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...sole person running the store seven days a week, Goldhagen also promises one thing to all her customers: leave looking fabulous. “I do not want someone leaving this store looking bad, because one dress can destroy my income,” she said. “It’s not just customer service. It’s called caring.” Call it what you want, we just want to look good...
...East-bloc kitsch and Trabant jokes are one thing; the reality of the D.D.R. was quite another. For this reason, even those with a highly developed sense of Ostalgie will probably, in the end, spend November in a forward-looking frame of mind. Visit, too, the Gedenkstätte in Dresden, www.bautzner-strasse-dresden.de, the still forbidding former city headquarters of the Stasi, the D.D.R.'s pervasive ministry of state security. Or take a look at Leipzig's Museum Runde Ecke, www. runde-ecke-leipzig.de, another Stasi base that is now an authentically preserved museum filled with examples of how East German society...
...menu changes according to your preferences (which you can discuss when you make your booking) and whatever Lim likes the look of in his local palengke, or market, that day. "My main goal is to showcase the beauty of Pinoy food," he says. "To keep it real and exciting." He draws inspiration from his Ilocano and Hokkien roots to concoct playful yet sophisticated dishes that tease the palate without alienating it: succulent scallop kilawin (seviche) in chilled carrot-and-ginger soup; zesty crabmeat, pomelo and rocket salad with caramelized shallots and Ilocos vinegar ("Why does everybody always use balsamic...
...communist-era branding, old Wartburg and Trabant cars, and vintage Praktika cameras. Rather less flippantly, the current recession has prompted mostly elderly diehards to recall the days of secure employment and income equality with fondness. Richard Stratenschulte of Dresden's Stadtmuseum says that some of the older generation occasionally look to the past because "they don't want their lives to be underestimated. It's hard to reconcile the past with the present." (Read: "Germany's Election: Divided They Stand...
...clandestine trek over the border. His surprise appearance, impeccably timed to create buzz at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City this week - where Zelaya was scheduled to speak - made de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti and other leaders of the June 28 military coup that ousted Zelaya look like losers in a game of whack-a-mole...