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...Back when a hoe was a hoe / Coke was a coke / And crack’s what you were doing / When you were cracking jokes / Back when a screw was a screw / The wind was all that blew / And when you said I’m down with that / Well it meant you had the flu / I miss back when.” –Tim McGraw, “Back When?...
...year Urban Program leader. Golis suggested that Amutah join the staff of Cambridge Common, the lefty Harvard blog Golis founded in 2005. “He is considerably more radical than I am,” Golis says. “He is willing to tell everyone else to screw off if he doesn’t agree with them. That’s pretty admirable I think.” Amutah’s career-changing moment came on a PBHA trip to Mississippi. Now, he will pursue a Masters of Education degree at the University of Mississippi while...
...cannot wear unless you fly your own jet and race cars. The collection, which includes the titanium-and-steel Xtreme Open, below, and the smaller Elite series, is an outsized group of graphic, chunky precision timepieces that appeal to the sportif type with an athletic build. From the decorative screw heads to the rotating bezel to the stainless-steel bracelet, the Defy collection promises to be to watchmaking what Formula 1 is to the automobile industry...
...First items on my shopping list: light bulbs, and a mop. The small, dusty general store at which I began my quest had no mops or screw-in bulbs, although it did have bayonet-style bulbs for anyone with the appropriate fittings. I found the bulbs I needed at a specialist lighting shop across the road. At a second general store a few minutes walk away I found a mop. Actually, the mop came in two parts: a long wooden handle and the mop end. But the two pieces didn't match each other, so the shop owner found...
...Pays de l'Atlantique. Christian Delpeuch and other Bordeaux merchants aren't waiting. In the conference room at Ginestet, Delpeuch shows off a bottle of his latest creation, aimed at the British market. It is the classic Bordeaux shape, but two elements stand out. The first is a screw top, rather than a traditional cork. The second is the label. The front has a huge drawing of a pretty château and announces the name: Bordeaux Classique. On the back, in English, is the lure: "Steeped in heritage," it reads, "the winemaker's philosophy was to take classic Bordeaux...