Many adjectives have been attached to martinis over the years. Bartenders have plied drinkers with dirty martinis and filthy martinis, smoky martinis and flaming martinis, red-pepper martinis and blue-cheese martinis, breakfast martinis and midnight martinis. Midcentury advertising executives along Madison … Continued
After more than a century in downtown St. Paul, the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s signature daytime parade is marching off West Seventh Street and relocating to Grand Avenue come January. The St. Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation announced Tuesday that … Continued
By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH — Sarah Tuthill has a pretty straightforward philosophy to assemble a food board for parties: Keep things simple, but also make your spread memorable by arranging the food and drinks thoughtfully. The made-to-order cheese and charcuterie boards … Continued
By Aaron Bolton, MTPR and KFF Health News Missoula is one of Montana’s largest cities but is surrounded by rural mountain communities where cattle ranching is king. Despite the latitude and altitude, in recent years this region has experienced punishing … Continued
By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org Mercedes Dodge was raised by first-generation immigrant parents from Peru in a modest home in a rural part of southeastern Texas, where there weren’t many health care providers. Sometimes they had to travel to Houston, over … Continued
Research is revealing intriguing clues about how pregnancy changes the brain. Studies scanning women’s brains before and after pregnancy have found that certain brain networks, especially those involved in social and emotional processing, shrink during pregnancy, possibly undergoing a fine-tuning … Continued