Reporting on a recent Advertising Age report, SmartBrief.com summarized today the news that the September issues of top fashion and beauty magazines have lost a substantial amount of advertising pages.According to AdvertisingAge (7/21) at Conde Nast, Allure’s ads are down 52%, Self is off by 51% and Glamour by 42%. Hachette Filipacchi’s Elle has lost 21% of its ads versus last September and Hearst’s Harper’s Bazaar is off by 23% to 26%.No word yet on the other players in the same arena but insid
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Fashion Magazines Lose Substantial Ad Pages For Fall 2009 Issues According To AdAge
This week in the Voice , Our Man Sietsema navigates the menu at inconsistent Anella , while Sarah DiGregorio reckons that Govind Armstrong missed the boat at Table 8 . Bruni found himself wishing for the “opulence” of A Voce dishes, yet still awards Locanda Verde a two-spot, surmising that, despite there “hardly [being] a false step among the cicchetti and antipasti,” Andrew Carmellini hasn’t yet hit his stride. [ NY Times ] Restaurant Girl slurps the sea at Marea, where the $45 brodetto is the best bowl of soup she’s had in years
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Under Review: Sietsema at Anella; DiGregorio at Table 8
EverJean/flickr After an Australian paper interviewed the “real” Max Brenner — who was previously thought to be a marketing creation — a manager at the Union Square location of the chocolate chain told Fork in the Road that he was indeed very real. Now comes official verification: the company’s rep e-mails that “Oded Brenner is the man behind the company who goes by Max. The company started 13 years ago by Oded Brenner and Max Fichtman but the current concept is not what it was then
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Max Brenner Coda: Yep, Definitely Real
The beer cocktail is the drink of the season a love-child of heat and the bad economy. Mixologists (or bar chefs, if you must) are taking the beery punch and running with it. There s no better way to soothe cranky, sweaty city dwellers Source: www.blackbookmag.com Bill Gates of Microsoft envisions fighting hurricanes by manipulating – New Orleans Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, pictured here during a 2002 visit to Xavier University, hopes to figh
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Brew Force: Hoppy Cocktailing at Mayahuel – Blackbookmag.com (Www.OSIR.org.in)
Exhibit on the History and Evolution of Wheat-growseed.org The Heritage Wheat Conservancy is restoring the almost lost heritage wheats of the Old World and colonial New England. After years of collecting rare wheats with traditional farmers in remote European and Middle Eastern villages, Eli Rogosa hosted a field day for researchers, flour companies and organic farmers last Thursday in Massachusetts. 96 varieties of delicious rare world wheat on the verge of extinction are thrivin
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If it’s a Sin to Waste a Morsel of Food, Imagine What a Sin it is to Throw Away the Seed!
Tonight on Top Chef Masters, knives are drawn and the display of extraordinary talent begins in the most ordinary of places – like a grocery store, where the chefs are met with the classic quickfire “Aisle Trial” (a la Top Chef, season 3). For the quickfire round, the chefs are faced with a mystery box from which they must concoct their elimination challenge meals.Catch this episode tonight @ 10/9c only on Bravo.Top Chefs get farm fresh at Blue HillDon’t Miss the Premiere of Top Chef MasterFood
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It’s Time for the Aisle Trial on Top Chef Masters
The headline pretty much says it all, but let me elaborate real quick. Did you have that college professor or maybe an annoying uncle who never failed to imply that no matter what you crazy kids did with your technology and rejection of ideologies… that you’d never measure up to what they did in the 60s in the great conversation with history?
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As much as I’m tired of being lectured by baby boomers about how important their generation was… I still can’t resist 1960s iconography
We would like to welcome The Fresh Link to our family of suppliers. Abby Harper and Mollie Visosky of Locust Dale, VA are bringing the products of sixteen Virginia farms to us at Blue Duck. Every Tuesday and Friday, The Fresh Link delivers tomatoes, squash, cabbage, beans, blackberries, blueberries and peaches. They send us a list of "just picked" produce from the day before and then deliver an unbelievably fresh product the next day. Some of the farms they represent are Golden Angels Apiary, Whipple Farms, Retreat Farm and Berry Simple Farm. Welcome! Here are a few images from Mollie's latest delivery. heirloom tomatoes assorted eggplant Mollie blueberries
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I have been in touch with Greg Valou from Metro Vancouver since Vancouver’s first ChangeCamp and a few weeks back, I gave a presentation to their social media working group on why Metro Vancouver (the organization formerly known as the Greater Vancouver Regional District, GVRD) should be using social media. I believe they are moving forward in the right direction.
