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...apartheid, South Africa had no film industry to speak of. Filmmakers had either been co-opted by the white regime for propaganda or driven underground. Foreign filmmakers - whose big budgets can help prop up smaller local industries - had stayed away. With apartheid gone and sanctions lifted, that changed. Television commercial producers from around the globe discovered that Cape Town combined a spectacular location with skilled, cheap crews. Movie makers found that South Africa's diverse landscape - savannah to desert, winelands to white-sand beaches - could stand in for almost anywhere, while the people of the Rainbow Nation, with a carefully...
...Near Jake’s house is Western Avenue, a street where Harvard has been hungrily buying up properties and displacing businesses. The once-thriving town center has vacant buildings and the occasional survivor, like the local pub. But even those still in possession of their lease have experienced a drop in business,. Harvard’s expansion has left the residents of Allston with little more than a panoply of empty storefronts and dying businesses...
...Auctions only work for shoppers if they do a little research. Consumers need to know the price of a given item in the local grocery store, and discipline themselves not to bid above that number. Such self-restraint is no easy task. "We joke all time about the Little Debbies," says Chris Crepeau, owner of Michigan Auction Sales in Holt, Mich. "People always want those specific snack cakes, and pay too much for them." The auction process sweeps up some shoppers - I just want to win, darn it, no matter how much I pay for that dog food. Others figure...
...using a small, amateur-quality telescope hooked up to a low-end digital camera, and running off a car battery on the side of the road, Langford braved the elements ("clouds, rain, hail, fog, gale force winds...") as well as the suspicions of local farmers. "I had someone call the cops on me one time because he thought I was going to steal his alpacas...
...council, Ward said, “My goal is, whether people live, work, or play here, they should feel good about being in Cambridge.”Ward may already have established himself enough to inspire worry among his colleagues, according to Harvard Extension School professor and local political pundit Robert Winters, who maintains a blog about Cambridge politics.“Marjorie Decker sees [Ward] as a threat,” Winters said. “[The other councillors] will do everything they can to try to make him feel awkward and make him stumble...