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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
“Please don’t drink too much,” screeches a man wielding a megaphone, but he’s a bit too late because half the genteel crowd are already totally hammered. It’s not surprising, really, seeing as there are around 70 wines to sample and there’s not a single ...
Swilling an elegant Pinot around your glass, the landscape before you, verdant with vines, undulates in the soft evening light. The little wine you’ve imbibed sets your senses aglow as you contemplate the cinematic beauty of California’s wine country. With the release of the ...
Elegance is not just having your clothes and personal grooming just so,” says Maki Nomiya. “It’s also doing even mundane things, like eating, with grace.” I’m here at the fashionable offices of Nomiya’s agent in Harajuku to talk to the singer ahead of her ...
Wine shops bear more than a passing resemblance to libraries. The hushed respectful tone of the staff, the way the wines are displayed on floor-to-ceiling wooden shelves with the rarest bottles set high up and only accessible by ladder. And like the covers of ...
Between the cold steel of enormous fermentation tanks and the state-of-the-art equipment in the tasting rooms of today’s modern wineries, it’s hard to believe that there is any element of the winemaking process that is not governed by the strict dictates of science. So ...
What with wildfires, drought, the economic downturn and competition from overseas, Australian winemakers are now facing a crisis that’s taken on Biblical proportions. What have they done to incur such divine wrath? After years of churning out a generic, bargain-bin product, pigeonholing wines from ...
With stifling summer temperatures just around the corner, many of us will be yearning to head for cooler climes. But if you can’t escape just now, the mineral sharpness and cerebral acidity of a German Riesling might be just the ticket to help you ...
Since ancient times, wave upon wave of foreign conquests have washed over Romania, changing — sometimes obliterating — parts of the region’s cultural identity. Romans, Ottomans and Soviets all left an indelible mark on the central-European land, but for wine lovers, it is arguably ...
Nothing can quite beat the elegance of haut couture: the individual tailoring, the attention to detail and the assurance that you’ll be the envy of others. The elegance is unparalleled — and the price tag can be, too. By the same token, for sheer ...
Nothing can quite beat the elegance of haut couture: the individual tailoring, the attention to detail and the assurance that you’ll be the envy of others. The elegance is unparalleled — and the price tag can be, too. By the same token, for sheer ...
Riesling, the sweet Germanic wine thought to have been consigned to the trash can of 1980s bad taste along with home perms and pastel-colored leg warmers, is making a comeback. And proving Heraclitus’ ancient aphorism that you can’t step into the same river twice, ...
The wine-lover’s equivalent to conveyer-belt sushi, Marugo II offers a revolving selection of wines for the curious wine buff. Where most good bars update their by-the-glass selections monthly, Marugo II does it daily. Rather than limiting the number of wines available, Marugo II’s by-the-glass ...