5 Haunts With Haunts

Halloween and haunted houses go together like costumed children and epic sugar highs. This year, perhaps you would like to spend Oct. 31 with an overnight stay at a house or hotel frequented by the dearly departed. In the United States, there’s no shortage of rumored haunted accommodations, and the five options here celebrate their…

Expect Higher Prices on Lighter Wines

The coming 25 percent American tariff on certain European foods, drinks and other products will hit a lot of people hard, but few harder than Jon-David Headrick. Mr. Headrick, who lives outside Nashville, operates Jon-David Headrick Selections, which imports French wines exclusively, focusing on small family estates in the Loire Valley and other parts of…

Statins May Affect Your Bone Health

Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may have an added benefit, or risk, depending on the dose. New research suggests that a low dose of statins may protect against osteoporosis, but that high doses may increase the risk for the bone-damaging condition. Austrian researchers searched a database of patients hospitalized over two years and found 353,502 who used…

Dating While Ob-Gyn

When you first meet someone and she tells you what she does for a living, it’s not uncommon to think about what that means for you. For example, when I met a man online who was in construction, I thought of all my badly needed home repairs. When I met someone who was a financial…

Vision Quest

Early one summer morning, I was awakened by a hammering on the inside of my skull. It felt as if a prisoner were trying to Shawshank it out through my left eye socket. When I sat up in bed to reach for the Advil on my nightstand, I became panic-stricken. Both eyes were open, but…

This Dinner Helper Has a Pedigree

Heritage Foods has come up with an easy, high-quality item for dinner: breaded pork cutlets (scaloppine), ready to sizzle in a pan and serve. (They come frozen but defrost in no time.) The results are tasty, quite tender and could be finished with a tangle of arugula salad, used Parm-style or topped with sautéed peppers…