Word: midwesterner
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...William Safire implied in his Oct. 18th editorial column in the New York Times—that they might have scored the final point on this one: The Democrats’ lip service was decidedly uncouth, and that’s not likely to go over well in those Midwestern swing states. And pro-Kerry activists like Michael Rogers, of blogactive.com, can tap his fingers gleefully and cross off one more person from the list of Gay Republicans Who I Must...
Ohio natives and White Stripes relatives The Black Keys bring their Midwestern blues-inspired rock to The Paradise in support of their latest and greatest album, Rubber Factory. San Francisco garage act The Cuts provides support. 18+. Tickets $15. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club...
...first met the Boxx about a year ago in the basement of a Unitarian church in my Midwestern hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. I had booked a show there for him, and I’d talked to him online a few times prior to our meeting. He and his friends rolled up in a crowded van about two hours late, and Juice ran into the bathroom as soon as he stumbled out of it to change into his stage clothes—a blue jumpsuit, a pair of Phat Farm boxers, and a cock-ring he?...
...York City, the architects are creating a miniature department store for Kate Spade, who is expanding beyond handbags into home furnishings. To weave in the Midwestern, feminine perspective from which her brand is derived, they will sandwich a layer of pink film between two pieces of glass, instead of painting the walls. In Hong Kong, where they are building an 85,000-sq.-ft. store for Lane Crawford, they plan to ditch the traditional formula of clothing racks plus wall fixtures in favor of furniture and shelves that sit on the floor to resemble a mansion rather than a department...
...longer is it just the blue-collar workforce—the Midwestern hardhats, the Southern millers, the Rustbelt miners—who watch their plants close and their jobs replaced because foreign labor is cheaper. Now, we are told, it is all of us whose (future) jobs are at risk. Or, more precisely, it is every service sector worker who need not appear in person: today’s Bangalore customer service callers could become tomorrow’s investment bankers...