2015 November

Tom Paxton

Tom Paxton is returning to the Ark on Friday, November 6, for what will likely be the last time. He’s not ill, but after touring for more than fifty years he is finally hanging up his traveling shoes.mazingly prolific,...

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Downtown Home and Garden

“One of a kind!” writes Alexander Marsh. “Flowers + old building = Home and Garden!” It’s “the back of Downtown Home and Garden,” writes Kristen Mowrey, “with the cool outdoor room...

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Honeymoon Sweets

The October Fake Ad was for a dessert place called Honeymoon Sweets, an indirect reference to the 1980s band Honeymoon Suite, whose hits included “Bad Attitude” and “New Girl Now.” The Fake Ad Czar likes...

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A Deli with a View

“You can see the vision. Cosmetically, it’s almost there,” says Robert Cantelon, co-owner of the newly expanded Arbor Farms. The natural foods supermarket has rounded the corner in the Boulevard Plaza shopping...

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Laura Rain and the Caesars

From the moment Laura Rain and the Caesars take the stage, they give the impression of a distinctly old-fashioned kind of band. For one thing, the show begins with only the Caesars onstage and Rain nowhere in sight. The...

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Growing Up with Ballet

Ours is a transient town. Students come and graduate; leases are signed and shredded. I imagine we could all write a love letter to one address or another. Not only for the person once inside but to the walls and floor and the...

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