In part two of Tales from Dunwall we witness some of the strange powers present in the rat-infested, mean streets of Dunwall.

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It scared me right off the mean streets of Philly and into the world of writing where I found my gift for the craft.

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For two years of my childhood, my six-person family lived in a cramped one-bedroom apartment, one of the thousands dispersed across the mean streets of Manhattan.

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Tim will take a trip through the mean streets of New York City on the Grace One electric bike and Brian will pop by Frog's Manhattan location to take a look at the company's latest industry-defining designs.

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Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.

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Back when I was a kid, growing up on the mean streets of Mahopac, New York, we returned home from a day at school and did (always in this order) three things: First, we had a snack (long story, but my mother hid the treats in the trunk of our '80 Datsun 510, leaving my brother and me a choice of plain graham crackers, carrots or -- dear God -- homemade yogurt).

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Of course, finding the rhythm in Vienna can also mean a quiet stroll through the Baroque streets at night, a meander along the banks of the Danube or just stirring a cup of coffee in a cafe.

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His was the statist world of business book gurus, not the entrepreneurial reality of high-tech's mean streets.

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And I hear Kristi in the background - I mean, Staff Sergeant David Marino took me out on the streets of Hit, and this is a man who kept me from getting killed in firefights.

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