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11 months ago
New York City

Good Luck, and Bad, on New York's Sidewalks

If you find yourself in Washington Square Park on one of these fine spring days, you might see Felix Morelo, bent low over the sidewalk, drawing.More likely, though, you will see his art.Look down, and you may find yourself standing in a good luck spot, drawn in pastel pink or blue or yellow.Or maybe a bad luck spot.
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

Mission's rock-n-roll camp for kids makes 'really cool people'

On a narrow strip of Treat Street off 17th stands an unassuming, gray warehouse with a hand-painted sign reading "Pat Clabernathy's Indoor Donkey Farm and Retirement Home for Children."Inside, on any given day this summer, around 75 kids are screaming with laughter."We're making weirdos by the dozen," said a smiling Brian Gorman, co-founder of Rock Band Land, a year-round arts camp for youth aged "4 to death," as he puts it.
Eater SF
11 months ago
SF food

This North Beach Bottomless Brunch Destination Is Closing After 14 Years

Known for its bottomless brunch, Puerto Nuevo lobster, and beef shank birria, North Beach restaurant Don Pisto's will close permanently as of Friday, June 23, after 14 years, the restaurant announced via Instagram.It won't be the final chapter for Don Pisto's, however, as the post also mentions that the restaurant will be reopening in Baja California in 16 months.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
NYC real estate

Andre Leon Talley's Sanctuary' in White Plains, N.Y., Is for Sale

For the last 18 years of his life, Andre Leon Talley Vogue's pioneering creative director lived in a stately center-hall colonial in White Plains, N.Y.Mr. Talley died last year at age 73, after complications from Covid.The house is now for sale for $1.25 million.The house is a masterpiece, said the listing broker, Bonnie Stein, an associate broker at Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty in Rye, N.Y.
Eater LA
1 year ago
LA food

This Minimalist Long Beach Gem Balances Classic and New-School Vietnamese Flavors

Diners won't find the familiar clang of metal utensils hitting woks or call of orders in Vietnamese at Sesame Dinette in Long Beach.Instead, soft music plays in a serene, brightly lit dining room with Helvetica font menus.The interior features modern furniture in blond wood tones and pops of color from wall paintings.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

In Platonic,' the Sex Part Doesn't Get in the Way. No, Really.

About 20 years ago, the husband-and-wife writing and directing team of Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco went to a joint bachelor-bachelorette party in Las Vegas.Delbanco knew the bride-to-be a little, but the bachelor had been a close friend since college.The parties peeled off the men to a steakhouse, the women to get sushi.
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Los Angeles Times
11 months ago
LA food

Miles Thompson returns to the kitchen at this exclusive new pop-up in Koreatown

(Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times)

Baby Bistro
One of L.A.'s most seasonally minded chefs, Miles Thompson, recently debuted an indefinite pop-up at the base of Hotel Normandie in Koreatown with a rotating menu, a new business partner and a glimpse of what's next.Baby Bistro, his new project with wine vet Andy Schwartz, is a nod to what's in store when the duo open a full restaurant in Echo Park under a different, to-be-announced name.
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11 months ago
New York City

Never Seen Pizza Boxes at a Wake Before': Mourning a N.Y. Pizza Legend

Some people are born into royalty.Andrew Bellucci's admission to a royal family came a little later.On Tuesday, in the long parlor of Farenga Funeral Home in Astoria, stood a collection of restaurant industry bigwigs who had gathered to pay their respects to Mr. Bellucci, a one-time federal prisoner who became a New York City pizza-making pioneer.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
New York City

Restaurant Review: Foul Witch Summons the Ghost of Blanca

Whenever I eat in a tasting-menu restaurant which is several times a month and would be several times a week if I reviewed each one that came along I find myself wondering what I'd think of the same food if a normal restaurant served it.If I ordered a la carte, would everything taste as good?Would my check be lower?
thebolditalic.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Heklina would have hated this: A memorial

By Adriana Roberts It was a night to remember at the Castro Theatre as a community came together to mourn but mostly to celebrate the life of iconic drag legend, Heklina, who sadly passed away last month while preparing for her Mommie Queerest show with Peaches Christ in London.Though to be fair, the only reason she would have hated it is because she wasn't the one organizing, booking, and promoting it or making money off of it.
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1 year ago
Arts

Durable and enduring, blue jeans turn 150

Pedestrians pass the Levi's store in in New York's Times Square.An immigrant and tailor named Jacob Davis teamed up with dry goods merchant Levi Strauss to patent the first riveted blue jeans in 1873.Richard Drew/AP There's bootcut, skinny, flare, ripped, low-rise, high-rise even blue jean look-alikes called jeggings impersonating the classic denim piece.
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1 year ago
Arts

