...seball player fatally shot himself on the team bus. And the team's coach, Derrell Thomas, was arrested for drug use a few weeks later. While 70 percent of Dorsey's graduates continue their education, sports is obviously no longer the dreamy escape it used to be.
Before Riots, Youth Programs in Shambles
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...nation grope to understand the lessons of the Los Angeles riots, there is renewed discussion of what role sports can play in solving the crisis facing America's cities. Some think it may be too late. Urban playgrounds and schoolyards, once a spawning ground for some of the world's finest athletes, are no longer a safe and stable hub of community activity.
Before Riots, Youth Programs in Shambles
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...local news. We need our reporters to be invested in our lively streets, evolving neighborhoods, and ridiculous local politics. Everybody wants to hang out at the newest restaurants on 14th Street NW, but it’s a small group that wants to sift through the development contracts, zoning variances, and voluntary agreements that made that $12 cocktail possible. When the Post’s sale to Bezos goes through, very few of those people will be employed by local entities.
What The Washington Post's Sale Means For D.C. Journalism
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The Highland Mall in Austin, Texas, for instance, was named one of "America’s Most Endangered Malls” by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. One of the first suburban malls in Austin, the shopping center opened in 1971 covering 81 acres, and had 1.2 million square feet of interior space. By 2010, though, nearly all of the stores were vac...
A New Life for Dead Malls — Atlantic Mobile
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The more seriously people took bartending, treating it with a sort of rhapsodic reverence (it’s drinking, pals), the more it turned toward self-parody. But it makes sense: after frothing at the mouth over monosyllabic chefs, lionizing bartenders was the logical next step, tossing them up there on slightly smaller pedestals to wax poetic about the lat...
Pour Me Another: Mixology's Tipping Point | Hazlitt
9 years
...’t a priority at many places in Toronto, with the exception of The Harbord Room, a restaurant with a nice drinks menu that focused on classics. I started paying close attention to the New York scene, where trail blazers like Sasha Petraske and Audrey Saunders and bars like Angel’s Share had been making incredibly balanced, properly boozy and interesting cocktails for years, as well as knowing how to put out a perfect (in either sense) ...
Pour Me Another: Mixology's Tipping Point | Hazlitt
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...eadphones and $1000 shirts when the quality couldn’t match the hype. Apple taught many of us that there’s more to the price of an item than just the cost of materials; design can be worth a lot, too. But we’ve been adamant for years that we bought Apple products because they were good, not because they were fashionable. And now, with the Beats acquisition and these gold-encased watches, Apple is showing signs that they no longer want to be bound by intrinsic value.
Who cares about the Apple Watch Edition?
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...ndon's bartenders would probably be at work while some shift workers in LA would be grabbing a nap. The difference from today is that if you were putting together a London-LA conference call at 21:00 there'd be only one possible interpretation of the proposal. A flight that leaves New York at 14:00 and lands in Paris at 20:00 is a six-hour flight, with no need to keep track of time zones. If your appointment is in El Paso at 11:30 you don't need to remembe...
The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated - Vox
9 years
All of which is to say that within a given time zone, the point of a common time is not to force everyone to do everything at the same time. It's to allow us to communicate unambiguously with each other about when we are doing things.
The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated - Vox
9 years
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