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The Great Indoors: Keep your vintage home uncluttered with useful tips

It’s been almost a month since Cleanup Week left antique lovers and bargain hunters rummaging through piles of would-be garbage on the city’s curbs. Perhaps you’re one of them, excited at first by what you found, now looking at it and wondering, “What am I going to do with this thing?”

• Carrie Brusven and Tracy Briggs
• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Aussie gives tips on ribs, shrimp

Don’t be surprised if Paul “Awesome Aussie” Mackay greets you at his booth at Happy Harry’s Ribfest with a huge elk-handled knife.

Parenting Perspectives: Don’t knock middle school

You’d think as adults we’d know better. But why is it when it comes to communicating with younger generations we sometimes just plain blow it? When they’re little, it’s easy. Ask them their favorite color or how old they are and you can get a nice conversation going, sometimes peppered with wildly off-topic comments: “My friend Aidan’s grandpa wears an eyepatch, but he’s not a pirate.”

• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Grilled fruit transforms scones into sweet treat

I never got scones. I mean, I bought scones and ate scones, but I never really got them. I didn’t understand the appeal of a pastry that was so dense and dry it might better work as a door stop than a breakfast dish.

The Great Indoors: End summer meals with grilled fruits

With Memorial Day just around the corner, many Americans will fire up the grill for hot dogs, burgers, steaks and whatever else looks and tastes good with char marks.

• Grilling fruits
• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Simple taco dip a summer crowd pleaser

We all know those moms and dads who go completely overboard with graduation open house party planning. When little Susie or Johnny graduates, they spare no expense to make sure her/his food is the best.

• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Classes teach kids healthy, tasty cooking

Are your children stuck in a food rut? Are you living in a world filled with macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets and PB-and-J?

• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Beyond tacos for Cinco de Mayo

Tim Rosendahl has been awfully busy holding classes at Casey Steele’s Square One Rental Kitchens. So when we asked the two of them to help us out by creating an extra special Cinco de Mayo meal for “The Great Indoors,” we were thrilled that they could squeeze us in.

• Tracy Briggs

Tracy Briggs: Bossart guided us with humor and grace

Normally, my Thursday column is dedicated to our food/lifestyle blog “The Great Indoors.” But today I felt like doing something a little different. The fact is, it’s been a tough couple of days for some of us at Forum Communications. We lost a dear friend and former colleague. Veteran WDAY-TV anchorman Marv Bossart died Tuesday after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

• Tracy Briggs

Her Voice: Disease helps Fargo woman prioritize life

FARGO – Sarah DeVries was working out at the gym when she started feeling pain and numbness in her legs. At first it was only when she exercised so she ignored it, thinking she was pushing herself too hard, DeVries, of Fargo, said.

• Sarah DeVries, of Fargo was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008

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The Great Indoors: A delicious dish for hunters

As some of you may know, our video blog, "The Great Indoors" was created to celebrate the finer things inside four walls such as eating, drinking and entertaining. We decided to leave the hunting, fishing, and camping to the Outdoors people.

• Great Indoors