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Tomato tales

Vegetable to fruit and everthing in between By Nina Furstenau   The 1978 movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes begins with a tomato rising out of a woman’s garbage can in a parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 The Birds. They find the woman later, and it isn’t pretty.

The movie ends ominously for the tomatoes. They are cornered in a stadium and then stomped and squashed by humans. All except one, who survives when the …... Read more >

Fake Rock Guys

Brothers Manufacture Boulders for Backyard Beautification

By Dawn Klingensmith

Nature forms new rocks when wind, water, or glaciers deposit layers of sediment, which gradually cement into a solid mass. The process takes thousands of years. At Replications Unlimited, rocks are formed when fast-curing urethane is sprayed into a mold. Once the urethane is solid, the mold is removed, and a fake rock is born. The process takes minutes. ...... Read more >

Powell Gardens Annual Auction

Only once in a blue moon do plant collectors find botanical treasures such as entire collections for a themed garden, new cultivars ready for a name of the buyer’s choosing, and never-before public offerings from growers and botanical gardens across the country in one place. But they can at the Under a Blue Moon Garden Party and Rare Plant Auction on June 17 at Powell Gardens. Not available in local nurseries, many offerings are rare and avail…... Read more >

Chic and Modern Prefab Homes

Architect Rocio Romero’s original LV Home rests lightly on a bluff above the Pacific in Laguna Verde, Chile. The house is a rectangular box, sheathed in glass and corrugated steel. One imagines the glowing box inhabited by fabulous people sipping drinks while resting on modern furniture.

This has been the stereotype of modern architecture: built for the rich and exotic. Rocio, however, wants you to imagine yourself living in one of these e…... Read more >