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Bombay may be india's hippest city, but until recently finding a decent international restaurant outside the top hotels was a challenge. Visitors wanting a change from local cuisine and hotel food resorted to fast-food chains or pseudo-Chinese diners, where the ubiquitous "Chicken Manchurian" provided a spectacular example of the perils of fusion cooking. But Bombay is now finally getting the culinary makeover it has long deserved. And what Bombay does, the rest of India follows. Here's our pick of the city's best non-hotel venues: INDIGO The first classy independent restaurant in India when...
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—Boston College put on a spectacular aerial show on Thursday night for 7,149 fans at Conte Forum, while the Harvard men's basketball team was unable to even attain liftoff.In a display of superior athleticism that included alley-oops, breakaway dunks and a bevy of baskets from long range, the Eagles (8-2) ran away from an overmatched Harvard squad by a score of 89-55."It's probably the best forty minutes we've had all season," BC coach Al Skinner said. "We've won some ballgames, but we haven't played...
...courts a quartet of fabulous dames: a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi), a vamp (Carina Lau), a gambler (Gong Li) and the elfin girl of his dreams (Faye Wong). That gives the director four times as many chances to let furtive glances and plaintive words collide-which they do, to subtly spectacular effect. It?s a story of love and loss, beautifully designed (by William Chang) and shot (mainly by Christopher Doyle) in the smoky, smoldering Wong Kar-wai style. 2046 is the kind of picture an intelligent viewer can approach and ask, ?Got a light...
...Esalen institute?the 44-year-old spiritual retreat once infamous as a flashpoint of the hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation...
...Britons hasn't even started yet. So it could be mayhem in the shops if they're after Roboraptors or the Star Wars Darth Vader Voice Changer Mask, top toys in the Deloitte survey. Apple's new iPod nano is a favorite, too. Sudoku books continue their spectacular run and, for a truly harmonious holiday season, a new boxed set of Mozart's collected works by Brilliant Classics is retailing for less than $118. The 170-CD set is the best seller on Amazon.com in France, where it's beating Madonna's latest album...