Smith is delivering a bumper crop of holiday cheer this year.
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That may not translate to a bumper crop of progressive legislation,
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But there has also been a bumper crop of Ridiculous Events.
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Within weeks they had cultivated a bumper crop of new music between them.
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This year has already seen a bumper crop of Christmas torts and misdemeanors.
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It's iceberg season in Canada, and there's been a bumper crop this year.
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But they're all surprising and refreshingly original — a bumper crop of talent and innovation.
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Tourist operators always hope for a bumper crop because it brings in the crowds.
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The proliferation of streaming services has also yielded a bumper crop of free options.
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"It's a bumper crop," said Dan Conn, chief executive of Christie's International Real Estate.
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But a hotly energized base and bumper crop of new candidates comes with complications.
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Recent years have seen a bumper crop of critically acclaimed, female-led horror films.
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Iceberg season starts in April, and there has been a bumper crop this year.
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But 2016 yielded a bumper crop of spectacular, innovative, entertaining animated films aimed at children.
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A bumper crop last season from benign weather in West Africa is weighing down prices.
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Some credit its success with helping to seed the current bumper crop of cocktail books.
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The movies of 2016 introduced a bumper crop of new faces, and that's reflected here.
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If the flowers are any sign, they'll have a bumper crop of squash this year.
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Climate change is, in the case of some commodities, causing a bumper crop, The Week reports.
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Democrats, already enjoying a strong recruiting season, would see a bumper crop of candidates for 2018.
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With buyers scarce, a large part of this season's bumper crop has been left to rot.
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U.S. soybeans are also facing strong competition from Brazil, where farmers have begun harvesting a bumper crop.
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Whatever the reason, there was apparently a bumper crop of massive new stars one billion years ago.
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This year, a wet winter and spring also led to a bumper crop of vegetation throughout the state.
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They had just planted a bumper crop, encouraged by strong demand and a drought in Argentina, a competitor.
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While there's a bumper crop of progressives, centrist Democrats have few options—and none with Biden's name recognition.
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Dem newbies: Democrats have a bumper crop of self-recruited House candidates raising gobs of cash in 2018.
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And so now we have a bumper crop of art installations re-enchanting the most familiar public spaces.
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The winter storms have unleashed a bumper crop of highly flammable grasses in lowland foothills across the West.
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An interesting anomaly in the male population: a bumper crop of 48-year-olds who look like they're 63.
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October brought in a bumper crop at the box office, with new releases breaking records and raking in profits.
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The bumper crop of kindling helps explain why this has been the worst year on record for California wildfires.
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I collect them from the forest, where heavy storms and hot weather means there's a bumper crop this year.
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But much of a bumper crop of cotton sat moldering in the fields, and livestock losses were substantial. Mrs.
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After a bumper crop in 2013 that doubled Mexican exports, American producers filed a complaint of unfair trade practices.
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U.S. soybean exporters are likely to face stiff competition from Brazil, which has just started harvesting a bumper crop.
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After years of drought, a wet winter nourished a bumper crop of grasses, shrubs, and trees throughout the state.
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Feed is abundant after record-large autumn harvests of U.S. corn and soybeans followed a bumper crop of winter wheat.
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Due to a bumper crop of bad films and performances in 2016 the Razzies expanded their nominations from five to six.
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In the era of #BlackLivesMatter, there's been a bumper crop of TV series offering various glimpses into black lives and culture.
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If winter storms replenish the Kern Water Bank this year, they could again find themselves with a bumper crop of H2O.
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The wheat market is being weighed down by harvest of a bumper crop in the Black Sea region and North America.
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SEATTLE — For the last several quarters, Amazon delighted investors by delivering something unusual for the company: a bumper crop of profits.
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But when Mexican exports soared in 2013 after a bumper crop, American producers struck back, filing claims of unfair trading practices.
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Mr. Hutchings is probably the only musician of his generation receiving serious acclaim outside Britain, but there's a worthy bumper crop.
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The bumper crop is leading farmers in the mid-north of Mato Grosso to leave some corn in open fields after harvesting.
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Amazon has already reaped more concrete rewards from the investment in better pay, including a bumper crop of applicants for its jobs.
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Soy, in particular was a master play, because a bumper crop in Brazil has meant that China could very effectively switch suppliers.
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Pretti reiterated Cargill's plans to invest up to $127 million in the country this year to grow operations amid a bumper crop.
