One of the songs off the Pat Travers Bands latest record, Can Do, got its debut at Harrahs Lake Tahoe long before the albums July 9 release.

Travers wrote the bulk of Diamond Girl, a soaring rock n roll track, while warming up for a show at the South Shore Room last year, he said during a phone interview in late February.

That was one of the easy ones, Travers said of the song, which is the third track on an album inspired by the sound of his early records.

My only goal was really to come up with the best songs I absolutely could, Travers said.

The Canadian guitarist and singer has released more than 30 discs in his decades-spanning career. He counts Can Do among its highlights.

Everybody loves it, Travers said. I got probably the best reviews of any album I ever put out in my career on this album.

He took the album to Europe last year and comes through the South Shore Saturday as part of the bands North American tour in support of the album.

Can Do and Long Time Gone are among the new songs that are especially well received live, Travers said.

In addition to songs from the new album, Travers said the bands live set features fan favorites and a slide guitar section. Travers began developing his slide guitar technique eight or nine years ago after injuring his hand.

That whole section goes down amazingly well, Travers said. I really have fun with it.

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The old school bell tolled March 5, when Gahanna Senior Center members visited Lincoln Elementary School and the recently relocated and restored one-room Jefferson Township School No. 2.

The occasion was part of an intergenerational partnership program the schools and Gahanna seniors forged 20 years ago, said Dale Foor, coordinator of community services. Every first Wednesday of the month, students visit the senior citizens; once a year, the senior citizens travel to one of the schools.

Senior center director Danise Hall said the monthly program begins in October and ends in May.

"Only once a year do we come to a school," she said. "The rest of the time it's at the senior center. I love to find out the likes of the foreign-exchange students when they visit."

The senior citizens were paired with Lincoln fourth-grade ambassadors, who guided them through the cafeteria to experience modern-day school life.

They enjoyed lunch together in the library instead of the cafeteria, though.

In addition to enjoying a menu of cheese bread, hummus, tomato soup, strawberries and milk, the students and seniors chatted about everyday life.

Fourth-grader Luciano Frissora, 9, visited with Jean Langkamp.

"I learned about lots of things," Luciano said. "Senior citizens are full of wisdom. They're nice and have fun."

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As much as gastronauts cherish their visits to the avant-garde Spanish restaurants Mugaritz, Berasategui and Arzak, many of them will confess that their last trips to San Sebastian may have been less about 14-course meals of high-modern cuisine than cider-fueled wanderings through the old town, where Txakoli flows and the succession of tapas bars is unmatched anywhere in Spain. And while these travelers can tell you in detail about the fuming tide pools of seafood they were served at Azurmendi or the edible river stones at Mugaritz, their fondest memories may be of the kitschy San Sebastian pintxos bar A Fuego Negro, which exists almost as a modernist joke on the excesses of modernism. At A Fuego Negro, you can snack on sous-vide pigeon breast with beet-juice "blood" and edible buckshot, ham coffee with sweetbread cookies, and pickled pig's ears with Oaxacan mole ice cream. Hyper-intellectual cuisine has its place, but parody can be more fun.

So in a Los Angeles restaurant scene dominated at the moment by extreme localism, modernist trickery and the marriage of European and Asian technique, Scratch Bar, a sleek, dim gastropub next to Matsuhisa on La Cienega's restaurant row, is a welcome bit of comic relief, the wiseguy telling jokes in the corner while the popular kids forage miner's lettuce and make buttermilk cheese with a centrifuge.

At Scratch Bar, chef Phillip Frankland Lee and his band roast half-cylinders of sourdough bread, scoop out grooves in the center and fill them with bone marrow trompe l'oeil marrow bones, garnished with ruddy bits of beet-marinated vegetables. They bake whole smelt inside crackers, so that the little fish appear to be emerging from the flat surface like nudes in a Robert Graham sculpture, and set them upright in blood-red smears of beet and beef marrow.

They construct canaps of sweetbreads, tiny flatbread and maple vinegar, call them "Chicken" 'n' Waffle, and dare you to eat them in a single bite. You do, and the sensation is straight out of a Sunday morning at Roscoe's. They inject green olives with pured Kalamatas, dip them in batter, deep-fry them and drizzle them with a little honey. If you have ever wondered what olives might taste like if they were stuffed with other olives instead of pimientos, this is your chance.

When you order Smoking Goat's Milk Cheese, the dry, crumbly fresh cheese comes to the table under a kind of upside-down glass terrine, where it has been resting next to a small pile of smoldering dried timothy grass. ("The same hay the goats eat," confides the waiter.) The top of the glass is smeared with pured olives, which you are encouraged to spread on little rounds of toast. The ruddy pickled vegetables show up again. The waiter replaces the terrine over the sputtering haystack. You watch the vessel slowly fill up again with smoke. The cheese may be dryish, and the smoke makes it smell a bit as if it had been hanging out with the Marlboro Man, but the rugged flavors seem to work.

