by Chuck Shepherd | Feb 18, 2015 | News, News of the Weird
It turns out that a person having a heart attack is usually safer in an ambulance headed to a hospital than to already be a patient in a hospital, according to a study by University of North Carolina researchers. It takes longer, on average, for non-ER hospital staff...
by Amanda
Drane | Feb 18, 2015 | Articles, Featured, Food + Booze, News, Taste-Off!
The lines were drawn. On one side, #TeamChewy and on the other, #TeamCrunchy. The Advocate’s chocolate chip cookie Taste-off was about to commence. Who would have suspected the ubiquitous and beloved chocolate chip cookie would yield such feuding within our normally...
by Story and photos Amanda Drane | Feb 18, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, News
Owner Tully McColgan and head chef John Peter Wentworth say they’ve spent so much time together getting their business — King Street Eats — off the ground, that they’ve come to look alike. “People think we’re brothers,” Wentworth jokes. The two have turned the former...
by Jack Brown | Feb 18, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
Ask just about anyone to name a famous painting, and it’s a good bet that “The Mona Lisa” will be the first thing to jump to most people’s lips. Da Vinci’s most famous work — and bear in mind, this is from the guy who also painted “The Last Supper” — may be on the...
by Gary Carra | Feb 18, 2015 | Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler
On the back of such seminal works as Goodfellas and Casino, Martin Scorsese is roundly regarded as an authority on all things mafioso. Less famously — at least, when considering his body of work in its entirety — Scorsese also filmed and released the final concert by...