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But for some other animals, such as birds and fish, the emergence of the periodical cicada means a bumper crop of food.
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Sometimes prices can fall for good reasons — a bumper crop or a technological innovation that allows for a huge increase in production.
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Tick-carrying mice feast on acorns, and there was a bumper crop for acorns in the US over the past two years.
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A bumper crop has weighed on soybean prices this year, and trade tariffs already have added pressure on prices of other crops.
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Following years of drought, the wettest winter on record drenched the state, feeding a bumper crop of trees, grasses, and shrubs throughout California.
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But unlike in the past, when low rainfall resulted in poor or no harvests, Mwangangi is confident of a bumper crop this season.
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Yes, there has been a record bumper crop this year in the U.S., and strong demand from China helped fuel an export bonanza.
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China has been buying most of its soybeans from Brazil, which is in pace to harvest a bumper crop in the coming months.
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Second, the GOP has produced a bumper crop of young reformist leaders who will shape the politics of this country for a generation.
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That's a shame, because this year's race boasts a bumper crop of movies that aren't exclusively about or made by straight white men.
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He scours the papers for news of fire, famine or epidemic — anything that might yield a bumper crop of souls in legal limbo.
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Dirty Dozen tilled the soil for a bumper crop of similarly eclectic brass bands, including the Lowdown Brass Band, which hails from Chicago.
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Australia is the world's sixth-largest wine exporter, with the weaker yield coming as top producers in Europe harvested a bumper crop in 2018.
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Victor Orban in Hungary, Milos Zeman in the Czech Republic, and Matteo Salvini of Italy are the latest in a bumper crop of autocrats.
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Still, conservationists point to the bumper crop of legally caught salmon last year to indicate that the area is now on the right track.
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Led by Mexican drama "Roma," a bumper crop of foreign language films have picked up Oscar nods in feature, documentary, short and craft categories.
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Add to that bumper crop an older cohort of governors that included Jeb Bush and Rick Perry, and they had a very strong field indeed.
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Although they were already at capacity from foraging upstate during a bumper crop year, they asked the cemetery for permission to collect apples for cider.
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Soybeans fell for the first time in three sessions on worries over demand for ample U.S. supplies as Brazilian farmers are harvesting a bumper crop.
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This had a ripple effect: last summer, all those acorns provided a bumper crop of food for white-footed mice in many tick-prone areas.
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Although it did not exactly pan out, Brazil seemed on track for a bumper crop at the time, and this curbed expectations for U.S. demand.
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Though it may be asking a lot, it would be wonderful if the project could be completed in time for a bumper crop next summer.
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The rimu was in fruit this year, and more than 80 chicks hatched after a bumper crop, making this the best breeding season on record.
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There are also more uncomfortable calculations to make in what is shaping up as a historically diverse field featuring a bumper crop of female candidates.
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This year I've concluded that, while North Korea has reaped a bumper crop of political gains since last fall, the United States has come up empty.
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The South American country — the source of most US cocaine — reported an unexpectedly high yield for coca last year, the second bumper crop in a row.
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That figure sounds unsettlingly big, but the losses would look heavier yet if Turkey hadn't had a surprise bumper crop which nearly tripled its expected harvest.
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"As monsoon rainfall was good in northern India, we are expecting another bumper crop in 2230," said an official with state-run Food Corporation of India.
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Two major factors are driving the bumper crop of Android flagships this spring: the timing of Marshmallow's release and the availability of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chipset.
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I think there is going to be a bumper crop of candidates and that the American people are going to see a very robust Democratic Party.
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It is also worth noting that similar to two years ago, another bumper crop is expected in Brazil, which is wrapping up its planting efforts now.
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But summer 2016 served up a bumper crop of great movies aimed at children; even the worst offering, The Secret Life of Pets, was mostly just derivative.
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This is a significant acceleration, which suggests that 2020 could be a year in which BofA launches a bumper crop of new technologies and digital banking capabilities.
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"The Dump" originally appeared in 1981 in Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone Magazine, and later in anthologies like Bumper Crop and A Little Green Book of Monster Stories.
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This single bumper crop of kākāpōs could mean an even bigger comeback a few years down the road, so you can bet New Zealand researchers are thrilled.
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IT IS peak season and dozens of sweat-drenched men are labouring in the fields near the Albanian town of Tragjas, harvesting a bumper crop of cannabis.
