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...Scrabble was conceived during the Great Depression by an unemployed New York architect named Alfred Mosher Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction during the bleak economic times. After determining what he believed were the most enduring games in history - board games, numbers games like dice or cards and letter games like crossword puzzles - he combined all three. He then chose the frequency and the distribution of the tiles by counting letters on the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and The Saturday Evening Post. For more than a decade he tweaked...
...Drink and be Merry. Socialize with fellow visitors to New York City at the Empire Hotel's guests-only "Caipirinha Thursday" in the hotel's lobby bar. You'll get complimentary hors d'oeuvre and Sagatiba caipirinhas, a Brazilian cocktail of rum and limes. The mixers happen on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (See 10 things to do in New York.) 44 West 63rd Street, New York City...
Free Shipping. In case you have enough money to travel and shop this holiday season, InterContinental will ship one 30-lb. box free of charge for guests at its hotels in Atlanta, Boston, L.A., Miami, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. Simply take your box, with receipts as proof of local purchase, to the hotel's business center and have it shipped it to your doorstep. Through...
Party Like It's 1899. Sixteen of New York City's top-rated restaurants, including Per Se, Adour and Chanterelle, will serve multicourse Victorian banquets of each chef's interpretation, from January to March 2009, and donate some of the proceeds to charity. Café des Artistes will recreate the dinner you may have drooled over in the film Babette's Feast, while French seafood restaurant Le Bernadin will do all things de la mer, complete with top hats, candles, and "the rich sauces of the day," says chef Eric Ripert. Check the Zagat Guide's website for dates, menus...
...York City has several venues for mid-ice collision: Lasker Rink at Central Park, the Rink at Rockefeller Center, the Pond at Bryant Park and Wollman Rink at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Plus, a couple of new entries: The American Museum of Natural History (West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue) has installed the 150-by-80-foot Polar Rink, filled with synthetic ice; it's harder to skate on, but offers a softer landing when you fall. Through Feb. 28, 2009, adults pay $10 and kids $8, including skate rentals. Another newcomer is the Seaport Ice rink at Pier...