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Happy Half-century to The Big Mac

from AP 50 years on, McDonald’s and fast-food evolve around Big Mac By CANDICE CHOI As with many of its popular and long-lasting menu items, the idea for the Big Mac came from a franchisee. In 1967, Michael James “Jim” Delligatti lobbied the company to let him test the burger at his Pittsburgh restaurants. Later, […]

Art of the Car

from artnet Putting Art in the Back Seat, Kenny Schachter Goes to Venerate the Old Masters of the Racetrack at the Festival of Speed With a lull in the art calendar, our columnist went off to pursue his second all-consuming passion—classic cars—at a tony British hillclimb. by Kenny Schachter Seventeen-time Le Mans entrant, and driver […]

Burros For The Obese

from METRO Fat tourists are crippling donkeys that carry them on holiday in Greece by Jane Wharton A guide leads a group of tourists on donkeys and mules through the streets of Fira, the capital of the Greek island of Santorini (Picture: AFP) Greece is breeding a new kind of donkey to cope with overweight British tourists […]

Billy Corgan Says He’s Not Responsible For Taylor Swift

from SPIN Billy Corgan Wants You to Know He Is Not Taylor Swift’s Father by Chris DeVille, Stereogum CREDIT: John Medina/Getty Images Does Taylor Swift look like Billy Corgan? I don’t really think so, but a meme that made its way to Corgan suggests their faces are similar. Corgan has opted to weigh in on […]

Save The Clark Bar!

from CNN NECCO, the oldest American candy company, suddenly shuts its factory by Talib Visram The future of Sky Bars and Sweethearts is in limbo after the NECCO factory closed this week. The NECCO plant in Revere, Massachusetts, was shut suddenly Tuesday by its owner, Round Hill Investments LLC, The investment company, owned by billionaire […]

God Love The Mustang

from the Omaha World-Herald Council Bluffs woman driving over 140 mph arrested moments after receiving ticket for going 92 NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — A driver from Council Bluffs was stopped twice for speeding near North Platte on Saturday — the second time for driving over 140 mph. The 2018 Ford Mustang first was stopped a […]

Everything We Think We Know Is Wrong

from NPR 14,000-Year-Old Piece Of Bread Rewrites The History Of Baking And Farming by LINA ZELDOVICH When an archaeologist working on an excavation site in Jordan first swept up the tiny black particles scattered around an ancient fireplace, she had no idea they were going to change the history of food and agriculture. Amaia Arranz-Otaegui is […]

James Frey to CAA – A MILLION LITTLE PIECES to Festivals

from Deadline CAA Signs James Frey As Sam & Aaron Taylor-Johnson Ready ‘A Million Little Pieces’ Film For Fall Festivals by Mike Fleming Jr REX/Shutterstock EXCLUSIVE: CAA just signed best-selling author James Frey. This comes as Brad Weston’s Makeready and The Picture Company prepare to launch A Million Little Pieces, the screen version of the semi-autobiographical […]

Go Ask Alice

from LEMONWIRE “Go Ask Alice” (1973) offers an anti-drug message with a side of rock ‘n’ roll By Dodie Miller-Gould Now streaming on YouTube is a 1973 movie based on the once- alleged true story of a young drug addict named Alice. The movie is based on the book of the same name that was […]

Racy KATERINA Billboard Rejected by Javitz Center

from The San Francisco Chronicle Publishers embrace, and ponder, audiobooks’ rise HILLEL ITALIE, AP NATIONAL WRITER NEW YORK (AP) — As the audiobook market continues to boom, publishers find themselves both grateful and concerned. The industry gathered over the past week for BookExpo and the fan-based BookCon, which ended Sunday at the Jacob Javits center […]