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Taking your jewelry to get cleaned can be time consuming and inconvenient. Instead, use these household products for the same results! our any light colored beer on a soft cloth to clean the dirt off of gold jewelry, leaving it looking brand new. For silver jewelry,...

Finding art you love is a very good thing, but turning it into a statement piece for your home brings it to a whole new level. Follow these tips to make your latest acquisition a feast for the eye. Use the furniture around the art...

Whenever my mother-in-law decorates for fall, it always turns out tacky and overwhelming. How do I help her decorate without it looking like a craft store threw up? JR: Just be blunt with her. Tell her house looks like craft store vomit. It’s good to...

For many, it’s the sound of childhood. The repetitive, upbeat melodies of arcade games on auto, layered one upon another in a siren song that beckons, “Give us your quarters. Give us all the quarters.” And when we put a five dollar bill in...

“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”— Maya Angelou Marlin’s is the kind of place I remember going to with my grandparents. A display case full of baked goods greets you, and at least half the tables at any given...

My husband and I recently celebrated our seven-year wedding anniversary. To commemorate, we simply ate an embarrassingly high-calorie meal and reminisced about our life together. During this rare uninterrupted conversation, we talked in length about one of our biggest challenges we have been facing...

"I knew it was going to be a big process, and I originally planned for 50-70 pieces." Two-and-a-half years ago, when Sioux Falls artist Steve Bormes applied for an art show at the Washington Pavilion, he had no idea it would turn into a 100-piece...

Think for a second about how stupid people in ancient Greece were. Aristotle thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. As such, rocks fell to Earth when dropped because they were trying to get back to their natural place, the center...

Dakotas’ Equality Summit is not just for the LGBT community; it’s also for allies. Conference chair for the Dakotas’ Equality Summit is Billy Mawhiney. He served on the board of the Center for Equality in Sioux Falls for several years. He says the goal of...

The exterior of Jeffrey and Janci Herr’s two-story Spearfish home is tidy and contemporary. It appears to be the type of front-porched suburban dream found anywhere, until one notices Crow Peak looming behind – and steps inside and loses themselves in the deeply personal,...