POLICE/FIRE LOG: Sept. 22-28, 2008 Oct 10, 2008
2:48 p.m. Linden Ponds Way, resident reports flatware is missing, possibly during move. 5:43 p.m. Cushing St., and Ward St., traffic stop. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Smart And Seasonal Oct 5, 2008
The restaurant seats 36 at polished wood tables set with simple yet sophisticated plates and flatware. The daily-changing menu suits the space - it is direct and focused, yet holds elements of surprise. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Get A Jump On Oktoberfest, On A Shoestring Oct 3, 2008
Diners eat with pewter-style flatware and goblets, and the staff is attired in colonial garb. Of course, the food itself also offers a "taste" of history. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Top 50 spots Oct 3, 2008
Open to light, the walls are bathed in muted tones of khaki; a farm table in the center of the room is home to a server s station stacked with flatware wrapped in blue-and-white dish towels used as napkins and big glass pitchers of water ... They remove flatware with each course, and the food is presented artfully on clear glass plates. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Burlington Coat Factory to open Friday Oct 3, 2008
Donations of clothing, furniture, appliances, flatware and hundreds of other items are needed, said Capt. Jonathan Harvey. The agency will be accepting donations at the new Family Store beginning Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For a free pickup in Yuma or the Foothills, call 783-0181. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Bring Out the Silver and Add Class to Your Party Sep 24, 2008
The silver bowls, platters, serviceware and flatware are probably sitting in the china cabinet becoming tarnished because who has time to polish silver. And no one actually uses them, do they. (Pekin Times, IL)
For Goodness’ Sake: This week’s needs include furniture and kitchenware Sep 21, 2008
Community residential site needs dishes, flatware, pots and pans, coffee pots and other kitchen utensils. Call Carol, (608) 785-5852. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Winonans bring out attic fillers for Roadshow Sep 19, 2008
Wayne Nichols, left, an appraiser for Treasure Hunters Roadshow, looks at Wilma Loitz's sterling silver flatware Thursday afternoon at the Quality Inn in Winona. Loitz was paid 159 for the collection. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Just the essentials: Stick with the basics with first kitchens Sep 18, 2008
For utensils, a paring knife, chef knife, mixing spoons, spatulas, rubber scraper, pizza cutter, ice cream scoop, flatware for eight are musts, she said. Dishes include plates and bowls for eight, coffee mugs and glasses. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
34 Things to do in a Carpool Line Sep 15, 2008
Use dry silver wipes to polish your flatware. Write a thank you note or greeting card. (Suite101.com)
Appraiser helps sort treasure from trinkets Sep 15, 2008
"Most of what people bring here for an appraisal ---- maybe 90 percent of it ---- is pretty good stuff," McConnell said after looking over a flatware collection for a customer. "But there is about 10 percent of the people who don't really like what we have to tell them. Some of the stuff they bring to us just doesn't have much value, and when they hear that, they usually aren't too happy.". (North County Times)
Revamped Joël gets five stars Sep 12, 2008
The sounds of flatware clinking against the restaurant s bone white china. The wafting aroma of truffle oil, cheeses and chocolate. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Small plastic parts Sep 12, 2008
But suppose the couple had dinner out, and the usual collection of dirty pots and pans and plates and flatware is not in evidence. Can the period before bedtime be said to be "after dinner" in the limited meaning of that phrase in the agreement. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Law allows pharmacists to administer flu shots Sep 6, 2008
Require hotels that furnish drinking glasses, silverware or flatware in individual rooms to ensure they are fully sanitized according to state Health Department standards. AP-ES-09-05-08 1520EDT. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Day care with a twist Aug 31, 2008
The flatware is genuine, though kid size. The center is the brainchild of Martha McClellan, former owner and operator of the Children's House, also a Montessori, for children ages 3 to 6. (Durango Herald)
MoVida Next Door Aug 26, 2008
The small, high-ceiling room matches the roughness of the flatware and the cool simplicity of the food. Long shafted fans dangle from the roof, pendant lights are shaded in clods of old Valencian terracotta roof tiles, and the bar looks as though it's been thrown up as a last-minute barricade to keep the hordes from rampaging through the Spanish beer and the rainbow of sherries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Decor: What is southern style? Aug 26, 2008
It s engraved silver and sterling flatware on the dinner table on special occasions and holidays. It is collecting/displaying real paintings instead of that Kirkland type of fake paintings (giclees. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all Aug 23, 2008
