Omido , New York. Boston • Sophia's Cafe : South Boston gets a cozy café featuring an organic-when-possible menu served on recycled, renewable dishware. Dallas • The Chef's Room : This 20 seat room at the five star Mansion on Turtle Creek serves set menus of chef John Tesar's haute cuisine...
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Though we certainly do our best , we understand that sometimes you're going to find yourself in places where we've yet to scout out clean toilets. For those rare occasions when you're not near a bar or Apple Store (shame on you), MizPee promises to point you in the direction of minimal plumbing...
Through the blogvine (consisting entirely of PSFK), we've come across GQ's most important 10 buildings of the 21st century in the world. Though we can't agree full heartedly with the list, we're delighted that it has no Gehry on it. That guy needs to be plated in his own lightweight aluminum...
Riffing on the notion that we all have outsize ideas of how large Manhattan actually is because of the population density, constant activity, etc., Jason Kottke inserts the island of Manhattan next to various other cities for comparison. It's pretty interesting; above, Manhattan drifts next to San...
The Roundup Roundup collects recent "roundup" articles or general material about cities and city travel worldwide. Amsterdam Postcard from Tom [WP] Cape Town In Cape Town, Anything Goes, and Usually Goes Together [NYT] Events Now, Let's Get This Party Started! [WP] - Antalya (Turkey), Jalu...
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art starts a new exhibit this Saturday, November 19: " Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 ." Close is a pretty amazingly prolific artist, and his strangely pixilated portraits (of himself and others) are usually the product of taking a photograph and gradually...
The Roundup Roundup collects recent "roundup" articles or general material about cities and city travel worldwide. Berlin Go West, Young Clubgoers [NYT] Bilbao The regeneration game [Telegraph] Dallas Going To: Dallas [NYT] Deals 51 Ways to Cut Vacation Costs [National Geographic Traveler]...
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There's a lot of bitter, snarky, nasty anti-celebrity sentiment out there, and I just wish we could all agree that famous, rich, beautiful people are just like you and I, expecting that they are those things and we are not. I see no reason to kick people on the way down; much better to wait until...