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Despite this year's poorer harvest outlook, Russia will have large stocks left from last season's bumper crop once the 2018/19 marketing year starts on July 1.
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Ms. Johnston, 51, and Mr. Lee, 49, are part of a bumper crop of designers whose sensibilities are bringing new depth to contemporary architecture around the world.
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That's the only confirmed news, but if everything comes together just right, it looks like the Kardashian crew will get a bumper crop of wee tots in 2018.
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Pakistan is likely to increase cotton purchases from India after slashing them by 71 percent to 790,13 bales last year due to its own bumper crop, Gupta said.
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In the Sierra Nevada, earlier snowmelt leads to more wildfires as it leads to a bumper crop of fast-growing vegetation that then dries out in the summer.
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This year, there's a bumper crop of ballot measures in the states—including many presidential swing states—to do everything from legalize pot to roll back interest rates.
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Demographically, he has picked the right time to do it: Indonesia, like India and the Philippines, has a bumper crop of young people about to enter the workforce.
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If Helmand were a country, it would be the nation with the highest production of opium in the world, as it produces about half of Afghanistan's bumper crop.
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How else could he grow a bumper crop of ripening maize, sorghum, millet and peanuts in a season when many farmers in Zimbabwe have written off their crops?
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Sugar prices have been pressured due to expectations of a bumper crop in Brazil in 2016/17, while corn prices have been depressed due to a global glut.
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In the 1980s Mr. Marsalis led a bumper crop of young jazz traditionalists seeking to enshrine straight-ahead, early-to-mid-20th-century jazz in the American canon.
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The current bumper crop, which is about at the midway point of harvesting, will be unaffected, as beans are fully developed and will not suffer from colder temperatures.
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Kind bars are treated as a kind of bumper crop, and the most sought-after luxury is bread, prized for its role as a base for different toppings.
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On March 2.53, the museum debuts "American Currents: The Music of 2017," a review of a year that yielded a bumper crop of fresh faces and news-making events.
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Expecting a bumper crop of 35 million bales, Indian traders had contracted 2 million bales for exports to China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Pakistan for shipments in November to January.
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One factor supporting U.S. demand of late is that farmers in top-exporting Brazil have been reluctant sellers of their bumper crop as prices and exchange rates are unfavorably low.
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In 33.08, the show saw a bumper crop of amazing dogs of all sizes, handing out prizes to the one who out-weaved, out-tunneled and out-hopped their competitors.
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Delayed trade negotiations and a surge in global blueberry production have prevented China's rising middle class from eating enough of the British Columbia bumper crop that Chinese investors helped sow.
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In college football — as in so many other things — personnel are destiny; that Alabama, Clemson and Georgia are close to this bumper crop of players gives them a distinct advantage.
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The Milky Way may have produced a bumper crop of stars that burned out and died during a period of about 300 million years, right before the solar system formed.
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Read: Climate Change Reroutes a Yukon River in a Geological Instant Even More Ice It's iceberg season in Newfoundland and Dan Levin found that there's a bumper crop this year.
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After a few weeks of relative calm during the opium harvest, expected to be a bumper crop, fighting has picked up, underlining the fragile hold government forces have on the province.
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Sugar beet sowings are set to climb by one-third in Britain, although this partly represents a rebound after a bumper crop in 22016/22017 forced farmers to scale back planting.
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Soybean farmers in the Dakotas are on track to post a bumper crop, but that's little consolation given they are paying a heavy price in the ongoing trade war with China.
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The Great Falls Tribune reports bears in the area south of Glacier National Park where the bear was caught are fat from eating a bumper crop of wild berries this year.
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Export volumes of wheat are set to be swelled by a bumper crop after the government raised its forecast for production during the 2016/17 season by more than 16 percent.
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It is possible that the bumper crop of Democrats will fire up the Democratic base and make the party competitive in a variety of places where they are not usually competitive.
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However, a working paper by Cornelius Christian, an economics professor at Brock University in Canada, found that the Scottish climate was actually unusually balmy during that period, leading to bumper crop yields.
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This bumper crop of governors and senators, combined with politicians' natural ambition, should have inspired someone with a conventional résumé and real governing experience to become the candidate of anti-globalization conservatives.
