Horne & Dekker is all about comfort food. It offers up “modern comfort food” with a side of irreverance. The friendly priced menu is American with a few twists. Watermelon, pickled tomato and ricotta salata salad, seared duck breast and coconut cream pie are a few such highlights. They offer an interesting “Grape and Grub” [...]
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Yaniv Schulman is a 24-yr-old photographer. After having one of his pictures published in a magazine, he receives a painting in the mail from an 8-yr-old girl in Michigan named Abby. After finding each other through Facebook, the two start a relationship and, soon enough, Nev becomes a close friend, not only with Abby but [...]
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The author reintroduces you to your own greatness: fearlessness, reverence, freedom from anger, compassion – these divine qualities, she says, are not only within our reach; they are at home within us. Rich with humor, erudite, full of insight into the human condition and the subtleties of the heart, this collection of lectures captures an [...]
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Going defiantly against the grain of a hyperbolic movie culture, “Never Let Me Go” is passionate about deliberation and restraint. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley, the A Team of young British acting talent, this is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the [...]
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Cairo Time is an exquisite feast for the eyes, ears and eventually, the heart. Ruba Nadda takes us on a tour of Cairo which flows so well because it appears complete even down to such minute details such as showing street children selling bobby pins, a wild motorcycle driver nearly hitting the film’s heroine, and [...]
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An intriguing blend of spellbinding action, modern metaphysics, and ancient religion and faith, The Lady in Blue explores the trances and bilocation (the power of beign in two places at once) of María Jesús de Ágreda, a seventeenth century nun from Spain, who was accused by the Inquisition of travelling a distance of 6,000 miles [...]
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The Common Table is a recently opened restaurant that evokes newness and urbanity. A great Uptown Location. Each of the restaurant’s cocktails is named for something newsworthy that happened on June 2, the day The Common Table opened. The events cover everything from a first lady commemorating a birthday to the disastrous cyclone that hit [...]
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Violent and brash, as befits its subject , France’s media-baiting criminal Jacques Mesrine, Mesrine: Killer Instinct is the first part of Jean-François Richet’s two-feature bio-pic about the bank robber who electrified the public with his daring prison breaks. The provocative opening finds Mesrine, as a young soldier in the Algerian War, being ordered to participate [...]
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Middlesex is the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek American family and flowers in the body of Calliope Stephanides. “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an [...]
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Biographer Andrew Morton, known for tackling high profile people in his works, is at it again, this time chronicling the life of Angelina Jolie in Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography, that came out earlier this month. It’s a fascinating account of one of twenty first century’s most astonishing actresses. Angelina’s childhood filled with pain and confusion [...]
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