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Read all of Wolfgang Puck's recipes from today's show and about his new APP!
Recipes from Wolfgang's Governors Ball menu are available on Wolfgang Puck's app "Live, Love, Eat," which is free to download for iphone and ipad.
The app also features some of the chef's favorite seasonal recipes, step-by-step how to videos, digital 'shopping lists', and timers for each step of the recipes so you can stay on track while cooking- extremely helpful if you're looking to put something together for an Oscars party.
This recipe uses a classic French chicken veloute scented deliciously with winter black truffles. You may substitute or add to the vegetables we've used below according to your taste, however, please do make sure anything added to the veloute mixture is as dry as possible. A vegetarian version of this can be made by substituting a vegetable or mushroom stock for chicken stock in the veloute recipe and by adding more vegetables in place of the chicken.
Serves six.
Make an enriched chicken stock:
1 gallon chicken stock
1 each 3-3.5 pound whole chicken (excess fat trimmed)
1 each carrot (peeled, rough chop for mirepoix)
2 stalks celery (rough chop for mirepoix)
2 each yellow onion (rough chop for mirepoix)
3 sprigs thyme
1 each bay leaf
Combine all ingredients in a pot and bring up to a boil. Turn heat down to bring it to a simmer. Cook for 2 hours, skimming off fat along the way. Remove chicken and let cool. Strain enriched stock through a fine mesh sieve and skim off any remaining fat off the top. Reserve 1 quart for the veloute and cool the rest of it down for later use in a soup or a sauce.
Chicken Veloute:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup butter
1 quart enriched chicken stock
1 cup creme fraiche
2 tablespoons black truffle oil
1/4 cup chopped black truffle
1 each lemon
Salt (or truffle salt) to taste
White pepper to taste. Make a roux by melting the butter in a pot. Once completely melted, whisk in flour. Cook on low heat for 5 minutes while continually whisking. Slowly add enriched stock to roux. Bring veloute up to a boil and then turn heat down to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Veloute should be slightly thick. Strain through a fine mesh sieve. Add truffle oil, creme fraiche, and chopped truffle. Whisk thoroughly, season to taste with salt and pepper and juice from lemon. Check for consistency. Make sure its not too thick, loosen with more stock if necessary.
2 cups cooked pearl onions (red and white)
2 cups cooked baby carrots (yellow and orange, cut into 1/2 " pieces)
2 cups cooked (or defrosted if frozen) green peas
18 slices black truffle
Meat from chicken cooked from enriched chicken stock (not fine shredded)
6 each approximately 10oz. ramekins or 4" wide soup vessel
Puff Pastry, cut into circles that overlap your ramekin or vessel by 1.5"
2 whole eggs +1 egg yolk for egg wash
Preheat a "still" or low fan oven to 350 degrees. Make sure veloute and all ingredients are completely cool before you begin. In a wide bowl or a wide pot, combine veloute, vegetables, and chicken and mix well with a rubber spatula. Spoon mixture into ramekins, leaving about 1/2" room from the top. Place 3 slices of shaved truffle on top of mixture in each ramekin. Prepare an egg wash by whisking whole eggs and egg yolks together in a separate bowl. Make sure puff pastry is cool enough to work with. (Leave in the freezer and take out 5 minutes before using). Brush outside edge of ramekins with egg wash about 1" from the top of the rim, all the way around. Cover each ramekin with puff pastry and secure the puff pastry by pressing around the outside of the ramekin. Brush puff pastry with egg wash and bake in the oven until golden brown (usually 20-23 minutes). Glaze again with egg wash halfway through cooking.
I love this easy appetizer's combination of sweet, salty, nutty, meaty, and smoky flavors and smooth, creamy, and crispy textures—all wrapped up in just an intense bite or two. The effect works best when you seek out ingredients of the highest quality. You'll need a wooden toothpick to secure each stuffed and wrapped date for baking and serving. And let me add one more important word of advice: People will love these so much that you might want to plan on making multiple batches.
Makes 18
18 large dates, preferably Medjool, slit lengthwise and pitted
18 pieces good-quality Parmesan cheese, preferably Parmigiano-Reggiano, each about 1 by 1/4 inch
6 slices good-quality smoked bacon, cut crosswise into thirds
Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Insert a piece of Parmesan into each date. Then, wrap each date with 1 piece of bacon, securing it with a wooden toothpick.
Arrange the dates 1 inch apart in a shallow baking pan. Bake for 5 minutes. Then, using tongs, turn the dates over. Continue baking until the bacon is crisp, 5 to 6 minutes longer.
With the tongs, transfer the dates to paper towels to drain, carefully patting them dry with more paper towels. Serve immediately.
So many people today enjoy edamame, those delicious little fresh soybeans, usually served as a snack in Japanese restaurants, simply boiled in their pods, sprinkled with some sea salt, and popped from pod to mouth. But thinking of other ways they could be enjoyed, my team and I came up with the idea of including them in guacamole, pureed along with ripe avocados and seasonings. The result is a touch lighter in taste and texture (and fat) than traditional guacamole, with a beautiful pale-green color. Serve it with your favorite chips or fresh vegetable crudités for dipping.
Makes about 2 1/2 cups, 10 to 12 servings
1 cup shelled edamame
3 ounces sour cream
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
2 medium-sized ripe Hass-style avocados
Freshly ground black pepper
Put the edamame, sour cream, lime juice, and olive oil in a food processor fitted with the stainless-steel blade. Pulse until pureed.
With a sharp knife, cut the avocados lengthwise in half, cutting around the pit. Twist the 2 halves between your hands to separate them. With a sharp-edged tablespoon, scoop out and discard the pits.
Scoop the avocado pulp from each half into the food processor bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper and process until smoothly blended, stopping once or twice to scrape down the bowl.
Carefully transfer the guacamole to a serving bowl. Serve immediately
What's a party without crunchy, earthy flavored toasted nuts to nibble on? For many hosts and guests alike, they're the perfect complement to drinks served at the start of the gathering, and people can go on enjoying them throughout the evening—whether they're continuing to chat and mingle or are sitting down to watch an awards show or sporting event on TV.
I like to put together my own special blend of nuts when I entertain. That way, I can chose which nuts I prefer, and in whatever proportions I like. I can also season them to taste. And toasting the nuts yourself produces the most wonderfully rich flavor and satisfying texture, which can't compare to anything from a jar, bag, or can.
In this particular recipe, I call for equal quantities of seven different kinds of nuts, but you can vary the amounts as you prefer—as long as the total comes to 1 3/4 pounds. (Some of your guests may be allergic to certain kinds of nuts, so you might want to ask before you make the recipe—or alert guests to what's in it.)
Buy whole, shelled nuts that are raw and, for certain kinds like almonds, hazelnuts, or peanuts, skinless as well. If you wish, you can also include a little dried fruit, like the pineapple in this recipe. And make the seasonings as spicy or sweet as you want, feeling free to vary them from those I give here.
