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...WEEKENDS, THE LINE AT ISTANBUL'S Mangerie, a hip rooftop restaurant with views over the Bosporus Strait, stretches three stories down the stairs toward the street. On a recent Sunday, Defne Kocabiyikoglu, 28, a design consultant, and her boyfriend, Baran Baran, 30, a motion-graphics animator, were settling into a Turkish brunch of kasar cheese and sesame-sprinkled simit pastries and expounding on the fashion constraints of the city. While Kocabiyikoglu can get any clothes she wants?favoring fashion-forward labels like Roksanda Ilincic and Tina Kalivas, which she buys online and mixes with local finds, she points...
...with pompous father George Banks (Daniel Jenkins), mother Winifred (perennial Broadway luminary Rebecca Luker) and two rambunctious children, Jane and Michael (played by three pairs of kids); the hiring of the uncanny nanny Mary Poppins (Ashley Brown); the narration by Mary's friend, Bert the chimneysweep (Gavin Lee); the rooftop dance of Bert and his proletarian pals; and most of Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman's hit score. Eight of the Shermans' 14 songs (including "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "A Spoonful of Sugar," and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") have been retained; George Stiles and Anthony Drewe expanded some of these and wrote...
...Diwali, but that was nothing compared to the noise that was unleashed as darkness set in. It seemed as if every person in Delhi simultaneously lit a fuse, stood back and waited for the explosion. Color and light shot up from parks and neighborhood streets, from backyards and rooftop terraces. Those who weren't outside letting off fireworks were perhaps inside pursuing the second favorite form of Diwali fun: gambling...
Conergy, which Rüter founded in 1998, is the world's largest solar-system-integration company, providing more renewable-energy systems than anyone else. They include solar panels for single-family homes in Germany; a rooftop solar system, the biggest of its kind, for the tiremaker Michelin; and solar electricity for off-grid villages in India. Conergy produces 30% of the components it sells. It also builds wind, biomass and solar-thermal systems...
...18th century fountain or eat tapas in the piano bar. 1 Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium. And the Moroccan and French food is delicate and tasty. 55 Souk Hal Fassi, Kat Bennahïd, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 81 90; www.foundouk.com