There’s a huge festival coming up this weekend in California. That’s not breaking news, since California may hold more festivals than any other place on earth. It throws them to honor artichokes, garlic, butter and eggs, olives, mustard, ducks, numerous ancestries, frogs that jump competitively, and swallows that fly back to an old mission from […]
The Golden Gate Bridge — A Diamond Over the Rough
Posted May 25th, 2012 at 3:52 pm (UTC-4)
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The Empire State Building: No. 2 in New York, 1 in Our Hearts
Posted May 4th, 2012 at 4:37 pm (UTC-4)
The real-estate consortium that is organizing a public stock offering for the world-famous Empire State Building might consider this pitch line, slightly modified from the old slogan that worked splendidly for Avis Rent-a-Car: We’re No. 2! — Again No. 2 in height in New York City, that is, ever since workers at One World Trade […]
