Emergency cupcake kits from Gateaux Rose

Gateaux Rose wants you to be prepared for Earl. Their Emergency Cupcake Kits include: "three slender pocket sized travel birthday candles; five safety matches; one package of emergency raisins; nine compact (mini) emergency cupcakes in high energy producing chocolate flavored cupcakes with red cross topper or blueberry storm cupcakes with life vessel topper." Cupcake Kits are $25 each, available ...

Carolina Chocolate Drops: New music with deep roots

The members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops are musicians, not historians. It's true the trio has dug deep into a musical style that predates the blues by about a century and features black musicians playing banjos and fiddles instead of guitars. It's true that the three musicians are leading a re...

Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops reclaims a tradition

If string-band music is back in vogue, a lot of the credit has to go to the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Asia Commodity Day Ahead: Wheat Climbs After Russia Extends Ban on Exports

The following are the top stories on metals, agriculture and shipping.

More evolution than Eureka!

BaselWorld and the SIHH in Geneva are magnificent showcases of the world’s watch manufacturers. Although we journalists tend to think that they attend for our benefit, the watch companies participate with one objective: to sell ... and 2006 appears to have been a fabulous year.