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About Roofscape
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Bikeways
Beans About Boston
Bird N-E-W-S
Book Bag
Cookout
Coop Confidential
Funk Shui
Garden Gates
Garden
Journal
Greenways
Kid'scape
Landscapes
Outerwear
Outside Office
Paths to the Past
Radio Roofscape
Roofscape News
Roofscape Realty
Roofscape
Views
Screenscape
Siteseeing
Skyscape
Soundscape
Starscape
Streetscape
Street Scene
Thought for the Week
Urban Myths
Wild Lives
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Welcome to Roofscape News, the twice
monthly newsletter from Roofscape
Magazine. Roofscape is devoted to the enjoyment and enhancement
of the urban outdoors around the world.
The magazine explores all aspects of outdoor
urban living - nature and the environment, history and historic
city walks, sports and recreation, gardening and landscaping,
alfresco cooking and dining, outdoor living and work spaces,
plus the sky and stars overhead. RSN is your pocket guide
to what's new and happening at the magazine.
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Roofscape soft-launched on June 1 and we're
still doing buildout - scaffolding up, sawdust flying, wood shavings
strewn everywhere, sparks flying; quite a combustible mix. We
are clearly a work in progress. The official launch will be on
August 1. Thanks for your patience. It will soon pay off.
VIEWS @ Roofscape, just below, highlights
hot, new, cool and happening articles and features in the magazine.
Just click and go.
Are you a writer, photographer or visual artist
with a passion for city life and the urban outdoors? We'd like
to work with you ... contact@roofscapemagazine.com.
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glimpses the world of Roofscape - our garden, lives, studio,
loves, office and pets. Plus it's packed with photographs and
images. You'll also get to meet our 350 garden neighbors, contributors
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Get your rooftop, backyard or house party
started with Radio Roofscape. Our sole mission, should you accept
it, is simply to shake your thing. R&B, jazz, rock, house,
hip-hop, soul, reggae, blues and gospel are all in the mix. Whatever
it takes to rock your body and the party, power up your workout
or make love.
Radio Roofscape 2 grooves too, but more intimately,
down tempo. Chill with an eclectic mix of ambient, cool jazz,
slow dance, minimalist, trance, world, aleatory, new age, dub,
soundtrack, acoustic and folk.
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| Red-tailed Hawks have become
regular urban residents around the country. We're getting up
close and personal with these magnificent birds looking at everything
from their dining habits and table manners to their sex lives
and parenting style. |
| Frankie |
Charles Thiesen |
Urban Myths |
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Then, one time in the summer, when I was
working in my father's grocery store, this girl I liked came
in. She lived right around the corner. Her name was Frankie.
Charles Thiesen has a new story, Frankie,
of summertime tannning, awakening, longing and daydreaming.
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| In many places, bicycles have
the legal status of vehicles with the same rights, responsibilities
and governed by the same rules as all motorized vehicles on the
road. The bicycle as vehicle is legal fiction, of course. Bikes
have no parity - in terms of power, lethality, pollution and
demand on city services - with the motorized vehicles that rule
our streets. We're going to look how we really ride and safe
strategies for 'riding the rules'. |
| When I graduated from college
in 1971, I moved to Vermont to explore a simpler lifestyle. A
few days after I arrived, a friend told me I had to plant a garden.
City boy that I was, I thought he meant flowers. No, he meant
vegetables - organic vegetables. And so my gardening life began. A Jamaica Plain writer and attorney makes a compelling
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| Prostitutes' Pasta is cheap, fast and easy with a pungent perfume that
you can smell coming at you from blocks away. This spaghetti
dish with a tarted-up red sauce, sporting a scarlet name, escaped
from the brothels of Naples. |
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So you think you know Beans About Boston?
We'll see. Take our progressive trivia teRSNst. A question,
carefully crafted by our crack trivia team, is posed in each
about Boston history, culture, customs, driving directions or
whatever. Email your answer to ... contact@roofscapemagazine.com.
Contestants with the correct answer will be acknowledged in the
next issue. Now the 'progressive' part of the test is this. When
we post the answer to the previous question it will be followed
by a related background briefing. Recall it down the road to
solve a future Beans.
Old Beans
1. What was the name of Paul Revere's
horse?
Possible answers ... A - Trigger. B - Sea Biscuit. C - Mr.
Ed. D - Unknown. E - Man o' War. F - Black Beauty.
Correct answer ... D - Unknown.
Sadly, the name of Paul Revere's horse is
lost in the mists of history. A horse is a horse, of course,
of course, but the horse wasn't actually his, it belonged to
John Larkin, the deacon of Old North Church and a Charlestown
resident. Revere probably never knew the name. In the two accounts
he wrote of his ride into history, he merely mentioned that it
was 'a good horse'.
Ride on ... Paul
Revere and the World He Lived In, by Esther Forbes.
New Beans
2. Mount Whoredom was or is located
where in Boston?
Possible answers ... A - Beacon Hill. B - The Combat Zone.
C - Mount Whoredom. D - Lansdowne Street.
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| Credits |
Special thanks to
... Joanne Tuller, Charles Thiesen, The Big Top, FGS.
Props to ... Fat Cow, Google, Constant Contact, Blip, Apple Computer. |
| Copyright |
Roofscape is ©
Roofscape Magazine, 2009. All rights reserved. |
| Contact |
Email ... contact@roofscapemagazine.com.
Twitter ... roofscapemedia. |
| Image |
Sunbather in a Saltmarsh.
Gloucester, Massachusetts. By Stephen Bastide. |
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