Lifestyle and Recreation

March 1st, 2010

Fast Friends

NASCAR honors the best with a new Hall of Fame

By M.B. Roberts

Football has Canton. Baseball has Cooperstown. And even Rock and Roll has Cleveland. Now, with the opening of the new NASCAR Hall of Fame in May, racing has Charlotte. Fans have great expectations for the 150,000 square foot, $160 million facility with more than 40,000 square feet of exhibits and artifacts. Everything from the ’67 […]

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January 1st, 2010

High Steppers

by Tim Ghianni

Things were looking up in Berlin as residents celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall with an enormously entertaining bit of street theater.

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January 1st, 2010

Backcountry Barnstormers

Bush pilots fly hunters and fishermen to hot spots in the Alaskan wilderness

Story and photos By David Hart

It was meant to be a joke, an attempt to calm the tension Curly Warren sensed from the passenger sitting behind him, but when Warren suggested he “put this thing down on a rockpile” next to a rushing Alaska river, I wasn’t laughing. The “thing” was his Piper Super Cub — a two-seat, 1,200-pound engine, frame and wings wrapped in…

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January 1st, 2010

A Worthy Vessel

The inspiring first journey of the USS New York

by Tim Ghianni

When the USS New York’s bow stem, made from 7.5 tons of steel retrieved from Ground Zero, broke through the waves en route from New Orleans to New York City, Julius Williams and some of his fellow shipbuilders took a break from their jobs and watched.

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January 1st, 2010

Green Housed

A weird but true proposal for making bio-fuel

by Tim Ghianni

Picture a high-rise covered in algae, with robotic arms pulling out sections of the building and moving them in a constant shape-shifting ritual. This is not a scene from a science fiction movie. Well, it’s not exactly real life either. But it could be. Two Boston design firms want to convert a partially completed downtown […]

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