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...ever inventive chef-owner Normand Laprise, Toque! never bores. It's perhaps the best of the market-cuisine restaurants in the city. Less elegant but just as inventive is the newish Au Pied de Cochon (514-281-1114), where iconoclastic chef Martin Picard throws coronary caution to the wind with his heavy and delectable pork, venison, lamb, poultry and fish dishes in seasonal dress. His foie gras-poutine appetizer (pate atop a version of the Quebecois snack of fries, cheese curd and gravy) typifies his highbrow-lowbrow approach...
Soon after buying Brooks Brothers in late 2001, Claudio Del Vecchio took a trip to the warehouse that keeps the company's archives. When a business has been around since 1818, you wind up with a lot of history?especially when you're talking about the retailer that sold Abraham Lincoln the overcoat he wore to Ford's Theatre, F.D.R. the cape he donned at Yalta, Fred Astaire the neckties he used as belts and generations of men the suits they wore to their first jobs on Wall Street...
...folk requiem. Gabriel, however, has found a resonance in Biko's death that goes beyond outrage or simple protest. The further away history moves, the deeper Biko cuts. "You can blow out a candle/ but you can't blow out a fire/ once the flame begin to catch/ the wind will blow it higher," Gabriel sings. Hearing that song during last spring's Amnesty International tour, or at the June 14 antiapartheid rally in New York City's Central Park, there was no resisting either its heat or its true moral force. Biko is a song full of ghosts that...
...crew duties during the nine races. “The forecast was for really cold weather and really high breeze, but it wasn’t quite so bad,” Brants said. “There was a high-velocity breeze on Saturday, and on Sunday, the wind direction was shifty and very variable.” That variable wind had its biggest effect on the A-division team of captain skipper Megan Watson and freshman crew Meghan Wareham, who struggled to an 11th-place finish. “There was a little bit of chop...
...line, in addition to committing 22 turnovers and allowing the Gauchos to shoot 50 percent from the field. “We didn’t score for a stretch there that really hurt us,“ Amaker said. “I thought that really took the wind out of our sails. And again, I thought we shot poorly from the foul line.” Lin, who played his high school ball down the street from Maples, posted a career-high 15 points, and Harris nabbed a game-high eight rebounds but scored only three points...