With all the gadgetry and influx of new technologies that is infiltrating cars at an amazing rate, there’s still something to be said for simplicity, especially for vehicles we need to be rug
Earlier this year, we were introduced to Mazda’s new SKYACTIV technology in the Mazda3 five-door, and we were impressed by this engineering approach that delivers greatly improved fuel econom
If you are beginning to conceptualize changes to your kitchen that will update it, redecorate it, and hopefully make it more user-friendly as well, you will want to find better ways to organize thi
The colored leaves gently fall to the ground, signaling the end of another growing season - and your last chance to get spring flowering bulbs into the ground.
In which of the rooms of your home do you spend a lot of time? The bedroom? Certainly. We sleep away about a third of our lives (or more, if you include your teenage years).
In the spring of 2011, I attended a Lexus function associated with the New York International Auto Show, where the LF-Gh Hybrid Concept was displayed to a variety of press and industry representati
Every once in a while, it’s instructive to take a spin in an exotic car that most of us will never likely own, for it can let us experience the latest in state-of-the-art performance and tech
With fuel economy standards becoming more stringent and therefore requiring much greater efficiency in upcoming years (54.5 MPG overall by 2025), manufacturers are using all kinds of strategies to
The topics in this column repeatedly focus on renovating, building, repairing and replacing things in your home, every one of which generates some amount of refuse, rubble, junk, scraps - call it w
There are times when automobile manufacturers like to combine contrasting design ideas and challenges, and build a car that does some pretty unexpected things.
If you read this column regularly, you know by now that I am a little obsessed with developing and attending to home maintenance lists on a periodic basis.
Those of us who work hard to coax our backyard gardens to produce that perfectly red and flavorful tomato (sometimes even when facing a summer that includes blight and floods) are often rewarded wi
