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For truly tasty garlic, it's a do-it-yourself delight - 11/06/2009: Last year, Tim Jones created the perfect recipe for garlic butter, but as he searched for just the right ingredients, he discovered something many Americans still don't realize: Most of the garlic sold in supermarkets comes from China.
Your Place: Tankless water heaters can save energy and time - 11/06/2009: Question: I'm hoping you can give a brief explanation of the tankless water heater. I can't seem to make my husband understand. Our water heater is on the opposite side of our house from the bathrooms and laundry room. Consequently, it takes running the water a long time before we get any warm/hot water. Isn't the tankless heater something that allows you to tap into hot water on demand?
LifeStyle - 11/06/2009: With the wide range of speaker designs on the market, it's entirely possible to find a speaker to match every mood, style, and playlist.
Antiques/Art/Crafts - 11/06/2009: Antiques / Art / Crafts 20th Annual Craft Fair Annual craft show with over 100 juried crafters, a raffle table, door prizes & more. Charles Boehm Middle School, 866 Big Oak Rd., Morrisville. $3; free for children. 11/7. 9 am-3 pm.
Designer: 'If I like it, others will, too' - 11/06/2009: Confident Barbara Barry, style icon, dis- cusses inspirations for her serene interiors.

Interior designer Barbara Barry's style evokes classic Hollywood stars Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn: serene, sophisticated, timeless. The female form inspires her furniture designs.
Cataloging the barn stars of Penna. - 11/06/2009: A Kutztown graduate and historian hopes to preserve a type of folk art often clouded by controversy.

KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Stars. Not hex signs, but stars. Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.
Auctions: Pricey works from 19th and 20th centuries - 11/06/2009: The Rago Art & Auction Center will join the rush of autumn art sales this month with a two-session event a week from tomorrow devoted to American and European works from the 19th and 20th centuries and to the post-World War II era. Between the two, more than 350 works will be offered at the gallery at 333 N. Main St. in Lambertville.
Time to ... - 11/06/2009: Be selective when cutting back perennials. Leave part if not all of the growth on the following, which helps them survive winter: ornamental grasses, evergreen ferns, Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower), chrysanthemums, perennial geraniums, nepeta (catmint), euphorbia (spurge), Chelone lyonii (turtlehead).
Garden Calendar - 11/06/2009: Tomorrow Begonia growing methods, including simple bonsai training, hands-on demonstration at the Delaware Valley Branch, American Begonia Society meeting; 10 a.m. Free. Huntingdon Valley Library, 625 Red Lion Rd., Huntingdon Valley. Information: 610-446-2160, wiener1@verizon.net.