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Where do you find the best raclette east of Geneva? In Bhutan, naturally. Operated by longtime Swiss resident Fritz Maurer, the Swiss Guesthouse, tel: (975-3) 631 145, overlooks the small town of Jakar in the Bumthang valley, Bhutan's cultural heartland. With its grazing cows, mountain scenery and orchards, the property looks beautifully reminiscent of Heidi, and generous plates of the house special, raclette, assist the illusion. But how does the traditional Swiss favorite of melted cheese, gherkins and potatoes manage to taste so good here...
With lyrics like those, Truth in Translation will probably not be going to Broadway. The musical, which dramatizes the work of translators at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is going to far more interesting places. Since opening in Rwanda last August, it has played Johannesburg and Cape Town, and is now set for runs in Liberia, the Balkans and Northern Ireland, before ending up way off Broadway at the basement Colonnades Theater Lab in New York City. Director and Colonnades founder Michael Lessac says his aim is to tell the story of an "evolutionary step for humanity...
...offering any theories about the string of events that have strung Denver out for months, diverting cocktail chatter away from the usual Range Rovers, real estate, skiing and where to get the best carrot juice. Major crime is down, the 2008 Democratic National Convention is coming to town, and the polls have been kind, so the mayor says he's feeling fine. He does remark that even "with all this bad news, people still like to live here...
...Harvard men’s hockey team more trouble over the course of the season than the Yale Bulldogs. The Crimson dropped both of the meetings between the two teams by a combined score of 10-3, its worst differential against any opponent all season. With Yale returning to town next weekend for the best-of-three opening round of the ECAC playoffs, Harvard knows that, even as the No. 7 seed to the Bulldogs’ No. 10, it cannot afford to take its opponent lightly. “Coming out and playing Yale, we have...
...TOWN Gordes gordes-village.com has wonderful cafés, colorful houses?very scenic. That little town is the chicest area...