We have two amazing speakers lined up for our fall “Conversations” series, held at our National Geographic headquarters and hosted by our Trip Lit columnist Don George . Tickets are on sale for them now
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Susan Orlean and Greg Mortenson Event Tickets On Sale
Most of the invitations for Fashion Week events come via email , but some of the more important ones still send something out via the mail. Since Lavo is celebrating both Fashion Week and its grand opening next week, they decided to take things just a wee bit further by sending out the invite on an engraved marble tile for the opening night blow out next Tuesday night
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Nightlife: Lavo Goes Large With Opening Invitation, Darby Soft Opens
I’ve left the Water Avenue Coffee blog intact & we thank them for posting and making our lives easier..:) Awesome! It’s cool how they are using the Coffevac for single pours! Thanks Water Avenue! When it rains we pour … Water Avenue Coffee is super stoked to have such a great team and we are thrilled to be offering a great selection of pour over coffees daily as well as our espresso menu and Chemex into carafe as our only drip. While Drew Woods pours perfect capps and lattes, Tom Pikaart has been blowing minds with his pour over Hario fanaticism.
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Cool.. More Folks Blogging Tightvac..
Affordable Hawaii vacation Traveling to Hawaii is one of those things on everyone’s check list. You think to save it for a honeymoon, or for a rainy day when you happen to have a few thousand dollars to spend.
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Kauai: Flights, 5 nights, $50 credit and surfing lessons
Instead of appealing their “B” grade from the DOH and putting up a “Grade Pending” sign, Veselka in the East Village is rolling with the big B in the window, and apparently customers don’t seem to mind. Naturally, the restaurant hopes to ace future inspections, but as one of the managers told the WSJ “When you walk in, you can look around and see if it is clean enough or not clean enough.
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Today in Letter Grades: Instead of appealing their "B"…
At all times and even more now that the economy is mixed or struggling in Panama and Costa Rica, retaining trained hotel employees at all levels is essential because of the obvious need to exceed the expectations of our guests. Let us assume those expectations are known.
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Some reminders on staff retention, add a good dose of common sense to the commentary below
In what looks like a real life version of that Coke Zero/Pepsi Max commercial , a group of Shake Shack employees seemed to be sampling McDonald’s during family meal today. Is it just one worker’s favorite
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Assessing the Competition: Shake Shack’s New Family Meal? McDonald’s
The Feast takes a hard hat tour of The John Dory Oyster bar, the redo of the closed Chelsea restaurant that is scheduled to open in the Ace Hotel next month : ” Every seat here will be a bar stool , for example; two whole walls will be glass, looking onto the street.
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Fall Tracking: The Feast takes a hard hat…
Anson Wong, the notorious kingpin of the illegal wildlife trade, was finally convicted by a Malaysian court this week and sentenced to prison.
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World’s Top Dealer in Endangered Animals Snagged
Asaba Airport, Delta State, is now scheduled to open in December 2010 after a delay due to changes to the design of the airport. Here is a picture of the ongoing construction work, taken in Augustus 2010 (special thanks to the photographer): Asaba Airport – August 2010 (Copyright Ken Iwelumo)
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Asaba Airport Update
Aero announced it will – effective from 1 October 2010 – discontinue its daily flights from Lagos to Jos and Kaduna. Flights into the cities were launched in November 2009, but Aero says the routes are financially not viable. Kaduna Airport is now served by Arik Air and IRS Airlines, while Arik Air and Overland Airways fly to Jos Airport.
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Aero Stops Jos And Kaduna Service
JetBlue flights start at $39 We hate to break it to you, but summer is over. No more sand castles, no more white pants, no more pina coladas. It’s done. Time to break up with your summer love, and book a cheap weekend trip to forget about it.
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JetBlue Summer’s End Sale
A new place that sells lobsters (and soon, other foods) has opened near the site of the former shipyard in Quincy. According to their Facebook page, The Lobster Stop is now open for business on Washington Street (Route 3A), and it will be concentrating on lobsters for now, though they do mention that there will be other types of food available, possibly by the middle of October. The Lobster Stop sells both soft shell and hard shell lobsters, as well as larger lobsters (more than 2.5 pounds).
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The Lobster Stop Has Opened in Quincy
Just this very morning, the plywood finally came down at Jeffrey’s , the new grocery, wine bar, oyster bar, and restaurant from Joseph Leonard’s Gabe Stulman . Stulman is scheduled to open the place this fall—looks like sooner rather than later—just before he debuts his revamp of the old Fedora space on West 4th Street.
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Plywood Special: Plywood Finally Unpeeled on Jeffrey’s, Gabe Stulman’s Newest
Sunset llha do Algodoal Top Beach Destination : Brazil is full of beaches and it’s hard to define if one more beautiful than another and it’s even harder to name a favourite beach destination. Out of all the beaches that I have visited each of them have their particular beauty.
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My top places in Brazil
Rice noodles are a light and delicate option for those who are gluten-intolerant.
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Recipes for Health: Stir-Fried Rice Stick Noodles With Bok Choy and Cherry Tomatoes
A San Diego restaurant owner has been thrust into one of the nation’s most contentious debates, sending a current of fear through the restaurant industry.
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Immigration Crackdown Steps Into the Kitchen
6 august, 2010. continued. it was the first time i had been on a train in germany that wasn’t completely packed, or at least wasn’t continually almost full, the amount of people getting off equal to the amount getting on. as we crawled closer to berlin, though, the car filled slowly and i felt more and more like an asshole for taking up one of those 4-seater areas with myself and my huge pile of crap. not enough of an asshole to move. well, not until we neared my transfer point
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words as weapons
Today, with the drop of Flo Fab’s official monster Fall Preview list , the official fall restaurant season has officially begun. It’s official. The list this year contains few surprises and a much of it has already been seen in the versions from TONY , New York , Metromix , and Zagat .
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Fall Previewing: This Just In: More Monster Fall Preview Reveals!
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The Strange Case of Registered Traveler