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Like most professional photographers, Kupcake has a lens for every occasion. He slipped a shallow-focus 85-mm 1.4 Zeiss onto the Nikon body, and we watched through the 3-in. (8 cm) LCD screen as he shot some dazzling video of a bowl of bananas. One of the remarkable things about the D90 is that you can shoot video through virtually any Nikon-compatible lens--from fish-eyes to telephotos--going all the way back to the 1960s. "You can shoot video from superwide to frickin' long--like paparazzi-style Britney Spears stuff," said Kupcake. Just try doing that...
...trip, I’d thrown my share of dinner parties with no reported instances of poisoning or death. But the only dish I’d perfected in all my years of carrying around Bon Appétit issues like badges of my food expertise was a mean bowl of oatmeal with cinnamon, raisins, and banana. And even with my irrational love of porridge, I’m capable of recognizing that no sane person truly loves oatmeal. Hours spent poring over cookbooks in order to prepare dinner wasn’t what I had in mind when...
...there are some true grotesqueries to be found in the book. There's a wittily observed chapter on the weirdness that is Turkmenistan, with statues and giant photographs of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov everywhere: "In some he looked like a fat and grinning Dean Martin wearing a Super Bowl ring." As someone who's been to most of the places Theroux describes, that's the kind of sentence I want to read; the kind that makes me think, "Exactly!" (and "I wish I'd written that...
...spent only about $2 billion. "That should give you an idea of how much work there still is to do," says Garret Graves, who oversees coastal protection and restoration for Governor Bobby Jindal. And even 100-year protection may be insufficient for a low-lying city in a bowl, especially if seas keep rising and wetlands keep collapsing into the Gulf. "New Orleans still faces a higher level of risk from flooding than would be acceptable for other engineered life-protection systems," the American Society of Civil Engineers concluded in a report commissioned by the Corps. "Another Katrina-like hurricane...
DIED The first African American to serve as executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), Gene Upshaw held the post for 25 years. An outstanding offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders, Upshaw was selected seven times for the Pro Bowl and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987. When he was director of the NFLPA, his experience on the field gave him a unique understanding of player dynamics and helped him craft significant union agreements--including the game-changing introduction of free agency. He died of pancreatic cancer...