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Fixer-Uppers

Fixer-Uppers

In a warehouse strung up with Christmas lights, John Martin is drinking coffee, listening to Drake and doing surgery. His tools are blunt—wrenches and cables and steel nuts—but his patients...

Fixer-Uppers

In a warehouse strung up with Christmas lights, John Martin is drinking coffee, listening to Drake and doing surgery. His tools are blunt—wrenches and cables and steel nuts—but his patients...

Joe Capobianco at Hope Gallery Tattoo

‘Too True

The first tattoo Joe Capobianco ever did was a scorpion for one of his oldest friends. “I was shaking like a leaf,” he says. That was 24 years ago. Now...

‘Too True

The first tattoo Joe Capobianco ever did was a scorpion for one of his oldest friends. “I was shaking like a leaf,” he says. That was 24 years ago. Now...

Green House

Green House

When Travis Pittman, founder and owner of The Salad Palace, thinks back to the beginning, he gets a little emotional. “Wow,” he says, “I gotta dig deep.” Pittman was diagnosed...

Green House

When Travis Pittman, founder and owner of The Salad Palace, thinks back to the beginning, he gets a little emotional. “Wow,” he says, “I gotta dig deep.” Pittman was diagnosed...

Unsecret Ingredients

Unsecret Ingredients

In a backyard in Newhallville, Tammy Chapman grows herbs in raised beds. Sage, mint and rosemary do particularly well in our climate, she says. Chapman has always grown “a small...

Unsecret Ingredients

In a backyard in Newhallville, Tammy Chapman grows herbs in raised beds. Sage, mint and rosemary do particularly well in our climate, she says. Chapman has always grown “a small...

Margaret Middleton

Semper Fi

In recognition of Veterans Day, we’re revisiting this lightly updated story from July 4, 2014. A huge number of military veterans return from war and find a different kind of...

Semper Fi

In recognition of Veterans Day, we’re revisiting this lightly updated story from July 4, 2014. A huge number of military veterans return from war and find a different kind of...

Sarah McLachlan (the dog) at Home of the Dog Wizard

Dog ‘Dos

Seven years ago, Frank LaSasso says he received a sign from God. He had worked as a car salesman for 25 years before a traumatic motorcycle accident made the long...

Dog ‘Dos

Seven years ago, Frank LaSasso says he received a sign from God. He had worked as a car salesman for 25 years before a traumatic motorcycle accident made the long...