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This intimacy renders performances unpretentious and quaint. It’s easy to chat with an impressive opening act between sets or offer congratulations to a headliner. That never-before-heard-of band might even become the next big thing...
What would have otherwise been a quaint entry into Kobritz’s personal diary, however, found its way into the widely read “Talk of the Town” section of the The New Yorker. Though Kobritz’s response was intended as a witty retort to the aging president’s playful advances, she fears that it seemed less than innocent as recounted in the pages of The New Yorker. “I’m worried I came across as a tart,” says Kobritz. Kobritz’s image...
Every May since 1996, Ieola Bakr, her two sisters and their mother have enjoyed a weekend getaway at the Akwaaba Mansion. The four-room inn, in a quaint Italian villa-style home, offers a peaceful retreat where the women talk and relax--they walk in the gardens, soak in the Jacuzzi and savor a Southern breakfast with homemade grits and biscuits. But the Akwaaba isn't burrowed deep in the heart of Dixie or even in some bucolic New England town. The inn, dating to the 1860s, is smack in the middle of Brooklyn, N.Y., just 10 blocks from Bakr...
Despite the change in ownership, the quaint candy shop still boasts Spencer and Pepper’s traditional recipes. In addition to jars of Gibralters and barrels of Black Jacks, the tiny one-room sweets store overflows with candies of all sorts—from hard candies such as “Sassafras Slugs” and “Root Beer Barrels,” to Grand Marnier, Amaretto and Irish Cream gourmet truffles, to white, milk and semi-sweet cherry cordials to fudge in “Fall flavors...
...single fact finder for cases of sexual assault last year was an improvement in this realm. But judgment by a defendant’s peers may not produce more fairness in the Ad Board process. Adding token students to a board of dozens of administrators might bring to a quaint advisory capacity that helps the Ad Board nail down the reality of student life at Harvard, but their position as peers of defendants—rife with the potential of conflicts of interest and breeches of confidentiality—is disconcerting. The Ad Board is a gravely serious institution...