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...drive half an hour north to the mall and strip stores near Burlington, and a proposed highway bypass will route traffic around Fort Madison. So the true secret of the town's success, then, can be found every Thursday morning at the sinfully addictive Ivy Bake Shoppe, where Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
Coming home, I settle down at the computer screen and read the news on the Web. Something catches my eye - old business. The National Transportation Safety Board has decided that John Kennedy Jr. probably became disoriented in the night sky almost a year ago off Martha's Vineyard. The novice pilot's "spatial disorientation" caused the crash. We knew that, didn...
Time is elastic. That weekend seems either two days, or possibly 10 years, ago. On that evening, by chance, we were having dinner with a friend at her house on Martha's Vineyard. The sun had gone down. We ate dinner in the afterlight, looking out over Vineyard Sound. We peered toward the mainland and one of us said, "There's going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into...
...Elian: Danny DeVito Juan Miguel: Antonio Banderas Lazaro Gonzalez: Jabba the Hut Marisleysis: Cheri Oteri Armando Gutierrez: Al Sharpton Greg Craig: John Laroquette Janet Reno: Will Ferrell Fidel Castro: Janet Reno Donato Dalrymple: Ricky Martin Diane Sawyer: Martha Stewart Bill Clinton: Jim Carey (try and get THAT image out of your mind tonight!) Al Gore: Bob Newhart, Charles Grodin, A 2" x 4", ......Take your pick...
Cooking as a giving, communal activity exists only in Olive Garden commercials and the segments of Martha Stewart Living in which Martha is off-camera. In actuality it has morphed into a brutal sport, with celebrity chefs jockeying for high Zagat ratings, cookware deals and TV contracts. Add to that the Japanese shame of losing face, and you've got a game show that makes Survivor seem like Hollywood Squares...