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That contrast has occurred this decade in the state, where years of drought were followed last winter by very wet weather that led to a bumper crop of grasses and other vegetation.
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That work, recently returned for monthly site-specific performances around New York, is part of 2019's thrillingly vital bumper crop of political theater — shows that implicate the audience with bracing artistry.
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The jury is still out, even as a bumper crop of energetic and engaging (usually first-time) leftist candidates — some winning, some losing — have emerged to further confound pundits and political operatives.
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As the N.F.L.'s exhibition season gets into full swing this week, all eyes will be on the bumper crop of rookie quarterbacks: five first-rounders for the first time since 230.
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Cole told The Times that longstanding plans called for the bumper crop to be sold to raise money for the running of the estate but had been diverted instead to the estate kitchens.
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SAO PAULO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brazilian coffee exporters are struggling to find shipping capacity to transport a bumper crop from the world's top producer, which could result in supply delays to roasters worldwide.
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"If we were going to have the crop wiped out periodically, I thought we could take a bumper crop like 2015 and make cider with extra apples to tide us over," he said.
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But a signature program, Make in India, which aimed to help manufacturing, has produced a bumper crop of public pronouncements and scant hiring, in part because the nation's patchy infrastructure has discouraged investment.
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The loss of faith in government institutions, along with the anxieties raised by rapid social change and the "culture wars" of that era, created fertile ground for a bumper crop of conspiracy theories.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A late start to corn planting, excessive rains in some key production areas and parched soils in others did not jar the U.S. Agriculture Department's expectations for another bumper crop in 2017.
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Another perk of the job was up close and personal time with the bumper crop of baby pandas born at the bases each year, including a chance to hold the black and white bundles.
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LONDON/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil is producing less top quality coffee this year despite a bumper crop overall because of unusual pre-harvest weather, burning some traders counting on the beans, said industry sources.
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But a bumper crop last year and large stocks led the Pakistani government to introduce a new export subsidy scheme in January which has sparked a series of large export sales in past weeks.
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Instead of moving their star third baseman last winter for a bumper crop of prospects, the Jays front office trudged into the August trade deadline, with a failed attempt at playoff relevance behind them.
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And by the same token, a bumper crop of women elected to Congress in 2018 should set the stage for more women running for Senate and other statewide offices in 2020, 2022, and beyond.
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Its savvy promoters, Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke, former fund-raisers for the Anti-Saloon League, drew in a bumper crop of new recruits with their anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant, white supremacist message.
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Traders and analysts said exports have been increasingly likely as China struggles with a massive grain surplus and prepares to harvest a bumper crop, its first in almost a decade without government price support.
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On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Beijing is urging regional authorities in the nation's top four corn producing regions to offer subsidies to livestock feed companies, the latest move to boost consumption of a bumper crop.
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Talk has swirled in the market for weeks that the government will offer subsidies to corn processors - effectively making corn cheaper for them to buy - in a bid to boost consumption of a bumper crop.
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FARM ECONOMICS PRESSURED High stocks following a series of bumper crop years is resulting in low prices for corn and soybeans which in turn is resulting in lower crop protection volumes and premium seed demand.
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A row over regulations left the world's biggest wheat importing nation unable to obtain the supplies it needed on the global market, while a dispute over prices caused a shortage of rice despite a bumper crop.
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In his December interview with Reuters, Supplies Minister Hanafi said that wheat levels were deliberately reduced in the first five months of 0003 to clear space in silos for the bumper crop the state was expecting.
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The three-minute report showed a family in Ticino harvesting their spaghetti from a tree that had produced a miraculous bumper crop, thanks to favorable winter weather and the fortuitous disappearance of the tiresome spaghetti weevil.
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It is a bumper crop of new stadiums that, even by World Cup standards, appear out of proportion with the small crowds drawn by local teams like Baltika, which will use the venues after the tournament.
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The harvest began at the end of August for most vineyards instead of the usual September after a rainy winter and a summer heat-wave look set to yield a bumper crop and high-quality bubbly.
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Even what seemed invasive at first made sense in time: One year a meadow filled up with thistles, which seemed like a nuisance, but also provided cover for a bumper crop of beneficial insects and butterflies.
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There is also plenty of vegetation ready to burn: a wet winter and spring this year caused a bumper crop of grasses and shrubs, followed by an extremely hot summer that turned this vegetation into tinder.
