semifamous

Karna Maffait for the Wall Street Journal Antico Caffè Spinnato Shortly after I pull into Cerda, a small Sicilian town made semifamous by its yearly artichoke festival, Antonio Cappadonia hands me a brioche mounded with two flavors of gelato—enough to give it the size and heft of a softball.

In Search Of The Perfect Gelato

He calls himself a "storyteller" and specializes in semi-improvised autobiographical monologues of the kind that made Spalding Gray semifamous.

The Technogeek's Lament

The presence of the famous and semifamous on the front lines isn't all bad, of course.

Occupy Wall Street Has a Famous Problem

Companies just like to give product away to semifamous people—it's their prerogative.

Inside the Pre-Emmy Parties: Sponsors

Compared to gorgeous, semifamous Brendan, our Youth at Risk kid looked like the biggest delinquent who ever lived.

Every little thing in the world

Compared to gorgeous, semifamous Brendan, our Youth at Risk kid looked like the biggest delinquent who ever lived.

Every little thing in the world

No question, my mother would have sent him to a good psychologist if Dad wasn't already a shrink himself, a semifamous shrink, in fact: Dr. William T. Friedrich.

'Pharmakon'

The only thing we can do is accept that racism and homophobia exist and combat them institutionally, rather than playing the schoolmarm with semifamous people.

N-Word Mea Culpas Are Wearing Thin

“A happening place for the idle rich and semifamous.”

A Breath Away

I ignored a pair of girls coming in the opposite direction who stared into my semifamous face, then started twittering and talking the moment I was past them.

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