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...made to feel lived-in: the Bucky-board is adorned with posters advertising long-past productions - "Olivia de Havilland (in person) in Sir James M. Barrie's Classic Comedy What Every Woman Knows" - like family mementos in the home of a very thespian clan. In the bathroom, you'll find copies of Life magazine from the 1950s. The menu reflects Newman and Nischan's shared passion for organic and sustainable farming. That means many of the vegetables in, say, the "Use a Spoon" Salad (so named because Newman wanted a salad you didn't have to cut or stab...
...Unique” (Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella) 2 STARS In an age of hip-hop postures and publicity stunts, Ol’ Dirty Bastard was the real thing. A founding member of the revolutionary hip-hop outfit Wu-Tang Clan, he was the group’s loosest cannon, a wild man whose erratic and self-destructive behavior was reflected in his primitive, off-balance, and completely singular microphone style. He lived the life and died to prove it: when he overdosed in 2004, he left behind a string of convictions, 13 children, and one of the most brilliantly chaotic legacies...
...decides not to run for reelection, it will mark the first time in 70 years that no one from the Sullivan clan serves on the council. Michael “Mickey the Dude” Sullivan, the grandfather of the current councillor, won a seat...
...reelection as a city councillor sometime before next November’s local elections. Though state law permits Sullivan to hold both jobs simultaneously, if he decides to not seek reelection as a city councillor, it will mark the first time since 1936 that no one from the Sullivan clan serves on the council. That year, Michael A. “Mickey the Dude” Sullivan, the grandfather of the current councillor, won a seat. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir to piece together, in 12 parts, a fictionalized chronicle of how her tough-minded clan got from the Ettrick Valley near Edinburgh to America. Yet it shows, as usual, how to draw gasps from other writers by defying the laws of gravitas as effortlessly as Michael Jordan defied those of gravity...