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Can a Better Vibrator Inspire an Age of Great American Sex?

Sex toys have transformed into sophisticated and well-designed gadgets that take their inspiration from Apple not Hustler. But one company has a bigger hope: that a better machine could mean better sex ...

Local caramel company signs deal with Williams-Sonoma

Beginning this fall, high-end gourmet giant Williams-Sonoma will feature a local company's caramels in its catalog and online offerings. They will be included in a series of seasonal collections and variety boxes, all bearing the name of Pewaukee's Becky's Blissful Bakery.

Why did we move to Paris?

Paris’s neighborhoods, the arrondissements , are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl — a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig’s tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20. But if you walk from one neighborhood to the next, there is little to suggest the numbers changing. So it was confusing. Anyway, if you ...

The making of Shatto's new Ice Cream Sammich

Since 2003, when the first Shatto milk bottle appeared in a supermarket dairy case, the Osborn, Mo., company has expanded to producing butter, flavored cheese curds, farmstead artisan cheeses and premium ice cream. The logical next step? A re-interpreted gourmet ice cream sandwich. But it wasn't easy.

More Mother’s Day memories from readers

My mother, Lynda Glass, is 86 years old and she and my dad are fulltime residents of Ocean Isle Beach.