Archive for October, 2009

Most truck farmers harvest their produce in the field, then load it up in their vehicle to transport to market. Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney approached the whole idea a little differently. These 29-year-old Yale grads went straight to the truck, creating a farm in the bed of a gray 1986 Dodge Ram pickup parked on Van Brunt Street in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The garden roams New York City, allowing folks to harvest sacks of edible greenery at their stoops for an annual fee of $…

At the start of this story of love and hate in Hollywood, actress Georgie York is being stalked by a pack of paparazzi desperate to catch her crying over her high-profile divorce. But just when she thinks things can’t get worse, America’s sweetheart finds herself entangled with wolfish bad boy Bram Shepard, in a mostly-for-show marriage designed to boost both their careers. Much has changed sinc…

Kate Marden’s life changed when she was 9 years old. That’s when a falconer, one who breeds, trains or hunts with birds of prey, visited her elementary school and flew his red-tailed hawk around the multipurpose room. “I was hooked,” says Marden, who later read voraciously about falconry and birds of prey. As an adult, Marden volunteered in a falconry show at a Renaissance fair where she met the master falconer who later sponsored her apprenticeship. For Jim Tigan, it w…

They roar and screech, hiss and squeal, and — spewing steam and belching smoke — onward they charge. Like jousting knights (Sir Crash-a-lot) they spur their metallic mounts head-on into their foes with a mighty crash and clatter. “There’s never been an adrenaline rush like it,” declares Carl Porter, 24, who was the last man standing in a 20-car pack of Demolition Derby crazies following a typical Saturday night crash-fest at Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway.Ac…