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Dynasty Restaurant Pours Good Chinese on Pacific Grovenew
I eschew glow-in-the-dark sweet and sour pork and disdain the way-too-sweet General Tso’s chicken in many Chinese-American restaurants, so you can’t blame me for not rushing to try every Chinese restaurant on the Monterey Peninsula. But I wish I’d tried Pacific Grove’s Dynasty Restaurant sooner.
Monterey County Weekly |
Pat Tanumihardja |
01-21-2010 |
Food+Drink
City Cracks Down on Chinatown Fakes While Putting a Squeeze on Legit Merchantsnew
Very soon, locals say, Canal Street will join Times Square, Astor Place, the Lower East Side, the Garment District and all the other former centers of down-and-dirty capitalist grit that have been safely gentrified. As watch peddler Greg “Heavy” Duval explains, “They want to make this a franchise block.”
New York Press |
Matt Harvey |
01-21-2010 |
Shopping
A Brand-New Bag: The Women's Design Collectivenew
Women’s Design Collective is a program formed out of St. Joseph Community Health that teaches women basic craft skills. The hope, says Community Services Director Michelle Melendez, who’s responsible for getting the effort off the ground, is that women can use those skills in entrepreneurship to help feed their families.
Weekly Alibi |
Christie Chisholm |
01-19-2010 |
Art
African Women and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS Let the World Innew
The program The House is Small But the Welcome is Big allows women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa to tell their own stories, and to gain empowerment, through the experience of creating art.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
01-19-2010 |
Art
Why Urban Chicken Farming is Not as Weird as it Soundsnew
Have you ever had a fresh egg? Not simply organic, not just free-range, but one yet to see the inside of a refrigerator. A fresh egg is like a tomato straight off the vine, barely resembling its supermarket brethren, beautiful in its imperfection.
New Haven Advocate |
Adrienne Kane |
01-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Rising Brew Culture: Japan is Producing Some World-Class Beernew
There’s another invasion coming from the land of Godzilla — an attack from Japan’s emerging craft beer scene. You may laugh at the notion of Japan making great beer, but it’s producing some of the world’s best, with 13 brews already on the shelves at Calgary beer stores.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Mike Tessier |
01-14-2010 |
Food+Drink
'American Squatter' Barry Smith Returns With a Love Storynew
Hard as it may be to imagine a light-hearted look at life in a doomsday cult, the untrained actor's earned awards including 2005's New York International Fringe Festival Outstanding Solo Show Award with an intimate and friendly approach.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
01-14-2010 |
Theater
Flesh Mob: New York’s Vegetarians Have Come Down With Some Serious Bloodlustnew
These days, as high-profile chefs like David Chang resolutely refuse to cater to an animal product-free world, many New York vegetarians are giving up the greens and developing a taste for flesh.
New York Press |
Linnea Covington |
01-14-2010 |
Food+Drink
Cartoon: Next, In-Flight Lobotomiesnew
True story: The TSA has banned pilots from telling you about the sights off your left wing.
Not Just Another Roadside Attraction, World's Biggest Cowboy Boots Turn 30new
According to TxDOT, every day an estimated 182,000 cars pass by Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s Giant Justins sculpture in front of North Star Mall. When I explained to the TxDOT public-relations employee why I wanted to know, she gasped, “Oh, I love those boots!”
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
01-13-2010 |
Art
Indulge in the Culinary Triple-Threat at Restaurant Insiginianew
Salt, sugar, and fat: They’re the one-two-three punch of 21st-century food. In coming up with a menu for Insignia in the Fairmount, his new globally influenced American restaurant, Jason Dady unabashedly makes use of all three. Chicken and waffles are a case in point.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
01-13-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Insignia, Jason Dady
A Chinese Oregonian Takes Back the Armorynew
Bruce Locke starred in such films as Black Rain, The Shadow, and especially Robocop 3, in which he played a trio of robot ninja assassins. Now Locke is starring in a production of Snow Falling on Cedars in a building that building was built in case of a Chinese immigrant uprising.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
01-13-2010 |
Theater
Decade in Review: Look How Far We Have (and Haven't) Comenew
Oh, 2000. How quaint you were. How innocent. How oblivious to such ills as tornados tearing up downtown Atlanta, drought drying up Lake Lanier, and rains causing creeks and rivers to rage, destroying homes, roads, businesses and lives.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Various |
01-12-2010 |
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