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...seemingly contradictory rejoinder to these charges—“I don’t write rhymes, I write checks”—has been confirmed by bank statements, which record more than 15 recent checks made out to the vendors of the Girls Gone Wild video series...
Collette Morgan, owner of the children's bookstore Wild Rumpus Books in Minneapolis, Minn., says the website helped increase her sales 10% last year. But she generates plenty of her own buzz. When she opened a decade ago, she was fresh from a general-interest indie that died after a Barnes & Noble moved in across the street. Morgan decided to make her store "something a corporate mind would never dream up and that a large company could never sustain...
...idea was to open a store that would sell children a good time along with their reading material. Wild Rumpus is part zoo, with a couple of chickens named Dalai and Elvis (which kids chase around), along with cats, tarantulas, fish and birds. Boys play poker in the store's Haunted Shack, which sits atop a Plexiglas surface that exposes a gray rat colony below. Saturday afternoons feature offbeat activities like sheep shearing. Customer Carrie Watson's toddler Isabel loves the Monday story readings and the animals. "I would much rather visit an independent than a large store anyway," says...
...stag films from 1915 projected on a wall, videos of '70s and '80s porn stars--are recontextualized into some strange National Geographic special. Even the sober-looking museum guards aren't impressed. "It's calmer here," says Jasmine Pallet, 22, comparing MoSex with her previous workplace. "Yankee Stadium is wild...
They have spent their lives doing what was expected of them--advancing their careers, raising their children, paying their taxes. They are middle-aged and respectable. Now they want recreation and travel that's liberating and youthful, even a bit on the wild side. They're motorcyclists--baby-boomer bikers...