The signature presentation is probably Squid in a Box the box is fashioned from fried potato, and the construction rests on a tar-black pure of charred eggplant, but it is indeed squid in a box. Vegetarians can have a Box Full of Vegetables instead.

Sometimes the restaurant's effects are elaborate, like the snack of skewered mussels suspended over a shot of sake, which in turn conceals a few grams of sea urchin paved with avocado mousse: Eat, sip, eat. Sometimes, as with the roasted corn rolled in toasted bread crumbs, the point is simple. The squishiness of long-braised pork belly rhymes nicely with the squishiness of a raw Kumamoto oyster. It's a nice bite. But the squishiness of long-braised pork belly does nothing for the briny creaminess of uni in an abstracted version of chirashi sushi. That experiment doesn't work. The corn-infused custard spiked with king crab meat doesn't really work either, at least until sweet corn comes back into its peak season, but you can see the reason behind it.

This is probably the place to point out that, while Scratch Bar is set up like a cocktail bar and, in fact, features cocktails designed by Dave Fernie of Pour Vous, the restaurant has only a wine and beer license, and those fancy drinks are made with sake, sherry or soju instead of booze. In practice, this works out. The Bangkok Dangerous, made with pineapple, two sakes and a dusting of cayenne, would not have been out of place at the Tiki Ti.

I'm not sure Lee is aiming toward a higher end at Scratch Bar, but in a way it doesn't matter. His food tastes pretty good, it is attractively presented and it makes you smile. I suspect the tiny portions and militant whimsy might enrage a certain kind of customer, but for the most part this, and the vanilla ice cream cones with house-made jimmies, may be enough.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio Carrier presents the first-ever Cleveland Home and Remodeling Expo at the new Cleveland Convention Center. Today, join me as we learn about one of the newest home products that looks as if it's out of this world.

The Main Event: Home and Remodeling Expo

The 411: Starting Friday, the three-day event will allow visitors to be inspired by the latest home designs and renovation ideas.

One of the many new features includes the CasaBubble, which is comparable to an enclosed gazebo. However, the CasaBubble has no framework and the inflatable structure uses a self-adjusting turbine to keep it in shape. The futuristic design is made for outdoor living and helps keep bugs and pollen out during the summer days.

More Information: The Cleveland Convention Center is located at 300 Lakeside Ave. The show dates and times are from 12 to 9 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $10 at the door and $8 online at homeandremdelingexpo.com.

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A house that's outside the norm for a neighborhood can hobble the owners when it's time to sell.

Some real estate agents and appraisers, however, say many sellers these days feel too much pressure to remodel even standard homes, whether it's because of popular TV shows and flashy home design websites, or because friends or agents recommend it when it's not really needed.

In the case of most homes being readied for sale, "You shouldn't remodel the home," said Mac Mackenzie, an agent at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Irvine, Calif.

"People (looking to sell) are paying too much attention to television, and they're not getting the proper evaluation."

The value of real estate depends on the location, market segment and cycle, said appraiser Steven R. Smith of Redlands, Calif., who has conducted appraisals of homes in the Los Angeles area and throughout the U.S. over his more than 30-year career.

Many houses about to go on the market could use clean windows and perhaps carpet and paint. Maybe a new roof and some other repairs.

Even contractors find themselves pushing back on home sellers' urge to upgrade.

Paul Paniagua, owner of All Pro Builders in Fullerton, Calif., said he's persuaded people about to put their homes up for sale not to remodel, even if their agent suggested it.

"I try to talk them out of it," Paniagua said. He tells homeowners, "Why don't you put the house up on the market for what you're asking for and see what type of offers you get?"

He added, "Some people can just throw a countertop on and that's night and day."

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This post comes from Marilyn Lewis at partner site Money Talks News.

I hate calling a plumber for help. I realize that most are probably honest professionals, but I also know that a few might try dodgy tricks to overcharge. So just placing the phone call makes me uncomfortable.

Here are 10 plumbers' tricks of the trade you may run into, plus how to spot those tricks, find good plumbers and get good value for your money.

1. Working unlicensed and uninsured

Unlicensed and uninsured tradespeople usually charge less. But you're taking a big risk hiring them.

Most cities require homeowners to use licensed and insured contractors, even when you don't need a permit. One exception: Do-it-yourselfers often may do construction on their own homes. "But they must use licensed professionals for structural, electrical and plumbing work," MSN Real Estate says.

With unlicensed tradespeople, there's nowhere to turn if the work is poorly done. A building inspector can require you to tear out the job and do it again. Banks won't lend money on homes with work done illegally.

Still not convinced? Here's what the Magnolia Voice, a neighborhood newspaper in Seattle, says:

Hiring a plumber? Ask to see identification, a state license and proof of current insurance. To check licensing and insurance credentials, call your state's licensing department and state insurance commissioner.

"A contractor also needs two kinds of insurance: liability, to compensate you if the work fails, and workers compensation insurance, in case someone is injured on the job," MSN Real Estate says.

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