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...magnet for Vienna's well-heeled scenemakers have replaced the workshops and long-suffering traders who once made their homes beneath the brick archways of the U-bahn - the Gürtel's elevated railway. A restaurant like BABU, tel: (43-1) 479 48 49, is the perfect avatar of the new Gürtel. This stylish, two-level fusion restaurant and bar lies just off Nussdorferstrasse, one of the most conspicuous pockets of gentrification along the belt. There, the city's chattering classes nibble on sushi in a chic interior fashioned from concrete and laminated beechwood. Afterward, they have...
...max” was total, front-on honest, and the shockingly tight musicianship drove all that honesty like an old-timey steam-train to our hearts.Lyrics are the also the stock-and-trade of the third superstar on our list: John Darnielle, aka The Mountain Goats. His set was perfect. Fans got to hear unbelievably obscure nuggets like “Lady from Shanghai,” casual listeners were taught the words for a sing-along version of “No Children,” and John maintained his reputation as one of the most charismatic and audience...
...come a long way since his role as the arrogant and wealthy Harry Osborn in “Spiderman,” or his days on the short-lived “Freaks and Geeks.” In “Flyboys” he is the perfect cinema soldier—regimented, purposeful, and brooding—but is also able to relax to adorably woo his lady in broken French. The promise that “Flyboys” is “inspired by a true story” does not mean that all the characters...
...faces a gut-check if it hopes to accelerate—rather than skid—into the Ivy League season. “Losing to Penn [last Saturday] put us in a hole that we now need to get ourselves out of, and beating Yale will be the perfect way to do it,” Altchek said. In both the Penn and Rhode island contests, the Crimson squad underperformed at crucial periods. “We made a few mistakes at key moments,” Altcheck said. “It was just a question of executing...
...around long enough that I’ll get a second chance. Leave the overstuffed chairs and mellow Norah Jones soundtrack to the TF meetings and uncomfortably-attached couples in Starbucks. You—with your lack of seating, loud-noise rock, and homeless clientele—are the perfect wingman for the charitable, yet brief, grabbing of coffee with the awkward kid from section. I don’t want the yuppie strollers and biodegradable footprint-patterned carafes of Peet’s—give me plain cups and the cacophony of the Square any day. I skip...