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...feeling landlocked in the City of Light, get a table at Le Grand Bleu (11 Boulevard de la Bastille), where you can enjoy fresh seafood overlooking the Port de l'Arsenal marina. Or head to Le Bar Ourcq (68 Quai de la Loire), along the Bassin de la Villette, which provides sun worshippers with free lounge chairs and bocce-balls. Now here's hoping the weather holds...
...thanks to that "discriminating irreverence," by the 1880s Twain was one of the best-known living Americans, the first writer to enjoy the kind of fame reserved until then for Presidents, generals and barn-burning preachers. Not quite a century after his death, in 1910, we get a lot of our news from people like him--funnymen (and -women) who talk about things that are not otherwise funny at all. This is an election year in which some of the most closely followed commentators are comedians like Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert and the cast of Saturday Night Live...
Time was, pot movies were like Grateful Dead concerts or parent-teacher conferences: you had to be wasted to enjoy them. And the genre had two tones, either apoplectic or apologist. But this summer is bringing us a bumper crop of movies and TV shows--Pineapple Express, The Wackness, Humboldt County and Showtime's Weeds among them--with THC in their DNA. Not stoner stories so much as plots that happen to involve pot, they ask, 37 years after the war on drugs was declared, whether there's a place in the culture for treatments of pot that neither criminalize...
...community - from the United Way to St. Louis and Washington universities; from the orchestra to the zoo - a reported $10 million of local charity last year alone. Tours of the brewery are among the city's most popular tourist attractions, and every year hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoy the grounds of the family's estate, Grant's Farm, where children ogle the exotic menagerie while their parents sip free beer...
...make myself uncomfortable minute to minute. [Laughs.] Honestly, I don't necessarily make myself uncomfortable, but I do enjoy that vein of comedy. I like it when things are pushed just a little...