1/4 pound shelled whole skinless raw almonds
1/4 pound shelled raw Brazil nuts
1/4 pound shelled raw cashews
1/4 pound shelled skinless raw hazelnuts
1/4 pound shelled skinless raw peanuts
1/4 pound shelled raw pecan halves
1/4 pound shelled raw walnut halves
1/4 pound dried pineapple, cut into 1/2-inch dice
2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh rosemary leaves
2 teaspoons cayenne
2 teaspoons dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In mixing bowl, put almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, walnuts, and pineapple. With clean hands, toss until thoroughly combined.
Spread mixture on baking sheet. Put in preheated oven and bake until nuts are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes, checking to make sure they don't burn.
When nuts are almost done, in mixing bowl stir together rosemary, cayenne, sugar, and salt. Drizzle in melted butter and stir well.
Transfer warm nut mixture to bowl and toss to coat evenly with seasoned butter mixture.
Evenly spread coated nut mixture back on baking sheet. Return to oven and bake until sugar coating has melted, 3 to 5 minutes longer.
Transfer nuts to large, clean bowl. Serve warm. Or let cool and then store in airtight container until serving.
3 cups milk
½ cup sugar
3 Tbsp cocoa powder
4 Tbsp cornstarch
6 oz bittersweet chocolate
1 oz butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
In a heavy metal sauce pan add milk and half the sugar. and over a medium flame bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
In a medium bowl whisk together the remaining sugar, cocoa powder and cornstarch.
Whisking constantly stream the sugar cocoa powder mixture directly into the hot milk.
Place back on heat and continue to whisk and cook for 4 minutes additional until thickened, 200 degrees F ( liquid like molted jelly).
Remove from heat and whisk in the bittersweet chocolate, butter and vanilla extract.
Pour out into glasses. Cover directly with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for 2 hours, or will keep refrigerated for 3 days.
Serve with Fresh Whipped Cream and Cherries.


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Units: About 52,000
Manufacturer: Fluke Corp., of Everett, Wash.
Hazard: The meters can fail to give an appropriate voltage reading, resulting in the operator falsely believing the electrical power is off, posing a shock, electrocution, or thermal burn
Incidents/Injuries: Fluke has received three reports of clamp meters displaying an incorrect voltage reading. No injuries have been reported.
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Sold at: Industrial distributors, electrical wholesalers and some hardware stores nationwide from January 2008 through February 2009 for between $150 and $375.
Manufactured in: China
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American and British Internet-delivered TV users may become more involved in the funding of their favorite content, according to a study by management consulting firm Accenture.
More than a third of those surveyed said they would contribute to funding a sequel of a favorite movie or TV show — an encouraging sign for crowdsourcing. But modest contribution levels ($1-$4 in the U.S., £1-£4 in the U.K.) were the most likely.
The firm surveyed about 2,000 demographically representative consumers, roughly half in each country, during September.
Among the survey's findings:
• People prefer to view full-length movies and TV shows on television sets rather than on PCs, laptops, tablets or smartphones.
• Some 72% of Americans and 68% of Brits watched full-length films and TV programs delivered over the Internet on TV sets; only 4% of respondents watched this type of programming on a phone.
• By contrast, Internet-delivered shortform videos and user-generated content were most likely to be viewed on PCs, laptops and phones. Relatively few people chose to watch them on television sets.
• When looking for new OTT content, 64% of respondents searched by genre. Only 37% looked at ratings from other viewers. Fewer still (32%) searched for a particular actor, director or celebrity.


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i feel like it's been forever since i had pics of the girls to post. the weather here has not been in my favor alongside the time of year. with my oldest being in kindergarten now it sure makes it tricky to get good shots of her after school. it gets dark and really cold fast. i found myself going through withdrawal of their cute little faces on here and scheduled in a quick little 5 min photoshoot after school yesterday. they had so much fun posing for the camera and i found myself amazed at how big they had grown when i edited the pics.
i know i see them everyday but stepping back and looking at the photos really cemented how old mackenzie looks and how big harper is getting. i mean where has my baby gone? can you believe harper is going to be 3 in may???!!! seriously! i get misty eyed just thinking about it. they are both definitely keeping this momma busy. my oldest loves to challenge me on more than a daily basis and i tell you the grey hairs are coming in. but she loves school and going to full time kindergarten has been great for her. only problem was i figured she would come home with a tad less energy but instead she comes home even more pumped up. i can't figure this out...lol...and it's exhausting. she wears me out..haha. the two of them together makes me sometimes feel like i can't get a focused thought through my head. it never sinks in how crazy it gets around here some days until they are asleep and my brain goes...."yesssssss....finally....what took you so long?". it's like stepping into a hot bath. i just soak and revel in the silence. boy do i love that silence.......
.....for a while...and then i miss them and i sneak into their rooms to give them that one last bedtime kiss. it's so hilarious to me that when they are driving me to the brink of insanity (and believe me they do on more than one occasion) that when i finally get them to go to sleep after an hour or so i miss them. anyone else have this issue? sometimes it makes me feel guilty for wanting them to go to bed so badly that i get one of those cases of "am i a good enough mom" bouts that we all get...or at least i hope we all do and i'm not the only lone bird analyzing my parenting skills....and desperate need for silence. speaking of silence....how long is it till bedtime?? ;P
wishing you all a wonderful weekend filled with kiddo craziness but also lots of quiet mommy time. does your wee one come home from school even more energized than when they left in the morning? do you long for bedtime some days and if so do you sometimes get the same mom guilts i do? let's chat! i've got some yummy lattes here with your name on it! pull up a seat and stick around for a while :)


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Superior will hold an open house Thursday, March 21, for residents interested in serving on committees and commissions in town.
The open house begins at 6 p.m. at Superior Town Hall, 124 E. Coal Creek Drive.
There are several openings on committees and commissions, including: the Planning Commission; the Historical Commission; the Recycling and Conservation Advisory Committee; and the Parks, Recreation, Open Space and Trails Advisory Committee.
For those unable to attend the open house, there are applications available at superiorcolorado.gov. Call Town Hall with any questions at 303-499-3675.


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Fortitude Valley is a contradiction in itself, raw yet sophisticated, where elegance and style meets grungy and offbeat. A place where heritage listed properties proudly stand amongst new and contemporary structures.
The Valley, as it's affectionately known by locals, was Australia's first dedicated entertainment district and continues to be a hive of activity, alive with the sounds of people and music. Live music thrives in venues such as The Zoo and Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts and international DJs are drawn to the super clubs and chic bars.
The impressive Chinatown Mall is a hub of exotic Chinese supermarkets, traditional restaurants serving authentic Yum Cha and trendy markets. Explore the quirky laneways where shopping enthusiasts can pick up unique fashion pieces at the retro boutiques and designer dress shops.
Fortitude Valley is also made up of a number of smaller lifestyle strips, offering a mix of restaurants and shopping in atmospheric settings. The Emporium complex channels a European village feel, James Street showcases Australian fashion labels and Brunswick Street is home to a multicultural assortment of dining options.
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Black Friday. Gray Thursday. Cyber Monday. Small Business Saturday. Remember when it used to be about Thanksgiving?
Somewhere in the past few years our national day of thanks became a day of doorbuster specials.
There was more media coverage this year about Black Friday shopping than there were stories about what Thanksgiving and what the ensuing holiday season means - or should mean. Where were the stories about soldiers coming home to be with their families? Or the woman who prepared a Thanksgiving meal for neighbors that would otherwise spend another day alone? Where were the stories that make us feel good about the holiday and remind us what it's supposed to be about?
