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- Kona’s Deli’s future uncertain Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:00AMThe two businesses that escaped last week’s fire intact at Foothill Square in San Luis Ob
- Post your calendar of events at southtampa.tbo.com or centraltampa.tbo.com Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:00PMThings To Do is a list of some interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra.
- Woe Is Me (Review) Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 10:58AMEastgate spot offers righteous Carolina-style barbeque and Southern sides In desperate need of a sit-down meal at your Southern Grandma's house? Comfort food to soothe your soul? A pit stop at Woe Is Me/Three Boys & Stella Barbeque might be just what the doctor ordered. Armed with a smoker and her 97-year-old grandmother's recipes, Rhonda Royster and her family have a simple mission: Bring ...
- Patt Diroll: The gold standard Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:27AMThis year’s benefit for Hillsides foster care children’s charity was aptly named “The Midas Touch.
- Edmonds shopping center caters to dogs and cats Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:14PMEDMONDS — So many pet-oriented businesses make their home at Firdale Village that the shopping center might be more accurately dubbed Fur-dale Village.
- Looking Back: Occidental Hotel opens its first tap room in 1939 (video) Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:48AMChronicle file photo The Occidental Hotel, shown here in a photo taken from Hackley Park in the early 1960s, was long Muskegon’s premier hotel. In 1864, Lumberman Lyman Mason opened the first hotel on the downtown site where Baker College’s Culinary Institute now stands.
- Superior Recognized for Design Excellence During 2010 Image of the Year Awards Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:00AMSEMINOLE, Fla. -- Superior Uniform Group, Inc. , the image apparel company, announced today that two of its customers, Hilton Hotels and Ruby's Restaurant Group , took home winning trophies from this year's National Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors Image of the Year Award ceremony.
- Dining: In midtown Sacramento, Hot Italian's pizza matches its high style Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 6:25PMThere is a lot of folklore, hype and posturing about pizza. In other words, we get plenty of good information and plenty of nonsense.
- Neighborhood Grill to Replace Tye’s Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 2:27PMFor the past two years, Tye's Restaurant and Bar in the Plaza Building on Congress street served as an after-work meeting place for professionals and fine-dining favorite among locals.
- Tables and Turkish Towels for Sale Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 1:29AMAs the Conran Shop's move downtown to ABC Carpet & Home gets closer, the discounts get steeper, and starting today, all sale items will be marked down even further, up to 75 percent off the retail price, until the store closes on March 15 (Vincent Martinez's Sis dining table, originally $1,850, is $463; a black Perspex console table, originally $2,250, is $563; Tod Bracher's side tables, below ...
- You go, Fly Girls Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 6:45PMFive single flight attendants star in the new CW show.
- Buenos Aires for Those Who Shun Steaks Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:56PMArevalito, which offers five or six dishes in a rotating menu, is among the vegetarian restaurants (it bills itself as “meatless”) in Buenos Aires.
- Remembering J and S Restaurant: 'The Real McCoy' Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:16PMIt stood there -- from the mid-'80s to early '90s -- squeezed in between a secondhand variety store and a tattoo shop on the odd-shaped angle of West 26th and Peach.
- Dining: Talking Tiger at New Kam Fong in Wheaton Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:11PMOn the table at New Kam Fong are (clockwise from front left) Beijing duck, shredded chicken z-fu noodles, wonton with noodles and Xishi bean curd Hong Kong style. A glass case filled with hanging meats is in the background.
- Attractions: Week of March 4 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:10PMArea attractions run on a rotating basis as space allows.
- Mount Union plans Women's History Month events Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:25AMKent State University professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy will present the keynote address Thursday night. It is free and open to the public.
- FoCo, Denver offer meal steals in March Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 10:19PMThere’s nothing much better than going out on the town and having someone prepare you a tasty meal, after which you don’t have to do the dishes. Well, there are a few things that surpass the city dining experience, but this isn’t our column on aphrodisiac foods.
- Bruce Anderson: Cameron is at his best when the threat is greatest Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 6:14PMDavid Cameron is at his best in adversity. August 2005: David Davis seems to be building up a commanding lead in the Tory leadership contest. Some of Mr Cameron's friends are worried; his camp appears to be inactive. David Cameron calms everyone down, insists that the real campaign will not start until September, and has a short break in Italy. August 2007: Gordon Brown seems to have reinvented ...
- Keystone Assoc. & Window in Time 127 Main St. (Rear) Seymour, CT **Sunday Feb. 28, 2010** **Auction Time - 5:00PM** Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 11:10PMAt Keystone Assoc. & Window in Time , 127 Main Street, Seymour, CT
- A rockin’ comeback Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 4:44AM0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false ‘“ ’” /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso ...
- Tech-savvy Scotty's owner eyes national expansion Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 1:14AMScott Wise has five Scotty's Brewhouse locations that together do $15 million in business each year, and he's set to debut the Scotty's Lakehouse concept March 1 near Geist Reservoir. Wise has won acclaim for his use of Twitter to promote his business, but it's not so easy to answer questions in 140 characters.
- What do you collect? Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:17PMThe nation's leading newspaper and source of information on antiques and the arts.
- Trays, tables, tips, badges Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 7:44AMWhen David Loomis comes to Mary’s Diner in Geneva, he expects a good lunch served by a pretty waitress.
- County mechanic retires after 30 years Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 7:43AMFrom the attic of the old courthouse to the latrines of the county’s jail cells, John Puchan knows every square inch of Ashtabula County’s buildings.
