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...would think that increasing the Tour from $175 to $195 would have an effect on demand, but the overall percentage of Tours we sell on any given night has increased steadily," says co-owner Nick Kokonas. In fact, the restaurant wound up dropping its comparatively cheap $85 prix fixe meal, since no one was ordering...
...spot anything offensive about the following scenes from Syndromes and a Century, the dreamy new $1.1 million movie by Thai director and Cannes 2004 Prix du Jury winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul: a Buddhist monk strums a battered guitar; two monks play with a remote-controlled flying saucer in a park; a doctor kisses his girlfriend in a locker room; a group of doctors share a bottle of whiskey in a hospital basement...
...their rears." Yet as the week ended, the restaurateurs were planning their next steps. Michael and Terry McNally of the London Grill are planning an Oct. 22 dinner in honor of Hudson Valley Foie Gras co-founder Michael Ginor and his book Foie Gras: A Passion. For a $165 prix fixe, the six-course dinner will include foie gras in every course, from the matzo ball soup to a creme brulee dessert...
Like the city in which it is held, the Macau Grand Prix has long been biding its time. For years, it trundled along in the bottom tier of race-car meetings as a sort of amateur's Monaco, the field dominated by weekend drivers and their hobby cars. These days, however, it is bigger, louder and definitely on the world map - fueled in large measure by the growth of Macau itself...
...From Nov. 15-18, a 900-strong media corps and some 260 competitors will swarm upon China's gaming capital for the 54th Macau Grand Prix. The organizers would probably have to buy solar panels for half of Mongolia to offset the emissions of this orgy of gas-guzzling, but why muse on such deflating topics when there are eight fierce races to behold? This is the only street meet in the world that features both car races (including a Formula Three race and a World Touring Car Championship) as well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand...