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Other businesses are facing similar conundrums. Several seafood restaurants around the country find themselves saddled with a name that once sounded chic but now seems tasteless. At the Tsunami Restaurant in West Palm Beach, Fla., patrons used to ask what a tsunami was. Now managers fear potential diners will assume the restaurant was named for the disaster. But after two years of marketing the restaurant's name, the managers aren't eager to change it. Instead, they're sponsoring happy-hour fund raisers for UNICEF...
...Landmarc, a chic neighborhood bistro in New York City, wine director David Lombardo can always tell when the most recent showing of Sideways at the nearby movie theater has let out: diners come in asking about Pinot Noir...
...represent the institution in public. That may explain why the famously dyspeptic Scalia has become a merry mainstay on the A-list Washington social circuit of late. At parties ranging from a charity dinner at the Kuwaiti embassy two weeks ago to an Inaugural lunch at D.C.'s chic Caf?? Milano, guests have been surprised to find the once reclusive Scalia mixing with the city's power brokers, making small talk and telling jokes. "Lately, I've been running into Nino everywhere," says a friend and fellow lawyer. "He's showing that he actually can be charming and gregarious...
DIED. ACHILLE MARAMOTTI, 78, postwar Italian fashion designer who in 1951 brought women, many of whom had been reliant on dressmakers, ready-made but chic styles with his Max Mara company, which he built into a business with estimated annual sales of $1 billion; in Albinea, Italy...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...