- Katie O’Donalds offers up Emerald Isle flavors Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 6:40AMKatie O’Donalds offers up Emerald Isle flavors Katie O’Donald’s sits on one end of the shopping center with Food Lion in Kittie’s Crossing. The bright red overhang provides protection from the weather and a place to advertise the pub’s existence. There’s plenty of parking — unless it’s St. Patrick’s Day, in which case one should probably take a taxi, anyway.
- Exclusive: 'Vampire Nation' by Johnathan Rand - Chapter 7 Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 6:11AMThis is the seventh in a series of installments of "Vampire Nation," the latest story by Johnathan Rand.“Vampire Nation” features the fictional Amber McMurray of Flint, who loves to read scary books but is tired of vampires on television, in movies...
- Here's a taste of what Bristol could expect at Jamie Oliver's new restaurant Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 2:20AMMark Taylor reviewed Jamie's Italian in Bath in October 2008. Food and drink: 9 / 10. Service: 8 / 10. Atmosphere: 9 / 10. Valu...
- Avila's menu tantalizes the taste buds Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 10:07PMAvila in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood serves up Contemporary American cuisine featuring impressive house-made breads, a tantalizing dinner menu and good deals for the family at its Sunday Supper.
- Specials elevate Penn Pizza, a 'hidden treasure' Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 2:57AMI wonder how many times I have driven by Penn Pizza Restaurant since it opened last year without taking notice.
- Mythos blends Greek, California cuisines well Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 2:28AMThere are times when I'm heading out to eat when I crave honest, basic food - no surprise ingredients, no unusual combinations, no plates overloaded with sauces. Mythos, in San Carlos, fits the bill. The Greek-Californian restaurant's streamlined menu...
- Jasmine offers some interesting vegetarian fare, but other options inconsistent Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 12:12AMA first-time visitor to Jasmine Mediterranean Restaurant, which opened last November in Scott, might be a bit confused. What kind of restaurant is this exactly?
- A critic bites: John Walsh reveals what marks a good eaterie from a bad one Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 6:20PMWaiters who know their onions but sense when to hold off, simple decor and a good bread basket...
- Pat's Pizza Plus, 3 stars Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 5:46PMSometimes you just have to have Italian food. Pat's Pizza Plus won't knock your socks off, but it's a good neighborhood place for Italian comfort food.
- Cypress' Guinea hog feast Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 4:10PMMore than just a five-course meal, the dinner Chef Craig Deihl hosted on Tuesday night at Cypress was also an awareness raiser for Slow Food and Terra Madre, two organizations that work alongside each other to promote local food culture. by Olivia Gossett More than just a five-course meal, the dinner Chef Craig Deihl hosted on Tuesday night at Cypress was also an awareness raiser for Slow Food ...
- Living witness Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 3:30PMAbrams is herself a walking, talking history book and at age 78, retired from a career in education for 17 years, she's still very much on the scene.
- Close, So Close Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 3:16PMOh, so embarrassing! I’ve known for a long time that Soleil @ K had changed chefs (the opening chef moved on to another local restaurant), but it took an abominable snow job by Wolfgang Verkaaik (restaurant-ad manager and soi-disant “food critic” for the daily paper) to spur me to action.
- Cast, crew go into overtime Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 7:42AMThey say an army moves on its stomach, and so does the cast and crew of a high school musical production.
- The Silver Spoon Saturday, February 20, 2010 @ 1:07AM691 Albany Hwy, Victoria Park. 9361 4220, thesilverspoon.net.au. Open noon-late Tues-Fri, 8am-late Sat, Sun.
- Service at sword point at Taipei's 'Ninja' restaurant Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 7:02PMTAIPEI - Waitresses wield swords and flare flames at diners, who have to get past a moat before sitting at their table in the dimly lit dining hall.
- Good taste Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 6:17PMWith an award-winning chef in the kitchen, Michelle Potts settles into a luxury suite.
- Restaurant Week Diaries, Day 1 Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 4:16PMPhil Vettel visits Cafe des Architectes for lunch -- see what he says and share your recommendations on The Stew blog!
- Service at sword point at "Ninja" restaurant Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 11:20AMBy Ralph Jennings and Ben Tai
- 36 Hours in Vieques Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 8:26AMA child leaps off an old pier in the main town of Esperanza. THE mascot of Vieques seems to be the coquí, a tiny frog whose image adorns everything from T-shirts to hot sauce bottles.
- Three-star surprise from Pascal Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 4:07AMThe Sukhothai Hotel Bangkok launches another exciting food promotion on March 2-6, when Pascal Barbot, chef/owner of a three-Michelin-star restaurant near the Eiffel Tower, will present his culinary expertise at La Scala for lunch and dinner.
- Odd ornament is an alabaster antique Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 2:16AMWhen in mint condition, this antique, hand-carved, alabaster ornament is presently valued at $65 to $85.
- Metro Detroit designers offer quick fixes to update your rooms Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 12:07AMYou don't need Botox to boost the appeal of your home. Just add fresh paint, accent pillows, new window treatments and updated lighting and you'll take 10 years off, guaranteed. And, happily in this unhappy economy, refreshing your home needn't cost a fortune.
- Registration still being accepted for chamber gala set for Feb. 27 Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 12:01AMTime is running short but reservations are still being accepted for the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce gala, "Puttin' On The Ritz."
- Local wineries join annual Wine and Food Festival Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:25AMChefs, restaurateurs and winemakers come together for the annual Worcester Wine and Food Festival, 5:30 to 9 p.m. March 1 in the DCU Center in Worcester.
- Amazing cuisine in an unusual place in Santa Paula Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 9:06PMAmazing cuisine in an unusual place in Santa Paula
- Dining: Swimming in seafood at Black's in Bethesda Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 7:17AMThe pan seared yellow tuna loin at Black’s Bar and Grill in Bethesda is served with heirloom peppers and a sweet chili broth.