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Sunday, March 14, 2010

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PeopleTalk: A conversation with artist Peter Fowler

Updated: 03/14/10 1:24 PM
Artist Peter Fowler grew up in Denver and studied briefly in Los Angeles before working in Boston, San Francisco and Seville, Spain. Moving to Buffalo about a decade ago, Fowler set forth as an artist securing studio, gallery, living space. His abstract artwork — much of it capturing Buffalo scenes — is displayed so many homes, offices and businesses, you never know where you'll find a Fowler.

One-Tank Trip: Explore the treasures of a little London

Updated: 03/14/10 8:32 AM
LONDON, Ont.—Go ahead and tell everyone you’re taking the kids to London for the weekend. They’ll assume you’re on an expensive jaunt across the pond, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at all the fabulous family attractions there are a short three-hour drive from home.

Lauren Fix: Is it safe to take convertible through car wash?

Updated: 03/14/10 8:32 AM
Dear Car Fix: I have a Toyota Solara convertible and have been given opposing opinions on taking it through a car wash. Your opinion please.

Current / By Susan Martin

Updated: 03/14/10 6:32 AM
Sail on

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Airline passengers can get extra legroom –for a price

Updated: 03/14/10 6:32 AM
If you don’t want to pay the exorbitant price for a first-class ticket, your only chance to avoid the bone-crunching crowding of the airlines’ coach/economy cabins is to wangle a coach seat with extra legroom. Rather than dole out those choice seats first come, first served, more and more airlines have taken to selling access to them.

Miss Manners: The message in her obituary

Updated: 03/14/10 8:33 AM
Dear Miss Manners: How do you feel about the use in an obituary of a photo of the deceased when he/she was much younger than at the age at which he/she had died?

Carolyn Hax: What it really means to commit

Updated: 03/14/10 8:33 AM
Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I have been together for five years now, and we are in our mid-20s.We both agree we are very happy together right now, as well as in the foreseeable future. He does not, however, really believe in projecting deep into the future and basing major decisions on how we might feel—for instance, “We might still want to be together in 45 years, so let’s get married now.”

Dear Abby: Friends not warm to husband

Updated: 03/14/10 8:33 AM
Dear Abby: “Oscar” and I have been married for three years. We have had many ups and downs and a few near-separations, but we’re now on a better path and working hard on our relationship. Because my friends have seen the rocky times Oscar and I have been through, they are not as nice to him as I’d like. In particular, this applies to my best friend, “Tish,” and her husband.

Wine Guys: Concannon’s long tradition

Updated: 03/14/10 8:34 AM
Located 20 miles from San Francisco Bay in the once rural Livermore Valley is the Concannon Winery. The 200 acres of vineyards and winery are surrounded by commercial interests and housing developments that threatened the low-density, agricultural nature of the land. Instead of bowing to economic pressures, Concannon and other surrounding Livermore vineyard owners put their land into a conservancy trust that forbids commercial exploitation of their land, and preserving the area for grape growing and wine making.

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Miss Manners: The message in her obituary

Dear Miss Manners: How do you feel about the use in an obituary of a photo of the deceased when he/she was much younger than at the age at which he/she had died?

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