Disregarding culinary conventions, this visionary Alberta Street eatery serves up innovative dishes that will likely push your boundaries while also delighting your palate. Its simple menu of small plates (order 2-3 per person) influenced by Asian flavors and using European cooking techniques, combines unusual ingredients into dishes that work not in spite of, but because […]
Cable Cemetery // Photo by Christina Cooke (not included in original publication) The closest the Cable sisters can get to home these days is by floating above it in a boat. This is how they spent the third Sunday in May, reminiscing about what lay beneath Fontana Lake back when this North Carolina land was […]
CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS Adam Swafford, a 17-year-old Chattanoogan, lies in bed on the seventh floor of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville waiting for a new heart. When he arrived at the hospital, his heart, which should be the size of a human fist, had swollen to the size of a cantaloupe. Dr. Frank […]
Find the original story here. A version also appeared in print on November 24, 2015, on page D2 of the New York edition with the headline: Psst, Buddy, That Cute Penguin Is So Into You. GREENSBORO, N.C. — When the African penguins Derek and Geirfugl were given their own room last spring, keepers at the Greensboro Science Center questioned […]
Kyle T. Webster does not take lines lightly. He knows the position, curve and thickness of the marks matter, and he’s not willing to settle for one he doesn’t like. It’s a Friday afternoon, and the Winston-Salem illustrator is working on a cover for Remodeling magazine at his computer. His assignment: to depict the current […]
OREGON HAS A LONG AND ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY IN THE SHOEMAKING INDUSTRY. Home of the footwear giant Nike, the state is also the site of the world’s oldest known shoes, 10,000-year-old sagebrush bark sandals discovered in a cave near Fort Rock, east of Gilchrist. Yet with 99 percent of the footwear on the U.S. market factory-produced overseas, […]
Find the original story here. The prosecution and defense painted very different pictures of police shooting victim Jonathan Ferrell during closing arguments on Tuesday in the voluntary manslaughter trial for the officer who killed him. Randall “Wes” Kerrick, a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed Ferrell, an unarmed black man, who wrecked his car […]
The distant peaks of Glacier National Park through the remains of a burn For us, hiking Montana’s Glacier National Park for three days in late November meant a multitude of ill-informed mid-hike discussions about the sleep patterns of bears. We didn’t even think about the fact we might need bear spray or other protection until […]
Find the original story here. A red storage locker in my living room holds the dozens of maps I’ve collected from my travels over the years. Inside, a laminated street map of Portland, Ore., sits atop a bound gazetteer of Washington, a trail map of Mount Hood National Forest and a tourist map of San Francisco. These […]
A herd of about 150 ponies lives atop Mount Rogers, the highest peak in Virginia. Though they accept veterinarian check-ups once a year and salt licks on occasion, they’re otherwise wild and don’t care much about humans. For the record, though, even from a distance – wild horse babies multiply the adorability factor of any hiking trip. […]
I’m no stranger to borrowing in the most traditional sense. I check out books from the library, rent cars on vacation and forage through my sister’s closet when my own wardrobe seems stale. But I’m a novice when it comes to the modern-day borrowing possibilities — which, on their current trajectory, have the potential to […]
My sister Laura and I hoisted on our backpacks atop 6,684-foot Mt. Mitchell — the highest point east of the Mississippi River — and lumbered 4.5 miles north along a ridge to a camping spot at Deep Gap. While the hike along the Black Mountain Crest (aka Deep Gap) trail was not horizontally challenging, we did find ourselves navigating a lot of steep […]
Few days pass during which Wayne Pernu does not buy a book, or several hundred. During the summer, he hits as many as a hundred book sales per day in and around Portland, Oregon, cramming volumes into every inch of his car, stacking them on his lap if he runs out of space. For the […]
Find the original story here. JAZZ EMANATES from a boombox at Ace Typewriter as Matt McCormack performs surgery on the 80-year-old Remington I inherited from my grandfather. He removes and washes the cylindrical carriage. He replaces the brittle black ribbon. He punches the keys in quick succession to ensure the typebars land with the appropriate, […]