"Congratulations to Cindy Benson for 22 years as educational administrative assistant at First Baptist!The Alabama Department of Archives and History has planned a presentation at noon September l8 in the Department in Montgomery for the public to hear Dr. John H. Blitz speak on prehistoric Moundville.Representatives of local units of the Alabama Education Association in Conecuh, Covington, and Escambia counties (known as District 24) met for the first time this academic year July 28 at Reid... (Andalusia Star News, AL)
The Mysterious Lee Miller Aug 23, 2008
But the high point of Miller's surrealism and artistic brazenness comes with a pair of small prints that depict a severed woman's breast on a plate with place mat and flatware, as if anticipating delectation. We might read these two images as payback for all the unsolicited desiring gazes she had received. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Hart Studio perfects the art of customer service Aug 22, 2008
Hase and her crew regularly choose china, flatware, sheet sets, welcome mats and other personal touches for their clients. They have stocked clients' pantries and refrigerators with their favorite foods and even coordinated house parties. (AZCentral -- Business)
Homemade pots add special touch to yard Aug 21, 2008
by Heather Svokos - Aug. 20, 2008 04:43 PM McClatchy Newspapers. Guy Wolff hung his shingle in 1971, in a little barn in Bantam, Conn. (AZCentral -- Home)
A Casual Affair Aug 17, 2008
The tables, set with heavy flatware and crystal stemware, are made from reclaimed Douglas fir, and the formed wood chairs are cool and modern. Add the polished concrete floor, and the space has a loftlike sensibility that reflects the modern take on the food. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Bay Area's visionary chefs Aug 14, 2008
He's also turned his talents to designing china, silver and flatware; and founded the more casual Bouchon, Bouchon Bakery and Ad Hoc. He's building an inn near the French Laundry and he's working on a "Burgers and Half Bottles" restaurant concept. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jerry Youmans, 67, found his love at class reunion Aug 8, 2008
They even had the same Williamsburg flatware. So more than four decades after an uneventful first date when Mr. Youmans was a fullback for Hapeville High School and she was cheerleader they went on a second. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
From horror to art: re-creating one 'beautiful' atomic bomb Jul 26, 2008
At least that's the way he sees it, says Wilhite - an artist whose work in the past has ranged from the design of furniture and flatware to paintings made from dye and metallic powder on handmade paper. "I wanted something the opposite of heavy," Wilhite said. (Boston Globe)
?People are looking for roots' Jul 26, 2008
From the Victorian farm-kitchen-themed Cowbell restaurant in Toronto (where we are cheerfully informed by our waiter that the animals featured on the menu "lived happy lives") to the rough-hewn chic of farm-tool flatware and farm-to-fork menus at parties and hot restaurants to this month's New York Times magazine's Style feature on the worn, calloused beauty of Women who Work the Land, there is a new and holistic Back to the Farm style movement in full swing and it couldn't come at a more... (Globe and Mail)
What's Hot In Bridal Registries? Jul 25, 2008
They had three minutes at Macy's cellar and three minutes on the store's bridal registry floor, using scanners to register for everything from stand mixers and picture frames to crystal glasses and flatware. The idea was to keep a running tally in their heads, trying to come closest to $2,000 worth of registry items, without going over. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Dying Woman's Hostility Is Tearing Her Sister Apart - 7/20/2008 Jul 20, 2008
Of course, she could have provided paper plates and plastic flatware -- and that's what you should have brought so you wouldn't have had to carry home and wash your dirty dishes. P.S. If you chose to attend the woman's dinner party knowing the circumstances, it's not very nice to now be biting the hand that fed you. (FOX23.com, OK)
Simple ways to make your party fit the occasion Jul 13, 2008
GRADUATION Paint inexpensive, unglazed clay pots in the graduate's school colors and use to hold flatware and napkins on a buffet table. Create a keepsake by covering a table with a white tablecloth and asking guests to write a note of congratulations. (AZCentral -- Home)
Libbey Inc. Names New Outside Director Jul 8, 2008
Its World Tableware subsidiary imports and sells a full-line of metal flatware and holloware and an assortment of ceramic dinnerware and other tabletop items principally for foodservice establishments in the United States. Its Traex subsidiary, located in Wisconsin, designs, manufactures and distributes an extensive line of plastic items for the foodservice industry. (PR Newswire)
This week's Town Notes Jul 7, 2008
HGRM provides essential items, such as beds, bedding, bureaus, dinnerware, flatware, cookware, glassware, curtains, and carpeting. To learn more about our specific needs, visit our website at hgrm. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Get fresh! America's first all-organic restaurant Jul 1, 2008
