Light up your backyard with these laser lights! These eye gels pack a serious de-puffing punch. Which Patent Print will you get? This could be your new favorite, too. Put this on your list of "must sip" soon! Published Sept. 11, 2014 at 3:01 p.m.

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Illuminate it: Night Stars Landscape Lights There are outdoor lights, and there are outdoor lights powered BY LASERS! The Night Stars Landscape Lights fall into that latter category, projecting a zillions of tiny green stars all the way across your backyard, bouncing off of trees, power lines and anything else in its path. The super-bright projection stakes into your ground (and don't look right at it, as I did), then plugs in via an external outlet and makes for a lovely splash of color for gardens, parties or just as a unique lighting solution. Apparently, the projector can be used indoors, but I don't see how; this is way too bright for anything but, say, all a ballroom in a mansion. At $130, though, Night Star Landscape Lights are probably best for special events or for people who have gazebos (not me), or for people who just like playing with lasers (me). Needless to say, my backyard no longer looks like anyone else's on the block. -- Andy Tarnoff

Use it: skyn ICELAND Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels Eye gel pads feel amazing, and the skyn ICELAND Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels do indeed provide a much needed cooling sensation under my eyes. Not only do they feel great, they are actually working to de-puff and reduce the swelling below my eyes. Bags be gone, at least till I use these wondrous eye gels again. -- Carolynn Buser

Hang It: Patent Prints I'm not sure I have room on my wall, but these patent prints are really catching my eye. Each print is taken from original patent filings ranging from a jet engine to a coffee pot to a DeLorean. They're beautiful and a bit nerdy; the only question is which one to get! -- Nick Barth

Read it: "Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories" by Dr. Seuss This new collection of stories from the late Theodor Seuss Geisel aka "Dr. Seuss" was written 60 years ago but only recently published by Random House. I'm not sure if it's the familiar, comfort-inducing drawings or the fact I want to say the word "Kwuggerbug" as often as possible, but I gotta have this to read to my kids. And to myself. -- Molly Snyder

Drink it: Bozen Bolzano Lagrein Perl 2011 The only thing I love better than a satisfying red wine, is a satisfying red wine at a great price. Retailing at about $13, this 100 percent lagrein -- which is rare here -- is vinified by Bozen in Italy's German-speaking, northern Alto Adige region. So deeply hued that in Italy they might call it "vino nero" -- this lagrein has dark red berries and an almost cocoa-y overtone. Medium bodied and with smooth tannins and balanced acidity, this is among the best wines you'll find at the price around here. -- Bobby Tanzilo

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Chef Joe Sandretti, formerly of Buckley`s and Port of Call, talks about the joys and challenges of helping to open the new Nepalese restaurant in Thiensville.

Todd Mrozinski has traced and painted more than 100 shadows of friends, family members and local artists - many of whom are drinking, a few eating and some contemplating or gazing. The series will soon be on display at Cafe Lulu and he is also currently accepting commissions.

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TRADERS are queuing up to bag a spot on the new-look Wickford Market.

Trevor Day, who runs the market, has revealed he has a long waiting list of budding entrepreneurs wanting to snap up one of the 28 stalls or three permanent kiosks.

Basildon Council has just handed Cheshire-based Surf & Turf Instant Shelters a 12,000 contract to build 17 gazebos along the High Street and a further 11 down the newly-created Market Lane, which is the walkway down the side of the 99p shop.

Mr Day, who is also in charge of Rochford and Rayleigh markets, said he has had no problem filling the spaces with stalls selling fresh fish, fruit and vegetables, flowers and plants, clothes and jewellery.

He said: Were going to have something for everyone.

We want to have as much variety as possible, but obviously there will be some duplicates as that is unavoidable sometimes.

Hopefully, things will be up and running very soon. Were really excited.

The council is putting the finishing touches to the kiosks at the moment and theyre looking brilliant.

Were hoping to hold regular themed market events such as vintage fairs, which should bring in a different crowd.

The council was hoping the new market would be ready to open at the beginning of this month, but this date has now been pushed back a few weeks.