Instead, Thanksgiving became viral videos of frenzied shoppers diving into bins to grab phones, or to push others out of the way to get that coveted piece of technological wonderment. Shoppers getting punched in the face, shoppers with guns, Walmart protests, long lines and chaotic crowds became the news of the day instead of stories about families coming together or people showing thanks through good deeds.
The news of the shopping frenzy filled the air and overshadowed the day that used to be set aside for something completely different - a non-commercial day of giving thanks for what we've been blessed with in our lives.
By Friday morning we all woke up to horrifying tales of Black Friday shopping gone wrong and people fighting each other for "doorbuster" deals. One YouTube video that went viral with over 2.4 million hits in a matter of days was aptly named "Walmart Black Friday fighting over phones during 2012, American people act like animals."
Other headlines included: "Black Friday 'Gang Fight' at Woodland Mall leads to Chaos, Arrests" and "Black Friday Violence: Police and retailers prepare for crowds and chaos."
The shopping mania ate into the day itself with stores this year opening their doors on Thursday evening, not even waiting until the standard day after Thanksgiving.
Target opened at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving, three hours earlier than last year. Sears, which did not open on Thanksgiving last year at all, opened at 8 p.m.
When Macy's opened its doors in New York's Herald Square at midnight, 11,000 shoppers had already lined the streets waiting to get in.
Around 147 million people shopped over the Thanksgiving weekend - each spending an average of $398 - and stores were expected to haul in approximately $11.4 billion on Black Friday alone. According to Google Trends, people started widely searching online for 'Black Friday' on October 14.
Brick and mortar retailers use Black Friday - and now Gray Thursday - to bolster their annual revenues, as much as 40 percent of which comes from sales that kick off the day after Thanksgiving.
As Americans rely more and more on online shopping, traditional retailers are feeling the pinch and say they are forced into the retail splurge so they can turn a profit for the entire year.
Stores say they are only supplying what people want, so in the coming years why don't we change "what we want" and show our kids and loved ones that Thanksgiving means just that - giving thanks.
Next year, let's forget about that Black Friday deal we can't live without -- especially if it takes us out of Pickens County and local businesses.
If we absolutely can't live without it, at least wait until the day after Thanksgiving, one of oldest and most noble American holidays. There are still deals out there on Friday.
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The Iran Option That Isn't on the Table
As Iran crosses successive nuclear demarcations and mischievously intervenes in Iraq, the question of how to address the Islamic republic is once more preoccupying Washington. Economic sanctions, international ostracism, military strikes and even support for hopeless exiles are all contemplated with vigor and seriousness. One option, however, is rarely assessed: engagement as a means of achieving a more pluralistic and responsible government in Tehran.
The all-encompassing nuclear debate comes as Iran's political landscape is changing once again. As America became reconciled to a monolithic Iran, represented by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his brand of rambunctious politics, the results from December's local elections suggest Iranians were doing otherwise. Ahmadinejad's defiant rhetoric and populist posturing did not impress the Iranians who turned out in large numbers to elect city councils and members of the Assembly of Experts. Voters favored pragmatic conservatives and reformers who oppose their president's policies abroad and his economic programs at home. Despite this show of dissent, though, it would be a mistake to assume that Iran's regime is about to fall or that a democratic spring is looming.
Iran has long appeared ready for democracy. It has a literate, youthful population that is immersed in world culture, is at home on the Internet, is keen to engage the West and is above the anti-American anger that dominates the Arab street. No other Middle Eastern country has as much civic activism or a population that has voted as often in elections at various levels. But positive social and cultural indices have so far not translated into a political opening. Iranian society may be ready to embrace democracy, but Iranian politics is not ready to accommodate it.
Iran does not have an organized pro-democracy movement. The reformers who were swept to power in 1997 never coalesced around a coherent platform, nor did they produce a political party. Their movement inspired activism and student protests, and it changed the style and language of politics, but its lack of organization ultimately cost it the presidency in 2005. Reformism was popular but politically ineffective.
The clerical regime has also proved to be enterprising in facing demands for reform, particularly by using elections to manage opposition within the bounds of the Islamic republic. Economic isolation, supported by international sanctions, has kept the private sector weak, which has in turn denied supporters of change levers they could use to pry open the regime. The public sector accounts for more than 80 percent of the Iranian economy, and the constitution gives the clerical leadership most of the power. The problem facing democracy is not so much the state's theocratic nature as it is the enormous domination it enjoys over the economy, society and politics. For democracy to succeed, the state's domination of the economy and society must be reduced.
For too long, Washington has thought that a policy of coercion and sanctions applied to Iran would eventually yield a responsible and representative regime. Events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe suggest that containment eventually generates sufficient pressure to force autocratic elites to accommodate both international mandates and the aspirations of their restless constituents. Ironically, though, U.S. policy has buttressed the Iranian regime, which has justified its monopoly of power as a means of fending off external enemies and managing an economy under international duress.
More than sanctions or threats of military retribution, Iran's integration into the global economy would impose standards and discipline on the recalcitrant theocracy. International investors and institutions such as the World Trade Organization are far more subversive, as they would demand the prerequisites of a democratic society -- transparency, the rule of law and decentralization -- as a price for their commerce.
Paradoxically, to liberalize the theocratic state, the United States would do better to shelve its containment strategy and embark on a policy of unconditional dialogue and sanctions relief. A reduced American threat would deprive the hard-liners of the conflict they need to justify their concentration of power. In the meantime, as Iran became assimilated into the global economy, the regime's influence would inevitably yield to the private sector, with its demands for accountability and reform.
It is important to appreciate that Iran has a political system without precedent or parallel in modern history. The struggle there is not just between reactionaries and reformers, conservatives and liberals, but fundamentally between the state and society. A subtle means of diminishing the state and empowering the society is, in the end, the best manner of promoting not only democracy but also nuclear disarmament.
Vali Nasr is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and the author of "The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future." Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic."


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Direct the Flow of Change
… And Create the Life You Want
Everything is in a state of flux; it is the natural order of things – one of the principles of the universe – a law of physics – part of a soul's journey. Indeed everything changes continuously, everyone experiences change – the 'self initiated' change OR the 'imposed upon us' change. Change is quite simply something we cannot escape, avoid, or live without for it is integral to life and growth – it is the essential nature of reality.
Change – the Inevitable
"Change is inevitable – unquestionable … the question is, do you accept change passively or take the lead and direct its flow …"
Change can be a time of tumultuous activity, emotions, and instability which has the potential to throw us off balance. For most, we understand that without change the process of evolvement or 'newness' cannot occur. However, in saying that – change can create unsteadiness, evoke fear, throw out our equilibrium or just plain de-rail us! And it is at this point that rather than surrender to, or embrace change, we have the tendency to dig our heels in, run for cover or tremble in our boots. The more we come to understand that change is inevitable leaves us feeling helpless, not in control and powerless in its wake.
Yes – everything is in a state of flux! Yes – often times it is as though it is entirely out of our control! Yes – change is a natural state of life and growth! The good news is – whilst change is inevitable – we have the power to direct the flow!