Durable and enduring, blue jeans turn 150 this week

Pedestrians pass the Levi's store in in New York's Times Square.An immigrant and tailor named Jacob Davis teamed up with dry goods merchant Levi Strauss to patent the first riveted blue jeans in 1873.Richard Drew/AP There's bootcut, skinny, flare, ripped, low-rise, high-rise even blue jean look-alikes called jeggings impersonating the classic denim piece.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Uxbridge slowly on the mend, a year after devastating tornado | CBC News

Uxbridge residents are still on the mend one year after a devastating tornado tore through the small Ontario town.While things have improved since the storm this time last year, construction delays and problems with insurance claims have slowed down recovery efforts for both public, private and residential buildings, said Uxbridge Mayor Dave Barton.
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Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
LA food

Two of L.A.'s most exciting pop-ups unite Mexican and Indian flavors at this under-the-radar taqueria

Juan Garcia, creator of the Goat Mafia pop-up, found his calling as a birriero over a dozen years ago.He grew up in Compton, and his family has origins in Jalisco, Mexico, the birthplace of birria, where making the deeply spiced, long-simmered dish with goat is the rule.He has been able to trace the household birria recipe back to his great-great-grandfather, who shared his secrets so his daughter's new husband could earn extra money making it on weekends.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Co-founder of Coney Island arts organization passes away * Brooklyn Paper

Southern Brooklyn is mourning the loss of Costa Mantis, the beloved co-founder of the arts organization Coney Island USA.Mantis' passing sparked an outpouring of support by loved ones, who remembered his work with the non-profit as someone with great talents and inspirational leadership."With great sadness, we mark the passing of Costa Mantis, Coney Island USA co-founder," a spokesperson for Coney Island USA said online.
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www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US news

Weird Winter Put Bay Area Beekeepers to the Test

Image Jill Lambie, left, and Karen Rhein inspect hive frames in a backyard in Berkeley.Credit...Anabel Sosa for The New York Times You've probably heard of backyard chickens in California cities.But backyard beekeeping?Hundreds of Bay Area residents have installed hives in recent years, and the hobby really took off when pandemic lockdowns forced people to stay home.
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Yahoo Sports
1 year ago
Chicago White Sox

Blue Wahoos: Legendary baseball organist Nancy Faust returns for Blue Wahoos game Sunday

The return engagement this weekend for legendary baseball organist Nancy Faust at Blue Wahoos Stadium was an easy pitch.She was so thrilled a year ago by the first experience.Faust, 76, the nationally-renown, former Chicago White Sox organist and entertainer for 41 consecutive years, is set for an encore performance on Sunday in Pensacola when the Blue Wahoos complete their week-long series against the Tennessee Smokies.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Flatbush business incubator offers courses on entrepreneurship to BIPOC shop owners * Brooklyn Paper

A local organization is helping minority-owned businesses with a 12 week course, which teaches the ins-and-outs of entrepreneurship.Beginning on March 22, the Mangrove Community Business Academy (CBA) will serve as an incubator and accelerator, offering BIPOC business owners the basic tools and training needed for long-term success.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Widow whose husband and parents were shot dead tells inquest of family's pain

A woman whose husband and parents were murdered by loyalists in the same year has spoken emotionally about the impact of their loss as long awaited inquests opened.Bernadette McKearney's husband Kevin, 32, was shot dead by a UVF gunman inside his family run butcher shop in the village of Moy, Co Tyrone in January 1992.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Angelina Jolie claims Brad Pitt was abusive towards her and her children in 2016

Angelina Jolie has claimed that her former husband Brad Pitt was emotionally and physically abusive towards her and their children, which resulted in her filing for a divorce.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

What Really Makes a Designer Successful?

You work like a dog.It's been ages since your eyes saw anything except the screen.You have mastered every conceivable skill, learned to use the newest tools, and created numerous excellent projects.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

How a Jazz Musician and Entrepreneur Spends His Sundays

Matthew Garrison codes, composes, performs and produces as he pushes the boundaries of music.
Matthew Garrison, the son of Jimmy Garrison, who played bass for John Coltrane, is also a bassist.
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Design Milk
1 year ago
Design

F5: Beauty + Experience Infuse All Things for Designer Nick Ozemba

Nick Ozemba, co-founder of In Common With, met his eventual business partner, Felicia Hung, on the first day of their freshman year in the furniture design program at RISD.After graduation, he went on to design interiors at ASH NYC and SHoP Architects, while Hung went to work as a product designer.Then in 2017, they reunited to form the Brooklyn-based studio In Common With.
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Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Chef of L.A. restaurant Horses accused by chef-partner of killing family cats, divorce records show

(Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times)

A chef of popular Los Angeles restaurant Horses accused her husband and business partner of killing the family's cats in a divorce filing in which she also asked for a domestic violence restraining order.Elizabeth Johnson filed the request for the order in November 2022 to keep Will Aghajanian away from her out of fear that he might hurt her or someone else.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Relationship breaks down between Torstar owners, one seeks order to wind up company | CBC News

In 2020, Nordstar acquired Torstar, taking the company private, including the Toronto Star and various local news outlets it operates in other cities.
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Eater LA
1 year ago
LA food

How Some of LA's Best Chefs Honor Their Mothers With Every Menu

Childhood memories and the nostalgic flavors that persist over decades provide the backbone to some of the most talked-about and memorable dishes served across Los Angeles.The most influential figures behind these culinary memories are often mothers or mother figures."No chef can compete or compare [to Mom's cooking]," says chef Nakul Mahendro of the Indian restaurant Badmaash.
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1 year ago
Design

A Panorama of Design

This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes.Image A sociable focal point of the ICFF show this year will be The Crossroads, an exhibition seating space featuring American furniture by 17 different design studios.Credit...via the Rockwell Group The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, a trade show of stylish household goods from more than 25 countries, is returning May 21-23 to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.
Eater Portland
1 year ago
Portland food

The Restaurant of the Future Shares a Home

When Jane Smith first opened her wine-centric restaurant Dame in 2016, she thought she had it figured out.She had a business partner, a chef lined up, and a beautiful corner space on Northeast Killingsworth.Just a year after opening, however, the restaurant's situation changed.Her partner left, her chef left, and Smith found herself treading water.
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www.darkreading.com
1 year ago
Information security

87% of Container Images in Production Have Critical or High-Severity Vulnerabilities

At the recent CloudNativeSecurityCon in Seattle, 800 DevSecOps practitioners gathered to address myriad software supply chain security issues, including the security of container images and the impact of zero trust on the software supply chain.As of 2022, there were 7.1 million cloud-native developers, 51% more than the 4.7 million 12 months earlier, said Cloud Native Computing Foundation executive director Priyanka Sharma in the opening keynote.
Zato
1 year ago
Python

Zato Blog

Microsoft 365 requires for all IMAP connections to use OAuth2.This can be challenging to configure in server-side automation and orchestration processes so Zato offers an easy way that lets you read and send emails without a need for getting into low-level OAuth2 details.Consider a common orchestration scenario - a business partner sends automated emails with attachments that need to be parsed, some information needs to be extracted and processed accordingly.
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www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Sunak and Hunt to host 200 UK industry leaders to drum up investment

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt will host some of the UK's most prominent industry leaders on Friday as part of a drive to drum up fresh investment to revive the UK's struggling economy.The prime minister, who is expected to attend remotely, and the chancellor will address 200 business executives including many of the 42 bosses from commerce and industry who sit on the UK Investment Council with a focus on creating jobs in hi-tech sectors.
the Guardian
1 year ago
UK politics

Tory party drops strategist behind Boris Johnson's 2019 election sweep

Isaac Levido, the political strategist who ran Boris Johnson's successful election campaign in 2019, has been dropped from his role at Conservative headquarters, party insiders have confirmed.
FanSided
1 year ago
National Football League

Deshaun Watson statement hints at upcoming punishment

The Browns are about to find out how long Deshaun Watson will be suspended for sexual misconduct.
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Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

HEAR IN PORTLAND: We're Obsessed With-Rapper Wynne's New Music Video for "Look at You," an Evening With the Roots, and These Last Portland Music Month Shows

The darkest month of the year is almost through, and there's light at the end of the tunnel!Whether you're in the mood to get out on the town and see one of the many remaining Portland Music Month shows, stay home and have a music video marathon, or hold your breath until the Roots show up to serenade you (not as long as you'd think!), there's plenty to get into.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Graduate's hygiene kit could make a difference' to women all over the world

An outdoor enthusiast has designed a new kit that aims to reduce the risk of infection and toxic shock syndrome for women in remote locations.Erin Reid, 25, was infuriated at the lack of products and support for women when they have their periods in remote locations.Women in remote locations, including adventurers, and armed forces personnel, can be at risk from urinary tract infections (UTIs), toxic shock, or infertility because of poor hygiene caused by such remote environments, where there is no access to toilets, handwashing facilities, or places to dispose of used sanitary products.
Little White Lies
1 year ago
Film

