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Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Tacodeli,1902 Washington, is offering two limited-time menu items for the month of June, and both are old favorites. Get the Akaushi Picadillo + Egg breakfast taco ($3.75), made with Vital Farms scrambled eggs, seasoned HeartBrand akaushi ground beef, chile de arbol salsa and cilantro; and the Tikin Xic ($4.95) for lunch and dinner, a Mayan inspired taco made with achiote marinated grilled salmon, spicy salsa negra, habanero onion escabeche and cilantro. In May, owners and Indian natives Mithu an...

Greg Johnson picks up the phone in his Santa Monica apartment and says, amazingly, “Gidday!” Twenty-odd years living in California, and he still sounds like an Auckland boy. I picture boulevards flanked with Washingtonia palms outside his window, sparkling sea, and Johnson himself mooching about in the perennial sun, quite possibly wearing a fedora and sporting an unreasonable tan. “It’s true that I do not like the cold,” he admits. “Sunlight makes me happy, so I'm a big fan of California. Where I’m living now, I can just stroll over to the beach, and the weather is perfect f...

Wayne Bell at door of Merrell House. Photography by Michael Patrick The biggest problem with living in a historic house is time—not just coping with the natural aging process of an elderly build­ing but learning to live with architec­tural patterns that were made to fit the lifestyle of a different era. Restoration architect Wayne Bell has had to deal with both problems in the ten years he has spent renovating his handsome 107-year-old Central Texas farmhouse. Located between Round Rock and Taylor, half an hour northeast of Austin, the historic Merrell House is a rough-hewn limestone buil...

Travis Hairgrove Herald-Banner 11 hrs ago Wednesday was National Crayon Day, which celebrates the joy of coloring, an activity that most kids (and an increasing number of adults) find satisfaction in. Even before starting school, many children use coloring as an early means of expression and applying their imagination to various scenes (a child coloring an entire page  in a coloring book black, and explaining that it is “night time” could be an example). However, throughout their education, coloring will be used in a variety of lessons, to engage students in their learning. â€�...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MANCHESTER — Manchester voters approved everything including the budget, rail trail, a fire truck and the library funding. Without a floor vote and everything being handled with Australian ballot, the Town Meeting Day produced one of the largest vote tallies in recent memory with close to 1,200 votes cast. And voters were in a generous mood, approving all funding requests including the $5,979,211 budget, by a vote of 937 to 205. The funding plan calls for a 3.75 percent increase despite cutting spending by $1.01 million dollars as rev...