Daisaku Ikeda (Buddhist and founder of several educational, cultural and research institutions) wrote – "Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes with our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth."
If it is so that everything is in a state of flux, this notion does not predispose a counter-notion that we are therefore at the mercy of change. Rather, and imperatively so, (and as purported by this great man Daisaku Ikeda in the previous quote), we can be creative – GET creative – and use the power of our inherent creativity to direct the flow of change. Ah … do I hear gasps in response to my use of inherent? Yes … I unequivocally assert inherently! We are all inherently creative by virtue of being part of the essence of creativity itself – Spirit and Nature. And so, we can use the power of our inherent creativity to direct the flow of change.


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"According to The Guardian, musicians sanctioned after they signed a letter condemning the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as an instrument of Israeli propaganda."
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A report in UK daily The Guardian stated that the London Philharmonic Orchestra has suspended four of its musicians for nine months for adopting its name when they called for the cancellation of an Israeli orchestra's concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
According to the Guardian, the orchestra suspended cellist Sue Sutherley, as well as violinists Tom Eisner, Nancy Elan and Sarah Streatfeild until June 2012, after they signed a letter as members of the LPO condemning the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as an instrument of Israeli propaganda.
The musicians' statement claimed that "denials of human rights and violations of international law are hidden behind a cultural smokescreen. The IPO is perhaps Israel's prime asset in this campaign", and that Israel's policy toward the Palestinians "fits the UN definition of apartheid."
The Guardian's report states that both Orchestra chief executive Tim Walker, as well as chairman Martin Hohmann released a statement regarding the suspensions, which were meant to send a "strong and clear message that their actions will not be tolerated … the orchestra would never restrict the right of its players to express themselves freely, however such expression has to be independent of the LPO itself."
The statement also said that the Orchestra has no desire to "end the careers" of the musicians, but that "for the LPO, music and politics to not mix.""
The move comes after protestors interrupted a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on September 1 during an annual BBC Proms concert series.
Several demonstrators in the venue shouted as Zubin Mehta stood to conduct Bruch's Violin Concerto, while other audience members booed in response to the protest.
Sarah Colborne, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which organised protests against the concert, said: "Would the London Philharmonic Orchestra have punished musicians speaking out against apartheid South Africa, when a similar call for boycott was supported by artists, performers and sports people internationally?
"It is staggeringly bad judgment for the LPO to be seen to be attacking musicians who are simply voicing support for human rights and defending the civil right to call for a boycott of institutions which lend strategic support to Israel's occupation.
"If the LPO really wishes not to appear to be taking sides, and supporting an occupying nation against an occupied people, it must end the ridiculous suspension of these four musicians immediately."


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Brenda Braxton to Star in Maltz Jupiter and Paper Mill's THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE; Full Cast Announced!
Rehearsals begin Tuesday for Thoroughly Modern Millie, a co-production that will originate at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, Fla., March 5 - 24, and continue at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, April 10 - May 5.
A high-spirited romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl who travels to New York City to marry for money instead of love. Audiences will relive the roaring 1920s in this Tony Award-winning musical featuring jazz, thunderous tap dancing, frisky flappers and dashing leading men.The role of Muzzy van Hossmere will be played by Tony-nominated legendary actress Brenda Braxton - recently seen in the Feb. 5 second season premiere episode of NBC's musical drama "Smash" - and seen on Broadway in Chicago, Smokey Joe's Café, Jelly's Last Jam, Dreamgirls, Cats and more.
Trevor Graydon III will be played by veteran actor Burke Moses, whose Broadway credits include Guys and Dolls, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and the revival of Kiss Me, Kate, among others. Mrs. Meers will be portrayed by prominent actress Lenora Nemetz, well-known for her roles on Broadway in Cabaret, Chicago and Working, among others.
The production will star Laurie Veldheer as Millie Dilmount, seen recently in Disney's Newsies! on Broadway. The role of Jimmy Smith will be played by Jeff Kready, seen on Broadway in Billy Elliot and the revivals of Sunday in the Park with George and Les Miserables.
"It's thrilling for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre to be originating this production and co-producing it with a regional theatre with such an incredible history and reputation for quality," said the Theatre's producing artistic director, Andrew Kato. "We partnered with Paper Mill Playhouse and the Cleveland Play House for our Theatre's production of Lost in Yonkers several years ago, and we couldn't be happier to be working with Mark Hoebee and Paper Mill Playhouse again for Thoroughly Modern Millie."The production will be directed by Paper Mill Playhouse's producing artistic director, Mark S. Hoebee. The Theatre will also welcome back acclaimed choreographer Denis Jones for the musical, who won the Carbonell Award for Best Choreography in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of The Boy Friend.
Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie opened on Broadway in April 2002. Featuring hit songs such as "Gimme Gimme" and "Not for the Life of Me," the production subsequently won six Tony Awards and five Drama Desk Awards, including the win for Best Musical at both award ceremonies. It also launched the career of actress Sutton Foster (who starred as Millie Dillmount) into Broadway stardom."We've been celebrating our 10th Anniversary Season all year, and Thoroughly Modern Millie will be the cherry on top. It's impossible not to love it," said the Theatre's producing artistic director, Andrew Kato. "It's terrifically funny, from beginning to end, and the dancing is nonstop and infectious."
Thoroughly Modern Millie is sponsored by Kathy and Joe Savarese and Homecare America and Joan and Allen Bildner. Tickets are now on sale now for the rest of the theatre's 10th Anniversary season, and subscriptions are currently on sale for the Theatre's 2013/14 season, Your Ticket to Great Entertainment. For a complete schedule and tickets, call (561) 575-2223 or visit www.jupitertheatre.org.
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One of the men wounded in a double shooting Wednesday afternoon on King Street died later at a Greenville hospital, according to the Kinston Department of Public Safety.
Update: 10: 15 a.m.
One of the men wounded in a double shooting Wednesday afternoon on King Street died later at a Greenville hospital, according to the Kinston Department of Public Safety.
Kinston police identified the dead man as Dajuquon "DJ" Poole, 19, who was pronounced dead at Vidant Medical Center. The second person in the shooting, Tiran C. Farris, 28, is listed in stable condition at Vidant, according to police.
Both men, from Kinston, were shot in the upper body during a fight in the 900 block of King Street about 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Investigators are still following up leads in the shootings. Anyone with information is asked to call the Kinston Police "Tip Line" at 252-939-4020 or Cmdr. Jennifer Canady at 252-939-3225.
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A shooting late Wednesday afternoon left two men wounded and Kinston police piecing together details of the incident.
Two black males in their 20s suffered gunshot wounds to the chest as the result of a fight in front the residence at 918 E. King St., Maj. Greg Thompson of the Kinston Department of Public Safety said at the scene.
One was transported to Lenoir Memorial Hospital; the other, to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
The incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Callers to the 911 dispatch service originally reported a fight, then called back to report gunshots being fired.
Information from police, including the names of the wounded men, was scarce. �We�re not going to release their names at this time,� Thompson said, indicating that families of the two men had not yet been notified.
The men did not live at the King Street address, he said.
Crime scene tape strung down the 900 block of King Street, in front of the house nearest where the shooting occurred, the two residences on either side of it and the buildings at each end of the block.