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The Metro Vancouver Recycles campaign
Flavors of Passion Awards Inaugural Flavors of Passion Awards @ Warwick Melrose Hotel Thursday, July 23 from 6-9pm The Warwick Melrose will be the site for the first-ever red carpet event, Flavors of Passion Awards , created by Felipe Gaytan to recognize four outstanding Hispanic chefs. The part that matters most to you: it’s open to the public and that means we get to eat the award-winning food! Enjoy a reception with gourmet hors d’oeuvres prepared by the award winning celebrity c
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Inaugural Flavors of Passion Awards @ Warwick Melrose Hotel
Super Size Me ‘s Morgan Spurlock has teamed up with Dark Horse Comics for a graphic novel entitled Supersized: Strange Tales From a Fast Food Culture , set for publication in the spring and inspired by real life fast-food tales, such as a fat man whose cremation made a mortuary smell like fries. [ Reuters ] As Manhattanites get thinner, Bronxites are getting fatter. More than 62 percent of Bronx residents are overweight, which is more than any other borough, while just over 42 percent of Manhattanites are overweight, the lowest rate of obesity in the state
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Get Ready for Super Size Me, The Comic Book; Black Currants Legal & Delicious
Though DBTH recently posted about the financial difficulties facing LES burlesque club The Box , it can’t be hurting too badly. The Rocket reports that the club has recently launched a weekly indoor beach night , meaning every single Wednesday the staff builds—and then, at the end of the night, cleans up—a faux beach made from 400 pounds of sand. Seats are covered in beach towels, beach balls and lawn chairs come out, and most vitally, the staff and patrons come dressed for the beach (right).
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Gimmicks: A Look at The Box’s Weekly Indoor Beach Party
Italy: Top restaurants and bars in Rome closed for Mafia links (AKI) – Two luxury Italian restaurants and several cafes in the capital Rome were on Wednesday shut down for allegedly having links with the powerful Calabrian mafia or ‘Ndrangheta. The top luxury restaurant Cafe de Paris, located in the upscale Via Veneto area and once featured in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita was shut …
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Italy: Top restaurants and bars in Rome closed for Mafia links (Adnkronos)
COMO Hotels and Resorts is making it easy for solo travelers to discover the “Land of the Thunder Dragon.” The Buddhist Himalayan kingdom has been closed to the outside world for centuries, and now allows limited access for visitors to discover one of the last pristine mountain cultures on earth. The 29-room Uma Paro Hotel arranges the entry permission required to visit the Kingdom, along with visas and Druk Airline tickets
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Singles Explore Bhutan: 50 Percent Off Itineraries with Uma Paro Hotel
We’ve looked at Rome’s nightlife more than once, and a holiday to Italy’s liveliest city wouldn’t be complete without a visit to a bar, and while you’re at it, why not choose a distinctive destination? Il Palazzetto is a bar on the Spanish Steps and while it’s not budget, it’s prices are not exorbitant either.
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Bars in Rome: cocktails and wine at the Spanish Steps
The massive Williamsburg project that is Brooklyn Bowl has been opening over the past month in stages. They had friends and family previews , media previews, opened their lanes are bar to the public, and held a media tournament with some limited snacks. But here’s what the eaters out there are interested in: a preview of Blue Ribbon’s Brooklyn Bowl menu launched last night
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Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Now Available at Brooklyn Bowl
Hello, I’m hoping someone might be able to help with a travel question. I plan to visit India this October to stay for aproximately 2.5 months, visit Thailand and then return to London. Does anyone have any suggestions for booking a multi leg trip between London to Dehli Dehli to Thailand (koh Samui) and finally Thailand to London I would like to avoid using London to India as my base and flying roundtrip between India and Thailand.
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London/India/Thailand multi city ticket question
Hello, First I’d like to say thank you to everybody for posting so many useful questions and answers and information which helps me a lot to prepare my first visit to India! My mum and I are planning a 3-week-round trip starting in Delhi in late October. Our itinerary is not fixed yet but roughly we would like to visit Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Agra, Khajuraho and Varanasi. We would like to travel mostly by train and occassionally take the bus or car+driver where the traintravel makes no sense or is unavailable (like Udaipur-Jodhpur)
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Round trip in North India – which way round?
One of the favorite parlor games among energy geeks for some time has been trying to figure out just what EEStor is up to. EEStor is the Texas-based company that has been making some very tantalizing claims about their ultracapacitor-based electricity storage units that will eventually be used in EVs. (See the Wiki machine for more on them, their claims, and their supporters/partners.) We now have an interview with Dick Weir, EEStor’s CEO , in which he says: Their contract price with
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Is EEStor a game changer?
Packard Bell Butterfly notebook soon to be launched in Europe – SU3500 CULV notebookPackard Bell’s 13-inch CULV notebook is soon going to make its debut in Europe very soon. The Packard Bell Butterfly S FC notebook runs a SU3500 processor, comes with 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD. Packard Bell has even packed it with a HD4330 discrete graphics and an HDMI port to let you watch your HD content on big screen.The SU3500 processor is the main reason for its long battery life of 8 hours
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Packard Bell Butterfly notebook soon to be launched in Europe – SU3500 CULV notebook