The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — Treasured olds, something new, cuisines borrowed, diners wearing blue. Sunday’s “Gathered ...

We like to entertain a lot in our back patio when the weather is nice. We had a large thick live edge piece of cedar that would be perfect for it, so we went to work on it.

Bloom tables are a study in opposites: the base is a rugged cedar stump, the top a sleek sheet of resin fused around the wood. They could only be the result of the meeting of two minds. Crafted by mth ...