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Delray Beach's downtown oceanfront is one of the main economic drivers in town.

The sandy shores attract nearly 2 million sunbathers, swimmers and snowbirds a year. Those folks pay to park along State Road A1A, eat in the waterfront restaurants and stay in the hotels.

Now, the city has agreed to open its wallet to help spruce up the amentities along the beach. Interim City Manager Terry Stewart said he will create a schedule to help plan for setting aside money for this upcoming fiscal year and years to come.

"It's the biggest resource in the city," said Commissioner Jordana Jarjura. "It's time we improve it."

The beach decision came late Tuesday when members from the Beach Property Owners Association updated commissioners on beach conditions. They said that the city has mostly left the upkeep of the beach to the beach property owners.

As the upcoming fiscal year's budget is scheduled for final approval on Sept. 16, association members told commissioners they need more financial help from the city to keep the public beach a popular hangout. It is unclear how much money the city will spend on beach improvements this year.

"We were given this golden goose," said Scott Porten, chairman of Delray's Chamber of Commerce. "We need to protect it. You can't build something and forget about it. It would be like not putting gas in your car."

The association knows how important of an asset the beach is to the city. The group created an overall vision for the beach and continuously raises money to keep it pretty.

Their fundraising efforts led to a $60,000 contribution toward a new beach pavilion this year, which replaced a dangerous, worn-out one.

They also announced they received a $40,000 grant to replace two aging gazebos. The group plans to apply for another $40,000 grant to pay for pergolas.

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After drawing some opposition over legal and safety concerns, Monroeville Council tabled a vote on whether to allow an expansion at Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple.

The tabling at Tuesday night's council meeting came at the request of temple leaders who want to smooth over concerns voiced by mayor Greg Erosenko and neighboring residents who were urging council not to approve plans for additional construction at the Hindu temple on Abers Creek Road.

Temple leaders said they have not had a fair chance to present their plans, which include more than 15,100 square feet in new construction in a new temple building, a connecting wing and four new gazebos. A new driveway off Northern Pike is also planned.

The project would require moving almost 25,000 cubic yards of earth on the grounds of the temple.

Leaders at the temple one of three Hindu places of worship in Monroeville and nearby Penn Hills asked the municipality to delay the vote. Instead, council members plan to vote at a meeting next month after representatives of the roughly 100-member congregation have the opportunity to address concerns.

My personal feeling is, we wouldn't have gotten a fair hearing today, said Raghu Malyala, a member of the congregation who lives near temple grounds, after the meeting.

Doug Beitko, a geotechnical engineer for the municipality, defended the project.

While that development is located in a landslide-prone area, there are engineering controls that can be put in place so this does not increase the risk to the development on top of the hill, Beitko said.

There are landslides that could occur regardless of whether this temple is built or not, but they could very well construct that temple without increasing the risk.

The proposed plans include retaining walls to help keep earth on the hillside in place.

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A tender interpretation of Trade Practices? Mike Iveson, Peter McCabe, and Dax Valdes

For once, this critic didn't miss the boat. The 11 a.m. Governors Island ferry departed Lower Manhattan with a grand toot of the horn and glided across the harbor in minutes, delivering passengers intent on a Saturday afternoon of picnics or...

Arrive at a pay phone to answer a call telling you how to get things started.

Immersive theater. Walking across the park grounds an Army and Coast Guard base for two centuries before its acquisition by New York State I was reminded of an essential fact about site-based performances. The excursion itself can be a revelation, regardless of how successfully a show engages its location. This month "site-specific" performances of various kinds will take advantage of hospitable weather, bringing audiences to locations all around New York for experiences far beyond the customary auditorium configuration. The practice is nothing new theatermakers have staged plays this way since medieval times, if not before. But location-based performances have proliferated in recent years, and it's worth noting how different these projects can be in their approach. In the case of Trade Practices, which HERE Art Center bills as "an immersive, site-specific theater event," spectators arrived on Governors Island and assembled in Pershing Hall, a brick building that once was a military administrative center. In a conference room stocked with notepads and pencils, we watch an infomercial about a fictitious paper company, Tender Inc., which started in stationery and now manufactures currency for the U.S. government. Soon we're led to a small trading floor, with glimpses of Lower Manhattan through a few of the windows. For the remainder of the two-hour performance, we must choose which version of the narrative to see and follow. We can watch from the perspective of the owners, managers, marketers, or workers. Audience members buy "shares" granting admission to these story lines using prop banknotes and can trade if they want to change, at a fluctuating price.