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Cape Town's residents can be fed with crops grown in South Africa's other provinces; food supply and the present drought's effect on food inflation is hedged by favorable conditions inland and a bumper crop last year.
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There may be a bumper crop of "girl friendship" novels — not to be confused with the recent spate of "Girl" books, although the two can and do overlap — but the former have always been with us.
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There is also plenty of vegetation ready to burn because a wet winter and spring this year caused a bumper crop of grasses and shrubs, followed by an extremely hot summer that turned this vegetation into tinder.
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Speaking to VICE News following a trip to coca-producing areas in Colombia's Antioquia region, he said falling gold prices combined with the looming demobilization of the guerrilla groups has led to a bumper crop of coca.
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Despite the early glimpse this should provide to the wheat market, the Indian government's data could actually downplay the potential impact of the country's bumper crop on global balance sheets due to some data discrepancies with USDA.
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We'll still be talking about last year's movies for a while — the Golden Globes just aired, and the Oscars don't happen until February 24 — but a new year means new movies, and 2019 promises a bumper crop.
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Agritel analyst Francois Thaury said the EU spot price rise was for now hurting regional sugar makers, many of which sold forward expecting a bumper crop and have been left scrambling for spot supplies to fill sales obligations.
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Seed sold as something other than it is - the wrong variety or with the wrong characteristics, sometimes marketed with a falsified certificate of authenticity - can make the difference between a bumper crop and a failed harvest, farmers say.
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Chikhale had been expecting a bumper crop, but now estimates that two-thirds of the soybean pods on her farm in Kalamb village were knocked off by the rains, while much of the remaining crop has been damaged.
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A pollinator garden never goes to waste, and this year I've had a bumper crop of gulf fritillaries, swallowtails, clouded sulfurs and one hackberry emperor — as well as a tiny gray hairstreak butterfly, smaller than my pinkie fingernail.
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There are so many opportunities, we are going to have a bumper crop this year, industrial exports of software, I mean, there are so many opportunities in Argentina, and that's what we've been receiving from the business community here.
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The blaze is feeding on dry cheatgrass that&aposs 10 times more plentiful than normal in some spots after a low-snow winter failed to tamp down a bumper crop of the invasive grass from last year, he said.
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The futures gains, however, were restricted by worries that the purchases would hardly dent massive soybean stockpiles in the United States and around the globe as farmers in Brazil, the world's top soy exporter, are harvesting a bumper crop.
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The normal winter food shortage did not occur because of a sequence of events that began a year earlier, when an extremely snowy season provided plenty of moisture that led to a bumper crop of pine nuts last fall.
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This year, a farmer had a bumper crop of soybeans and made a gift of 3,400 bushels to his Fidelity donor-advised fund — a tax-advantaged account donors can use to deposit charitable contributions and make grants to their favorite causes.
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"If we had 10 plants like this one, we would be able to absorb about 6 million tonnes of corn from the market," said Maggi, who lamented the scarce demand for Brazil's bumper crop on the visit to his home state.
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However, several years ago, a sea change hit the scene, and old school death metal (OSDM) became an unexpectedly hot commodity, and it's clear that 2018's bumper crop of albums sprouted from seeds planted five or more years ago.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are cheering a bumper crop of pumpkins this year, due to dry weather, and celebrating a year-round boost in demand aided by new avenues of growth in such products as flavored coffee and pet food.
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"You had this bumper crop, this demographic wave, and they needed something to do and something to listen to — and you could sell them stuff," explains The New York Times chief pop music critic, Jon Pareles, on the new Popcast.
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Brazil's bumper crop may cap further gains in benchmark raw sugar prices on ICE Futures U.S., which were expected to be little changed at 21 cents per lb by the end of the first quarter, according to the median estimate.
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Any prolonged shift by one of the world's top corn importers would unnerve U.S. farmers as they prepare to harvest a bumper crop this year and could potentially mark a new front in trade tensions festering between China and the United States.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Farmers in Afghanistan's fertile south harvested a bumper crop of deep red pomegranates this year, but they say barriers to international trade in the landlocked country means much of their fruit may go to waste or be sold too cheaply.
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The resulting bumper crop of good material, along with many items priced under $1 million, made for brisk sales even before the first hour was up (though gallery tallies must be taken with a grain of salt, since some pieces have been presold).
