The restaurant serves bread made in-house, and menu items include blueberry amaretto pancakes, streusel encrusted French toast and London broil and eggs. Two other rooms entice visitors to grab a souvenir of the mountains, in the form of sun catchers, magnets, bookmarks and candles make with real flowers. Zipping road cyclists, riders on mountain bikes, tandems or hybrids hauling baby carriages can all enjoy the steady 600-foot winding climb through Ten Mile Canyon. While most people...

Its menus can be written in water-soluble ink on recycled paper; if required and wherever possible, all food is organic and sourced from the UK (even the olive oil can come from Kent), ideally from farmers markets. The aim is to produce no more than four bags of rubbish in the run-up to any party, and when the staff clean up afterwards, they use ecofriendly products. As the party season lumbers into sight, those keen to be at the forefront of gastronomic trends start desperately flicking...

Class rates will vary from about $45 to $65 a person depending on the menu -- dishes such as tenderloin and shrimp might cost a bit more -- and students will be able to suggest what meals they prepare. Liebmann thinks it will be a good time for customer appreciation or employee recognition events, or for two or three couples that want to get together and do something different. Ann Liebmann will host classes in the upstairs of her Wausau home where she will teach about six to eight...

In brief comments to an enthusiastic crowd which included Barnstable County Sheriff Jim Cummings, State Senate candidate Ric Barros, and several town officials from Brewster, Dennis & Yarmouth, Neitz pledged a positive campaign, and outlined several major philosophical differences between he and his opponent. In brief comments to an enthusiastic crowd which included Barnstable County Sheriff Jim Cummings, State Senate candidate Ric Barros, and several town officials from Brewster, Dennis &...

Texas and Kansas are battening down for new storms, while still recovering from last month's floods, along with Oklahoma, which is now getting flooded again. Responses have shifted in the wake of Katrina and the succession of local disasters; Gore's Inconvenient Truth; the international IPCC report and similar impeccably credentialed scientific studies; and the start of serious media coverage, from Parade and the AARP magazine to Vogue. They could create a political opening to defeat...

It has been said that "talk is cheap" and "actions speak louder than words," so if Baird and his fellow believers truly want to support this war, it's time for them to quit talking and strap on their boots. Strangely, he seems to believe that more death and destruction will honor those who have already fallen victim to President Bush's folly. Brian Baird returned from his fifth guided tour of Iraq and neighboring countries and concluded that our troops should continue the fight. What has...