Grappa

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
A large meal got your stomach singing the blues? You could go the sissy American route and take an indigestion pill—or you could do as the Italians do and drink grappa, an after-dinner pomace-based beverage sporting anywhere between 50 and 80 percent alcohol. Formed from the remnants of wine-making, grappa has been [...]

Mike Cincola runs Loof’s Lite-A-Line, the last surviving game from the Pike amusement park

PHOTO by DAVID GUETTLER
“The game is handmade,” Looff’s Lite-a-Line owner Mike Cincola says, and he has the credit card to prove it—the small-sized, long-expired Broadway charge card of Vincent C. Engstrom, the man who wired Lite-a-Line at the Pike in 1941 after [...]