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...away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the elder half brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul cut the 1995 album Chester and Lester). They went east, and the Les Paul Trio got a New York City club date. More than 70 years later, another Paul trio was playing weekly gigs at Iridium, across from Lincoln Center...
Following the success of their truck (they have bookings for private parties into 2010), Case and Estreller are now at work developing their next architecturally inspired food project: perhaps an experimental supper club or even a line of Popsicles made to resemble famous buildings. "The name of our umbrella company is Farchitecture," says Estreller, who didn't study architecture but currently works in low-income housing development. "Coolhaus is just one of our projects. There will definitely be other projects." Future Frank Lloyd Wrights may want to take note: perhaps you should study food service instead...
...teenage obsession, Alison Byrne Fields wrote to John Hughes to tell him how much she loved The Breakfast Club. It was 1985, Byrne Fields was 15, and she watched the movie so many times that she lost count. So she told Hughes how accurately his film portrayed high school, how it said exactly what she was feeling, and how much she liked Judd Nelson. (She thought he was hot.) Byrne Fields was having problems of her own - not big problems, though they seemed big at the time - and she told Hughes how much it helped to know that someone...
...Instead, she got an invitation to join the "official" Breakfast Club, and a form letter signed by the famous director. "I was like, 'Um, excuse me? A form letter?'" Byrne Fields had just confessed her secrets and he didn't have the decency to respond. So she wrote him again and complained. (Read "John Hughes, R.I.P...
...Today, Byrne Fields is 39, lives in Washington, D.C., and works as the managing director for DDB Issues & Advocacy. She no longer looks or acts like the awkward teenager who penned those heartfelt letters, and she threw out her old Breakfast Club VHS tape years ago. And yet, when she heard of the director's sudden death last week at the age of 59, she felt like she had lost a family member. She wrote about her relationship with Hughes on her blog as a way to sort out her emotions. "I did it just for me, but I knew...