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...cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, a swath of chartreuse and emerald green beneath a bolt of cobalt and pale blue. Millet was second only to Rembrandt in Van Gogh's pantheon, and he copied the older artist's works throughout his short life, working from prints or from memory, especially the iconic figure of the Sower. In 1889, he wrote to his brother Theo that "painting from these drawings...
...cabernet later—in great spirits, and try to remember what it was that made us so content. The style? Stucco and wood and celebrity pictures on the wall were fine, but we had all seen better. The music? Who knew whether music was playing? The lighting? Pale yellow and warm, but not even close to the candle-lit extravaganzas that could easily be found elsewhere. Yes, fantastic food, affectionate service—but also something more...
...chilly day in early November, a stretch of this humble road near the tiny hamlet of Chendebji bears witness to an unprecedented event: the shooting of Bhutan's first-ever homegrown feature film. Its writer and director, Khyentse Norbu, bundled against the wind in a thick, maroon turtleneck and pale lavender muffler, pulls his baseball cap low over his eyes and instructs the cameraman to focus on four actors by the side of the road. "Again," he says into a walkie-talkie, and a red tractor emerges from around the bend to collect two of the actors?one dressed...
...Americans we are no longer surprised by gross ingratitude from countries our soldiers have died to defend. The past, after all, is the past. Still, South Korea’s brand of anti-Americanism is beyond the pale. In a Gallup poll taken in December, more South Koreans expressed a positive view of North Korea, a country that sends children to its version of a gulag, than of the United States. The reason is that young South Koreans overwhelmingly blame President Bush for North Korea’s belligerence. Against this nonsense, I should note that North Korea resumed...
...Singapore's popular expat-heavy Brewerkz, (65) 6438 7438, micro has gone macro. The 840-sq. m brewery, opened in 1997 by the son of a teetotaling Methodist minister, makes 10 different original brews, from Singapore Pale Ale to Oatmeal Stout to Millennium Lager, available in a yard-size glass for a whopping $20 apiece. Like many other large brewpubs, Brewerkz also sells its microbrews in take-out bottles?but only on the premises. "We haven't pushed it to the greater world because I don't want to compete with the 900-lb. gorillas," says managing director Devin Kimble...