Danny Lipford: Anytime you have wood outside—whether it’s a set of steps like this, or a wood deck, or a walkway—sooner or later it’s going to get dirty and that means it’s going to get slick and ...

Q: Our front steps have a tiled surface that gets very slippery in rain or snow. We have thought of putting anti-skid tape on them, but it just doesn’t look good. Any other ideas? A: The grit-covered ...

Don McLeese was one of America’s top rock critics, writing for the Chicago Sun Times, Austin (Texas) American-Statesman and Rolling Stone. And, whether he would admit to himself, an alcoholic. Then he ...

The world at the moment is a godawful cesspool of disasters, violence, war, terrible people in positions of power, and impending environmental catastrophe. So for a moment, it would be nice if we ...

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Game shows have been making a bit of a resurgence in the United States in recent years, but it looks like Japan may have just raised the bar. An episode of a Japanese game show dubbed Slippery Stairs ...

Don McLeese and Dave Hoekstra — remember those names, all you newspaper readers out there? They were, in their time, which is not very long ago, among the most prominent, prolific bylines in the ...