Nothing like the wild, wacky world of work to go back to on a Sunday. That's especially true in the event of a thunderstorm, and the fact that, upon my arrival, the building's fire alarm was going off!

Now, why, pray tell, did that go on? Turns out that the building was hit by lightning during the night of the thunderstorm and it fritzed out the alarm system. The thing was just going off every hour for a few hours and it took one of the managers to try...

Fake (non-functional, single-sided) shutters can be installed correctly (overlapping the side trim of a window; of the correct height and width to cover the window when hypothetically closed). To attach fake shutters in the wrong place, and of the incorrect size, looks silly. But more revealing is why fake shutters are most often attached to a Modern house in the first place.

Modern homes (those built after 1930) increasingly followed the Modernist movement's idea that homes should...

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Hi I know this was posted long ago but we are relocating to chapel hill with our 2 daughters looking for a really nice townhouse that allows pets in chapel hill. Our price range...

Here we go again on City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive, and we are gathering together for more Scattershooting on Case's Column. Lots of goings-on in this world, and you'll hear about just a smidgen of it all right here, because Case has only so much space....

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The music world is ever poorer today. It happens every time a singer, musician, or songwriter dies. This week, we have lost two artists whose last name just happens to...