New York Times:
The blaze at Hope for the Future Ministries in East Farmingdale, N.Y., took away a reliable source of food for the needy in Manhattan and on Long Island. (Read More)
Reuters: Lifestyle:
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Chef Lidia Bastianich explores the lesser known regions of Italy and serves up recipes in her new cookbook that highlight the complexity of the country's history and cuisine.
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Gawker:
Approximately every five minutes someone leaks that Beatrice Inn owner Paul Sevigny has taken over a new place in New York that is like his old place. Except it's not really true. This week it's the turn of Little Italy restaurant Civetta, which is reopening as some kind of mysterious hotspot. Everyone from Sevigny to The B (Read More)
Gawker:
Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi's kids are a hoot: Saif is a painter who keeps pet tigers, while Hannibal enjoys sports cars and turning fire extinguishers into weapons. And, according to sources, they're paying the U.S. a visit on daddy's dime. Last week there was much moralizing when it was revealed that the son of Equatori (Read More)
Gawker:
Three things make a good true crime story: sex, death and lacing things with poison. The crime of forcing a woman to have a miscarriage invariably has all three of these things—plus the added "zing" of abortion politics. Exhibit A: Joshua Woodward. This famous restaurateur—co-owner of L.A.'s 8 Oz. Burger bar—was arrested la (Read More)
NY Post:
Eloise in Paris has landed in New York -- and moved back into The Plaza hotel.
The little 6-year-old porcelain doll with haute French blue and white stripes, pleated mini and blue beret is exclusive to the new Eloise boutique, which opens Dec. 1 i... (Read More)
Reuters:
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The dollar stabilised in early trade on Tuesday after losing ground in New York, while Asian shares slipped as investors shrugged off upbeat U.S. home sale data and took a breather after recent gains.
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Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asia's speedy economic recovery relative to the rest of the world is not yet strong enough to withstand tighter monetary policy, Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday.
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Reuters:
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The dollar stabilized in early trade on Tuesday after losing ground in New York, while Asian shares slipped as investors shrugged off upbeat U.S. home sale data and took a breather after recent gains.
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L.A. Times - Business:
"The Princess and the Frog," Disney's first hand-drawn animated feature in six years, isn't only a throwback in style.
When it opens Wednesday, it also will be the first Disney animated film since "Brother Bear," its last non-CGI feature, to start in limited release in New York and Los Angeles.
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Gawker:
"I'd rather see more coffee shops and restaurants open than bodegas and nail salons," said one dude opening a coffee shop in Crown Heights, currently home to many bodegas and nail salons. There is so much beef now. One dude whose family has had a shop in Crown Heights for 30 years goes and opens a coffee shop. Then these ot (Read More)
Gawker:
We figured out where the photos of Katie Couric shaking her lovely lady humps were taken: at the after-party celebrating her debut as anchor of the CBS Evening News. That was the best possible answer. That's right: Immediately after shaking up the journalistic establishment by filling Dan Rather's seat at the anchor desk, C (Read More)
Gawker:
Oh, hello there, Stephanie Marsh of the Sunday Times. When you write an essay called "New York has lost its edge," and you live here, it's okay. When you're writing from London... It kinda begs the question of What the shit do you think you're talking about, lady? Her two big examples are the John Varvatos store at CBGBs, a (Read More)
NY Post:
The Manhattan wife of an international businessman claims her husband of nearly 30 years hid significant assets during their divorce last year, including a $1 million French racehorse, millions in offshore and foreign bank accounts and a Los Angeles ... (Read More)
New York Times:
Jessica Suzanne Meller and Patrick Scott Cranston were married Saturday. Kim Kirkley, a Universal Brotherhood minister, led a nondenominational ceremony at Bridgewaters, a restaurant in New York.
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