Paint and Sip at Wine and Design
Deep pink, festive, sugary flavors was the theme of both groups' choices in drink: a foursome of women from Dryden chose the bag of Red Cat with a bit of Moscato on the side, while a mixed fivesome from Homer came prepared with a Moscato punch—a ...
www.ithaca.com
April 11, 2015
Office Space Is Hard to Find for Silicon Valley Newcomers
After making about $22,000 in improvements, including adding a kitchen and a shower, installing a wooden phone booth, hanging buoys on the wall, and setting up a Ping-Pong table, Boatbound had a comfortable space for its 14 employees. “People hang out ...
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2015
Delving into the past and presents
One grandfather clock's chime is so rich and robust that I mistake it for church bells. “We sell a lot of clocks,” said David, showing me a table-top example from the 1860s that combines French clockworks with a case carved with Arabic elements: stars ...
www.roanoke.com
April 5, 2015
Office space hard to find for startups
After making about $22,000 in improvements — including adding a kitchen and a shower, installing a wooden phone booth, hanging buoys on the wall and setting up a pingpong table — Boatbound had a comfortable space for its 14 employees. “People hang ...
www.sfgate.com
April 3, 2015
This Is an Alert
We—my family, I mean—were in bumper-to-bumper traffic on our way to my mother-in-law's house for Sunday lunch when our phones flashed red and the Alert sounded overhead for the second time that day. Like the other drivers on the highway, I slowed to ...
www.newyorker.com
March 23, 2015
Dad's the word: The Edge, Bob Geldof, Paul McCartney and more famous sons ...
The day was not without its comic moments, as my brother and I divided his belongings like a couple embarking on a divorce ('No, it's OK, you can have the wagon-wheel coffee table The Phil Collins CD? Just when I thought I'd found everything of ...
www.irishtimes.com
April 10, 2015
Life Lines
She made a popular postcard of two red parachutes tied together, forming a heart; several other cards were sold for years at MOMA's gift shop. Johnson At the moment, Johnson, who lives in New Jersey, was drawing at a table in a scuffed laboratory ...
www.newyorker.com
March 23, 2015
Paint and Sip at Wine and Design
with the sun streaming in at our six o’clock start time, that spring had arrived. Your reporter chose a bottle of sweet Madeira, a favored drink of the 18 th century, in the hopes that a bottle, which surely graced many a table at the Devil’s Tavern ...
www.ithaca.com
April 11, 2015
The Game
I remember getting up from my table and heading back for the last-half of the day. I remember doing more paperwork and looking over a project that needed to be looked over. I remember looking at the clock ... of the vase full of red and orange flowers ...
www.teenink.com
April 11, 2015
Mad about the '60s
Westclox ad, midcentury • Alarm clock. The midcentury go-getter stepped smartly on ... but it can't equal the bed-stand flair of a retro-looking alarm with a black or red, metal or plastic case on legs -- sometimes, a pedestal. Westclox is a past and ...
www.nwaonline.com
April 10, 2015
Going Out on Top: The Story of Jim Clark's Final Formula 1 Race
Just before three o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Day, 1968, 23 men lined up on the starting grid for the South African Grand Prix, the first race of the new Formula One season. The hot African sun beamed down on the slim, metal cars, and sweat ...
bleacherreport.com
April 6, 2015
Everyday Cheapskate: For the love of coffee
I still get just enough of your lovely handwritten letters each week, which I enjoy so much — letters like this one that just showed up on my desk: Dear Mary ... You won’t get a clock or timer or any other bells and whistles, but you will get a ...
www.redbluffdailynews.com
April 2, 2015
Collectors seek vintage technology
The 11-inch-high machine had a metal label explaining that it was designed by Thomas ... A: Carl Wirths started Craftsman Studios in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Jewelry and desk accessories were made. Wirths moved to California and opened a studio in ...
www.heraldnet.com
April 1, 2015
Baselworld 2015: the ones to watch
The Startimer Pilot Big Date likewise features a 44mm two part stainless steel case with a scratch-proof sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, and a small seconds display at 6 o'clock with a ... with the screen-printed red symbol MT for Military ...
www.smh.com.au
March 17, 2015
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