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...from simple. The new Harvest menu rests in the trendy nexus of haute comfort food, with such offerings as "Fried Green Tomatoes with Peeky Toe Crab and Spicy Cucumber Louis Sauce ($13)." Fried green tomatoes, sure, yet peeky-toe crab radically changes the complexion of the dish. Foie gras from Hudson Valley is another appetizer, toned down into a 'sandwich' on homemade brioche with pancetta and dried cherries ($14). Alternatively, a dish enigmatically billed as "Pumpkin" ($6) is served inside a real hollowed out pumpkin. Side dishes remain a bit truer to the Harvest theme: A Crock of Boston Baked...
...there's no other place he'd rather spend the weekend than a staid Midwestern city hours from the nearest beach. "Saturday night in Cincinnati--it don't get no better than this!" Buffett yelps as his 13-piece Coral Reefer Band takes the stage in Mardi Gras costumes and towering headdresses. The crowd at the Riverbend amphitheater roars its agreement: 18,500 otherwise respectable people, many in full tropical regalia--foam parrot hats, grass skirts and coconut-shell bras. And that's just the men. (Let's not even discuss the folks dancing naked on their boats...
...like upturned jellyfish. Ceramic armadillos and alligators play musical instruments. Yet, while from the waist up the restaurant exudes kitsch, from the waist down Magnolias looks like a diner: white tile floors and vinyl seat covers. The Glass Menagerie effect is heightened by the patchwork clown dolls and Mardi Gras beads strewn copiously around the small, intimate dining room...
...actually tried it, space travel was a whole lot easier. See Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). So simple a janitor (Bud) and a half-wit (Lou) could stumble onto a big silver sausage of a rocketship, flip a few switches, and go all the way to . . . Mardi Gras. Then Venus, with all the usual misadventures and comic contortions along the way. The code term for this is "classic comedy." It's a warning, because it's dated. Soft spots, stiff acting by supporting players, and yet A & C fans (you know who you are) are watching...
When Michael Gerardi arrived for his first date with Connie Babin, he brought a single red rose. Connie and Mike had met at a Mardi Gras party in the French Quarter; a day or so later he called her up and asked her out to dinner. Connie was 37 years old--a dozen years older than Mike--but there was something about her that made him think about settling down and raising a family. "Momma, this may be the one," he had told his mother...