tripod floor clocks

Did Alice Crimmins Kill Her Kids?

This story was later disputed by Alice's brother, John Burke, and others, who agreed that the lamp on the bureau had tripod legs. Also, many people had come into the room before Piering arrived; Eddie Crimmins had leaned out of the window ...

My (Almost) Life as a San Francisco Vibe Coordinator

In the army, I said, they had us do group activities such as close-quarters hand-to-hand combat training whereby we beat the shit out of each other; road marches that felt like prep for the Bataan Death March; and six-mile unit-formation runs at six o ...

The Irish in Montana

Emmons' theory: "Imagine a tripod on the deck of a ship moving with the current," says the historian, who has gone so far as to research the snowpack of 1867 to determine how fast the Missouri may have been flowing that day. He thinks Meagher, who had ...

A photographer's guide to Budapest

I couldn't wait for nightfall to get the tripod out, sling it over my shoulder with the camera mounted, and start walking in to nowhere in particular. It was like an adventure every night: The ground floor has a most impressive array of stalls ...

NTA - Nigerian Transformation Agenda

In the days when we used to pretend that Nigeria was one, or at least that it was stabilised on the tripod of the three major tribes, the NTA News was heralded with a cacophony of clashing music, commencing with the blaring trumpets of northern artists ...

GIG GUIDE: Jon Storey Band in south Dorset tour, Johannes Moller at Arts Centre

THIS week in gigland we welcome back three hugely accomplished players and for three rather different reasons. First up then is guitar ace Jon Storey, at one time a permanent fixture on the circuit round these parts with such massively popular bands as ...

Blow Up

dinner in Virginia. By dusk he still hadn't arrived. We kept holding the meal. Finally, at 9 o'clock, he called — he was sorry; he was in a bar; he hadn't left New York. The night of the fire, there was an empty bottle of Smirnoff vodka on his ...