On the porch of 918 E. King St., nearly a dozen people � including at least two toddlers � sat while police searched the street and neighboring yards for evidence. Authorities on site earlier said they were looking for bullet casing.
Sgt. Mark Williams reviewed a surveillance video from a camera inside a store at King and Adkin streets.
Bystanders and neighbors called people on cell phones, unsure of what to tell them about the taped off block.
An unidentified man said one of the wounded men may be his nephew.
Another man went under the crime tape, claiming he lived at 918 E. King, but an officer escorted him back behind the barrier.
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John Waters is leaning against a vehicle that looks like a delivery van as imagined by Pixar Animation. The IDEA – that's its name – is blocky, yet curved, with wheel skirts and a little upswoop at the back that adds attitude. You can almost hear it speaking in a chirpy cartoon voice.
Inside IDEA's silver sheet metal is plug-in hybrid technology that will power it an estimated 100 miles on a gallon of gas. If Mr. Waters has his way, thousands of these cuddly vans will soon be double-parked all across America, blocking travel lanes while their drivers wait for someone – anyone! – to sign for these darn packages, please.
Years ago Waters worked on General Motors' legendary EV1 electric car program. Now he's president and CEO of Bright Automotive, an Anderson, Ind., start-up that's recruited many EV1 veterans to help develop a new generation of hybrid trucks and cars.
"It's the wealth of experience of our people that will make this work," he says.
One hundred and one years after the debut of the Model T, the automobile – and the iconic industry that produces it – may be on the cusp of changes as profound as any ever wrought by Henry Ford.
Detroit is in crisis. The Big Three is no more. In the wake of recession, GM's and Chrysler's bankruptcies, and Chrysler's merger with Fiat, the traditional Michigan-based automakers now might better be called the Medium Two and One-Half.
Meanwhile, a new generation of auto entrepreneurs is rising, committed to building greener modes of transportation in new ways. They're scrambling for billions in government aid intended to jump-start production of vehicles that burn little gasoline – or no gasoline at all.
Plus – and this sounds odd, given the current emptiness of US showrooms – the auto industry may be about to see its biggest growth spurt ever. Developed nations choke on traffic, but in the rest of the world hundreds of millions of consumers yearn for their first set of wheels.
Brazil, Russia, China, India, and Indonesia are among the rapidly emerging countries where per capita incomes are at or near the level at which auto ownership typically takes off. Consulting firm Booz & Company predicts the world will have 1.5 billion cars in use in 2018, up from 672 million today.
Who will produce those vehicles? What will they look like? These questions will help shape some of the industries of tomorrow, and, along with them, the economies of nations. For now, new firms such as China's Geely and India's Tata are now rising to challenge the founding titans of the horseless carriage.
"The global auto industry is still developing," says Bruce Belzowski, an associate director at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute. "In five to 10 years, there could be strong competition on a global scale."
ANDERSON IS ONE of those Midwestern towns where modern automobile technology was born. Flint, Mich., had its engine and body shops, and Detroit its production lines, but Anderson provided cars with the beat of their electronic heart.
By 1900, Anderson was home to 11 automakers and two brothers, Perry and Frank Remy, whose Remy Electric would soon become the nation's leading producer of magnetos and dynamos needed to start cars in the nation's growing auto fleet.
Through the decades, legions of electrical engineers worked at Remy and at other nearby manufacturers to develop power for lights, radios, seat warmers, keyless remote entry fobs, and computer-controlled engine and ventilation systems. Anderson and the rest of central Indiana was the "Silicon Valley" of vehicles, says William Wylam, a former director at Delco Remy, Remy's successor firm.
That's "was," as in, "isn't any longer." Today Anderson, a city of 60,000 northeast of Indianapolis, mixes run-down bungalows and shuttered storefronts against the backdrop of an empty 1960s-era headlight factory. "Everything here in Anderson today is gone – it's all gone and most of the [factory] buildings are torn down," says Mr. Wylam.
Well, maybe not everything. A little company out by the state highway, Wylam adds, is mining the area's biggest remaining resource – its rich vein of human talent.
That firm is Bright Automotive. A number of its key people used to work at GM's Indianapolis research center, which developed the EV1, the first modern production electric vehicle from a major automaker. Introduced in 1996, the EV1 was available in California and Arizona, via lease. GM discontinued it in 1999, citing program expense. It recalled the cars. Most of them were crushed. But the EV1 engineers' dreams weren't crushed with them.
"These are highly qualified, highly motivated people," says Wylam. "I wouldn't want to get in their way."
The IDEA is Bright's main project. Working from a gleaming office park on the edge of Anderson, the Bright team has put together a prototype of the vehicle, which combines plug-in hybrid technology with extensive use of aluminum, carbon fiber, and other weight-reduction techniques.
Regular hybrids, like today's Toyota Prius, use an electric motor and a small internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrids use that technology, too, but with a big battery and big electric motor, plus – surprise! – a plug. They also recharge their batteries by plugging into the regular electric grid.
Waters says the IDEA will get around 100 miles of city driving for every gallon of gas. It's van-size because the company figures it could win over bean counters at companies pressed by high fuel costs, such as FedEx, UPS, and the US Postal Service.
But if the company is to turn out 50,000 of these swoopy things a year by 2012, as it plans, it needs cash – and today investment dollars are hard to come by. So Bright has turned to the federal government. The firm has applied for $35 million in grants from the stimulus bill, as well as a $450 million loan from a Department of Energy green technology program.
Bright is hardly the only US firm with an idea like IDEA. At least a half-dozen start-up companies, with names like Aptera and Visionary Vehicles, are vying for funding to build the next-generation automobile.
Many – probably most – won't survive. That shouldn't be surprising, as firms rose and fell in the early years of the internal combustion engine, too. Who today remembers the Mercer Raceabout, or Essex, or Nash Statesman? All were cutting-edge cars in their heyday. But their heydays all turned out to be brief.
Of course, nothing is certain about the auto industry these days. It is shaking to its very foundations. Toyota is losing money. A niche Swedish sports-car maker has bought country icon Saab. Hummer has become less fashionable than Hyundai. Chrysler's next model may be based on the Fiat 500, a car so small that it looks like a Dodge Charger's lunch.
Then there is General Motors, ward of the state. Those who remember GM as the producer of such iconographic autos as the 1957 Bel Air may see its fall as a shame. Those who bought the awful 1970s Chevy Monza (or its evil twin, the Oldsmobile Starfire) may consider its bankruptcy well deserved.
The US government has already invested some $80 billion in tax dollars in GM and Chrysler. It probably will be at least a year before the Treasury can even begin to plan when it might sell government-owned shares in the company to recoup that cash.
Will the US ever get that money back? There are "reasonable scenarios" under which the taxpayer investment will be returned, said Ron Bloom, President Obama's high-profile auto adviser, at a June 10 Senate hearing. "But by no means would I say that I am highly confident that will occur."
That does not sound like a ringing endorsement, does it? Postbankruptcy, both GM and Chrysler will be shorn of debt and overhead, and theoretically will be better able to compete in a tough market. The key may be to what point US sales recover.
