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Today’s edition is sponsored by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
23 Food. Arts. People. Events.
Jun
The twin of yesterday’s tailfin, looking quite different today.
Manual Drive
A photo essay.
Even highly meaningful objects can melt into abstraction.

Take classic cars. As noted yesterday, they’ve got broad symbolic, not to mention functional, power. But a simple change in perspective—constraining the field of vision, or adopting an odd angle—may render them unrecognizable.
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Like driving stick, there’s freedom in that. By taking greater control of your seeing, you can put an object’s established meaning in the rearview.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims.

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Pier Review
This Juneteenth, we revisited the tale of the former slave who would be King.
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Summer Drive
Some things that sum up summer: classic cars.
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