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  • I met my wife the old-fashioned way, at a dance where she was another guy's date. Our best friends met in a bar and discovered they had the same birthday. They've shared more than two dozen since.
  • Whether you're concerned about saving the environment or just interested in saving yourself a few bucks, equipping your house with a solar energy system is an interesting, albeit rather complicated, proposition to consider.
  • It's the jazz that pulls you in to the mystery at the center of Dancing on the Edge, the new Starz miniseries that begins Saturday night at 10 before settling into the 9 p.m. timeslot on the pay-cable network for a five-week run. Set in London in the early 1930s, DOTE follows a group of black jazz…
  • Director J.C. Chandor had an ingenious plan for getting Robert Redford to star in his one-man adventure film, All is Lost. He asked him.
  • You can call Terrell Danley Sr. a techie. At 81, the Washington, D.C., resident is fluent in the language of the Internet: downloading, Google Hangouts, social networks, apps, Web surfing, you name it. And he's committed to plugging his contemporaries into the online world.
  • Consider this: An older patient visits the dentist. The treatment she needs is expensive and not covered by Medicare. So the dentist offers her financing, on the spot, through a credit card plan. She accepts and gets the work done right away. When she gets the first month's bill, she's stunned to…
  • Researchers at Newcastle University in England are onto something big: Your dog may know lots more about how you're feeling - and about how you're doing generally - that anyone has heretofore believed.
  • If you use Facebook, you have seen how your friends' photos and "Likes" can connect to ads on the popular social network. The "sponsored stories" concept is also moving to Google. The web search engine company recently announced it is changing its Terms of Service to include an option to…
  • The popularity of gluten-free food products has soared in the past few years, with supermarkets carrying everything from gluten-free cake mix and crackers to pasta and pancake mix. In fact, sales of these products are expected to hit $10.5 billion this year - a 44 percent jump from 2011, according…
  • Wedding episodes are one of TV's most reliable tropes. Fans love them because they bring together characters they adore, often after much will-they-or-won't they drama. Networks love them because they often deliver big ratings and weeks of promotional build-up to the Big Day.