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Fashioning an Industrynew

Eugene fashion designers are on the cusp of becoming financially and critically successful, but one thing stands in their way - the lack of local garment production house. After a string of fatal factory fires in Bangladesh, where Walmart has their clothes made, these designers want to bring manufacturing home.

Eugene Weekly | Alexandra Notman | 12-07-2012 | Fashion

Concussions Trump Guns in the NFLnew

NFL shows sympathy for Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher; minimal thoughts for his 22-year-old girlfriend Kasandra Perkins after Belcher's act of murder-suicide.

San Diego Reader | Patrick Daugherty | 12-07-2012 | Sports

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Mincemeat: the Darling Mutt of Piesnew

"Hi, this is Lauren, Eric Hodge's wife," began the voicemail. Drawing out every word, she declared: "I'm calling to defend the mince pie."

INDY Week | Victoria Bouloubasis | 12-06-2012 | Food+Drink

Tags: Mincemeat pie recipe

When life gives you lemons, make lemon meringuenew

Brooke Erceg has spent seven years working on her grandmother's lemon meringue recipe: "In a way, I think she wanted me to figure them out on my own. Just like she did. One pie at a time."

INDY Week | Victoria Bouloubasis | 12-06-2012 | Food+Drink

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A Twist on Apple Pienew

Emily Elizabeth Hilliard undoubtedly deserves the title "pie girl." In 2005, well before food blogs (or pies) were en vogue, she began blogging about the pastry at nothinginthehouse.com.

INDY Week | Emily Wallace | 12-06-2012 | Food+Drink

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Annotate This!new

Rap Genius just go $15 million in investor cash. The site hopes to transform the web and our notion of interactive annotations.

Hartford Advocate | Chris Burns | 12-06-2012 | Tech

Sweet potato pie: better than pumpkinnew

In Vardaman, Miss., you had to wear heels to compete for the title of Sweet Potato Queen. April McGreger, aka the Farmer's Daughter, wobbled in such shoes: "I knew very early I wouldn't be a Sweet Potato Queen."

INDY Week | Emily Wallace | 12-05-2012 | Food+Drink

Richard Aoki: Informant Turned Radical?new

Documents, interviews, and public statements raise questions as to whether the ex-Black Panther pulled back from the FBI when he became a militant activist.

East Bay Express | Momo Chang | 12-05-2012 | History

'Ebenazio' is Jump-Start's comical gift of the seasonnew

Three things that no sane adult would want to go near throughout this season of institutionalized jollity: a shopping mall, a bowl game, and A Christmas Carol. "Bah, tonterías," says Ebenezer Scrooge in a Spanish translation of his derisive dismissal of Yuletide sentimentality.

San Antonio Current | Steven G. Kellman | 12-05-2012 | Theater