Word: waxing
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...have been listening to David [A.] Wax [’05]—he has a great song called “Not Guilty”—because he’s my roommate. I listened to Another Side of Bob Dylan yesterday while I was trying to write a paper. The Basement Tapes and Planet Waves. A little bit of Jamiroquai, especially “Canned Heat,” the song from Napoleon Dynamite. And a bluegrass group from North Carolina called Sons of Ralph on their album Grab a Root and Growl...
Tucked away in a maze of bars by the MIT campus, this converted warehouse features the friendliest billiards in town. The star here, though, isn’t the dozen pool tables, but the affordable comfort food. Start off with the down-home pulled pork sandwich ($7.95; on wax paper that says, “DELICIOUS”), then end with the Volcano Cake ($4.95). With the chocolate dessert, Flat Top Johnny’s serves a pile of whipped cream with a maraschino cherry—and while too rich for one, it’s the perfect size...
...David A. Wax '05 says...
Fred Sears is packing his white F-350 truck for his annual trek from his home in Morro Bay, Calif., to Baja, Mexico, its enormous bed filled with surfboards, wax, wet suit and sunscreen. He is as stoked as any surfer dude in his mid-20s, which by some accounting is what he is. Sears grew up in Hermosa Beach, Calif., and surfed as much as he possibly could during his teenage years. At 15, as soon as he got his driver's license, he began sweeping floors at Hobie SurfBoards, eventually working up to glassing and polishing the boards...
...modern and contemporary gallery of the Fogg. Or perhaps “painting” is too strong a word. The 2001 work, Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself is a vertically-oriented rectangle (roughtly three feet by four feet...