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There are Chinese restaurants, and then there's Yan Toh Heen, tel: (852) 2721 1211. Located in the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel, this ultra-swanky eatery has long garnered a celebrity clientele (Cindy Crawford, Jean-Claude van Damme, Jackie Chan) and critical acclaim for its rarefied interpretations of Cantonese cuisine...
...reached his 30s, Heaney says he underwent a crucial transformation, moving back to the Irish country and spent four years concentrating solely on his poetry. “That clinched it,” he says, and so he began the long journey that would bring him into international acclaim as a writer and thinker...
...Amazed” are particularly delightful for the way they demonstrate how much electricity was in them from the start. But there’s often a good reason demos aren’t released until long after a band’s critical acclaim is chiseled into the edifice. It’s not that these are bad, but the oft-quipped music-lover’s adage that “if you’re not already a fan...” holds true here...
...male alt-rock band the Beautiful Girls< ironically sounds a lot like the music of that other famous group of males with a seemingly incongruous band name, the Barenaked Ladies. Let’s hope that the kind of good karma that has won the Barenaked Ladies worldwide acclaim will rub off on their stellar follower in the future. This smooth guitar rhythms reminiscent of the old South mixed with contemporary–styled rap featured on the band’s new release, Learn Yourself, should win the Beautiful Girls a spot as the new favorite among...
These films are not necessarily lacking in originality or heavy-handedness, however: Fahrenheit 9/11 and Going Upriver have earned widespread critical acclaim. Indeed, Moore’s film, which won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, has elevated the political documentary to heights unmatched by previous films of the genre...