Filed under: Aftermarket, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs To borrow a line from the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Crane Cams isn't quite dead yet. The storied aftermarket auto parts company was founded back in 1953 and has since grown into a well-known brand name specializing in camshafts and val...

The Prada Transformer is a huge four-sided open-air building whose floor can be any one of its radically different sides. Massive cranes rotate it into place, leaving the other three to compose its ever-changing ceiling. This isn't some neat concept, it's an actual construction, penned by Rem Koolha...

The new crop of regulars at the Manchester Pub mourn for Fubar, their former East Side haunt that was crushed by a toppling crane last year....

One of our favorite places in the country is the Hula Lake Park, just a little south of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee. There, you can rent bicycles or a family-sized golf cart and tool around the spacious lake to view some of the most amazing birds in the world. Enviro-nerds that we are, we bring [.....

Filed under: Aftermarket, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs The automotive aftermarket has been hit hard in recent years, and the latest casualty of the economic downturn is Crane Cams. According to a report by the Florida News Journal, the 56-year-old manufacturer closed its doors yesterday and laid off the ...

You might be asking, “Where the hell is Matt? He hasn’t made a post in, like, forever.” My little gay butt has been working overtime the past two weeks as the whole of the gay world (or, at least, a good portion of it) descended on Charlotte at exactly the same time. I worked with ...

Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away. Evelyn Keyes: Although she was best known for her movie work, including The Seven Year Itch, Gone with the Wind, The Jolson Story, and Here Comes Mr. Jord...

Filed under: Retro Squad, Standout Episodes, Frasier The bar mitzvah is a Jewish rite of passage, the time in a boy's life when he becomes a man -- symbolically -- by reading from the Torah. When a girl does the ritual, it's called a bat mitzvah. I mention all this because in TV, the bar/bat mitzvah...

Filed under: America, Festivals Give a bunch of super-crafty DIY types the theme of "indulgence," allow time for their creativity to fester, and what do you get? You get Sugarcraft, more than a month of sugar chandeliers, felted ice cream cones, watermelon earrings, and any other food-cum-craft proj...

So today was my second try at leading an GLBT Walking tour of Literary Washington.   This time the tour was under the auspices of Beltway Poetry  Quarterly and Split This Rock Poetry Festival (the original sponsor of the tour with financial help from White Crane Institute).  Insp...