Opening a restaurant in New York City is hard enough (in addition to fierce competition and the threat of lukewarm reviews, a restaurateur also faces strict building, health and safety regulations among other hurdles), but opening a restaurant that is not only 100 percent organic, but also completely green Gusto uses solar and wind energy, recycles, composts, conserves water and sends customers home with biodegradable containers, cups and flatware comes with its own very special set of... (MSNBC -- Environment)
Sterling Memories: Eatery ends 55-year run with auction Jun 27, 2008
- A 65-piece collection of sterling silver flatware sold for $1,700. - An unopened bottle of Ben Hur ginger ale of unknown vintage that was made in Wallingford and sold for $50. (New Haven Register, CT)
New clue to Alzheimer's found Jun 24, 2008
Rebecca Patterson-Kmet Retired Pharmacist wrote on Jun 23, 2008 12:22 PM:" A bigger factor in Altsheimer's Disease is aluminum in the body that dries out the brain. How do people get aluminum in their bodies? Many ways: using aluminum cookware and flatware, taking aluminum antacids, using aluminum deodorants (yes, the rock that is not aluminum chlorohydrate at the Fashion Gallery is still ALUMINUM SULFATE or ALUM so don't be fooled by the no aluminum chlorohydrate sign there), molded cheeses... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Recycling ministry closed for July 4 Jun 24, 2008
HGRM provides essential items, such as beds, bedding, bureaus, dinnerware, flatware, cookware, glassware, curtains, and carpeting. To learn more about our specific needs, visit our website at , or call 978-635-0135 to ask about volunteer opportunities. (Beacon Villager, MA)
Making it happen on Main Street: Couple overcome obstacles, open own restaurant Jun 21, 2008
This is the kind of place we knew we always wanted from the green paint on the walls and the mirrors, to the simple flatware and glassware. This is the type of place we ve dreamed of having. (Courier Publications, ME)
Home: Living In Luxury Jun 19, 2008
Great sources for interesting dishes and flatware are flea markets, and antique and thrift stores. Replacements, Ltd. ( ) and eBay are great places to find fill-in pieces of a pattern you like. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Recycling the past at new shop, Re-Enhabit Jun 17, 2008
The room in the back is a real '50s-style kitchen, complete with the metal cabinets, dishware, flatware and more. There is a porcelain "muffin cup," and one can almost imagine being on the set of a 1950s TV show. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Bar's new owners renovate, re-open historic Hartington landmark Jun 15, 2008
We also did some painting and added table cloths, some new dishes and flatware and a fountain pop machine. In everything we did, we designed it to complement the rest of the building. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Outdoors hot line Jun 15, 2008
Club provides burgers and flatware; participants bring potluck dishes for sharing. Solo and tandem skills clinic. (Anchorage Daily News)
Police Log, June 2 to June 8 Jun 10, 2008
The thieves made off with a $10,000 silver flatware set and about $2,500 in jewelry. Police are investigating. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
It's becoming much easier to go green Jun 8, 2008
Pakpour bought flatware for the office to cut the use of disposable plastic forks and spoons. He offered commuter checks to subsidize employees' use of mass transit, and encouraged his staff to turn the lights off and run the dishwasher only when full. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Sold on consignment Jun 5, 2008
You'll see mirrors, wall art, furniture, bedroom sets, flatware, lighting fixtures and more. You typically won't see any appliances or clothing, though. (Fresno Bee)
A Bright Lighting Idea Jun 5, 2008
Based on an old hotel flatware patterns, the fixture takes only one 60 watt bulbs and measures 18 inches diameter by 22 inches high. I want this hanging over my kitchen peninsula, although it would look equally fabulous over a kitchen or dining room table. (Epicurious.com)
From fashion to home furnishings Jun 4, 2008
I guess it makes sense for wedding dress designers to branch into china and flatware (of course, that doesn t explain Marc Jacobs and Waterford). So maybe the designer crossover works for small home items, but not a major piece of furniture. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
More of this story May 31, 2008
The trade-off is that apartments come equipped with towels and sheets emblazoned with the TenTen logo, flatware, cookware, televisions and even paintings on the walls. "All you need to bring is clothes," said Detwiler. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
One mans mission May 31, 2008
Donations of all kinds are accepted by the MoD, such as furniture, lamps, pots and pans, linens, flatware, glassware, children s books, and other household items in good serviceable condition. Cash donations are used to purchase mattresses, box springs and bed frames. (Winchester Star, MA, MA)
Pearl Festival to feature parade, street dance & more May 29, 2008
The Tennessee River Pearl Festival is grilling chicken and will provide paper plates, napkins, cups and flatware. So bring your food to share, your lawn chairs, and enjoy the day of fellowship. (Camden Chronicle, TN)
Challenging Diners May 25, 2008
