If you have a newer top-load washing machine, you know that it helps to have the height of an NBA player to reach in and retrieve the clothes. You’re at a serious disadvantage if you’re on the short side. I can reach clothes in the bottom of our washin…
Motormouth: Avoid the temptation
Q: I religiously read your Sunday newspaper column right after Dilbert. I keep getting emails about EcoMax, which appears to be a plug-in device promising 15-35% less gas consumption. Is this a viable $49.95 investment? M.S., Valparaiso, Indiana A: I a…
Movie review: ‘Medieval’ story of Czech folk hero suffers from identity crisis
Jan Zizka, a beloved 15th-century Czech folk hero, looms large in the nation’s collective consciousness, a skilled, ingenious, one-eyed warrior who led peasants and rebels into battles that he never lost. In Prague, they’ve erected one of the largest b…