How The Fabelmans represents a culmination of Spielberg's cinematic interests

Steven Spielberg has always been a director who has poured his heart and soul into the movies that he makes - this has never been more evident than in his latest film, The Fabelmans.For all intents and purposes, The Fabelmans could have been called The Spielbergs, as it is inspired by the director's own life experiences and his passion for movie-making - a love affair that has spanned more than six decades and resulted in some of the greatest films of all time.
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1 year ago
Europe news

Hannes Keller, Swiss Deep-Sea Diving Pioneer, Is Dead at 88

Hannes Keller, a Swiss mathematician and inspired amateur explorer, planned his audacious deep ocean dive for more than a year.In December 1962, he intended to descend deeper than anyone before him: 1,000 feet down, off Santa Catalina Island, near Los Angeles, in a diving bell called the Atlantis.If a man could go, for instance, to 1,000 feet down and do practical work, Mr. Keller wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald, then all the continental shelf zone could be explored, a total of more than 16 million square miles.
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Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

Review | '2nd Chance' doc is part quirky portrait, part gotcha journalism

Richard Davis in "2nd Chance."(Vespucci)StarOutline (2.5 stars) The first time you see Richard Davis in the documentary "2nd Chance," you wince.And the second time as well.The former Marine once owned two pizza parlors, but when the restaurants burned to the ground under suspicious circumstances, his life took a startling turn.
Eater New Orleans
1 year ago
Food & drink

Nina Compton Leads Slew of Celebrity Chefs Opening an NFT Cocktail Club

Nina Compton and her business partner and husband Larry Miller are working on their third New Orleans restaurant - an NFT cocktail club and lounge backed by a slew of other celebrity chefs from around the country.
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Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Mister Goose Simple, Melty Steamed Sandwiches Are a Vibe Check

We expected Mister Goose to be a sandwich shop, so when we walked into a homey, wood-paneled pub-with a stern portrait of a goose in a tiny cowboy hat over the mantle-it caught us a little off guard."Sit anywhere," said a man sitting at the bar, who just seemed to be eating lunch.Between the cozy-looking booths, video lottery, and close-captioned corner TV, it felt like we'd stepped into a 20-year-old tavern.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Mister Goose Simple, Melty Steamed Sandwiches Are a Vibe Check

We expected Mister Goose to be a sandwich shop, so when we walked into a homey, wood-paneled pub-with a stern portrait of a goose in a tiny cowboy hat over the mantle-it caught us a little off guard."Sit anywhere," said a man sitting at the bar, who just seemed to be eating lunch.Between the cozy-looking booths, video lottery, and close-captioned corner TV, it felt like we'd stepped into a 20-year-old tavern.
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ny.eater.com
1 year ago
NYC food

An Italian Restaurant From the King Team Is Opening Soon at Rockefeller Center

The next big opening at Rockefeller Center, the 140-seat Jupiter (30 Rockefeller Center at rink level) is on track to debut the week of November 21, according to a spokesperson.The vibey Italian restaurant from the folks behind King, in Soho, will focus on pastas and wines from the regions of Italy.
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Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

Magpie and the Tiger Will Make a Comeback With Pop-Up on H Street Northeast

Magpie and the Tiger seemed like one of the dining scene's most promising newcomers when it opened at the start of the year.The Korean-inspired spot in Petworth was a partnership between Moon Rabbit' s Kevin Tien and his longtime right-hand chef Caleb Jang, who turned out showstoppers like stir-fried lobster with ginger-scallion noodles and sweet-spicy garlic fried chicken.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

Jules Bass, Co-Producer of TV Holiday Staples, Is Dead at 87

Jules Bass, who created an animation empire with his business partner, Arthur Rankin Jr., that produced perennial Christmastime television favorites like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, died on Tuesday in Rye, N.Y.He was 87.His death, at an assisted living facility, was confirmed by Jennifer Ruff, whose mother was Mr. Bass's first wife.
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Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

What the FBI Can Teach Companies about Crisis PR

On a recent afternoon in Northern Virginia, Adele Cehrs and her business partner, Chip Massey, stood before an audience of DC-area entrepreneurs and introduced themselves.
www.standard.co.uk
1 year ago
London

Top Belgravia head chef harassed by disgruntled ex-colleague who was ousted from five-star business

Peter Joseph won rave reviews for Kahani in Sloane Square when it opened in 2018, offering South Indian cuisine.
Eater Portland
1 year ago
Portland food

Northeast Alberta Chinese Restaurant YaYa Closes Over the Weekend

Northeast Portland Cantonese barbecue restaurant, YaYa, has served its last roast duck.
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