Quentin Tarantino: The Complete Syllabus of His Influences and References
Dragstrip Girl: Along with Rock All Night (a poster of which made a cameo on the wall of Jack Rabbit Slim's in Pulp Fiction), this 1957 film inspired Grindhouse's double-feature setup after Rodriguez saw the double-feature poster of this and Rock All ...
Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?
He didn't even own a soldering iron. Swiss watchmakers don't . A watch hand is “glanceable,” as he puts it, because it's only semi-accurate; we peek at an analog wall clock to get a general sense of the time of day, not a precise one. “You're not ...
In Poland, Searching for Jewish Heritage
We looked for the market at Zelaznej Bramy (the Iron Gate), where her brother stumbled across an abandoned sack of prunes that fed them during the monthlong bombing. Ms. Lieberman, now director of Taube's Warsaw office, pointed out bricks inlaid in ...
2 Nuns, a Developer and Katy Perry Walk Into a Real Estate Deal
Stretching along a full city block, the motherhouse and a companion prayer home for Catholic priests hide behind a sand-colored eight-foot wall. The nuns moved out in 2011 as their numbers and operating funds dwindled, and have been living in scattered ...
Favorite Streets in 12 European Cities
It is a meandering one-lane thoroughfare of mostly unremarkable 20th-century buildings whose street-level hangouts — cool-kid cafes, homey small bars, vintage stores — and ever-evolving selection of French indie fashion labels draw Paris's bourgeois ...
Things to Do in Connecticut, Aug. 16 to 22, 2015
NEW HAVEN New Haven Museum “From Clocks to Lollipops: Made in New Haven.” Through Dec. 31. $2 to $4; children under . WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum “Spirit of Place: Don Gummer, Drawings and Wall Reliefs, 1975-2015.” “Chance, Control and ...
HomeArama features 'rustic luxe' appeal
The Home Builders Association of Charlotte HomeArama 2015 returns with the latest innovations in home design and décor in the exquisite Cheval community in historic Mint Hill. Builder Arcadia Homes created The Montpellier. The Montpellier is 5,126 ...