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...Three of the hotel's four restaurants overlook the jagged mountain range, but we sat in the Stube - a cozy, wood-paneled Tyrolean room in which Chef Luigi Sarsano serves up local cuisine. His menu features handmade ravioli stuffed with beetroot and spinach, a falling-off-the-bone baked shank of pork with sauerkraut, and fish shipped in daily from Venice's market. The hotel's attention to detail is masterful: from the 16,000 handpainted roses on the ceilings and walls to the delectable handmade biscotti accompanying a sinful hot cocoa that my 5-year-old daughter dubbed "Willy...
...show of the year, this thriller is paranoid and far-fetched enough to make 24 play like the 9/11 commission report. Combining an old-fashioned escape story with a timely story of oil, lies and conspiracy in the government, Prison Break takes your sense of skepticism and plunges a shank into it. The drama knows how to build and maintain suspense, and nowhere is that better embodied than in star Wentworth Miller--an inmate with his escape plan tattooed in code on his torso--who after 13 episodes seemed tense enough to crack walnuts behind his ears. With the titular...
...government condones and promotes the use of terrorist tactics, torture and murder when they suit its purpose. I pray we never again allow a President to hold office who considers the physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological destruction of another person to be just and right. Paul G. Shank Santa Barbara, California...
...PAUL G. SHANK Santa Barbara, Calif...
...rose-colored tie. He announces his list of cabaret don?ts and dos: ?1. Don?t suck. 2. Do it as if you were entertaining in your living room.? Stokes? sucklessness ia a given; and the only format here is informality. It?s as if we?re in the shank of a swank dinner party, and one of the guests is persuaded to sing, and he sings for an hour, and can he sing! If this deprives the show of a certain amount of moment, and momentum, it accentuates the feeling of good vibes, which Mitchell has chosen...