Long Live The Dog

from The Wall Street Journal The ‘It’ Restaurant Order This Summer? A Hot Dog Chefs around the country are going large with the garnishes. Eat up this guide to America’s most extravagant and irresistible hot dogs, with recipes to recreate them at home this July 4th...

Octopus Farming. Really.

from The Guardian ‘A symbol of what humans shouldn’t be doing’: the new world of octopus farming Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced – just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be...

Cormac McCarthy Gone

from The Los Angeles Times Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn’t admit it BY JOHN WRAY Cormac McCarthy in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2014. (Beowulf Sheehan) For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some...

Bacon Goes Public

from The Wall Street Journal An IPO for a Painting? This $55 Million Masterpiece Is Going Public A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, even as rising interest rates blur the case for investing in art By Carol Ryan Painter...

Church Repurposing

from AP In Europe’s empty churches, prayer and confessions make way for drinking and dancing BY RAF CASERT MECHELEN, Belgium (AP) — The confessionals where generations of Belgians admitted their sins stood stacked in a corner of what was once Sacred Heart Church,...