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The futures gains in the soy market, however, were restricted by worries that the purchases would hardly dent massive soybean stockpiles in the United States and around the globe as farmers in Brazil, the world's top soy exporter, are harvesting a bumper crop.
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For a long time, the large ensemble has seemed a clunky vestige of American music's past — outmoded since bebop supplanted swing in the 1950s — but a bumper crop of enterprising, conservatory-trained composers sees it differently: as a vessel of grandiose possibility.
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What I do know is we have a bumper crop of candidates, and we're certainly working our hardest to make sure that every single one of them has a chance to articulate what they believe in and what they're going to fight for.
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The opinions in this article belong to the author (CNN)As Donald Trump prepares to move into the White House and Theresa May braces the UK for a hard Brexit, the EU is next in line to reap 2016's bumper crop of political upset.
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If there was any bright point in the year, it was that 2018 also brought with it a bumper crop of fantastic science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels that served as an oasis to examine the world around us, or to escape for brighter pastures.
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"What it does offer is a bumper crop of high-grade, ultra-processed, huff-it-and-grin punk singalongs that find a middle place between re-creating the 'TRL' days and nodding to what works on radio now," Spencer Kornhaber writes for the Atlantic.
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Even if you never produce a bumper crop of anything but kale, as is often the case in my yard, the habit of gardening, and the routines and rhythms it enforces in life, are part of the reason to keep at it year after year.
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All that rain meant a bumper crop of grasses and other vegetation, which, as hot and dry conditions returned, likely contributed to a combustible mix of fuels that played a role in the severe fires that have swept California in the past two years.
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At that point, Atlanta, Georgia (alongside Savannah) was about to churn out a bumper crop of melodic and progressive sludge acts like Mastodon, Baroness, Kylesa, and Black Tusk, but Withered always had more in common with classic Florida death metal and obscure Norwegian black metal.
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But a bumper crop of ultra-Islamist groups are also contesting the poll, with the potential to reshape the political landscape of the nuclear-armed Muslim country of 208 million people with anti-Western rhetoric and calls for ever-stricter interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law.
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And the 2018 fest yielded a bumper crop of terrific offerings, including a number of lauded biopics about figures like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late actor Robin Williams, actress and activist Jane Fonda, women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, and the beloved TV figure Fred Rogers.
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A study published last month in Nature Climate Change predicted that this kind of weather, extreme droughts punctuated by the kind of extreme precipitation that led to the bumper crop of pine nuts, would happen more often in California — and by extension the Tahoe area — in the coming years.
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But this year has already yielded a bumper crop of great movies, including three excellent superhero films, a bunch of horror films with a message on their mind, several riveting and unconventional documentaries, a few revenge flicks, some of the year's best comedies, and a movie about a giant superpig.
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And a bumper crop of 11-year-olds is now heading into secondary schools, which tend to struggle with higher numbers more than primary schools because of the difficulty of attracting specialist teachers, particularly in subjects like maths and physics, says Jon Andrews of the Education Policy Institute (EPI), a think-tank.
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" He focuses on a bumper crop of breakthrough, subversive, auteur-driven movies — virtually all of which were released theatrically in 1999 — quoting the actor Edward Norton (of 1999's "Fight Club"), who is hard pressed to name any other 12-month span "that had more really original young filmmakers tapping into the zeitgeist.
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For over seven hours, Silicon Valley's bumper crop of startups imagined a future with Wall Street banks controlling less of their futures, part of a symposium to extol the virtues of what are called direct listings, or "a Simpler and Superior Alternative to the IPO," as the agenda for the closed-door meeting described them.
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"Smart farming" and "precision agriculture" let farmers make decisions about what needs tweaking in the field before it's too late, reigning in irrigation where sensors can tell that conditions are humid enough, for example, or working to connect with more food producers or other buyers if they are about to deliver a bumper crop.
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Thinking about it now, as the fall weather comes creeping in and the leaves start to change, we're hoping we can find some of the season's bumper crop of tomatoes at the farmer's market this weekend still, just to hold on to a bit of the best parts of the summer while we can.
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There are the art kids offering tips at the Andy Warhol Museum, and the tyro entrepreneurs strategizing over cocktails at the Tender Bar & Kitchen in Lawrenceville, the neighborhood along the Allegheny River that is shifting from a desolate zone where your laptop might get stolen to the place where butcher paper in the windows signifies a bumper crop of new restaurants.
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