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Owing to my mother’s insatiable appetite for seafood and my father’s idiosyncratic habit of driving until he finds “authentic” restaurants, I’ve eaten in my share of rugged waterfront establishments. It is telling that my family’s favorite restaurant in Maine is a riverside shack that serves lobster and steamers at picnic tables and encourages patrons to bring coolers with their own appetizers and alcoholic beverages...
...South Bank of the Thames is a dignified, flourishing cultural waterfront, sporting national centers for theater, film and painting. It seems an unlikely spot for a battle. But this week a major salvo will be fired, as advertising millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi opens his much-anticipated new gallery, just a riverside stroll away from his archrival, Tate Modern, which opened to huge acclaim in 2000. Saatchi is one of the art world's most notorious figures, having used his wealth to shape a generation of British art. He favors works that make big, confrontational gestures, like Damien Hirst...
...crew subculture wasn’t born or exposed that fateful night. Let’s hope that when the Harvard and Northeastern heavyweight crews meet—and the schedule says they’re supposed to this weekend—that nothing too bizarre happens On The Waterfront...
...Wuhu, Charles was patrolling the waterfront when he saw a woman holding opium. Rather than arrest her, he let her go. That woman was Lily Chan. Lily, whose first husband had died in a Japanese bomb raid, was an aptly roguish match for Charles; she "walked like a hood," he says, and was a devout gambler. Soon Charles had a new family: Lily and her daughters, Yulan and Guilan...
...provides an opportunity to remind the Big Dig’s administrators of their promise to replace the elevated Central Artery with green space after the project is finished. As helpful as the Big Dig will be in easing traffic problems, the purpose of rejoining Boston’s waterfront and North End with the financial district should be seen as an equally vital goal, not a side effect...