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The Pencil, Always in Style – PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: The Pencil, Always in Style 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…

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

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Pencils and Pop-Culture - Horeshoes, Four-leaf Clovers, pencils? Good Luck Comes in All Shapes Last week, Scott Stallings went to the 2012 Masters Tournament with a very particular good luck charm. While completing the PGA Tour earlier in…
Jonathan Antoine

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

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Pencils and Pop-Culture: Jonathan Antoine Shows "The Prayer" Has Staying Power 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,…
Zombie

Pencils and Pop Culture: Zombies Shall Inherit the Earth

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Zombies Shall Inherit 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…
Project Runway

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

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…
Year of the Pencil

Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil

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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).…

Pencils and Pop Culture: Martinis with a Dash of Blackwing

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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…
Academy Awards

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

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Oscars is Fixing What Isn't Broken I have a love-hate relationship with the Oscars. 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 on…

Pencils and Pop Culture: High Fashion at Super Bowl Half Time

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Pencils and Pop Culture: High Fashion at Super Bowl 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…

Pencils and Pop Culture: Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio Never Goes Away

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio 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…