Atlanta House Painting

What is the 'Bird's Nest?' Who are those Hello Kitty-like dolls? And why do we keep hearing the name Michael Phelps?

It is twilight along Prospect Road, which lifts out of Waterbury's urban center and rises into the suburban hills and fields of Prospect. Drucie Bathin is standing in front of the altar at Living Faith Christian Church, wiping her palms on her black brushed twills, and cupping them around a wireless microphone. "This is Burma," she says, cocking her head backwards to a map of Myanmar projected ...

KENT -- The dim basement of the Swift House smells dank and musty. Cobwebs are strung over much of the ceiling, and patterns in the dirt floor show the direction water flows when rain floods the basement of the structure, one of the oldest in Litchfield County.

On a brick wall in downtown Atlanta that usually is splattered with graffiti tag names, a spray-paint portrait of Barack Obama now gazes over the streetscape.

Today Acrylic painting classes , 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Professional Artists' League, 19119 Winslow Terrace, west of Boca Raton . $25. Call 561-883-5033.

JENERA — John Honse's living room is like no other in America, not in this day and age, anyway.

Buyers in Seattle, Milwaukee and even Bloomington have snapped up new cottage homes in developments that turn the McMansion trend on its dormer-decorated head.

The worst home-building climate in decades is buffeting another developer, forcing Woodside Homes into bankruptcy court in Riverside. Read comments

The worst home-building climate in decades is buffeting another developer, forcing Woodside Homes into bankruptcy court in Riverside. Read comments

KINGSLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Worship, today, 6 p.m., the Haven, Christian coffeehouse ministry, 913 Cranberry St. Message: "Being Cleansed." Services, Sunday, informal, 9 a.m. in the Haven and traditional, 10:30 a.m., in the sanctuary. Message by the Rev. Jeff Bobin: "What Are You Worth?" Call 459-3205.