Pears, unlike most other tree- or bush-borne fruits, such as tomatoes and tangerines, apples and apricots, don’t fully ripen into deliciousness on their mother plant. They do so only after being ...

If you’re a lover of plastic bags, you have about ten days before it’ll be hard to find the flimsy sacks in Seattle. The city’s ban begins July 1, which prohibits stores from providing the convenience ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Why do some stores charge for paper bags? It has been almost four years since New York State banned single-use plastic shopping bags. If you forgot to bring a reusable bag, that may ...

Dear Stoner: I was recently charged a ten-cent bag fee for a small paper bag at a dispensary. I thought that was only at grocery stores. Dear Perturbed: Denver’s citywide ordinance dictating that ten ...

Some Santa Fe retailers are unnecessarily charging shoppers 10 cents for small paper bags at the checkout counter. Under the city’s Reusable Bag Ordinance, which went into effect a little more than a ...

Anthony Rotunno, a senior editor, developed his eye for detail at Vanity Fair, honed it as editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Paper, and now uses it to find home décor and lo-fi tech. I have tried to ...