TOKYO %26mdash; Until recently, cellphone novels %26mdash; composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens %26mdash; had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago.
Then, in December, [...]
Why are some dining experiences exquisite, and others %26mdash; the pits? We look at the server-diner relationship from both sides of the plate.
THE WAITER
By Kristen Browning-Blas, Denver Post Food Editor
A restaurant can control the quality of the ingredients it buys, the type of chef and cooks it hires, the way the menu is [...]
One of the first things you’ll notice about Shells %26 Sauce, a half-year-old neighborhood Italian restaurant in the Congress Park neighborhood, is that it’s noisy.
It’s not noisy for the bad reasons: not because there’s an unmuffled exhaust system overhead, not because it’s on a busy intersection, not because the radio’s turned up too loud [...]
We tend think of our bones as just the scaffolding that holds us together, but they also protect our vital organs. And as we age, we need to continue getting calcium and to exercise to keep our bones healthy.
So when you’re pumping iron at the gym or climbing a fourteener, you’re doing it [...]
Is a gym membership too expensive or too much of a commitment? There are plenty of ways to get in shape, even in Colorado’s cold weather, and do it for free or at low cost. Here are 10 affordable ways to exercise, gleaned from a trainer, exercise enthusiast and Internet sources:
1. Walk. It’s [...]
NEW YORK %26mdash; Being merely moderately fit %26mdash; walking briskly half an hour a day %26mdash; can lower the risk of having a stroke, according to a new study whose findings apply to women, as well as men.
Much of the research on stroke and fitness has been on men and relied on [...]
LIJIANG, China %26mdash; You are lounging in a warm plunge pool in the garden of a private villa while listening to “The Goldberg Variations.” Your robe and slippers are on the floor where you dropped them, right near the giant, pillow-mounded platform bed. You are thinking about having a brie omelet for breakfast, then a [...]
It was near the end of a six-hour bus tour of Denali National Park that we got a good, long look at a bear eating his way through a field of berries.
Elsewhere in Alaska, my husband, two sons and I had watched whales spouting near Juneau, eagles along the Chilkat River, and waterways in [...]
You bought the house and secured the keys. Now what?
Real estate expert Sid Davis says maintenance crises, financial demands and renovation disasters can become overwhelming to less-experienced property owners.
“They were renters before, so whenever they had a problem, the landlord or supervisor would come by and fix things,” says Davis, who wrote “The First-Time [...]
It may be the dead of winter, but come Saturday, 800-plus Coloradans will be enjoying life in sunny Margaritaville, thanks to the Limb Preservation Foundation’s Mountain Mardi Gras.
A Margaritaville Masquerade is the theme for the 14th edition of this zany fundraiser, and chairwoman Jan Wilkins is borrowing heavily from Jimmy Buffet’s various odes to [...]
