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...restaurant’s signature cocktail, the Basil Lime Gimlet ($9), to any meal for an unexpectedly smooth combination of tart lime and sweet basil. The wine list, which is limited to Italian wines and arranged by region, also offers many wines by the glass and a number of moderately priced bottles...
Good luck if you can’t speak Portuguese, because bakeries don’t get more local than Café Casal. Grab a copy of O Jornal, one of the free bilingual newspapers and request a slice of cinnamon cake or a custard tart (pastel de nata) at the counter. While the Dunkin’ Donuts-like atmosphere of this bakery is depressingly modern, the history of the tarts goes all the way back to the Middle Ages. When noble families sent their daughters off to the Church to become nuns, they paid their dowries in chickens...
...Scalia does not have a lock on the job. According to several sources familiar with White House thinking on judicial nominations, the President and his advisers are worried that the tart-tongued Justice may not have the people skills to manage the court, build consensus among its nine members and represent the institution in public. That may explain why the famously dyspeptic Scalia has become a merry mainstay on the A-list Washington social circuit of late. At parties ranging from a charity dinner at the Kuwaiti embassy two weeks ago to an Inaugural lunch at D.C.'s chic...
Which is why the puritanical glee that has greeted this new trend is so creepy. Newspapers have heralded the “end of pop-tart influence” with a self-satisfied, victorious air not seen since the conviction of Martha Stewart. One of Seventeen’s editors dubbed the new look “Miss Modesty.” Women interviewed for news articles cite a desire to avoid looking “trashy,” and state that “being a lady is big.” As one told the San Diego...
...column on the Democratic Convention--which she described as attended by "corn-fed, no makeup, natural fiber, no-bra-needing, sandal- wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call 'women'"--caused USA Today to drop her from its pages. But it's precisely that kind of tart talk that has turned Coulter's books, including her most recent, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), into best sellers and made her a popular pundit on the political-talk-show circuit. Her mission, she says, was "to energize the liberal base because every time one of them...