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...many, sewing their own clothes is a backlash against the cookie-cutter, mass-produced clothing available in stores. "People are really frustrated with the state of fashion now," says Aja Johnson, 26, who teaches sewing at Spark Craft Studios in Somerville, Mass., which opened in January 2005. "They're really sick of not being able to find clothes they like that fit them the way they like," she says. What's more, making your own clothes now has a special kind of cachet, particularly among image-conscious teenagers. "When people say, 'Where did you get that?' it's like...
...letters with my father and her reporter's notebooks from 30 years in Washington. Ours was a personal story that I thought needed to be told but when I read all the history and got a peek at the inner workings of Washington and the period of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations, the story became even more compelling and worth telling - even if she hadn't been...
DIED. Robert Lockwood, 91, giant of Mississippi blues who, after learning guitar at age 11 from blues pioneer Robert Johnson, fused raw Delta chords, electric blues and urban funk; in Cleveland, Ohio. Teaming up in the 1940s with harmonica ace Sonny Boy Williamson, he made Arkansas radio's King Biscuit Time the most influential broadcast...
...validates what people have to say,” he added. Vasiliauskas said she values an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship. She said classes that she took early in her Harvard career, notably ones with former art history professor Yve-Alain Bois and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Christopher D. Johnson, were “formative” to her interdisciplinary thinking. Vasiliauskas was one of about 50 Harvard candidates endorsed by the University in September and the only one to win a scholarship. This is the third year in a row that Harvard has had one Marshall Scholar. The scholarships...
...pure Chardonnay) Champagne for Sainsbury's in the U.K., but otherwise sells mainly to restaurants and a roster of regular clients who include locals looking for a reasonably priced, high-quality bottle. Closer to Epernay is Beaumont des Crayères, www.champagne-beaumont.com, described by British wine writer Hugh Johnson as "a small outstanding cooperative." It has been on an export drive for more than a decade, particularly with its biggest-selling bottle, a nonvintage Grande Réserve Champagne, made of 60% Pinot Meunier. The Specialist Growers A young new generation of small growers is making a name for itself...