: The carefully hand-carved orb of ice used to chill our last Yamazaki single malt in Tokyo wasn't just for show. As master bartenders there know, a 2-inch diameter ball of cold has a lower surface-area-to-volume ratio than a typical cube. That means it melts more slowly, preventing vintage hooch from warming up and getting watered down.
Japan's mixologists hire apprentices to chisel perfect frozen spheres, but if you aren't so flush, pick up DIY molds (two trays for $16) from the MoMA store.
Photo: Tom Schierlitz: Not all summer anthems require booty-shaking beats. On its vibrant second album, this Los Angeles-based quartet leaves behind its old melancholy new wave synths for upbeat slide guitar, lively hand claps, and wall-of-sound horns and strings. Somewhere between "Vacationing People" and "See Us Home," we started to long for a little offline, sun-kissed R&R.
Photo: Emily Ulmer: The NYPD once had a word for walking along this elevated railway line on the West Side: trespassing. But the abandoned tracks, perched 30 feet above Gotham's streets and sidewalks, are being reborn as a surreal 1.5-mile-long public park
designed by the landscape architects at Field Operations. Strolling among the trees and meadows atop the hulking steel structure feels like something out of a dream. Or a game of Halo.: You may not know their names, but you're familiar with their work. In 1938, Bob and Joe Switzer invented fluorescent paint—without which we might not have highlighters, traffic cones, or the cover of this magazine. Their enlightening story, as told by
children's author Chris Barton (with illustrator Tony Persiani), shows how basement tinkering can lead to scientific discovery.: Ever lost baggage while flying to or from Heathrow? There's a tiny chance that Luna Laboo has it. Over the past eight months, the art director has bought $227 worth of unclaimed luggage at airport auctions and photographed it. Her goals: 1) Capture what's inside and 2) harness t ...
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