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...Microbreweries had their own version of the dotcom boom and bust in the early 1990s, when it seemed that a brew pub was opening (and soon closing) on every corner. The ones that survived "were willing to do the nitty-gritty hard work," says Ray Daniels, marketing director for craft beer at the Brewers Association, an industry trade group...
...central casting" who wanted a piece of the construction work on their brewery. A disastrous foray into online beer retailing lost them a million dollars and nearly destroyed their friendship. They survived: last year sales grew 18%, to 53,100 barrels, and the company became one of several craft brewers to enjoy double-digit growth, according to the Brewers Association...
...Kirby was “greeted by a standing ovation” at the 18-member Faculty Council’s meeting yesterday, said Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji. The Faculty Council voted unanimously to name Ulrich as the leader of a five-professor group that will craft recommendations for the nascent dean search.Ulrich, a scholar of early American history who holds one of Harvard’s 19 University professorships, is already a member of the Faculty Council.“The role of the Faculty Council re[garding] the FAS Dean search is still being defined...
...born. But despite the loftiness of her achievements - Hanssen Pigott is considered one of the world's best ceramic artists - the beauty of this exhibition is in showing the earthiness of her inspiration. Born in the Victorian goldmining town of Ballarat in 1935, this daughter of an engineer and craft teacher naturally, it seems, sought salvation from the ground. As an apprentice to Ivan McMeekin at his Mittagong pottery in the '50s, she became as expert as a geologist at analyzing the mineral contents of clay. Later, at the studios she set up in France and Tasmania, she was forever...
...Hanssen Pigott's craft reaches back to the Chinese courts of a millennium ago, her sensibility remains modern. No matter how exquisite, form follows function, and in the course of filling the show, the curator has left many a kitchen cupboard bare. Until recently, a prized bowl owned by Hanssen Pigott's sister was used daily for rhubarb. "The usefulness of her pots is very important to her," explains Smith, "and even the works in the still life groups today could be used if people wished to do so; but people tend not to want to use a cup that...