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Under cover of darkness, a band of environmental activists last week went straight for the gourmet table. They raided a foie gras farm near Stockton, Calif., and "rescued" four ducks whose livers were headed for posh restaurants. The operation was not a total success; one duck died during the raid. But the effort, the fourth attack against the foie gras business in California since July, represents the latest campaign by animal-rights activists. The expensive delicacy is produced in the U.S. only in California and in New York's Hudson Valley...
...food itself is good, though perhaps not quite as authentic as the building. The lunch and dinner menus feature eclectic Mediterranean and European fare ranging from foie gras to filet mignon (a tender favorite) and from hearty house salads to seafood. Each night, there are at least a dozen specials to choose from, such as a classic French cassoulet or an Italian risotto. Meals begin with olives and fresh-baked bread, and at peak times the rather slow service allows diners ample time to study the specials...
There is a strange bipolarity in the Australian psyche. Compare the louche abandon of the Sydney Mardi Gras with the gruff, homophobic machismo of the outback. Contrast the shining, multicultural cities with rural outposts where shadowy, armed survivalists zealously prophesize an Indonesian invasion. And consider the country's strangely conflicted attitude to immigrants: for every legal settler that gives thanks for the unfettered hospitality of the Lucky Country?as Australia has been famously known since the 1960s?you can line up a woebegone refugee from Afghanistan, Uganda or China who rues the day he or she ever made landfall there...
...last night,” said an editor dryly, as if I were a naughty puppy. Then Kaplan locked onto my pseudo-savior—the paper’s real-estate writer, named Blair. Blair was wearing a purple Mardi Gras necklace...
...assurance that the republic will not be hosting gay parades was calculated p.r., designed to appease conservatives worried about an influx of gay tourists. But it was also a disingenuous statement if the Nation party was anything to go by. That party may not have been a Sydney Mardi Gras with a Gay Men's Chorus and dykes on bikes?and it may not have been officially backed?but it was a three-day fest of international proportions, held on Sentosa island. Its cheeky centerpiece was a riotous party at the island's Musical Fountain, timed for Aug. 9, Singapore...