflo's Xsport Plus Convenience Stroller still manages to incorporate a full set of valuable features: extendable handles for different parent ...

New and gently used Halloween costumes and accessories needed for kids in foster care and those receiving services. Call Rhonda, (608) 789-4834. Toddler bed needed. Call Anneliese, (608) 785-5730. Single mother with back issues needs queen-size ...

Furniture Outlets

HONG KONG, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's retail sales totalled a provisional HK$22.76 billion ($2.93 billion) in August, rose 10.4 percent in value from a year earlier and were up 3.9 percent in volume, Census and Statistics Department figures showed ...

The good folks over at Flickr are hosting a photo competition that ties in with the Design Cities exhibition being held at London's Design Museum. The exhibit, for its part, "tells the story of contemporary design through cities (London, Paris ...

Home Front is an online conversation between two Washington Post Home Section writers and their readers about the best way to feather the nest. Every week, Jura Koncius and Terri Sapienza help you in your quest to achieve domestic bliss. They were ...