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The eclectic array of art includes at least four depictions of Elvis. |
Occasional misfires with the menu do happen, however. Take the kitchen’s version of beer cake ($6), a recipe from renowned Portuguese home cooking expert Ana Ortins. Fortified with feather-light Kölsch ale and baked in a sheet pan rather than a bundt- or tube pan, the cake turned out tight-crumbed and gluey, more like ... |
Piri Piri Chicken at No Coward Soul restaurant in Bath. |
Walker’s take on another dessert – an egg custard called “pastel de nata” ($6) – is better, yet still needs substantial tweaking. Usually heavily browned on top (almost broiled) and bordered by a golden, laminated pastry shell that flakes away in papery layers, these custardy tarts are Portugal’s signature dessert with... |
One dish that needs absolutely no adjustments is the piri piri chicken ($21). Rubbed in paprika and cayenne, then marinated in garlic and black pepper, each quarter-chicken gets pan-fried and finished in a hot oven until its exterior wrinkles into tight, crackling-crisp skin. Walker serves his fantastic, garlic-and-oil... |
I have eaten No Coward Soul’s piri piri chicken twice in the past few weeks, and would quite happily return – for that dish alone – another two, even three times before the month ends. It is that good. And if you think I sound crazy, well, je ne regrette rien. |
Firefighters were called to Freshwater last night (Monday) after smoke started filling up a property. |
The fire started in the door area of the home in Sunset Close, according to the fire service, who were called to the incident at 9.06am. |
Two appliances attended from Newport, along with a crew from Freshwater. |
Specialist ventilation equipment was used before crews left the property. |
The fire service said one male was left in the care of the ambulance service. |
The doorway behind the front counter of Cafe 66 conjured images from black-and-white movies of a speakeasy during Prohibition in the United States, when alcohol was banned by constitutional amendment. Before another amendment had to be adopted overturning the ban, gangsters hefting submachine guns shot it out with J. E... |
“Please knock before entering,” read the sign scrawled above the door. Rapping gently, tentatively pushing the panels open, I was greeted by displays bearing images of sticks of marijuana with exotic names like “Mango Pie,” “Thin Mint GSC,” “Duke Nukem,” “Yukon Gold” and “Green Lantern,” to name a few. Notes helpfully ... |
In fact, I might have copied down more names but for a wary young man behind the counter. “What are you writing?” he asked. Not impressed when I told him I didn’t want to forget those colorful names, he asked me to please stop. When I identified myself as a journalist, he said he had nothing to say. |
Right, it’s now legal for those 19 and above to smoke, whiff, chew or grow cannabis anywhere in Canada. The catch is, here in Toronto and the rest of Ontario Province, home to one-third of Canada’s 37 million people, you have to order it online through the official Ontario Cannabis Store. While the rules vary from prov... |
Reluctantly, I took the hint. |
So enthusiastic are Canadians about their newly won freedom to smoke pot that the online service for Ontario has just about run out. Orders go unfilled for weeks, packets arrive late, and dealers, legal and illegal, thrive regardless of whether they are within the letter of the varying laws of Canada’s 10 provinces and... |
So erratic and inconsistent are the policies from province to province that it’s likely to take years for the folks who govern the country from the capital of Ottawa to synchronize all the rules and regs. At Cafe 66, I purchased one joint for $12 — total $14 after the guy tacked on $2 for the plastic envelope in which ... |
Not everyone is so willing to wink at the law. Another place that came recommended had the appropriate name, Best Buds. I was sure they too would be stocked with cannabis, but the place was tight shut. Through wide plate glass windows, I saw only empty shelves. |
A day or two earlier, I had gotten a whiff of the sensitivities as I waited at the Niagara Falls entry while a Canadian immigration official asked a lot of questions about why I was visiting his country. He wanted to know about my relationship with my host — old friend from Vietnam War days — how long I would stay, how... |
When I told him I was a journalist, he asked what I’d be writing about. I’m not sure I had to answer all those questions, but I’d read in the paper in Buffalo, the nearest big U.S. city to this particular crossing, about people arrested with a stash in their car — the first I’d known about the legalization of marijuana... |
For sure, when my friend invited me to his great place for an exchange of old war stories, I hadn’t been thinking of reporting on marijuana. Just to keep the immigration guy happy, I said I might write about the trade dispute between Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and President Donald Trump — surely a safe to... |
