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...Mohebbi, 45, a restaurant-equipment supplier in San Francisco, is turning heads at Fisherman's Wharf. His Beetle is wrapped in a snowy landscape to pitch Dreamery, the gourmet line of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. Passersby take pictures and ask for free samples...
...documentable feature in common—the era of their founding. Somerset was founded in 1851. The Union in 1863. Beginning in the 1880s, America’s most English city saw the unleashing of a torrent of clubs: The St. Botolph, Tavern, Algonquin, Puritan, University, Odd Volumes, India Wharf Rats, Country Club (Brookline), Myopia Hunt Club (Hamilton), Dedham Polo, Boston Athletic (BAA), City Club Corporation, Nahant, Mayflower (women) and Essex County. Many are now defunct. These clubs flourished only partly due to the town’s scarcity of fine restaurants. Up until just a couple decades ago, dinner...
...transiency of life. How frustrating, then, that as he grows older, the poet cannot again find the white wolfhound where he was sure he saw it in Veronese (or maybe Giambattista Tiepolo). How puzzling that his imagination keeps calling up a picture of a black mongrel scavenging along the wharf of a Caribbean harbor town...
Jack La Lanne never did much for me. Sure, he introduced calisthenics to a generation of Americans. And, yes, at age 60 he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, handcuffed and towing a 1,000-lb. boat. But basically the guy pumped iron, curling and pressing his way to an Atlas physique. For La Lanne, now 85, and for Americans still stuck in the 1950s, this was fitness. For the rest of us--thank you, Jane Fonda--working out means panting and sweating and doing anything that will increase the heart rate. Being a dedicated...
...Tuesday hearing stemmed from allegations that on Sept. 3, SAE served alcohol to an underage Wellesley College student who later required hospitalization. The Wellesley student had attended an informal gathering at the Boston fraternity house located at 87 Commercial Wharf. SAE members later took the student to the MetroWest Medical Center in Natick...