fly to el paso, rent a car, grab some tamales, drive 3.5 hours west-northwest. you end up in marfa, tx. a neat place, with yurts. art's ...

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is a round tent with an internal support structure and a central hole in the ceiling for ventilation. nearly all yurts are weatherproof but...

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the winds have stopped, it's cold out and bright, and the heat is on. robert byron's road to oxiana recalls a much earlier time in ...

marfa is 3 hours fast drive from el paso, which has few charms for me except a panoply of tamale shops. in marfa, you can see donald judd...

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often, what i really want is a little place that isn't all hyped-up and which gives me the good stuff. it's always a struggle: te...

via youtube.com it's the transformers! these blocks, ladies and gentlemen, are real. stop motion is such a wondrous thing. the vid...

via youtube.com mugaritz is one of the vanguard restaurants (the owner worked at el bulli before setting up on his own). their kitc...

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apparently, the flowers will be on display only until they die completely.

the fifteenth floor of william james hall, at sherry hour.

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via vimeo.com rob carter's paper cutout visual history of charlotte NC. monty python-esque and worth seeing. Posted via web f...

TONIGHT : Mon, Feb 8, 6pm. TAMPOPO, in the Adams Pool Theater in Harvard Square ( map ). Free and open to the public. Introduced by Tom Le...

the skillet pizza article ( AFC story ; detailed instructions ; primordial origins ) ran on the atlantic's food channel earlier this we...

nothing better than waking up in sheets line-dried in the cold. (and it's been cold.)

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48 points by edw519 9 hours ago | link | parent If it worked for Leonardo da Vinci, maybe it could work for me. The next time I...

"Seymour once said to me – in a crosstown bus, of all places – that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differen...

american mine (carlin, nv 1), from the mining project .

francisco migoya is an amusing individual. One of the strangest desserts I've had was simply a long rectangle of meringue with the name...

seems to be a theme around these parts. observations from repeated attempts at cooking the same thing: meat cooks faster and tastier on a ve...

i got a text message from ike this afternoon, midway through a day spent in tantalizing proximity to, but not actually in the presence of, ...

beverages : several weeks ago, hh was passing through on his way back to the exotic orient. we managed to get drinks at drink late in the ...

for general purposes, the egg consists of shell, whites, and yolk (by mass, approximately 10%, 59%, and 31% respectively). the average mass ...

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