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...France they have vins de garage. Here they go by the low-rent-sounding "garage wines." But the name is the only thing about them that's drab. Some of the most coveted wines are made in minute quantities in wineries that are often no bigger than, yep, a garage. While their output may be small, the lengths to which people will go to get the wines are vast. And nowhere has the small cult wine taken off as it has in California...
...ensure continuing income. Parents can receive compensation as advisers or consultants, with a set salary or retainer, notes Diahann Lassus, co-owner of Lassus Wherley & Associates, a New Providence, N.J., financial-planning firm. Or parents can lease the site of the business to the children and get a rent check, Messervey says. In some cases, children may choose to give their parents a share of profits or an annuity...
...Customs House has been turned into a museum, glorifying its days of big grain and big gambling. The old Gem Theater is being restored. And the Riverlore mansion, once owned by a riverboat captain, is being converted into a bed-and-breakfast. There's a plan to rent out the dead downtown stores for a $1 a year. And Cairo has even secured a $1.5 million grant to give Main Street its original cobblestone beauty, with streetlights for evening strolling. No one is strolling yet. History has taught Cairo to hold its breath...
There is hardly a religious group in America that is not beset by the issue that rent the Methodist meeting in May: the place of gay people in its pews. In March the organization of Reform Jewish rabbis agreed that its members could perform gay-holy-union ceremonies if they chose. The group was then castigated for it by other Jewish branches. Last month the Vatican, which had earlier ordered an American nun and priest to end a ministry to gays and their families because it did not stress the "intrinsically disordered" nature of homosexuality, further prohibited...
...Gentrification: What happened to Cambridge when rent control ends and the yuppie invasion began...