Library offers online Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports, that venerable reviewer of products ranging from cars to coffee–makers, is being made available for free through the Rochester Public Library website.

The woman in the bubble

From her leafy, 11th-floor rooftop terrace at the headquarters of Soho China, billionaire Zhang Xin scans the relentlessly expanding Beijing skyline she helped create. Zhang's avant-garde buildings - some sleek as chopsticks, others...

Roll out the fun with paper beads and baskets

Clever crafters are turning paper trash into pretty: beads, bowls, baskets, photo frames, mirrors and more. It's all made by rolling strips of old magazine paper, junk mail and other paper.

Looking for low-alcohol reds

Many New World wine makers have allowed the alcohol percentage of their red wines to soar high enough that some of their customers have rebelled.

Juan of the Dead? Cuba green-lights zombie movie

Cuban authorities have given their approval to a director hoping to make a zombie movie in the country.