Servers generally do a good job of moving this carnival of flavors along, pacing the meal, clearing dishes promptly and changing out plates and flatware without asking. On two visits, service was excellent - polished and professional. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Dining Update: Chef's talents bloom at Meadowood May 22, 2008
White geraniums dress up the window boxes that can be seen from the dining room and the dining terrace, where tables are set with crisp linens, sparkling crystal and gleaming flatware. It's a much more refined, sophisticated stage for his immense talents. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Happy 100th Mothers Day May 12, 2008
The day I realized Mama was right was the day I sat down at a formal dinner at Queens College, Cambridge, and saw ill-dressed hippie girls furtively watching me to see what to do with the array of glassware, flatware and dishes and how to help my plate from an offered platter. Today I will tell her that I understand and she was right. (Townhall.com)
Students learn important social skills May 10, 2008
Lessons learned by the children included table setting guides, proper way to be seated by an usher, how to hold flatware, how to arrange flatware after completing a meal and what to expect from a waiter. Other pointers addressed when to stand and when to sit, when to begin eating, portions and asking to be excused from the table. (Wetumpka Herald, AL)
No letup for Rosanna Bowles' home-decor company May 9, 2008
Bowles designs everything for tabletops, from flatware to glassware to dishes, serving pieces, vases and more. She sells wholesale to retailers across the world, including some private label retailers such as Nordstrom. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
8 Tips for Low Cost Staging May 9, 2008
Set the dining-room table with napkins, plates, and flatware. When showing the house, turn on soft instrumental buying music, preferably classical or jazz. (Realtor Magazine Online)
Twigs from my gardenPosted 6 hours, 24 minutes ago. May 2, 2008
Make a wind chime of flatware to hang from a tree limb. A fairy garden will delight your guests, especially children or grandchildren. (Lima News, OH)
How to set a pretty table May 2, 2008
All flatware should be evenly spaced, about a half inch apart ... If space allows, place the napkin to the far left, so as not to disturb the flatware ... The flatware aligns more or less with the bottom of the dinner plate. (CNN -- US)
Eco-friendly events can leave large, unfriendly footprints Apr 22, 2008
Advocates for greener events tout the virtues of biodegradable flatware (such as plates made from corn), compost bins and requirements that exhibitors dole out only that which has been or could be recycled. Plastic forks. (USA Today)
Ulman's Jewelry celebrates 80 years in business Apr 19, 2008
The Ulmans have increased their product line, which now includes china, crystal, Vera Bradley handbags, flatware, gift items and more. They also repair jewelry. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Read more. . Apr 18, 2008
Silent auction items include jewelry, sterling silver flatware, homemade decorations, beauty items, a dollhouse collection, tax preparation gift certificates, hand-embroidered dish towels, theme basket sets, car care baskets, gold eagle coins from the bank, bird houses, vacation baskets, gift certificates and an oak end table. Those buying raffle tickets could be eligible to win a washer/dryer, a large plasma high-definition television set or a grill set. (Williston Daily Herald, ND)
HGRM needs donations Apr 15, 2008
HGRM provides mainly essential items, such as beds, bedding, bureaus, dinnerware, flatware, cookware, glassware, curtains and carpeting. We served almost 3,000 families last year, including many right here in town. (Beacon Villager, MA)
Colourful character Apr 14, 2008
Homeware consists of decorative pieces and tableware which includes metal-handled ceramic flatware, under-plates, salad bowls and unique cutlery. These, together with beautiful vases filled with the perennial faux fleur help set the mood for a great meal. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Cleanup next for flood victims Apr 9, 2008
Newport Independent - News. Wednesday, April 09, 2008. (Newport Daily Independent, AR)
3 stars for Lime Taqueria in Smyrna Apr 4, 2008
They remove flatware with each course, and the food is presented artfully on clear glass plates. But the real reason Lime Taqueria is not a taqueria is chef Oscar Mendivil's menu, which is in Spanish (with English descriptions) and throws around terms like antojitos loosely, using it to describe small plates (also referred to as "tapas" eek). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A Good Neighbor Mar 30, 2008
The only incongruous aspect is the charmless mismatched flatware, which doesn't jibe with the other elements. Fendert's food satisfies many cravings and palates. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jr. League kitchens Mar 26, 2008
On the opposite wall, Grzeskiewicz created the "cleanup" zone with a large kitchen sink, two dishwashers and storage for glassware and flatware. "We isolated that activity, thinking that if big groups are there, we want to distinguish the paths," the designer said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