In January, the pace of vehicle sales in America fell below 10 million units annually for the first time in almost three decades. Some analysts see sales staying in a trough for years, as newly frugal consumers learn to do without leased Audi Q7s, and turn to the used-car market, or (gasp!) keep driving their old cars instead.
Others think that is too pessimistic. In the US, about 13 million cars a year are scrapped due to advanced age, according to the International Motor Vehicle Program, a research consortium founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. (Aren't the Monzas all gone by now?)
That loss might put a floor under demand. "The global auto industry will recover to pre-crisis levels as the global economy recovers: There is no paradigm shift at hand," says a recent research paper from the IMVP, a nonprofit funded by donations from auto firms, as well as other sources.
POST-TROUGH, THE U.S. AUTO industry at least will look a little greener. Besides start-ups, the traditional US automakers are moving to hybrid models. Ford's new Fusion hybrid is doing well in showrooms today, relatively speaking. GM is making a big deal out of its forthcoming Chevy Volt, an extended-range plug-in hybrid that will be available next year.
Mr. Obama wants 1 million plug-in hybrids on US roads by 2015. By 2016, the US will require automakers to produce fleets of vehicles that get an average of 35.5 miles per gallon, up from today's figure of 27.5. The federal government is poised to spend billions on everything from new lithium-battery plants to incentives for consumers to buy more-efficient cars.
A new generation of electric cars, as a result, is moving toward showrooms. In the US, 13 hybrid models were available in 2007. By 2011, at least 75 will be on dealer lots, Deutsche Bank reported last year. IHS Global Insight, a consulting firm, projects 47 percent hybridization of the US market by 2020. In Europe, where fuel economy requirements are tougher, the transition could be even more dramatic: Roland Berger and J.D. Power estimate that the market for hybrids/electric vehicles could rise to 50 percent by 2015 – up from 2 percent in 2007.
Is the gas-powered V-8 about to become as extinct as 8-track tapes?
"What we are seeing today is a major shift toward electric-drive vehicles," says Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Well, maybe. Other experts point out that Obama's goal of 1 million hybrids is quite modest, given that even in this constrained year US consumers will drive away 9 million new vehicles.
The problems are habits, and costs. Consumers have been driving gas cars – and big ones, in the US – for a century. Most of them are not going to pay more to try something new.
And electric-drive cars are more expensive, at least for now. Batteries are costly, for one thing. Chevy's Volt will probably have a sticker price near $40,000. Unless government policy offsets this green price penalty, hybrids and their ilk could remain a niche product in the short to medium term.
"In five years, if fuel prices don't do anything crazy, the product mix will look pretty much like it does today," says Daniel Snow, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who studies the application of new technology.
Gas prices might do something crazy, of course. They've roller-coastered quite a bit recently. At last summer's $4 per gallon, consumers fled big vehicles. Hybrids were hot – but so were four-cylinder economy cars. And, technically speaking, conventional gas autos still have lots of leeway for mileage improvement. Direct fuel injection, use of lighter weight materials, and other techniques could improve efficiency by 20 percent or more.
"There isn't any part of the vehicle that will remain untouched by the search for better mileage," says Paul Lacy, manager of technical research, Global Automotive Group, at IHS Global Insight.
In the longer run, the power source of a vehicle may depend on its intended use. Runabout cars for shopping and school drop-offs could be straight electric. Commuter vehicles that take longer trips downtown might need the extended-range capability of a hybrid. Long-distance cruisers meant to travel at high speeds from, say, Tucson, Ariz., to Tucumcari, N.M., might operate best with advanced diesel-fueled spark-ignition engines.
Cars, in other words, will still be around – for a long time. That is easy to forget now, particularly in the US, as GM stumbles and the price of gas heads for its next unpredictable destination. Mass transit is great, but the auto is one of history's revolutionary technologies. People everywhere want the freedom inherent in a personal set of wheels.
Given the number of people in the developing world who can now afford a basic auto, or will soon be able to, the global vehicle industry may not yet have seen its period of greatest growth. "The motor vehicle manufacturing industry, which is 100 years old, is only now emerging from its infancy," conclude Ronald Haddock and John Jullens, analysts at Booz & Company, in a recent report.
Once a nation's gross domestic product reaches $10,000 per capita, its rate of automobile ownership accelerates, according to Booz & Company data. Among those countries that have not yet reached that point, but will soon, are Russia, India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Iran.
The bottom line: Even given the recession, world auto sales could total 715 million units over the next nine years. And the most important attribute a car can have in this new global market may not be electric drive or plug-in technology, but low expense. When a farmer from rural China goes looking to upgrade from his motorbike, the first thing he'll look for is something he can afford.
That is why the Tata Nano is such a big deal. It is the world's cheapest production car, with a price tag of about $2,500. No, its trunk does not open. (Access is from the inside.) Engineers shaved costs by attaching wheels with three lug nuts, instead of four. It looks like a beanbag chair, or possibly a large kitchen appliance. But when its Indian manufacturer, Tata Motors, began taking orders for the car this spring, it sold 200,000 in 16 days.
Demand for low-priced vehicles around the world soon will be huge, says Hiroshi Hasegawa, president of SC-ABeam Automotive Consulting in Tokyo. And that business may not go to Buick or Volkswagen or Toyota. Even in Japan, young adults now covet cellphones as status items but see cars as simply a way to get around. "I would expect Chinese and Indian low-priced cars to meet such demand," says Mr. Hasegawa.
In the 1970s, Japanese automakers invaded the US and Western Europe with efficient small cars, tapping a market the locals did not know existed. Now, those same manufacturers may be planning for a different kind of global competition, in which many more firms than before take part. "We expect to move into a multipolar age," says Hasegawa.
And what part of this market do the Japanese want to predominate in? Yep – hybrids and other electric-drive vehicles. Toyota and Honda beat US firms to the marketplace with hybrids, and they are not eager to cede that ground to anyone – even an eager upstart like Bright Automotive, with its friendly 100-mile-per-gallon van.
Toyota expects that by 2020, hybrids will account for more than 20 percent of its annual sales volume.
"Japanese carmakers acquired technologies and production know-how on [hybrids and electric vehicles] a long time ago," says Koji Endo, an auto analyst with Credit Suisse in Tokyo. "They will continue to improve their techniques while cutting costs in the next five years."
Takehiko Kambayashi contributed from Tokyo.


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House group crafts immigration plan
As a group of Senate stars tries to sell a new immigration proposal, their House counterparts are secretly toiling under the radar to craft their own plan in the next few weeks.
But it will be no easy task to sell it to their colleagues.
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Despite the growing Latino population in the country — most of whom are voting Democrat — most Republican members of Congress don't have large Latino constituencies.
"I don't think the national party argument for the bill works in the House," said a Democratic congressional aide. "If a Republican member doesn't have a significant number of immigrants in their district, why do they care about the party's presidential candidate in four years?"
Of course, many Republicans argue that they need to care for the larger good of the party. Mitt Romney was beaten by 50 percentage points among Hispanics in the presidential race, and now, reliably red border states like Texas and Arizona with growing Hispanic populations might eventually turn blue as a result of demographic shifts.
