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...Those lessons were learned by Wendy's, the fast-food chain, in 2005 after a customer in San Jose, Calif., claimed to have found a human finger in her chili. The incident temporarily drove away Wendy's customers and sales plummeted by 50%, according to Fink, who blames much of the drop on Wendy's ineffectual communciation with the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Taco Bell Win Back Its Customers? | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...Golin ’07 adds that the set, which consists of a reproduction of a car’s front half, emphasizes the play’s focus on human relationships. The sparseness of the set augments reality: every facial twitch is front and center and every finger movement a possible revelation. Production staff have also significantly reduced theater space in the Ex so the audience will be closer to the action physically as well as emotionally. “The majority of the experience is about watching the actors act. Sometimes theater can get lost in creating huge...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Driving Towards Tragedy on HRDC’s ‘Autobahn’ | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...07—graced the stage.The first act of the night was by far the strangest. “Benjamin Sweet”—the stage name of Northeastern senior Chris Brit—hooked a device up to an amplifier, a distortion pedal, and his finger, and began to strum his lips, dancing and pantomiming like a grungy David Lee Roth.The crowd was bemused but not quite on board yet.In between acts, Brener and Kollmer performed brief skits together, including a sketch involving a spit-take in which Kollmer was thoroughly doused, and a sketch involving...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Stand Up Show Very Risqué | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...looking in others, there was a sort of bias there,” Allen said. “So now we’re trying to consider mainly infractions that come in as complaints.”But the dependence on these outside reports could create the potential for finger-pointing among campaigns, some of which center on weightier—and possibly more damaging—matters than batons.“If there is a campaign that is desperate for an attack...it doesn’t surprise me that out of desperation, that campaign would make...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On Home Stretch: Batons, Lights | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...were to rank the senses involved in restaurant dining, touch would surely wind up at the bottom of the list (although this should in no way appear to deny the legitimacy of the sandwich as a culinary art). After all, restaurant etiquette instructs us to keep our fingers as far away from our food as possible. But for those whose natural instinct is to dig in and get real with your meal, I heartily recommend Asmara. Opened in 1986, Asmara was Boston’s first Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurant. Although their spices and preparation methods are similar to those...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hotspot: Asmara | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

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