Month: December 2021

Specialized’s latest gravel-focused shoe is certainly high-end, with a price tag nearly triple what many people would consider fairly pricey, but it’s designed to be a high-performance shoe and, sometimes, quality costs – especially if it has ‘S-Works’ at the start of the name. The Recon Lace Gravel is clearly closely related to the Specialized S-Works Recon and the Specialized Recon 3.0 with their pair of Boa dials, yet this gravel-focused (but almost equally at home on a mountain bike) shoe comes with laces, giving it a more timeless, classy look, as well as more points of tension control over the double-Boa system employed in its sister designs. Specialized S-Works Recon Lace Gravel upper The upper is built from an effectively seamless synthetic material that’...

Areader writes: I’m new to golf and was told I should never change my shoes in the parking lot. Seems silly. Is that really a rule? Dear Reader: At many of the courses the Etiquetteist frequents, you could probably change your underwear in the parking lot and get away with it. Nike Shoes for Men  ,Popping the trunk and swapping your shoes as you sit on the rear bumper? That’s standard practice, like bashing a banana ball off the first tee. No one’s going to give you grief about it. But those are public courses. And, to butcher a quote from Bobby Jones, there is public golf and there is private golf, and they are not at all the same. At most private clubs, the parking lot is for parking. Using it as a locker room is a no-no, the sort of faux pas that is apt to earn you a dirty loo...

You may have seen road cyclists in full garb and wondered: how do cycling shoes work? And perhaps more importantly, questioned why they would a cyclist would even want cycling shoes in the first place. After all, surely it increases the likelihood of falling off… So, how do cycling shoes work? Most cyclists who use clip-in shoes would hold their hands up and admit they may have fallen off their bikes on occasions at traffic lights, usually after forgetting to Hoka Shoes unclip a shoe from the pedal. However, the benefits of wearing cycling shoes that clip onto the pedals while riding make the slight risk of falling off worth it, due to the increase in control and power they provide when in the saddle. This is equally, if not more so the case with indoor exercise bikes, where the chances...

By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal appeals judges asked Friday whether a U.S. president's every remark is part of the job as they weighed whether former President Donald Trump can be held liable in a defamation case that concerns his response to a rape allegation. Trump and the Justice Department say he was acting in his official capacity when he spoke to the media about writer E. Jean Carroll's accusation, so they want to swap the U.S. government in for Trump himself as the defendant in her defamtion lawsuit. The change might sound technical, but it could make Hey Dude Shoes  a big difference. Federal law makes it difficult to sue U.S. government employees for job-related actions, and a law that sometimes allows such lawsuits specificall...

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday named “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi's intimate three-hour epic and Haruki Murakami’s short story adaptation, the best film of the year. Hamaguchi's film, about a widowed actor played by Hidetoshi Nishijima, has been widely hailed since its debut earlier in the year at the Cannes Film Festival, Hey Dudes  where it won for best screenplay. “Drive My Car,” which recently opened in limited theatrical release, is Japan's submission to the Academy Awards. It's only the second time in the last four decades that the critics' top honor went to a non English-language film. (The other was Alfonso Cuaron's “Roma” three years ago.) Jane Campion's Montana gothic drama “The Power of the...