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...cheerful boast. The brainchild of Frank Steffen, who also owns Shanghai's trendy Arch bar, a FuturePerfect is located down an alley off Huashan Road, where old men in pajamas squat against shikumen walls. The restaurant comprises a tastefully understated dining room-staffed by servers in gray bloomers-or courtyard seating. Choose the latter and you'll be dining beneath centuries-old camphor trees while gazing at the stars (smog permitting). The menu is European, seasonal and surprisingly affordable (the much touted Mary's Lamb, served with creamy mashed potatoes, sells for a little over $10). Open from...
...restaurant comprises a tastefully understated dining room - staffed by servers in gray bloomers - or courtyard seating. Choose the latter and you'll be dining beneath centuries-old camphor trees while gazing at the stars (smog permitting). The menu is European, seasonal and surprisingly affordable (the much touted Mary's Lamb, served with creamy mashed potatoes, sells for a little over $10). Open from 7 a.m., a FuturePerfect is also locally famous for the opulence of its breakfasts - just the thing to set you up for a day's business or (as is just as likely, given the current vibrancy...
...influential Saatchi. But that's unlikely to affect the demand for modern Chinese art, since many of the newly minted millionaires simply don't have anywhere else to put their cash. "It's what I call the panic of new money," says Zhao, 45, who manages the venerable Courtyard Gallery. "The government is killing the property market, the stock market has been up and down like a bouncing ball, and people don't trust it. They can only buy so many Mercedes. They have to put their money somewhere, and right now that means contemporary...
...sand castle turned on its side and painted. Enough said. 3. Laurence Tribe’s paintings. Why is a superstar professor of constitutional law painting pictures to illustrate constitutional history? And why are they so bad? 4. The “Sun Gate” in the Leverett Courtyard. This bronze sculpture, a rethinking of a Shinto gate, is squat, ugly, and boring. What is it doing in the Leverett courtyard? Doesn’t that house already have enough bad art in the dining hall? 5. Kristina M. Moore’s pre-design sketches of each week?...
...10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...