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...Slice, the first English-language magazine devoted to Shanghai's extensive golfing scene. The free magazine - distributed through high-end hotels and in restaurants popular with expatriates - promises to profile five courses in the Shanghai area (and further afield) with every issue, and gives details of local golf-gear stockists. Newcomers will find plenty of other helpful features. Slice's first issue carries an article on how to spot the fake Callaway, TaylorMade, Nike and other counterfeit clubs so common in China. There are plenty of suggestions for after the game too, with choice nightlife and dining listings. Your networking...
...You’re Living All Over Me;” the band pleased the crowd with material from the first three albums, besides one Superchunk cover and “Wagon” off of “Green Mind.”Things kicked into high gear with Lou’s lead vocals on “Bulbs of Passion,” showing just how tragic his feud with J was. Lou’s buzzsaw attack was more distorted than any Lightning Bolt bass line. Barely 10 minutes in, an amp had already blown...
While five-year-olds and fantasy fanatics gear up for the new film adaptation of “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe,” Alan Jacobs struggles to reveal the man behind the fairy tale in “The Narnian.” The book—part biography of C.S. Lewis and part literary critique of his works—provides greater insight into Lewis’ continuing influence on thinkers like Jacobs than it does into Lewis himself. “The Narnian” portrays Lewis as a man defined...
...Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis with a front fork modeled to look like landing gear. When Piaggio saw the first one in 1946, he exclaimed, ?Sembra una vespa! [It looks like a wasp...
WHEN THOMAS BURBERRY, purveyor of outdoor gear for the sports inclined, was asked by the British War Office in 1914 to adapt his service uniforms for officers to military needs, he could not have imagined that his trench coat?named for its use in the trenches of World War I?would be adopted by fashion icons like Catherine Deneuve and Chlo Sevigny. Yet Burberry, who had started off as an apprentice to a country draper in Basingstoke, England, was used to outfitting the famous. He had, after all, supplied the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen with his gabardine coats when...