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  • Some years after that, I found myself walking the main street of Bisbee, Arizona one afternoon, and there in a store-front window sat a Brautigan-looking writer at a desk, facing the street, writing by hand in a notebook.

    March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • Down through the thicket of side streets between Hamra and Bliss, across from Moderne Butchery, sandwiched between the old porn theater and the devout Muslim greengrocer, was the narrow store-front of Bassam Badran, now better known as Abu Hadi—for my money, the best fawal in Hamra, and possibly all of Beirut.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • In Noe Valley, there were 11 store-front vacancies during the recession, which is down to five now, said Bob Roddick , president of the merchant's association there.

    Restaurant Rezoning Yet to Deliver Ben Worthen 2011

  • A lot of Jews were killed in gas chambers as well, but I think many Jews would find an image of a Jew dying in a gas chamber on a store-front or religious institution to be objectionable.

    Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce 2009

  • Down through the thicket of side streets between Hamra and Bliss, across from Moderne Butchery, sandwiched between the old porn theater and the devout Muslim greengrocer, was the narrow store-front of Bassam Badran, now better known as Abu Hadi—for my money, the best fawal in Hamra, and possibly all of Beirut.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • In the '50s and early '60s, there was a safety net of sorts: welfare for children of single mothers, Old Age Assistance through Social Security, volunteer agencies, store-front soup kitchens, and churches.

    Dan Morgan: Remembering Poverty Before the Safety Net Dan Morgan 2011

  • Some years after that, I found myself walking the main street of Bisbee, Arizona one afternoon, and there in a store-front window sat a Brautigan-looking writer at a desk, facing the street, writing by hand in a notebook.

    georgelle hirliman | writer in the window « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • “A lot of Jews were killed in gas chambers as well, but I think many Jews would find an image of a Jew dying in a gas chamber on a store-front or religious institution to be objectionable.”

    Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce 2009

  • Someday, she hopes her $849 "vocation vacation," as well as some online classes, fiscally responsible growth and time, will allow her and her husband to open a store-front dessert café.

    Lessons From A 60-Year-Old Intern 2010

  • He invited him to his tiny store-front church where Caner talked to the pastor, a man with a sixth grade education who questioned him about his firmly-held convictions.

    Walid Zafar: Ergun Caner, Ex-Muslim Evangelical Leader, Exposed As Fake 2010

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