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The Pencil, Always in Style – PPC

I’ve written before about the inherent seductive qualities of pencils. However, for all my admiration of pencil skirts and, in limited instances, pencils mustaches, I had never seen just how high-fashion a pencil could be. Enter [...]

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Horseshoes, four-leaf clovers, pencils? Good luck comes in all shapes – PPC

Last week, Scott Stallings went to the 2012 Masters Tournament with a very particular good luck charm. While completing the PGA Tour earlier in 2011, Stallings had kept score with a small green pencil from the [...]

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Jonathan Antoine shows “The Prayer” has Staying Power – PPC

It’s the video seen ‘round the Internet this week: a chubby, socially awkward, unkempt teenage boy takes to the stage with his more-polished looking partner, then opens his mouth and unleashes his voice with a performance [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Geek Shall Inheirit the Earth

I will fully admit that I am squeamish when it comes to anything related to horror films. Vampires, ghosts, zombies, things that go bump in the night – all grist for the mill in my far-too-overactive [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Who Will Take the Project Runway All-Star Title?

Tomorrow night is the season finale of “Project Runway: All-Stars,” which has pitted outstanding designers from nine seasons of “Project Runway” in a winner-takes-all competition. The past ten weeks of competition have seen challenges that ranged [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil

Earlier this year, Kat Brown of Night and Day, The Spectator’s Arts and Culture magazine, called 2012 “The Year of the Pencil”  (Be warned, the sketch at the top of the page is probably NSFW). Yes, [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Martinis with a Dash of Blackwing

It’s the cocktail of Bond, James Bond, and swell sophisticates everywhere. The signature glass, with its slender stem and geometrically simple bowl, make it as fun to look at as it is to drink. While debates [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Oscars is Fixing What Isn’t Broken

I have a love-hate relationship with the Academy Awards. On the one hand, my family and I throw an Oscar party every year, as we will do at end of this month when the awards air [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: High Fashion at Half Time

So there I was, watching the Super Bowl, nominally interested in the game itself (I was busy paying attention to the commercials), when they announced that the half-time show was upon us. “Madonna!” the announcers bellowed. [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Joltin' Joe Never Goes Away

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you…” There is an aura that surrounds the life of Joe DiMaggio that doesn’t occur with any other baseball player in history. Perhaps [...]