January 2011
Features
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Band Interrupted
The last time The Greenhornes made a proper album, Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes were still claiming to be siblings, and there was no such thing as Facebook. Eight years later, Greenhornes drummer Patrick Keeler had
In Her Own Time
What’s the secret to Anne Wainscott’s creative longevity? Living in the moment. And she is definitely having her moment.
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Radar
Taking Flight
A longtime Oakley shop feathers a new Nest in Hyde Park.
Columns
Letter from the Editor: January 2011
The first trip to a doctor’s office that I can remember with real clarity took place on my first day of first grade. At recess, I’d decided to try out a fascinating new playground torture device: the seesaw. New to me, at least; up to that point, I’d never ridden one.
My Journey to New Delhi
As one business goes up in smoke, another opens, and a neighborhood evolves.
Dine
A Dish Served Warm
When I was a child, my father left for work every morning, my siblings and I left for school, and somewhere around the dinner hour we all returned from our various occupations—my father from his downtown office, my brothers from baseball practice, and I from various after-school activities—to be greeted with a hot dinner on the table.
Rohrer’s Tavern
In 1948, the only way to get to California from Washington, D.C., was U.S. 50. This made Route 50 something like the east-to-west aorta of travel and business activity, the National Road. But that traffic was taken away by the Interstate Highway System.
Bell’s Hopslam
In the religion of the hop-head—someone who loves the bitter, fruity bite of a hoppy beer—each January brings a pilgrimage to the nearest store or bar offering Bell’s Hopslam.