So I guess relations between the United States and Canada are not the greatest these days while Trump complains about trade issues that have nothing to do with the illicit import of Canadian cannabis. No, I wouldn’t consider returning to the United States with joints in my car. The news on Canadian TV quoted U.S. immig... |
But wait. Will the Canadian experience set a precedent for the United States — and other countries where pot remains illegal? U.S. attitudes toward marijuana vary widely even if it’s OK in some places for medicinal purposes. Canadians seem to have rather mixed feelings. Yes, any adult can get it, online or over-the-cou... |
As for the joint I had purchased at Cafe 66, I didn’t light up. Having heard — and written — a lot about drugs among U.S. troops in Vietnam all those years ago, I don’t touch the stuff. Before bidding a fond farewell, I gave the joint to my friend, who let me know I’d been overcharged. Seems the going price on the open... |
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- It was a team-wide effort for the Southern Miss men's basketball team in its 2018-19 opener, taking down Southeastern Baptist 111-66 on Tuesday night. |
It was the program's 10th-highest scoring game, and best output of the Doc Sadler era. |
"Overall tonight, I was pleased," Sadler said. "It's the first game. I think any time you score like that, you have to be pleased. We scored 111 points, and we had some guys who hadn't been big scorers really step up. We didn't even need guys like Gabe Watson, Kevin Holland and Cortez Edwards, who are some of our best ... |
Southern Miss utilized a 19-4 run that put it ahead 31-10 with 7:54 left in the first half. The lead got to 39-15 two minutes later after Tyler Stevenson sank two free-throws. |
Each of the Golden Eagles two leading scorers at the break, Stevenson (11) and Leonard Harper-Baker (10), were making their Southern Miss debuts. |
The Black and Gold led 52-26 at the break and outscored the Chargers 59-40 in the second half. |
When it was all said and done, five Golden Eagles reached double-figures. Stevenson and Dominic Magee led the way with 15 points, followed by Anfernee Hampton with 14, LaDavius Draine with 13 and Tyree Griffin with 12. |
"Defensively, I was disappointed," Sadler said. "We let the ball get into the lane 36-38 times, and if you get above the mid-20s against a lot of teams, it's hard to win. We have to get that corrected. We also need to shoot free-throws better. We started late last year with that too, but we got better as it went on. Bo... |
Southern Miss (1-0) now looks ahead to a Sunday battle at SMU, airing on ESPN3. Tip-off is at 2 p.m. CT. |
-Cortez Edwards finished with eight points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. He was aiming to become the first Golden Eagle with a triple-double since Ronald Jackson in 1980. |
-Edwards now has 972 points in his career. |
-Edwards' 10 assists matched a career-high, previously set vs. Rice on Jan. 18, 2018. He also recorded his 10th double-figure rebounding game. |
-The five Golden Eagles in double-figures marked the team's first-such feat since Feb. 2, 2017 against Marshall. |
-Southern Miss had 34 free-throw attempts after crossing the 30-mark four times last year. |
-Boban Jacdonmi and LaDavius Draine each made their first-career starts. |
-This was the first all-time meeting between the two Pine Belt schools. |
The Life Time Tri CapTex will be held on Monday, May 27. |
The scorching hot sun is no match for Austin's fitness community. Even in the dead of summer there are athletic events to keep you active and counteract those poolside mimosas. Here are five upcoming races you don't want to miss. |
Wait! Don't turn your back on this race just because it's on Memorial Day. You'll cross the finish line well before the barbecues begin. The Life Time Tri CapTex, formerly the CapTexTri, will be held on Monday, May 27 at Auditorium Shores offering a beautiful swim, run and bike course through downtown Austin. |
The event — the largest triathlon in the state — is perfect for pros and newcomers offering sprint, international and First Tri distances. If you're not the least bit ready for a full triathlon, grab two of your friends and knock out a sprint or international distance relay. |
In addition to getting a killer workout, there's a big 'ole finish line festival with music, beer and samples galore. Plus, everyone at your Memorial Day boat party will think you're Hercules when you tell them you knocked out a triathlon. |
The Maudie's Moonlight Margarita Run and Gala benefiting the Town Lake Trail Foundation is an Austin tradition. Unlike most races, this 5K is on a Thursday evening and kicks off by the trail at sunset to the sounds of Mariachis. |
But don't be fooled by the start time, this race is hot as hell. You'll sweat so much during the run that the mere smell of tequila will leave you tipsy. The free flowing margaritas, music and Tex-Mex food at the finish line gala make for a great party. The race is 21+ and taking Friday off from work is a good idea. |
