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Next month is birthing season for North America's bison, and then for elk, moose and deer. One of the best places to catch a glimpse of these native bovines is Wyoming?home not only to Yellowstone National Park but also the Teton Mountains and the National Elk Refuge. Just to the south of these three ecological wonderlands is the 400-hectare Spring Creek Ranch (springcreekranch.com) at Jackson Hole. Under the guidance of Kurt Johnson, the ranch's resident naturalist, and armed with spotting scopes and high-powered binoculars, guests get a backstage pass to Wyoming's majestic menagerie...
...ultimately it is Rochester Park in one-north district?the city's newly minted tech and biomedical-science hub?that is Singapore's hottest dining address today. The colonial-era homes of British military officers have been transformed into retail outlets and restaurants. Try Graze, tel: (65) 6775 9000, the bistro established by Yenn Wong, owner of Hong Kong's JIA boutique hotel. And don't miss Min Jiang, tel: (65) 6774 0122, a sibling of the Sichuan restaurant of the same name at the Goodwood Park Hotel. The Ernesto Bedmar-designed interior is uncompromisingly modern, and the cuisine decidedly...
...This, we hear the South Park kids muttering, is terminally gay. And HSM is certainly gay as in happy, perky, shiny. (Even the Goths wear pastels.) But the movie, directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega, is really about daring to emerge from social stereotypes - and crawl into a movie time capsule, where Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland fixed up the old barn and, presto, put on a show. Which is only about as gay as... well, as South Park, which often breaks into Broadway-worthy songs composed by Trey Parker, possibly the last heterosexual to write tuneful parodies of Richard Rodgers...
...like sea urchin spaghetti, or Stracchino cheese and Parma ham with sautéed mushrooms on a rosemary crisp lure a glamorous crowd, as do the sea views and a chic dining room with furnishings by the likes of Arne Jacobsen and Antonio Citterio. But ultimately it is Rochester Park in one-north district - the city's newly minted tech and biomedical-science hub - that is Singapore's hottest dining address today. The colonial-era homes of British military officers have been transformed into retail outlets and restaurants. Try Graze, tel: (65) 6775 9000, the bistro established by Yenn Wong...
...Industrial Light and Magic special-effects team, allowing them to add color and texture to the models they made (a brontosaurus would look pretty fake without its scales). His tools were used in movies like “Starship Troopers” and “Jurassic Park,” and won him two Academy Awards.Despite the accolades, Knep felt trapped. “I wasn’t satisfied with what I was doing. I was a small cog in this giant machine,” he says of his Hollywood days. So, he quit.Knep decided that...