Love Food? Think Twice Before Jumping In
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Running a restaurant has perhaps never been so tempting, thanks in part to the Food Network and celebrity chefs, but statistics show it is still very easy to fail.
Archive for August, 2008
Front-Row Seats on Broadway, if You Dare
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Pedestrians love the new traffic-free Midtown esplanade, but some are concerned about the traffic next to them.
Heaven’s Angels
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Rescue Ink members — gruff and beefy men, tattooed from head to toe — look like bruisers. But show them a lost kitten or an abused pit bull, and they become tenderhearted rescuers.
Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Malia, Greece, is the latest in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly.
US Troops Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama, 4:1 to Paul over McCain
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008According to nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much in donations from troops deployed overseas than has John McCain. Even though he suspended his campaign months ago, Ron Paul has received more than four times the amount McCain has.
Zucchini ‘Pasta’
Monday, August 25th, 2008A dish that looks like fettuccine, but packs a healthier punch. From the NY Times.
Photography is Not a Crime - Simon Blint of SFMOMA ejects paying customer!
Saturday, August 9th, 2008“After purchasing my family membership and visiting the museum today I was forcibly thrown out of the museum by two museum security guards at the direction of the Director of Visitor Relations Simon Blint. My crime? Taking a photograph from the second floor stairs in the SFMOMA’s atrium (an area where the SF MOMA’s own website explicitly says…”
-Thomas Hawk
The Secret Curse of Expert Archers
Friday, August 1st, 2008There is an affliction so feared by elite archers that many refuse to even speak its name. It causes even crack shots to suddenly lose control of their bows, and their composure.
It’s Why We Read, Online and Off
Friday, August 1st, 2008To the Editor:.
Re “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” (“The Future of Reading” series, front page, July 27):
