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GM President Mark Reuss during an unveiling event for the GM 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray sports car in Tustin, Calif., on July 18, 2019.<br>Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Corvette gets a radical makeover as the stick shift makes way for a touchscreen

With the all-new Corvette, which GM's Chevrolet division showed off outside Los Angeles late Thursday, the sports car born in the 1950s is getting a radical makeover to shove it into the modern era.

The Standcap Inverted Pouch, shown here holding Uncle Dougie's barbecue sauces, features a a soft-sided, inverted wedge shape with a flat, flip-top dispensing closure.<br>Uncle Dougie's The Standcap Inverted Pouch, shown here holding Uncle Dougie's barbecue sauces, features a a soft-sided, inverted wedge shape with a flat, flip-top dispensing closure.<br>Uncle Dougie's
They finally built a better ketchup bottle. And soon it's going to be everywhere.
Elias Benitez, 3, left, listens to Nadiah Porter, Community Partnerships Manager for Book Harvest, as she reads to him during a program called "Wash & Learn," which engages children at laundromats across the country, at The Wash House on June 19 in Durham, N.C.<br>Casey Toth, Raleigh News & Observer/TNS Elias Benitez, 3, left, listens to Nadiah Porter, Community Partnerships Manager for Book Harvest, as she reads to him during a program called "Wash & Learn," which engages children at laundromats across the country, at The Wash House on June 19 in Durham, N.C.<br>Casey Toth, Raleigh News & Observer/TNS
Wash and learn makes laundromat a place for education
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<br>istock photo

Summer brings parade of what some consider to be long, miserable days

The annual summer solstice -- when the northern pole on our ever-twirling planet achieves its maximum tilt toward the mighty sun -- marks the arrival of the year’s longest day and the year’s shortest night. It’s an enchanted moment, surrounded by many other nearly-as-long days and nearly-as-short nights, a miraculous excess of bright sunlit hours that conspire to push darkness into retreat. And to celebrate this bounty? The birds warble at 5 a.m., your neighbor mows his lawn at 9 p.m., and your kids beg to stay up way too late. Rude brightness wakes you up at a God-awful hour and, later, tricks you into remaining at your office well past the point when you should be asking to see the menu.

Ashley and Andy Williams of HGTV's "Flip or Flop Fort Worth" say that preparation is key to keeping their cool.<br>TNS
Ashley and Andy Williams of HGTV's "Flip or Flop Fort Worth" say that preparation is key to keeping their cool.<br>TNS

Couple offers tips on how to handle a stressful industry

Ashley and Andy Williams of HGTV's "Flip or Flop Fort Worth" are well acquainted with stressful work. The two military veterans, who were stationed overseas in Baghdad, are now running a real estate business in Texas.

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Author Fredrik Backman reflects on fatherhood in funny, heartfelt new essays

Fredrik Backman became a dad, had no clue how to handle it and ended up on the floor of a grocery store, defeated by a dozen types of formula looming on the baby food shelf overhead. Those who find the experience familiar will appreciate his analysis of new-parent whiplash: “We actually haven’t got a clue to what we’re really doing — having kids is in many ways like trying to drive a bulldozer through a china shop,” he writes in his new essay collection, “Things My Son Needs to Know about the World.” “With broken legs. Wearing a back-to-front ski mask. While drunk.”

A museum visitor touches a touches a bas-relief of a photograph of the Vietnam Tet Offensive, by John Olson, at the American Alliance of Museums Expo in New Orleans on May 20. It is one example of how museums are reaching out to make their collections more accessible, said Elizabeth Merritt, vice president for strategic foresight for the group, which represents museums of all sorts, from tiny community history museums to huge zoos.<br>Gerald Herbert/AP
A museum visitor touches a touches a bas-relief of a photograph of the Vietnam Tet Offensive, by John Olson, at the American Alliance of Museums Expo in New Orleans on May 20. It is one example of how museums are reaching out to make their collections more accessible, said Elizabeth Merritt, vice president for strategic foresight for the group, which represents museums of all sorts, from tiny community history museums to huge zoos.<br>Gerald Herbert/AP

Museums explore different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people

As people at the American Alliance of Museums’ trade show passed their hands along the raised figures in touchable versions of a Vietnam War photograph, small metal sensors touched off recordings to explain whose picture they were touching and what had happened to him. At a nearby booth was a flat reproduction of a Van Gogh self-portrait with slightly raised, slicker areas to show both outlines and how brush strokes swept or swirled within those outlines.

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games

Sea of Solitude players will explore a water-submerged world through the viewpoint of Kay, a young woman on a quest to discover what it means to be human.<br>Jo-Mei Games, Electronic Arts/TNS
Sea of Solitude players will explore a water-submerged world through the viewpoint of Kay, a young woman on a quest to discover what it means to be human.<br>Jo-Mei Games, Electronic Arts/TNS

Sea of Solitude explores the terrors of loneliness, what it means to be human

We’re accustomed to games, even the most nuanced, beginning with a clear problem: an outlaw on the run, a world in peril, a loved one kidnapped and held hostage by a gorilla. Sea of Solitude, however, starts with an overwhelmed plea, a phrase spoken with equal amounts of desperation and hopelessness: “Change me.”

europe after hours

The large patio at BurgRestaurant at Lichtenberg Castle, in Thallichtenberg, Germany, is shaded by umbrellas and trees.<br>Brian Ferguson/Stars and Stripes
The large patio at BurgRestaurant at Lichtenberg Castle, in Thallichtenberg, Germany, is shaded by umbrellas and trees.<br>Brian Ferguson/Stars and Stripes

Restaurant at 13th-century German castle offers food, hospitality fit for a prince

Eating out with friends is always enjoyable, no matter what restaurant you go to. But when it’s the one on the grounds of 13th-century German castle Burg Lichtenberg, the enjoyment is multiplied by delicious food and hospitality fit for a prince.

pacific after hours

The Buddha bowl from Green Leaf on Okinawa has organic whole grain rice and Japanese brown rice, or genmai, on the bottom, and topped with leafy organic vegetables, paprika peppers, dates, quinoa, walnuts, shredded carrots and cubed tempeh.<br>Aya Ichihashi/Stars and Stripes
The Buddha bowl from Green Leaf on Okinawa has organic whole grain rice and Japanese brown rice, or genmai, on the bottom, and topped with leafy organic vegetables, paprika peppers, dates, quinoa, walnuts, shredded carrots and cubed tempeh.<br>Aya Ichihashi/Stars and Stripes

Health-food junkies can find heavenly eats at Green Leaf on Okinawa

When the new year rolls around, many swear off junk food, resolve to lose weight or promise themselves, “I will eat healthier starting today!” This resolve might, or might not, survive the winter months.

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the meat and potatoes of life

Columnist Lisa Smith Molinari and her mother, Diane Smith, enjoy a treat at Stern's Ice Cream in Creekside, Pa.<br>Lisa Smith Molinari
Columnist Lisa Smith Molinari and her mother, Diane Smith, enjoy a treat at Stern's Ice Cream in Creekside, Pa.<br>Lisa Smith Molinari

A tribute to summer sellers of soft serve

A few months ago, I was cursing my place in the world. I mean literally, the actual spot where we live here in “Rhode Iceland.” After my husband retired from the Navy, I thought I could handle the harsh, bitter, seemingly endless New England winters, but every time it snows in April (and it does every year), I curse the ground it falls upon.