Posted on February 29th, 2008 in Travel News
‘beca Restaurant at Duane Street Hotel, New York.
Atlanta•
Café Circa: New restaurant featuring island-inspired fare and live performances opens downtown.•
Cuerno: New midtown restaurant by the owners of neighboring Beleza serves food and drink with a Spanish flair.
Boston•
Pie Bakery and Cafe: Pastry shop in Newton Center welcomes patrons with sweets, open kitchen views, and […]
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A new strain of flesh-eating MRSA bacteria has cropped causing “abscesses and infection in the buttocks and genital area[s]” of gay men in San Francisco and Boston.
The New York Times reports that the bacteria is resistant to at least four types of antibiotics. Worst of all, although the infection is “most easily” transmitted during […]
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This past Wednesday would have been the 150th birthday of Heinrich Zille, the artist described by Kurt Tucholsky as “the purest incarnation of Berlin.” Besides Zille’s cache of pornographic works on display at the Erotik Museum, his art mainly dealt with the city’s working classes and the hinterhof milljöh, the milieu established in the city’s […]
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Turns out Google’s Mountain View campus has so many gourmet (and free) cafes that it has its own in house food critic. A
piece in the LA Times yesterday profiles Thunder Parley, a “software developer and culinary enthusiast evangelist” who makes his rounds at the company’s dining operations three times a day and then recommends […]
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Berlin is a playpen for winter museum-goers — those chasing away the season’s chill by warming themselves in the golden glow of art and culture. Concentrated classical action down on
Museum Island, the
Hamburger Bahnhof and
New National Gallery for contemporary needs, and the
innumerable small galleries cluttering up downtown streets ensure that culture vultures […]
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What better purpose should a city guide have other than to show you a city’s best-kept secrets? One of Berlin’s charms is its many dark streets, which cater to those looking for an authentic neighborhood bar. These are the places so low-key everyone is talking about them. And now we’ve uncovered the most non-secret secret […]
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Although absinthe was invented in Switzerland, after the Pernod family began distilling it in France in 1805, the anise-flavored herbal liquor became nearly synonymous with the cafés and cabarets of Paris. During its heyday, absinthe served as the muse to countless painters, poets, and ordinary folks, seducing its devotees and confounding its critics. But the […]
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German tabloid Bild
suggests that the
super-cute as-yet-unnamed polar bear cub at the Nuremberg Zoo would make “a perfect mate for Knut.” You perverts — that cub is barely four weeks old! Get your sick pedophilobeastial thrills somewhere else. Even Time magazine
asks, what of the children? [
AFP]
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Your ex contacts you out of the blue. Y’know, that ex — the one you had to let down easy, where everyone except them realized things weren’t going to work out. Sure, the breakup was amicable and they’re definitely friend-worthy … but you just don’t want them to get the wrong idea. Where should you […]
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“Father has a business, strictly secondhand / Everything from toothpicks to a baby grand …” But certain boutiques in Paris take you beyond the toothpicks to some truly fabulous accessories and home furnishings. “Secondhand Rose” France is awash with first-rate secondhand goods — you just have to know where to look. You probably already know […]
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