Severe weather guide: What to do when the power goes out
While the power is out: If the power remains out, consider using food in the refrigerator before it spoils. Throw away foods with an unusual odor, color or texture. The...
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Hardly a Legend in the making
When Honda's luxury flagship, the Acura Legend, debuted in 1986, it was handsome and athletic, and it possessed a brilliant name for a new premium sedan. Although the moniker might...
Cars of summer
With summer in full swing, a question arises: Is your automotive attire appropriate? The experience of enjoying the sun and feeling the wind in your hair far predates the automobile....
1960s cars celebrate American swagger
This July Fourth weekend, let's step back in time and let our feelings of patriotism well up inside of us like overheated radiators. Put on that Dacron polyester outfit. Pour...
Mercedes SLK350 finally cleans up its act
I don't feel particularly poetic when I test-drive a car. Oh sure, a car might — if I'm lucky — send my mind into flights of literary fancy. But having...
Concepts unrealized
The 2012 New York International Auto Show, which wraps up April 15 at the Jacob Javits Center, marks the end of this year's auto show season. Like many shows over...
Vick’s call in court: Not guilty
A federal judge allowed Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick and three co-defendants to remain free without posting bail Thursday. The NFL star's trial on a charge of conspiring to operate a...
BACK ON THE SCENE
Jack's back, and the shades are off. Pot belly preceding him, he looks only slightly rumpled as he enters the room and slyly comments, "How do you do, gent?" The...
GOODY ONE-SHOE
Winona Ryder is good but, by her own admission, not that good. Not wholesome enough, she worries, to play the devout Christian young lady who must, almost single-handedly, thwart the...
`LIVING ON FIRE’ EMBRACES THE MAGIC AND MYSTERY OF LOVE
LIVING ON FIRE: A Collection of Poems By Virginia Hamilton Adair Random House, 123 pages, $22 Virginia Hamilton Adair is well past 80. Her beloved husband, her "favorite playmate for...