Can an Organic Chip Company Survive the Snack Aisle's Street Fight?
CRUNCH. I’ve been interviewing Nicole Bernard Dawes in her office all day, and I’ve just realized there’s not going to be a lunch break. Fortunately, she owns a chip company. And while it’s not my usual policy to take anything…
A Team Full of Pitchers
What does a Sox player do when he’s thirsty? He first might want to check with his agent. The team has had beverage-hawking stars since Ted Williams mugged for Moxie, but players these days are accumulating deals at a much…
Appetite for Expansion
To save his law firm, Jay Zimmerman bet big on a wild growth spurt that turned Bingham McCutchen into one of the world’s elite, and turned him into a new kind of Boston empire-builder. Jay Zimmerman’s office, a spacious corner…
All in the Family
From its downstairs barbershop to its Playboy collection and booze supply, Mr. Sid has always been kind of a guy's paradise, as much clubhouse as men's clothing store. But that doesn't mean it's an easy place for a guy to…
Take Me to the River
The spiders of the Upper Charles still chase me in my nightmares. What could be a deer tick — I was never sure — still climbs the leg of my subconscious. A great blue heron flaps its gawky wings, beckoning…
The Dukes of Hazards
With your back to the mahogany bar in the Golf Club of New England clubhouse, you can look out through floor-to-ceiling windows at the 18th hole, the final stop in a links odyssey through prime New England woodlands. Up the…
