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Eight new garden products for veterans and newbies alike

May 25, 2019 at 1:13 p.m.

Spring brings a plethora of new products to get excited about. Here are just a few that span the practical to the playful, for veteran gardeners and rookies alike. Dahlia...

Leroy's Kitchen & Lounge specializes in fresh, local food and a convivial atmosphere.

Coronado a laid-back world away from San Diego

August 23, 2019 at 12:15 p.m.

A five-minute drive on the towering San Diego-Coronado Bridge gets you from one city to the other. But distance isn't always measured in miles. "You go over the bridge, a...

Old animal X-rays get new life as lamps

August 23, 2019 at 9:15 a.m.

These aren't Grandma's lampshades. Spike Vain, a Los Angeles veterinary technician and artist, combines both aspects of her life in creating lamps with shades made of X-rays of animals. Vain,...

Kathryn Gamble, head veterinarian at the Lincoln Park Zoo, holds a Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko that needed some tending as she made her daily rounds.

Lincoln Park Zoo’s head vet keeps an animal kingdom healthy

June 15, 2018 at 7:53 p.m.

Kathryn Gamble is at her desk, animatedly talking about one of the joys in her life: teaching. As the Dr. Lester E. Fisher Director of Veterinary Medicine and Veterinary Services...

Two dogs rescued from a puppy mill arrive at the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago in this 2011 file photo. The Puppy Mill Project will hold its 5th annual Mothers in the Mills fundraiser on May 9, the night before Mothers Day. The event raises money for the project and helps foster awarenes about puppy mills.

Puppy Mill Project salutes mother dogs

May 9, 2019 at 7:24 p.m.

The Puppy Mill Project, which earlier this month helped save 80 dogs at a breeding operation in Kankakee County, will again be honoring mother dogs at its fifth annual Mothers...

Time-release fertilizers slowly release nutrients to container plants throughout the growing season, says Jennifer Brennan of Chalet Nursery. Brennan also recommends adding acrylic polymers, which can hold 200 times their weight in water, again releasing the moisture slowly. These innovations help the gardener, as well as the plants.

Container gardening know-how: Horticulture specialist shares tricks of the trade

May 23, 2019 at 8:44 a.m.

Trends come and go in gardening. Remember when you couldn't run through a neighbor's flower bed without tripping over a gazing ball? But for decades now, container gardens have been...

Tom Schneider runs a clinic for North Lawndale College Prep High School students as part of his T.R.U.E. Fit fitness program in Chicago.

Coach plots Chicago-Boston bike trek to get kids moving

May 25, 2019 at 12:42 p.m.

If Tom Schneider has his way, the image of chubby, pasty children hunkered down in front of their computers or personal devices will become a thing of the past. Schneider...

"Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal" by Tim Hayes (St. Martin's Press).

The latest, greatest books about animals

May 9, 2019 at 7:24 p.m.

Abraham Lincoln's dog, Flash the homeless donkey, Romeo the wolf. These are just three of the characters who pop up in a group of new pet- and animal-related books: "George...

Garage storage products that make every inch count

May 30, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

Do you have an impressive front entry door but you prefer to enter and leave your home through the garage? If so, you're not alone. A recent survey of 1,000...

Stella needs help to stay with her people

May 9, 2019 at 7:22 p.m.

This is Stella, and she needs your help. She's a 16-month-old American bulldog whose family decided to relinquish her because they could not afford the surgery she needs to repair...

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