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Spanish grill festival at JW Marriott
The hotel’s grill restaurant JW’s Grill holds a Spanish grilled food festival from May 31 to June 17.It will hold a gala dinner on June 7 featuring eight-course Spanish grilled cuisine. Prepared by Jordi Villegas, a JW Marriott Hong Kong chef, the dinner will include Spanish roast pork, grilled tenderloin and Iberian ham with potatoes. The dinner is priced at 180,000 won per person, excluding tax and service charge. For more information, call (02) 6282-6759.
TravelMay 25, 2012
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Museums abound in British Columbia’s capital city of Victoria
There’s a museum with something for everyone in Victoria, B.C., from evocative exhibits of native history to tea and croquet on the lawn of a 19th-century home-turned-museum.Here’s a sampling:Royal BC MuseumThis don’t-miss museum, the city’s biggest, has a world-class First Nations gallery (with ceremonial masks, totem poles and more artifacts of British Columbia’s native groups); natural-history galleries with lush sea and forest dioramas; and a child-pleasing reconstruction of a 19th-century t
TravelMay 25, 2012
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Ecuador’s remote ecolodges put the lush, tropical woodland right outside
EL ORIENTE, Ecuador ― This is one rain forest the world has saved.After donors around the globe pledged $116 million by the December 2011 deadline to prevent oil drilling in the biologically fragile Yasuni National Park, the Ecuadorian government agreed to leave it alone for now.There will be no roads, drilling or pipelines this year.Instead, tourists can continue to witness the damp glory of the region’s tangled forests and the riotous color of even the smallest frog and butterfly.“Everyone on
TravelMay 25, 2012
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Parents steal their twins’ childhood
Canada, By Richard Ford (Ecco)Some parents screw their kids up incrementally. Bev and Neeva Parsons manage to cram a life’s worth of trauma into a matter of days during the summer of 1960.The couple’s misadventures are told by their son Dell in “Canada,” Richard Ford’s 10th book.The hapless father, Bev (“He never conceded that Beverly was a woman’s name in most people’s minds”), and the bright but empathy-bereft Neeva dominate the first half of a riveting tale of lost innocence.The saga begins w
BooksMay 25, 2012
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Hitting for average
Calico Joe, By John Grisham (Doubleday)John Grisham is to literature what Cheerios are to a rushed breakfast, something you buy in bulk and consume without too much thought. Honestly, I’m relieved when a new Grisham book doesn’t weigh more than I do.Yet his newest work, “Calico Joe,” is as slender as a Dodgers shortstop. Coming in at under 200 pages, it is a breezy little baseball novel that will probably appeal to many men the way Nicholas Sparks’ stories appeal to that other sex.Strangely, con
BooksMay 25, 2012
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Asia journal dedicated to Korean literature
(Asia Literary Review) By Michael Breen et alAsia Literary Review, an English-language quarterly journal distributed globally, has dedicated its Spring 2012 issue to Korean literature.“Koreans are rightly proud of their unique culture and their literary heritage; they respect and appreciate their writers and poets,” wrote Ilyas Khan, the journal’s publisher.“And if any place could be described as a country of readers, it would be South Korea. Their writers, however, have yet to be discovered by
BooksMay 25, 2012
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New book reveals the fatherly side of Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger has already called someone a moron on Twitter this day, but really, the virtuosic vitriol that has characterized his Twitter feed has been somewhat subdued lately.Instead, Bissinger is sitting on a chair in a family room off the kitchen of his house in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood and talking about stuff so personal, so self-flagellating, that it would make you gasp if it weren’t comically shot through with F-bombs.Next to him is his son, Zach Bissinger, 28, well know
BooksMay 25, 2012
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Delivered dinners a godsend for new moms
Exhaustion reigns when a new baby arrives. Between the 2 a.m. feedings, endless diaper changes and extreme sleep deprivation, merely getting dressed becomes a herculean effort. And don’t even get us started on cooking one-handed while a purple-faced infant howls in your ear.Thank heavens for grandparents, colleagues and neighbors, because one of the loveliest rituals that accompanies new motherhood is the parade of dinners, lovingly delivered by family and friends. There’s lasagna, to be sure, b
FoodMay 25, 2012
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Wine of the Week: 2007 Rainoldi Valtellina Superiore ‘Inferno Riserva’
This is an elegant expression of Nebbiolo (here called Chiavennasca) from one of Italy’s smallest appellations in the mountains near the Swiss border. Valtellina has several sub-zones, the best known of which is the wonderfully named “Inferno.” Giuseppe Rainoldi’s 2007 Valtellina Superiore “Inferno” Riserva is definitely a keeper. Though these wines age well, this one is drinking beautifully right now, so why wait? The bouquet of flowers, cherries and leaves seduces right away, but it’s the flav
FoodMay 25, 2012
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Oi-sobagi (stuffed cucumber kimchi)
Oi-sobagi is a type of kimchi made with slightly fermented cucumbers that have been slit and stuffed with seasoned Korean leeks. Oi-sobagi may also be served without fermenting. Ingredients● 3 ea cucumber (white), 30 g coarse salt ● saltwater: 380 g water, 20 g coarse salt ● 50 g small wild leaks ● 1 tbsp salted shrimp ● seasoning : 2 tbsp minced green onion, 1 tbsp minced garlic, 1 tsp minced ginger, 2 tbsp ground red pepper, 1 tsp salt ● stuffed cucumber liquid : 3 tbsp water, 1/4 tsp salt 1.