The eight-person immigration House team — which includes four Republicans and four Democrats — had hoped to put forth a statement of principles as early as Friday, but sources say that is unlikely. Now, they are hoping to announce something closer to Feb. 12, the day of the State of the Union.
According to sources, the House working group includes Democrats Zoe Lofgren and Xavier Becerra of California, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and John Yarmuth of Kentucky. Negotiating for the Republicans are Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Sam Johnson and John Carter of Texas and Raul Labrador of Idaho.
On Monday, eight bipartisan senators — including John McCain, Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio — outlined an immigration bill that clearly reflected a new eagerness by some Republicans to tackle the contentious issue after more that 70 percent of Latinos supported President Barack Obama last year.
But the House is another story. Some conservatives have already started carping about the Senate plan, which proposes a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally, tougher border security, establishing an employment verification system and creating a guest worker program for jobs that employers can't hire Americans.


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Week 1: Sept. 19 – 25
Market to Table Week : Schedule of Events
Tuesday, September 20
Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes
Sweet Basil
5:30 to 7pm, $25
Executive Chef Paul Anders discusses the many varieties of Colorado heirloom tomatoes and demonstrates interesting alternatives to feature them on your dinner table.
(970) 476-0125
Wednesday, September 21
Feast of Colorado
Sweet Basil
Cocktails at 7pm, 7:30 to 10:30pm, $95
A special evening features a five course dinner and beverage pairings with "everything Colorado." Special guests included Lynn and Guy Borden from Borden Farms.
Thursday, September 22
Bacon Dinner
LaTour Restaurant
6 to 10pm, 4 courses for $49
Chef Paul Ferzacca creates a spectacular 4-course Bacon Dinner utilizing award-winning bacon from around the country, pairing it with the freshest produce from last Farmer's Market of the season.
Tavern on the Square
Ribs and Whiskey
6 to 9pm, $45
The first of three evenings in which a skilled barrel master takes you through four pairings of our favorite whiskeys, which Chef Dodd has paired with ribs.
Friday, September 23
Chef's Harvest Dinner
Larkspur Restaurant
6:30pm, $55 for four-course dinner and $22 optional wine pairings
Celebrate the harvest with Larkspur's chef and culinary team. The evening will begin in Larkspur's garden with a Colorado cocktail and hors d'oeuvres while you enjoy the view of the magnificent Gore Range in all its fall splendor. Dinner follows with a delicious assortment of locally sourced and inventively prepared courses.
Social Club Mixer
Terra Bistro
5 to 6:30pm
Every Friday during Restaurant Month, Terra Bistro will host the public and offer complimentary light hors d'oeuvres.
Market to Table Tasting
West Vail Liquor Mart
4 to 6pm
A special tasting features premier Colorado microbrews, wines and spirits.
Sunday, September 25
Sunday Harvest Dinners
Restaurant Kelly Liken
Three courses for $45
A new menu every week created from the best the Vail farmer's market has to offer.
Special Vail Farmer's Market
10am to 3:30pm
Come celebrate the last farmer's market of the season.
Casa Lapastolle and Belvedere Tomato Vodka Tasting
In the Cellar at Grappa Fine Wines and Spirits
1 to 3pm
A double header for the last Vail Farmer's Market of the Season! A free tasting of Casa Lapastolle wines and an introductory tasting to Belvedere Tomato Vodka!
Reoccuring Events
Farm to Table at Flame
Nightly during Market to Table Week (Sept. 19 – 25, 6 to 10pm)
Join Flame as we celebrate a week of the best of our local farms with a special farm-to-table menu centered on local producers and sustainable foods. Flame will be featuring a three-course pre-fixe menu for $40 per person. This menu is co-written by Chef Brooke Voskia of Four Seasons Hotel Boston. Chef Voskia will join Chef Jason Harrison of Flame at select dinners to discuss the importance of supporting urban and local farms.
$40 per person
Market to Table Menu
Everyday during Market to Table Week (Sept. 19 – 25, 5pm)
This week only, the Big Bear Bistro will remain open until 7p.m. to offer fresh, seasonal, organic salads and bruschettas. Consider us for a light, healthy dinner option or appetizer before heading to a late night meal or event. The Big Bear Bistro is your choice for affordable dining while still getting the highest quality and freshest ingredients. We serve wine and beer and will offer a special champagne as a lovely accompaniment to your light evening meal. We have casual outside seating and the 5p.m. hour is usually the most beautiful time of day, to sit and relax.
Thrive at Five
Wednesdays to Sundays (5 – 7pm)
The best kept secret in town, Larkspur's Bar and Patio open at 5pm daily with Happy Hour specials from 5-7pm. Vail's locals know Larkspur is not just for fine dining! For rest and refreshment after your day outdoors or for a casual dinner, visit Larkspur's bar for pizzas, salads, and the famous Larkburger.
Happy Hour 5-7pm with Domestic Draughts, $5 Larkspur Lightnings, $7 Wines by the Glass, $7 Plates
Gluten Free French Cuisine at Left Bank Restaurant
Nightly during Market to Table Week (Sept. 19 – 25, 5:30 to 10pm)
Not only does it feel like the French countryside when you walk into The Left Bank Restaurant, but the French being spoken around you makes you feel like you're in a small town in the French Alps. French cuisine is something decadent, to be savored and enjoyed with every bite and now thanks to the Left Bank, imagine all this "gluten free!" Chef Jean Michel will present a menu that is "Heart Smart" and delicious. Celebrating 40 years of service, The Left Bank Restaurant is proud to establish a standard and continue to meet it.
Three-Course Chef's Menu
Nightly Sept. 19 – Oct. 16
Every night during Vail Restaurant Month, the legendary Terra Bistro offers a three-course "Chef's Selection" menu for $39 per person. Enjoy your choice of selected appetizers, a salad, and choice of selected main courses for only $39
Indian Summer
Wednesday s to Sundays (5 – 9pm)
Come to the Swiss Chalet for our reminiscent "Indian Summer" three-course dinner special with wine flight pairings. Featuring 3 oz Moet Imperial Champagne aperitif paired with the traditional Haus Salat, two 3 oz "Sommelier selection" Rosé wines to pair with our Alpler Cheese Fondue and finally a 3 oz dessert wine Moscato to pair with our homemade Apfelstrudel.
$35 3-course dinner
$48 3-course dinner with wine pairing
Alpine Wine and Spirits
Mickey Werner hosts complimentary tastings of a premium spirit or wine each Tuesday afternoon every week of Vail Restaurant Month. Tasting Tuesdays 2011 will showcase premium spirits and wines from the Moët Hennessy portfolio!
10 Cane Rum tasting – September 20


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Just outside my office, a dozen yards away, Francine Sawyer is tying up loose ends on a story she is working on about minor flooding in Vanceboro. It is her last story for us. Francine Sawyer, after 44 years as a journalist, is retiring.
Just outside my office, a dozen yards away, Francine Sawyer is tying up loose ends on a story she is working on about minor flooding in Vanceboro.
It is her last story for us. Francine Sawyer, after 44 years as a journalist, is retiring.
In about an hour (she refuses to leave early), she will end a career that started in 1969 when newspapers used Linotype machines, manual typewriters and Speed Graphic cameras, and when photos were run in black and white and astronauts first walked on the moon.