Created by Kristin Marting and David Evans Morris with six playwrights, Trade Practices is meant to evoke with relentless zaniness the boom-and-bust cycles that have followed Argentina's 2001 financial collapse. But for me the big question was what we were doing on Governors Island. What actual history do we uncover in this "historic" site? How does this building inform the project, visually or thematically? Indeed, what about Trade Practices is "site-specific"? Most of these scenes could have been staged in any building with multiple large rooms there is no discernible design or conceptual reason for using Pershing Hall. Shipping off to the island did put me in a receptive frame of mind, though. Unmooring from daily realities may be a kind of necessary precondition for theater, and that's harder and harder to accomplish in the age of electronic connectedness. Asking a spectator to go someplace unusual for a performance forces a break. I could observe the distance between the show and the financial district on the horizon. But did it make me more attuned to these tales of commerce?

Back in the city, Woodshed Collective is plotting a different strategy to take audiences to new destinations. The company is known for ornate immersions in a single location: Twelve Ophelias brought the public to McCarren Park Pool in 2008; The Confidence Man invited audiences up the gangway onto an old Hudson River steamship in 2009. Now the troupe hopes to make a choose-your-urban-adventure series into an annual happening.

Empire Travel Agency, which opened Monday, September 8, begins with each prospective audience member's phone call to Rhonda, a fictitious travel agent who plans a real theatrical adventure tailored to individual callers. One person's perfect trip say, an underground Brooklyn odyssey through F-train stops ending at the Coney Island seaside might be another spectator's nightmare. The agency will determine preferences and concoct the best possible experience, and at the appointed hour, you'll arrive at a pay phone and answer a call telling you how to get things started.

Most of the "trips" will be in Manhattan and Brooklyn, so it's not a comprehensive investigation of the city. On the other hand, it's free and you might see architecture or encounter spaces you've excluded from consciousness for years. I met Teddy Bergman and Mikhael Tara Garver, Woodshed's artistic directors, at an on-site rehearsal at the Center for Fiction on 47th Street. Somehow I'd never noticed this exquisite literary oasis, even though I walk fairly often along the block. Inside, the nonprofit's high-ceilinged rooms are lined with bookshelves, busts, and leather armchairs. The episode Woodshed was rehearsing led upstairs into the stacks of the center's library, which has been circulating continuously since merchants founded it in the 1820s. Finding this eccentric spot among east midtown's early-20th-century buildings was a surprising discovery. Other possible adventures include: apartment visits via Airbnb, Mercedes rides through industrial Brooklyn, and orchestral serenades in Central Park gazebos. Will the event's mysteries upstage the drama? And if it opens your eyes to new facets of your city, will you care?

Argentinean artist Fernando Rubio has something far more intimate (but less personal) in mind for Everything by My Side, his installation in Hudson River Park. Seven actresses, each in a white bed, will invite one spectator at a time to join them under the covers. Childhood memories with intimations of mortality will be whispered into the participants' ears. The short piece, co-presented by Performance Space 122 and FIAF's Crossing the Line, will recur throughout the day, from September 26-28. Most site-based performances try to harmonize with their environs, but Rubio's show will contrast location and experience: a deeply private experience in a strikingly public spot.

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Q: I was reading something the other day about a springs and casino near Albany at one time. It was a resort of some sort. Where was it and what happened to it?

A: The sparkling clear cool water it stays 68 degrees year round, compared to 88 degrees at Warm Springs a couple of hours to the north still flows at Radium Springs, which was a hot spot for generations.

