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...When you've browsed to your heart's content, you'll find the immediate area, Nakameguro, well worth exploring, too - it's one of the Japanese capital's hippest neighborhoods, strewn with cafés, vintage-clothing boutiques and music stores. If you can't make it to Nakameguro, there's a Cow Books branch in the swish Aoyama district, as well as a mobile library, the Traveling Cow Books service, which sets up shop at various locations across Tokyo. That way, your copy of On The Road can get on the road...
...July 2, some 300,000 oenophiles will make the pilgrimage to this Bacchanalian paradise, [an error occurred while processing this directive]which has been producing wine since 300 B.C. From the bustling expanse of the 18th century Place des Quinconces, Europe's biggest public square, to the café-lined quays of the Garonne River, some 12 hectares of the city of Bordeaux will be devoted to gastronomic pleasures and wine tasting. The region's 57 appellations will be on hand, including Bordeaux's prestigious reds and sweet Sauternes, but also dry whites, rosés and sparkling wines...
...jobs at risk; the firm plans to appeal. The ruling highlights the variety of highly restrictive regulations on France's statute books that govern shopping, including criminal penalties for promotional sales below cost. There are also gaping contradictions: while Sunday trading as a rule is outlawed, cinemas, restaurants, cafés and fast-food chains are allowed to open. In today's Paris, it's one thing to eat a burger and quite another to indulge in a diet of luxury...
...weather is usually fair and mild with intermittent patches of gorgeousness and a lovely breeze; the Mediterranean Mistral here is more a whisper than a roar. For a break from the films, take lunch al fresco at a café across from the Palais and gaze at the beautiful people walking by; Cannes at Festival time has the world's densest patch of pulchritude. Or, if you want to run up a bill higher than the French national debt, sip a kir on the terrace of the criminally posh Majestic Hotel and watch the glitterati glide past; many of them...
...GRIGORI PUNANOV, managing editor, Big City magazine To get a feel for this city of glamour and totalitarianism, start with the Bosko Café facing Lenin's Tomb across Red Square, which may well have the best olives in Europe, and order a cappuccino. Walk out into Nikolskaya Street, and turn into posh Tretyakovsky Proezd Street, where Bentleys sell like hotcakes opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. Walk up Petrovka Street and turn left to Pushkin Square, Moscow's real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste-and order your...