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...menu, including rack of lamb Monte Carlo with Parisian potatoes. The hotel is right in town, within walking distance of the Fenimore Art Museum (the current exhibit features American artists' impressions of Rome at the turn of the century) and the Farmers' Museum, a living museum and ode to farming, with maple syrup-making and butter-churning demonstrations and a blacksmith shop. A special anniversary package starts at $299, breakfast included, through June 11. Or you could throw down for the VIP package, which includes breakfast, dinner and Dom Perignon champagne, among other treats, for $1,909 for two guests...
...last time I saw Sherzai, who is an accomplished lyricist, he was belting out a newly written ode in Pashto to the Taliban in the domed atrium of his Baroque governor's palace. A turbaned Pavarotti with a deep voice burnished by years of cigarettes, he put one hand on his heart and, with the other raised in a beseeching manner, chastised his enemies. "Once, we stood side by side fighting for our country/ Leave me some pride in those memories/ Your worth is more than in killing yourself/ You slaughter your brother while calling out God's name/ Come...
Adventureland, writer/director Greg Mottola's semiautobiographical ode to the languorous time just before adulthood responsibilities begin, makes you want to ditch your career (if it hasn't already ditched you), don some mildly humiliating uniform and return to the mundane summer job of your youth. Who can argue against cash flow, solidarity with a new peer group and no responsibility more strenuous than remembering who ordered the Sanka...
...stage” according to Marsh, and Krull does. Her performance as Peggy is never too naïve or calculating; she strikes just the right chord of vulnerability and wide-eyed excitement. As Roach sings the show-stopping “Lullaby of Broadway,” an ode to theater and New York City, Krull’s face becomes dreamy and adoring. Her love of performing pulses through every tap of her shoe and every note of her songs.Roach’s Julian Marsh is the perfect balance to Peggy’s bubbly Broadway fever...
...water burns more calories than drinking room-temperature water. By senior year of high school, food had become as much a game of calculations as an enjoyable sensory experience. This is something that needs to be brought to light. I know this is far less fun than my usual ode to sandwiches, but it is the other side of the same fascination with food. Just like you can’t talk about the genius of Math 55-ers without mentioning Asperger’s occasionally, it would be irresponsible to fixate on sandwiches and not address the darker side...