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1. Basic literacy is a plus, but not essential. 2. Write a novel about a magical world filled with one or more of the following: dying high school students, bondage enthusiasts, murderous wives, or drifters who solve crimes. Or: Write a one-paragraph nonfiction proposal about your hideous childhood, drug addiction, sex tape, or years …
The new wave of tablets might be all a biz traveler needs (and will save your back) This may be the decade of the iPhone, but take a look at the airport-security area and you will see laptops clogging up the conveyor belt in their own bins, a kind of First World ball-and-chain we …
* Neighborhood to turn your nose up at: Notting Hill. (Any area that has a romcom named after it is off-limits, unless you’re an oligarch.) * Neighborhood to pretend to turn your nose up at while actually secretly loving: Hackney (London’s Park Slope). * Neighborhood to proselytize about without ever actually visiting: Peckham (artisanal-cheese …
* Neighborhood to turn your nose up at: Bastille (home of frat-boy-bar/velvet-rope monstrosities). * Neighborhood to pretend to turn your nose up at while actually secretly loving: Montmartre. * Neighborhood to proselytize about without ever actually visiting: Canal St.-Martin. * Neighborhood to loudly denigrate without ever leaving: Le Marais. * Famous restaurant a true …
* Neighborhood to turn your nose up at: Xintiandi. * Neighborhood to pretend to turn your nose up at while actually secretly loving: former French Concession. * Neighborhood to turn your nose up at: Xintiandi. * Neighborhood to pretend to turn your nose up at while actually secretly loving: former French Concession. * Neighborhood …
Jazz is the spirit of hello. The greatest jazz record has to be the first jazz record, which is the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Livery Stable Blues,” from 1917. The best single figure in jazz was Duke Ellington, because he could go right up against your European composers, but after that it’s Miles Davis. …
By A.O. Scott To many Americans, foreign movies evoke boredom, confusion, and that Gitanes-reeking blowhard from freshman year. But if you’re reading this, you can handle subtitles. (And if you’re wondering what happened to that guy: Hi!) Approach these films the way you would any other cultural pursuit: Go in search of sex, violence, …
Pizza has been around for thousands of years. When did out of the ordinary and delicious gourmet pizza make its debut? What would the forefathers of pizza think of this culinary masterpiece? Everyone knows that a standard pizza comes with pepperoni, cheese, ground beef, peppers, onions, anchovies and sausage. Today gourmet pizza is created …
While most of us have heard about organic foods we may not have that much of an idea about what this term means. So where can you get this information without getting bogged down by the technical jargon. There are a number of different places like dictionaries, encyclopedias, television shows and even the internet. …
Is there such a thing as organic fish? Surely all fish comes from the sea and eats whatever fish eat? How can we control that? As far as I know, fish caught in the wild cannot be marketed as organic in the UK. However, several supermarkets and many independent organic retailers now stock organic …