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RadioShack Suffered as Free Time Evaporated

In 1963, the year his company bought a nine-store chain then known by the two-word name Radio Shack, Charles D. Tandy explained to the New York Times why it made perfect sense for a retailer of do-it-yourself leather handicrafts to buy an electronics ...

National Western BBQ Throwdown draws 40 contestants

Since loading their brisket at 10 the previous night, the duo had been up every hour — courtesy of an alarm clock — to tend the meat, which was cooking away at an even 262 degrees for the 12th hour. Green uses a hickory-oak wood mix in his massive ...

Asheville music club scene this week

Black Mountain Ale House: Dirty Badgers, 117C Cherry St., Black Mountain, 828-669-9090. Jack of the Wood: Under The Willow, The Harmaleighs, 9 p.m., $5, 95 Patton Ave., Asheville, 828-252-5445. French Broad Brewery: Alarm Clock Conspiracy....

Tech continues to show how little recruiting rankings mean

Forget “rankings.” Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson is doing just fine in recruiting. (AP photo). (This blog has been completed updated from earlier.) According to recruiting “experts” — and I defer to Rivals and Scout in this area, much like I would ...

Urban Without Limits: Finding Adventure in America's Big Cities

Find true solitude—no car alarms, we promise—at the Conservatory Garden, a six-acre oasis hidden in Central Park (enter at Fifth Avenue and 105th Street) that's filled with fruit trees, manicured hedges, fountains, and an explosion of chrysanthemums ...

Live music in Asheville's clubs and pubs

Jack of the Wood: Jon Stickley Trio, 9 p.m., $5, 95 Patton Ave., Asheville, 252-5445. Mojo Kitchen & Lounge Black Mountain Ale House: Alarm Clock Conspiracy, 117C Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-9090. Jack of the Wood: Shane Pruitt Band, 9 p.m ...

Los Gatos-Saratoga: It makes sense to take the day off on Friday the 13th ...

But if this Friday the 13th is anything like the last one, I should just unplug the alarm clock, pull the blankets over my head and call in sick. The alarm clock was actually the first of my problems just four short weeks ago on February's Friday the ...

Field test: travel alarm clocks

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Shove aside the standard-issue hotel clock radio, with its stuck-in-the-'70s fake-wood finish and cryptic I-sure-hope-I-set-this-thing-right controls. The newest travel alarm clocks fit easily into any suitcase and inspire ...