The springs just outside Albany were known by Native Americans as an excellent hunting and fishing ground hundreds of years before the Europeans arrived. The water was discovered to contain small amounts of radium in the late 19th century, which led to its current name. A casino overlooking the springs and a golf course were completed by the 1920s, providing a stop for folks traveling to spend the winter in Florida.

The casino couldnt beat the Depression and closed in the 1930s, but the locals continued to spend their summers there, swimming and socializing, and Radium Springs remains a cherished place in the memories of many who grew up in Albany. The casino building was damaged by storms and floods, including the terrible flood in 1994, and its ruins were demolished in 2003.

Visitors can stroll the grounds at Radium Springs, considered one of Georgias seven natural wonders, and enjoy its gardens and gazebos.

For more information, call the Albany Convention & Visitors Bureau at 866-750-0840 or email at info@visitalbanyga.com.

Q: Is former NBA star Walt Frazier from Atlanta? I remember hearing that from someone.

A: Frazier led the New York Knicks to two NBA titles in the 1970s, years after he learned to play basketball in Atlanta. He also played baseball and football, but basketball took Frazier from Howard High School in Old Fourth Ward to Southern Illinois University and then to the NBA, where Clyde his nickname was a seven-time all-star and set New York City style with a hip wardrobe.

Frazier was selected to the NBAs 50th Anniversary Team in 1996 and is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

If youre new in town or have questions about this special place we call home, ask us! E-mail Andy Johnston at q&a@ajc.com or call 404-222-2002.

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FOR the fifth year running family, friends and neighbours gathered to remember Dennis Kimber, a retired postman, at a Winchester street party.

Dennis died in 2010 and had lived in Highcliffe with his family for over 30 years.

Around 150 people attended the event in Cathedral View through the afternoon and into the evening.

Activities included childrens games, a football table, several BBQs, bunting and a vintage jukebox all housed under gazebos in the road, which was closed to traffic. The event was organised by Ley, Denniss widow, and close friends Gary Farrow and Viv Austin, to celebrate the life of this quiet gentle and unassuming man who had always cared much for his community.

Dennis had wanted to stage the party in 2010 following a kidney transplant but he died in July a month before it was due. The event was held in his memory.

The organisers, in a statement, said: From that initial party the idea was born to recreate the event each year. Whilst people often have the idea in the emotion of the moment all too often with the demand of daily life the planned gesture gets neglected as time and people move on.

Not so for this community as once again family and friends gathered for the fifth street party which truly is a special occasion bringing together old friends and welcoming new residents. The atmosphere is one of friendship, warmth, welcome and neighbourliness, so often lacking in todays world as we rush about our daily lives.

A sixth event will be held in 2015.

Dennis would have been proud to know that this special community have kept his idea and his memory alive and strong and are already planning for the sixth event next year. The Old Highcliffe residents were again grateful to the original organisers and the many others who helped on the day.

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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) Its a house with a history.

From the grand entry to the acres of rolling ranch land, the historic Oakland Ranch is an escape from the hustle and bustle of the daily grind. Located 30 minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the ranch is spread across 230 acres. It is complete with the stately Georgian style home and towering oak trees under which people can almost hear the laughter of the guests enjoying a Sunday picnic.

The home is an example of custom finishes and cozy living. Spread over 10,000 square feet, the home has 5 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms. It also has an entertainment wing, which includes a game room filled with personal memorabilia and a state of the art theater.

The master bedroom has a unique ceiling mural with little puffs of white clouds, giving a celestial feel to the room. The room includes his and her master baths.

The grand entry foyer features a winding floating staircase with a carpet pattern from the Titanic, the company that made this carpet for the titanic still exist, says home-owner Mike Rogers.

The wine cellar is also a luxurious wine tasting room. It doubles as a storm shelter. The ceiling is lined with hand cut bricks, giving it an old Italian villa feel to the cavernous cellar.

Outside Rogers built an 8 acre lake than flows into the historic walker springs, it flows 24/7, 365 days regardless of drought. says Rogers. It was an Indian campground for hundreds of years.

Right in the middle of the lake is an island, connected by a bridge. It was made by Rogers for one purpose.

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