The secret world of WWE figure collecting
June 30, 2011 by
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The secret world of WWE figure collecting
It was 1984. Hulk Hogan had won the WWE Championship from The Iron Sheik, Rowdy Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Jimmy Snuka’s head and Captain Lou Albano’s appearance in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was hitting the airwaves.
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Beer, pop-ups and stationary food trucks trending for 2011 so far
June 29, 2011 by
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Beer, pop-ups and stationary food trucks trending for 2011 so far
For their mid-year weigh-in, crowd-sourcing diner’s guide Zagat has identified pop-ups, beer, rapid chain expansion, izakayas and permanently parked food trucks as the hottest US food trends for 2011 so far.
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A House’s Rich Norfolk Tales
June 28, 2011 by
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A House’s Rich Norfolk Tales
Meadow Cottage, a notable 19th-century house in Norfolk, has some names to drop. Around 1885, the R.A. Dorman family had the place built in a straightforward and then up-to-date style that might be called clean-cut Victorian, without the fanciful extrusions characteristic of the period.
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You get fries, not spies, at this CIA
June 27, 2011 by
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You get fries, not spies, at this CIA
The campus is green, spacious and leafy. The buildings are stately. The atmosphere is calm and subdued. Looks like your average bucolic college environment. But the students carry knives, and the smart visitor sidles up to an exhaust fan when walking the grounds. The aromas coming from the [...]
Downtown Dining at a Kosher Kitchen
June 26, 2011 by
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Downtown Dining at a Kosher Kitchen
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – While untold numbers of 20-somethings arrive in Los Angeles every year with dreams of making it big in Hollywood, Yakov Brenenson and Menachem Eliyahu had other plans. When they settled in the City of Angels last year, they brought along 20 suitcases and dreams of… schnitzel.
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Jumeirah Restaurants Announces Opening of The Ivy
June 25, 2011 by
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Jumeirah Restaurants Announces Opening of The Ivy
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Big-cat activist gives own theory on mountain lions
June 24, 2011 by
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Big-cat activist gives own theory on mountain lions
Alan Rabinowitz has spent his life chasing big cats all over the world — clouded leopards in Borneo, tigers in Myanmar and Asiatic leopards in Thailand. But the thought of their cousin in the backyards and forests of the Hudson Valley and New England is just as compelling [...]
Brookfield to bring high-end retail to WFC
June 23, 2011 by
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Brookfield to bring high-end retail to WFC
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Brookfield Office Properties on Thursday unveiled a $250 million plan to expand the retail portion of its World Financial Center to add high end specialty grocers, restaurants and shops to the office complex located across from Manhattan’s World Trade Center.
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Michael Klein: Shake Shack coming to 2000 Sansom
June 22, 2011 by
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Michael Klein: Shake Shack coming to 2000 Sansom
Shake Shack, the New York-rooted burger chain run by Danny Meyers, has signed a lease for 2000 Sansom St., the southwest corner of 20th and Sansom Streets, across from Village Whiskey and Capogiro.
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Are oysters the new sushi?
June 21, 2011 by
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Are oysters the new sushi?
People across the country are flocking to the ultimate in raw food — the oyster.
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