Archives: June 2008
21 Best Bars
The smoke has cleared on the tobacco wars and the truth is everyone wins. You can finally savor some of the great food that bars have been serving up all along. Every good bar is more than just a place to drink.The bartender is knowledgeable and personable, the atmosphere is lively, and the food is good — especially here in…
Avoiding Ice Packs
We’ve all heard the call to arms: Americans are getting plumper, driving up healthcare woes and expenses. We are all soldiers in the 21st century Battle of the Bulge, and one of our most formidable weapons is exercise. Statistics show that many of us are indeed burning serious calories, but our athletic pursuits are having the unintended consequence of creating…
June Bookshelf: Motorcycles and Mergansers
Two very different milieux – one loud and flashy, the other naturally quiet. It’s amazing how much there is to say about sea birds – in Hugh Hennedy’s “Variations on a Natural Theme” , there are 111 pages of elegant poems about mergansers, eiders, gulls and, mostly, loons that Hennedy saw in Maine’s Seal Cove. The poems, many of them…
Worldly Wisdom
Whenever spring is a little early or late, or the autumn leaves are a little less than brilliant, or when it snows too much or too little, I join you in worrying. Is it the normal variation, or is it the beginning of the end of our seasons as we know them? I do not doubt the scientific consensus: We…
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