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...Dante’s Inferno. To be sure, often when I hang out in Manhattan with a Harvard friend, he or she gives me a really sad, sympathetic look when I tell them that I should be getting home. (It’s sort of like the look your mom might have given you when you came home from a Little League game and told her you didn’t get to play.) “It’s okay!” I assure them. “New Jersey is great! We all love living there...
...Mom! Mom! I see Adam! Hi, Adam!” Andrew waved his hands frantically, leaning over the rope into the field. “Adam! Adam...
...midcareer move from indie idol to Avril Lavigne wannabe is in part financially motivated. Phair is a single mom with a 6-year-old son. When she turned in the original material for her fourth album to her record label, Capitol, there were polite nods and a sales prediction--"Goldish," recalls Phair, or around 500,000 copies. In the cruel calculus of the record business--in which everyone gets his cut before the artist and a majority of singers owe their record companies money--gold barely pays the bills. "It takes me a long time to make a record...
...evil, all-controlling, delusional architecture of the universe?" It turned out that the Matrix--Scott Spock plus husband-and-wife team Graham Edwards and Lauren Christy--was named in an homage to the womb (no one said it was a great homage) and that Christy was a thirty-something mom too. Phair was won over. "You go in, and they have the music pretty much written. And it's so exciting. You can feel the structure of an excellent song. Where they go with the bridge--I don't know--it's both effortless and soaring...
...steps away from Greenport's many shops, galleries and eateries. Harold Watts, Ternhaven's owner and winemaker, is a retired Columbia University economics professor who used to tinker at winemaking in his Manhattan apartment. When he left teaching, he bought several acres and started a modest operation, the ultimate mom-and-pop winery of the area. Ternhaven's sign reads LAST WINERY BEFORE FRANCE--bragging rights earned by being the easternmost winery in the state. If you're lucky, you'll get to meet Watts. Ask to see his unusual storage tanks, which are converted dairy vats...