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Q: I saw a newspaper article recently about a new home that had the plumbing and wiring in place for solar systems if the buyers wanted to install them in...

Ghostland Observatory doesn't concern itself much with the perfect music industry business model. The band is doing all right, thank you very much, without help from a major label, MTV...

It's spring, that time of year when pieces of fencing, all sizes and materials, show up on the curb, waiting to be picked up by the trash-collection crews. Falling tree...

James Lawson is out of step with modern Christianity. Take gay marriage. Speaking in support of a proposed state constitutional ban on same sex unions, one Rev. Hayes Wicker of...

Hybrid technology may be the poster child for change in the U.S. auto industry, but a cash-strapped public is leaning far more heavily on 4-cylinder engines to ease their fiscal...

They wanted to be famous. Of all the troubling aspects of the Lakeland, Fla., tale of thuggery and brutality that has recently made national headlines, that's arguably the most appalling....

Foxy Shazam frontman Eric Sean Nally operates on one simple belief: "Nothing's cool until it's made cool." So, just how do Nally and his band mates work that magic on...

If Rob Kleiner were a major-league hurler, there's no doubt what his specialty pitch would be: the curveball. And contrary to accepted practice, he likely would try to throw it...

Open floor plans, where one room flows seamlessly into another, have been de rigueur in new home construction for nearly a decade. But how do you take your grid-like Cape...

You're ready to sell. Fresh paint is on the walls. Closets are tidy, the baths and kitchen immaculate. But is your landscape ready? Or will it be a turnoff that...