LA TO VEGAS — A train between LA and Vegas is totally great, yet even better is the prospect of Top Chef Masters contestant and force behind Vegas’ RM Seafood, Rick Moonen , spearheading food operations. LAist reports that “Mr. Rick Moonen’s management company, Rick Moonen, Inc
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EaterWire: Rick Moonen Consults on X-Train Fare, Sprinkles New Blue Cupcake, Old Pasadena Restaurant Week, MORE!
The world of game reviews is often difficult to navigate. Everyone uses different scores, and a large emphasis is placed on the single score given to games by Metacritic , a review-aggregation site.
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Game reviews on Metacritic: why we avoid inclusion
You have to admit- this salad (like yesterdays) looks gorgeous. Like the carrot salad, this one has most spices used in Moroccan cuisine. I did use smoked paprika- which is more of a Spanish ingredient- but since I love this spice on potatoes- I decided to use it in this salad.
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Memorial Day Recipes: Spicy Grilled Potatoes
So far, I’ve made enough food to span several days. The salad and dressing both lasted for 2 meals, and the tabouleh and hummus pita sandwiches will also last for another few meals. I also made the..
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Upcoming Recipes + Meal Planning For Next Week….
I have an organizer’s and volunteers’ meeting of the Mental Health Camp Vancouver 2010, but I’m happy to capture the livetweetage of Guacira’s talk tonight. Guacira Naves on Social Media Strategy UPDATE: I’m embedding both the ScribbleLive and the CoverItLive iFrames as both of them are thoroughly unreliable.
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Livetweetage for @OnlineStrategy’s #3tyvr talk on integrating social media strategy
Rome's most famous coffee house Antico Caffe’ Greco is a famous coffee house near the Piazza di Spagna or Spanish Steps in Rome. Since 1760 it has seen many internationally famous writers and poets like Keats, D’Annunzio and Goethe sitting at its tables. This is my favorite kind of place to visit on vacation, especially in Italy . No matter what the exchange rate, a cup of coffee anywhere in the world can be one of your least expensive but most memorable moments on your trip
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Antico Caffe’ Greco, Rome, Italy – Classic Italian Coffee House
The owner of El Pollo Fino , an Anaheim chicken restaurant, is in the hot seat after San Diego County animal services investigators uncovered 600 knives, fighting spurs, and 800 roosters bred to fight . Cockfighting is illegal in the US, and all birds were euthanized.
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Crime: El Pollo Fino Owner Busted For Chicken Fights
Hollywood Boulevard boasts about a thousand little cafés, supercute boutiques, and squeaky clean bar/restaurants. But where do the badasses go? This week, I ventured south in an attempt to find some laid-back bars and came upon a gothic, low-lit ex-biker bar and an Irish pub n…
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Review: Hollywood Bars Octopus’s Garden and Mickey Byrne’s
Delphine , Hollywood’s answer to a French brasserie, opened earlier this year in the new W Hotel. Along with the hotel’s two other eateries – The Station and The Living Room – Delphine’s launch kept Innovative Dining Group (Boa, Sushi Roku) busy for most of this year and last
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Good News/Bad News: A Mixed Bag of Tricks at Delphine Inside the W Hollywood
There are a number of fringe benefits to coworking at The Network Hub . One of them is having a number of coffee shops and bakeries, lunch spots, pizza joints and sushi places. One of such is Bonchaz Bakery Cafe , a place where Minna and Meriko and a number of our colleagues have been able to feast our sweet tooth with delicious baking goodies
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The sweet goodies of @Bonchaz Bakery Cafe
Chef trying to boost the fortunes of restaurants, shops and offices in downtown Scottsdale.
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Restaurants, shops, offices have challenges to be met at SouthBridge
Mr & Mrs Smith’s very own frontierswoman, Mary , continues her journey to the west , camera at the ready, and drops in on some of the hottest hotels in the neighbourhood… Next stops: the Ranch at Rock Creek and Amangani The Ranch at Rock Creek opened last week (we move fast at Smith). We stopped in on a covert research mission here as the hotel was officially kicking off with a very private, very confidentiality-waiverish exclusive hire… so we snuck our way in to the hottest thing to hit the Rockies and, man oh man, is this place somewhere to shout about! Anyone with a luxury Wild West vacation in mind should giddy on up faster than you can say Pocahontas. On another bizarre, small-world side note… I actually bumped into a famous fashion designer friend (and Smith hotel reviewer ) out here in middle-of-nowhere Montana, completely by accident
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Travel gallery: the road to the Rockies – part 2
I resisted watching Lost for many years, but this year, I finally gave in to the peer pressure so that I could be included in the endless Lost conversations between my boyfriend and his roommates, some of my co-workers, and many of my other friends. A couple months ago, I started watching, and I wasted countless hours getting caught up in time for the finale, including an all-weekend Season 5
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Lost Finale Party: Smoke Monster Cookies
The lines are blurring in the world of new media. In some cases, established news stations pick up already-”published” tips from bloggers, who pick them up from Twitter.
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Thoughts on Citizen Journalism, Blogging, and Traditional Journalism
For restaurant and small business owners a bad review in the local paper was bad enough. Now they have to worry about bad reviews online.
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How Online Reviews are Affecting Local Businesses
I’ve been waiting since 1997, when the Twins started pushing for a ballpark, for the wonderful day I spent Sunday watching outdoor Twins baseball. Target Field is amazing:
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Outdoor Twins Baseball
Over the past few months I had found myself buying the same three or four cheeses on every single journey to the cheese shop. There’s nothing wrong with that I suppose, they’re good cheeses, together they make a good, varied cheeseboard, and I’m never disappointed. They are, in case you’re wondering, Comté, Valencay goat’s, Stinking Bishop and Roquefort – from blue to pungent, soft to firm, cow’s to goat’s, all bases covered
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Cheese of the Month – Taleggio "La Baita"
This easy Italian recipe will have you making homemade focaccia with only a little patience required for rising time. Focaccia is a tradition that is most closely linked with Liguria , where you can generally find Italy’s best focaccia. The ingredients for this classic rosemary and potato focaccia are: 25 grams of yeast, 100 ml of warm water, one teaspoon of sugar, two boiled potatoes, some rosemary and ‘manitoba’ flour.
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Italian recipes: homemade focaccia with potatoes and rosemary
Le moderne d’hier est devenu rapidement le rétro d’aujourd’hui. Si vous êtes nostalgique pour le mobilier, la mode ou les objets des années 50 à 90, voici votre séance de rattrapage… Photo de zemoko utilisée sous licence cc Pour les précédentes éditions des Puces du Design (nous en sommes au 22ème tout de même !), nous nous étonnions que les années 80 soient représentées
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Les Puces du Design du 27 au 30 mai 2010 au Quai de la Loire, Paris
Liz Strauss , a big figure in the blogging and social media world whom I follow on Twitter as well as read her blog (Liz is the founder of SOBCon, Successful and Outstanding Bloggers), asked today on Twitter – what makes you a lucky blogger? I answered, briefly, that I had the best readers in the world.
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What makes me a lucky blogger? Answering @LizStrauss’ question