Francine was gathering news when I was still in elementary school. She was a veteran when I graduated from high school.
During her years in the business, she worked at five newspapers, one TV station and one radio station. She�s covered every beat, anchored the news on TV, Tweeted headlines and shot video from cameras smaller than the pack of cigarettes she carries in her purse. She even tried her hand at public relations.
She saw the newspaper industry go from being the dominant source of news, to one in a crowd.
She worked in smoke-filled newsrooms where journalists kept flasks of whiskey in their top desk drawers (and some kept revolvers), where the smell of the press filled the building and dust from the printers� ink gradually darked walls, ceilings and floors.
She leaves a tidy, bright and sunny business office with far fewer colleagues, shiny floors, and computers five years past their prime.
Francine is one of the most candid people I know, but she was hesitant to break the news to me that she was retiring.
She didn�t want a big sendoff (though we gave her a sendoff anyway, a potluck lunch on Thursday with her Sun Journal colleagues and a gift basket).
Several of us in the newsroom asked if she wanted to go to lunch on Friday, but she declined.
Instead, she worked through lunch waiting for a call from Craven County Emergency Services Coordinator Stanley Kite with information about flooding in Vanceboro.
Francine is well connected with local law enforcement officials. She could call them at home late at night and they didn�t seem to mind. She was the only reporter on the Sun Journal staff who could get New Bern City Attorney Scott Davis to return her calls.
Francine came from a time when a reporter could walk up to a beat cop or a firefighter and get detailed information about the store robbery or house fire she was covering.
It�s harder to get that information these days. Police and fire departments all want the information to come from a central source, and that information is most often sparse and sterile.
I was lucky to land at the Sun Journal four years ago and spend that time working with Francine, one of the funniest and candid people I�ve ever known.
Her departure from the Sun Journal newsroom will leave its mark. Of course other journalists with strong personalities will rise up to fill the void, but no one ever can take the place of Francine Sawyer.
I will take this moment to wish Francine all the best in her retirement, and hope that she will feel free and welcome to visit the newsroom any time to share her insights and quips and newsy gossip.
Thanks for letting me take up some of your Sunday morning.
Randy Foster is managing editor of the Sun Journal. He can be reached at email@example.com or 635-5663. Follow him on Twitter @NBSJEditor for Sun Journal-related tweets, or @rivereditor to follow other things that interest him.


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While travelling recently on a train from Berlin, I found myself totally enamored with Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr. Y. It had been recommended while I was visiting Austria and I immediately snagged it when I saw a lone copy at a bookstore in Germany. I really couldn't put it down. When I wasn't reading it, it called to me.
The book is about a PhD student, Ariel Manto, who is researching a 19th Century writer, Thomas Lumas, with a mysterious background and an equally mysterious end. After a strange catastrophe that makes her university office uninhabitable, she takes a stroll into a used bookshop where she finds an incredibly rare copy of Lumas' infamous book, The End of Mr. Y. The book-within-a-book is strange, to say the least, making Thomas' novel strange in that best possible way.
The novel is filled with logistical conundrums, philosophical quandaries, thought experiments and other adventures that remind me a little of Being John Malkovich with a dash of Dark City. As someone who can barely add or subtract, the science and math involved never felt like a burden. In fact, it enhanced the mystery. Ariel was quick and intelligent and ever the wit–a fun character to accompany.
It's been a while since I enjoyed a book so much. It was a disappointed when the novel came to a close!


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The Accidental Remodel Part 19 Electrical
Welcome back to Part 19 of The Accidental Remodel!
I knew I would have to replace the outlets and switches over the counter because of the new white cabinets, but when I got shocked on one doing the backsplash, it was no longer cosmetic. We also need to have one outlet moved to the bay window for my office since the new cabinets, if they ever come, will permanently block the existing one. I also need the DSL moved from by the door to under the baby for the office too. With the new cabinets going to the ceiling, it is no longer even possible to drape it over everything to get to my office and with all the work I'm doing to this room, how sad would that be! We also will need an outlet over the new counter once the new cabinets are here.
I watched a lot of tutorials, took notes and dove into switching out the outlets and switches myself. We finally got them all done and working, but DH stripped a screw and broke it off in the blue box which is tiled so closely around now that it isn't coming out. Very not good news. Aren't renovations fun? :) So, that will be one more thing for the electrician I guess.
Well, today was finally the day! All my electrical issues and the phone jack are DONE tonight, Praise God! The ATT man charged $95 to move the jack. The electricians found their part to be very challenging as there is a great deal of 2x4's in a bay window. I had the two nicest men work on this. I pray God's blessings on them both. What an ordeal, but they were so wonderful! That's a phone number I'm hanging on to! They even managed to get the screw out of the box so we didn't have to destroy my brand newly tiled backsplash to put a new one in! :) :) :)
As a bonus, they helped me with my stained glass light. It had never been hung right and had extra links and tons of wire showing...and was golden brown even though the detail on the stained glass is black. I bought a kit with black chain and cord and when they took it down, I ran out and spray painted the top part black to match with the very last bits of paint from all the hardware!!! Whooo hoo! But, not everything can be good...with all the good things they did, they didn't measure the height for the light and DH is banging his head. We need it shortened! :)
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Red is the color of the month at Backstreet Studio in Stroudsburg.
Red is the color of the month at Backstreet Studio in Stroudsburg.
"The Red Show," an art exhibition that opens Saturday, offers visitors shades of red.
"Valentine's Day is coming, so we thought to have a red show," said Andrea Robbins-Rimberg, owner of the studio. "The artwork all has red incorporated in it. Wear something red to the opening and have some red wine."
The group show, which runs through March 9, features works of art of all levels and mediums, from more than 20 artists. Show curator James Lansing of East Stroudsburg helped Robbins-Rimberg with this show.
"This is my first time working with Andrea. I told her I could bring artists to her attention that she didn't know, so we worked on this together," Lansing said. "I brought in an oil/pastel painter, photographer from Bethlehem, and abstract painter from outside of Philadelphia."
Tom LeFevre, owner of Main Street Jukebox, next to Backstreet Studio, is also a photographer. He was asked by Robbins-Rimberg to show one of his photos.
"Andrea asked me to get involved in the show, which I was more than happy to do. Andrea is a great person and very involved in the arts here in Stroudsburg. She has done a wonderful job with the art gallery next door to us as well as her Backstreet Art gallery," he said. "I took the photo a few years ago at Millbrook Village in New Jersey. There are lots of cool old buildings and houses there, and I just liked the feel of the place."
The show is being held at a new location for Robbins-Rimberg's studio. She is still also operating at her other location on North Sixth Street.
"Backstreet Studio is on Main Street now. I'm still in the old studio, but I'm now also on Main Street in the Newberry building," she said. "We are Soho in the 'Burg. Being here in the heat of town is like we are really the art district. I am thrilled."
Robbins-Rimberg has big plans for the new location. She's hoping to start classes in sculpture, painting, photography and ballroom dancing. She also has some shows lined up for the near future and is excited about what's to come for area art galleries.
"In April, we are going to have a spring show called 'KABLOOM: The Magic of Flowers,' which will be exhibits of flowers," she said. "There are about seven art galleries here now in this area. We're really making it happen."