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...high level of Western cookery competes for tourist dollars. The six-month-old Sardine takes the experience one better: you can watch stalks growing under the stars while seated in a bamboo pavilion with massive thatched eaves handcrafted by artisans from an up-country village. It's Trader Vic's, only updated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pack Them In at Sardine Restaurant | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...followed the long list of groves and pumps he'd made for this night, Story chattered by push-to-talk cell phone with his father Vic and brother Matthew, who were operating pumps on other tracts of the family's 5,000 acres (2023 hectares) of oranges, tangerines and grapefruits, which lie across four counties in central Florida. When Matthew radioed in that some of his pump pipes had frozen, a setback that could result in a good deal of lost fruit, Kyle summoned a stoic voice and replied, "We can only do what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freezing in Frostproof: Saving Florida's Oranges | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...passing in the other direction in his cruiser. Elledge whipped around and pulled Hackbart over, citing him under the state's disorderly-conduct law, which bans obscene language and gestures. And here's where the problem lies, says state American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) legal director Witold (Vic) Walczak: the middle finger and equivalent swear words are not legally obscene. In fact, courts have consistently ruled that foul language is a constitutionally protected form of expression. A famous 1971 Supreme Court case upheld the right of a young man to enter the Los Angeles County Court House wearing a jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...dining room, sitting room and garden. It is packed with laughs, brimming with stage tomfoolery (a character who leaves the dining room in one play shows up in the sitting room in the next) and staged superbly by Matthew Warchus, in a production first seen at London's Old Vic Theatre. (Richard Zoglin picks the 10 Ayckbourn plays that deserve revivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn: Man of the Moment | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...wrong. Even the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is trying to cash in on the ubiquity of the super-absorbent towel infomercial with a YouTube parody designed to lure younger, tech-savvy souls to its services in New York. Dubbed "SoulWow," the commercial spoof features "Father Vic" (whose resemblance to ShamWow spokesman Vince Shlomi is downright eerie) hawking the only product that lets you "clean yourself from the inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sham-Huh? The Church's Infomercial | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

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