A startup pipe-carving business is growing rapidly on Wayne Avenue thanks to a connection to beards and social media. Beards and pipes go together like peanut butter and jelly, or at least that's what ...

Yes, yes, it’s old hat by now, you’ve heard all about it. Cigars are hip (ho-hum). They’re sexy (so what else is new?). There are magazines and radio shows and even a Marxist dictator dedicated to ...

As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple of ...

It’s run by Adolfo Mateo, a middle-aged Argentinian man who has dedicated the last four years of his life to uploading surreal short videos of him smoking a variety of pipes and cigars. To date, he’s ...

In his biography, Mirror to the Blind, Abdul Sattar Edhi complains how he detests being called a 'maulana'. 'Mine was never a religious beard,' he says. 'It was always a revolutionary beard,' he ...

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