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...article when you’re done. Worse comes to worst, I won’t like it. And then I’ll just kill you.” I laughed. “I have friends,” he added. I stopped laughing. Stepping off his porch, I reentered America. A week later, I returned to the neighborhood to go on Michele Topor’s culinary tour of the North End. Topor, a trained chef and resident of the North End for almost four decades, has been leading trips through the area for the past...
...long ago, the little dogs raced together down the stairs, then flew out the door and onto the porch. The boy barked at the world and the girl nipped his heels. They ran to the lawn and peed on the same patch. The little boy galloped like a pony in tall grass. The little girl followed him to the pond. The boy chased off blackbirds. The girl barked as if she had helped. After the little boy died of old age, the little girl sat for many weeks at the top of the stairs facing the front door. That...
...still-moldering remains of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, taking a direct swipe at President Bush by declaring that "never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled." There he was in Kentucky coal country, visiting the weathered porch where Lyndon Johnson announced the "War on Poverty" in 1964. There he was in Alabama's Black Belt, where people live without sewer systems, dancing as elderly quilters serenaded him with spirituals. And before the broken windows of a shuttered steel factory in Youngstown, Ohio, he said he felt America...
...easier to transition from small-scale brewing to industrial brewing,” he says.Eisele says he plans to open his first brewpub with his longtime friend and business partner Nick Jenkerson, a junior at St. Louis University. “We were sitting out on the porch figuring out what we were going to do with our lives, and we came to the conclusion that we wanted to create a product that we enjoyed,” Jenkerson says. “There is not really anything better than opening up a restaurant or bar.”Eisele?...
...begins to speculate about the value of family.Without even the slightest political or philosophical twang, Wolff evokes the question of what war means on the homefront today. A hundred and fifty years ago, it meant visible, physical sacrifice: bandages rolled in the home, wounded laid out on the front porch, scorched fields and ransacked homes. In the last century it has meant ration coupons, war bonds, and nationwide campus riots. In today’s world, where days can go by without mention of war, Wolff asks, What happens to the people who are left behind...