Word: malling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...always clear what authorities are watching for, however. In March, for example, about 100 people gathered outside a Beijing mall to celebrate International Pillow Fight Day. Before the participants could begin whacking each other with pillows, several dozen police stopped the rumble - even following the group to another location and squelching a second attempted donnybrook. Even things considered safe at a children's slumber party can trip Beijing's increasingly taut security wires...
...Mainland businesspeople are hurt, too. At Shenzhen's Luohu Commercial City-the mega mall that's a magnet for tourists seeking a bargain, and where Salim aimed to go-shopkeepers say fewer foreign customers are showing up. "Before, we were so busy. We're not selling much anymore; by 5 or 6 p.m., we're just playing cards," says Lin Ming, a clothing shop owner whose sales have dropped by 50% in the last month...
Grand Theft Auto IV has been in my possession since midnight Monday in a Los Angeles mini-mall. Because the game is rated M for Mature, there were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot, trying to bribe cool adults to get them a copy. What's worse? Buying teens cheap vodka or immersive sociopathic sandbox crime simulators...
From there, our hired driver (hey, you can't drink this much and drive) took Kerkmans and me one town over to Lyons, where we parked in a strip mall to drink at Oskar Blues, a brewery--restaurant-country bar that is one of the few craft breweries that can their beer, claiming it stays fresher than it does in a bottle because light never gets in (a New York Times panel of critics named Oskar Blues' Dale's Pale Ale its favorite American pale ale). Oskar's sells a beer-flavored lip balm and some very intense beers. That...
...been bothered by anybody about my hijab. If anything, I often get complimented on it. I may cover my hair for the sake of God, but I love getting it cut and styled. I have a husband who can't understand how I spend so much time at the mall; I have big dreams for work; I play sports; I love to run. I cringe at the word extremist. And I thank God that I am both Muslim and American at the same time...