Volstead featured a creative menu that catered to the foodie set. Entrees included a bahn mi burger, milk-braised pork with crispy kale and pickled garlic and schnitzel with pickled raisins, gremolata, caramelized cauliflower and mushroom conserva.

"Like many living in Northwest Indiana, I am very excited to see our community embracing new and exciting restaurants, shopping and other concepts that complement many of the Region’s staples," Robertson said. "Seeing a growing desire for a variety of healthier cuisine options in Northwest Indiana, I thought The Simple Greek and its modern Greek/Mediterranean, fast casual concept would be a nice addition to our community."

The dress rehearsal for big shutdowns will start next April, when the Canarsie Tube will be closed for fifteen months, as the M.T.A. finishes repairing the damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy. L service in Manhattan will cease, and travel in Brooklyn will end at Bedford Avenue, in Williamsburg. That will leave roughly two hundred and twenty-five thousand riders a day stranded and looking for alternatives. The M.T.A. has a mitigation plan—extra trains on other lines, a fleet of buses crossing the bridge, a car-free corridor halfway across Fourteenth Street—but some analysts consider it wholly inadequate. A lawsuit to stop the shutdown has been filed by community groups in Chelsea and Greenwich Village, who foresee horrendous congestion in their neighborhoods. Accessibility advocates have joined the suit, demanding that elevators be installed at every closed L stop. Meanwhile, rents are reportedly falling in affected neighborhoods.

In New York, I sat in as Byford gave a group of union leaders his spiel. “We’re going to get new signalling, new trains, more operators and maintainers, more buses, more bus lanes,” he said. “This plan we’re putting together is meant to be provocative—though not so provocative that I’m on the next plane to Heathrow. I think we can do resignalling in ten years, not forty.” The men around the table—they were all men—looked at one another. These were experienced railroaders who knew exactly what was required to replace old signals with C.B.T.C. through hundreds of miles of tunnels. The pharaonic work being described meant, obviously, many jobs.

The straightforwardly named Tequila and Tacos, where you get exactly what’s advertised, opened at 642 S. Lake St., where the short-lived Brasserie coffee shop used to be. The Tequila and Tacos signage had been on the storefront for months and months before the restaurant finally threw open the doors to its tequila bar and taco kitchen.

Above is the wreckage the morning after the Jan. 16 fire at Glavin Coating and Refinishing on Parr Line in Bluewater. Scott Nixon / Exeter Lakeshore Times-Advance

As part of an expansion across Indiana, Brackett is looking to open Stacked Pickles in Schererville, Merrillville and potentially other Region locations that could include Gary and Crown Point.

"It was devastating," Williams said. "I was in Oklahoma and my son called and asked if I was sitting down and then told me the store’s on fire right now. Luckily, no one was hurt but it was still pretty debilitating."

"We have done almost a full scrape and rebuild, including the back of the house," Lane said. "We have all new ceilings, a couple new walls, updated floors, new paint, new chairs, and a much more vibrant and modern building."

Old Harbor Seafood Kitchen, 7600 Kingston Pike, Suite 1312: No towels; utensils not cleaned properly; undated slaw; toxic chemicals stored with food; open food bag stored on floor; dirty dish sink, floor, hood filters and equipment; no hot water at hand sink; employees did not know what symptoms should keep them from working. 72 (94 followup)

Check fixtures are, well, a fixture in most stamping plants, and often are the first stage in quality checks (see Figure 1). Usually this is a manual, human visual inspection process, it is intended

A cast of costumed entertainers was given even more out-there outfits, from female palace guards in bearskin hats and skimpy tunics to a mascot dressed as a punk-haired British bulldog named Winston. The most iconic of these characters were the Bear Metal Family—Heavy Dad, Maiden Mom, Glamor Girl, and Speed Boy—who wore silver shoulder pads and black and white face paint in a nod to KISS. They even had their own specially composed theme song, opening with the lines: “Look out Yogi / Step back Smokey / Country bears are too hokey-pokey / Goldilocks wants a pack that rocks!”