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...While your article highlighted the Carlyle Hotel and the Palm Court at the Plaza Hotel in New York City as the only smart places in the U.S. to take tea, those of us west of the Mississippi were dismayed that you did not mention the spectacular Dushanbe teahouse in Boulder, Colorado. The only Central Asian teahouse in the Western Hemisphere and a gift from our impoverished sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, it is exquisitely decorated with hand-carved and hand-painted ceilings, tables, stools and interior wood columns. It is an extraordinary work of art that never fails to enhance...
...firecrackers that crackled in the plaza of the central city of Morelia late Monday in celebration of Mexico's independence day served as a prelude to a nastier set of explosions. When the smoke cleared, more than 100 revelers lay bleeding on the paving stones. The clearly stunned state governor Leonel Godoy, who had moments earlier been presiding over the festivities, declared the attack the work of Mexico's increasingly violent drug gangs. By Tuesday, as annual parades marched somberly through the Mexican cities, at least eight victims of the blast had died from their wounds, and several more were...
...never saw the original production of Hair, but I did catch the show a couple of years after its 1968 Broadway debut, when the touring company came to San Francisco. I was a student at Berkeley, and I would occasionally take a break from dodging tear gas in Sproul Plaza to usher for plays in the city. It was a good deal: students could spend half an hour helping fat cats find their way to their orchestra seats and, after the curtain went up, take any empty seat for free. Except that the night I saw Hair, the house...
...graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp’s book, “Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza in Las Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team in 1993, and about the luxurious perks of playing big in Nevada. To give a sense of the magnitude of these perks, Irvine told a story about one of his fellow blackjack players receiving a private plane-ride...
Elizabeth Bennett, seven Harry Potters, and the Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly graced the stage of the Holyoke Center’s Forbes Plaza Saturday night as contestants in a literary costume contest at Harvard Square’s first-ever “Bookish Ball...