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The Un-Super Markets: 9 Classic Small Businesses Still Open Today (Part II)

December 12, 2012

In which I resume my quest to visit New York's oldest small businesses, guided by a long forgotten book. This time I head uptown for chocolates, bread and buttons, even catching a glimpse of that endangered specimen, the bookstore.

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Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

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M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.