FoodMay 25, 2012
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A Burgundy field guide
Beyond Romanee-Conti and into the diverse world of historic French wine regionThe impact of Japanese comic book series, “The Drops of God,” on Burgundy and its wine can still be felt. When the press highlighted the bottle of wine that inspired “The Drops of God” and the series itself put the spotlight on Burgundy, the storied region in eastern France got noticed. It was a bottle of 1985 Domaine de La Romanee-Conti Echezeaux from Burgundy that fueled Shin and Yuko Kibayashi’s passion for wine, a
FoodMay 25, 2012
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Kim, well-shod, chic and ready for her close-up
‘My Lovely Samsoon’ star in new MBC dramaWhy deviate from a good thing if it is working for you? That is the overall impression initially given by golden girl Kim Sun-a’s latest endeavor, MBC rom-com “I Do I Do.”The title is a dead giveaway. Yes, actress Kim ― known for playing single ladies with verve and humor in MBC’s “My Lovely Samsoon” and SBS’ “Scent of a Woman” ― is tackling yet another unmarried heroine with Hwang Ji-ahn, a successful shoe designer in her late 30s whose career is sidetr
TelevisionMay 25, 2012
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Man gets 120 years for brutal killing
A New Jersey couple received long prison sentences for carjacking a visitor to Atlantic City, forcing him into the trunk of his car and then stabbing him.Craig Arno, 46, was sentenced Thursday to 120 years, The Press of Atlantic City reported. Superior Court Judge Michael Donio said Arno must serve at least 100 years without parole, guaranteeing he will die in prison.Arno's former girlfriend, Jess
TravelMay 25, 2012
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MBC president under fire for alleged real estate law violation
The striking union members of the nation’s second-largest broadcaster claimed that their president violated a real estate law and gave favors to a dancer.The MBC labor union alleged at a press conference on Tuesday that MBC president Kim Jae-chul and a female dancer surnamed Jeong co-purchased three apartments in Osong, North Chungcheong Province, in 2007 when property prices jumped. MBC management said the claim was “groundless,“ designed to deal a damaging blow to the incumbent president. Acc
TelevisionMay 24, 2012
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Koreans catching up to trendy two-wheelers
Ever since Lee Ui-jung came back to Seoul after a trip to London about half a decade ago, he has continuously searched for the same kind of bike he saw there ― colorful, slim, a design quite foreign and intriguing. After some arduous searching, he found what he was looking for: a second-hand track-racing bicycle he ended up purchasing.The bicycle he had spotted in London was a trendy fixed gear, already mainstream in other countries like England, the United States and Japan. Figuring there must
Expat LivingMay 24, 2012
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Urban explorers find life in abandoned spaces
Broken glass and splintered wood crunch underfoot as Yangban Tal weaves his way through a cramped alley. Armed with a camera and a Korean mask, from which he draws his pseudonym, he’s come to a small cluster of abandoned traditional Korean homes, called hanok, to photograph, explore and document urban decay and growth across Seoul. For the last eight years since his arrival in Seoul, Yangban Tal, a 33-year-old writer and photographer, has been leading the urban exploration community throughout K
Expat LivingMay 24, 2012
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U.K. designer behind Apple iPhone is knighted
The Briton credited with designing some of Apple’s most revolutionary products ― the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iMac computer ― was knighted by Princess Anne Wednesday. Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, was made a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.Ive, who is now entitled to call himself “Sir,” told the Daily Telegraph in a rare interview that the knighthood was “incredibly humbling.” The products Ive designed not only t
PeopleMay 24, 2012
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Former nanny sues Sharon Stone, claims harassment
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A former nanny for Sharon Stone sued the actress Wednesday claiming the Oscar-winner repeatedly insulted her Filipino heritage and fired her after discovering she had been paid overtime.Erlinda T. Elemen’s harassment lawsuit claims Stone insulted her accent, her religion and other aspects of her culture in the final months of her employment. Elemen worked for Stone for more than four years and was promoted to head nanny, a live-in position, but was fired after the actress disc
PeopleMay 24, 2012
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U.S. audio library inducts Grateful Dead, ex-slaves
WASHINGTON (AP) ― From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.Summer’s 1977 hit “I Feel Love’’ is joining the Grateful Dead’s famous 1977 Barton Hall concert as sounds of cultural significance. The additions are being announced Wednesday by the Library of Congress.The world’s largest library also has chosen Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many
CultureMay 24, 2012
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K-pop stars take Silicon Valley by storm
K-pop singers held a concert near Google’s headquarters in Mountain View in California earlier this week to celebrate a content-sharing deal between MBC and YouTube. The concert marked the partnership between the Korean broadcaster and the world’s biggest video-sharing site, which was signed in October last year. The concert was broadcast live on YouTube Presents, an Internet-live music and performance broadcasting platform, as well as on the MBC K-pop channel on YouTube, according to MBC. Major
May 24, 2012