Chris's portraits are undeniably cool, but they're also sweet: living and reading in Brooklyn makes these subjects smile.
But Sweet found her fairy godmother in the form of her Aunt Opal who, with her penchant for costume jewellery, thick green eye shadow, flaming red hair and cigarette holders, looked like a glorious firecracker lighting up the monochromatic suburbs in which Sweet lived.
While Lerner (like Beach Boys biographer Steven Gaines) took his original title from the 1966/7 song Heroes and Villains, it's significant that Pohlad's film is named after the opening track of Wilson's 1988 solo album, a sweet live rendition of which accompanies the end credits.
The Sweets live here in Medford, in the western side of the Pinelands reserve, in a contemporary ranch house sheltered by pitch pines.
What happens when you make a record that talks to people right where their complex, juggled, bitter-sweet modern lives actually are?
"See now then," the book begins, "the dear Mrs. Sweet who lived with her husband Mr. Sweet and their two children, the beautiful Persephone and the young Heracles in the Shirley Jackson house, which was in a small village in New England".
Jordi Butrón, the chef and creator of Espai Sucre, holds your hand and leads you down a thought-provoking, delicious path to a new place where salty, sour, hot and sweet flavors live together in harmony.
The federal takeover of the two firms in September 2008 as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis suggests we were right to be worried.Fannie, Freddie and Uncle SamAmerica's government should get out of the mortgage businessApr 15th 2000FANNIE and Freddie sound like a sweet couple living down the street.
On a recent evening, the procession started with Alaskan ivory king salmon with sea salt, followed by hay-smoked chum salmon; a sweet, firm live scallop with yuzu pepper; blowtorched geoduck from Washington State and Long Islandd triggerfish topped with its liver, rich as foie gras.
Debbie Bonner of Debbie's Soulful Sweets, who lives in Sleepy Hollow and bakes up to 200 cakes a week in a commercial kitchen in Long Island City, said the revival of the layer cake could be partly attributed to a generation that longs for tradition and authenticity in an increasingly fractured world.