There's this misconception that Austin Fit Magazine's Fittest challenge at Camp Mabry is for dudes that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. The truth is, anyone who isn't a total couch potato but is curious about their fitness level will enjoy this community-wide challenge. |
The whole point of the event is to get people thinking about health. All you have to do is a series of fitness tests that measure strength, endurance, balance, speed, precision, agility and power. |
If it still sounds intimidating, you can grab friends for the team competition or drag your children along and make them take on a few challenges as well. If you do happen to be among the 10 Fittest, you'll be featured in the August 2013 issue of Austin Fit Magazine. Who knows. Maybe you are Austin's Fittest! |
Tarzan, half-naked people, ballerinas and a ton of superheroes are just a few of the characters you'll run into at the Keep Austin Weird Festival and 5k at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. |
The race, which started 11 years ago, is dedicated to showcasing Austin's one-of-a-kind weirdness. You probably won't beat your personal record (it's hard to dressed as a banana) but you'll definitely have the most fun you've ever had at a race. Plus, it all ends with a rockin' festival with music, kid activities for t... |
You complete the race individually but are scored together. The idea is to support each other, so leave your pride at home and bite your tongue when your feel compelled to yell at your partner for running like turtle. While some couples are actual couples, it's not a requirement. Grab any willing and able body and get ... |
After a hard day’s work, and a bit of watching the Inauguration Day festivities, I popped on my Xbox to find some of the presidential pomp and circumstance billed prominently for free viewing over Xbox Live. |
The handful of video clips include the swearing in of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the performance by Aretha Franklin and the classical number featuring Yo-Yo-Ma and Itzhak Perlman. There’s also a video of “man on the street” Xbox Live gamers talking about what they’d like to see from Obama when he takes office. |
Apparently, Microsoft’s PR wing announced this earlier in the day, but seeing it on my own was pretty cool. A rep tells me by e-mail that this is “less about political awareness and more about activating the LIVE community around events that are relevant and social,” and says a similar initiative is in the works for fo... |
Of course, scrolling down from the free content reveals a whole bunch of things you can buy, like network news specials and movies related to the presidency, but that’s okay. I’ve always hoped that Microsoft would use free content (besides demos) as a lure to the paid stuff, and this is a good place to start. I’m even ... |
After the recent launch of Sagem’s special edition My700x Roland-Garros handset, we did wonder if they’d bring out a Wimbledon version for the UK market. Well, guess what? They haven’t – but Sagem have brought out two new versions of the My700x for the UK. |
The ultra-slim My700x will be available here in a choice of pink and white or brown and blue. The specification seems to be the same as the previous French version. It’s a quad band handset with EDGE technology, a 1.3MP camera and what Sagem describe as "iPodesque" music facilities with MP3 and AAC playback, an FM radi... |
It’s got USB and Bluetooth connectivity, plus a Mini SD slot for storage. If you fancy picking one up, you’ll have to wait a little longer as there’s no confirmation of networks or price as yet, but that should be announced in the next few weeks. |
105-year-old business closed two months ago, will be torn down for underpass. |
The reality of their situation hasn't sunk in yet for Joe and Bob Weber. Their company, Clark Metal Last Inc., closed Jan. 1, but they have been too busy cleaning out the place to think about it being gone. Clark Metal has been a Mishawaka business for 105 years. But it is in the way now of the planned Canadian Nationa... |
Amy Lowen digs through one of the boxes her brother, Gene Spatz, left behind. It’s packed with thick manila envelopes. She slips one out and puts on her reading glasses to examine the label. |
One by one, Lowen pulls out photos of each of the celebrities mentioned. There are over 1,000 of these envelopes, each containing portraits, negatives and notes. |
Currently, they’re all stored in file boxes in Lowen’s extra bedroom in Louisville — just as they have been for nearly a decade. |
As you can probably guess, Spatz was a celebrity photographer — a paparazzo — in New York City during the 70s and 80s. He spent years following cultural icons like Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli and Mick Jagger through the height of the city’s nightlife era. |
Along the way, he also captured the streets of New York: stark images of homelessness, joyful neighborhood scenes, ordinary people. |
But for years, Lowen says, she didn’t really know what her brother did. |
Then Spatz died suddenly in 2003 at the age of 60, leaving all his possessions to Lowen and her sister, Cathy Spatz-Widom. His belongings were kept in a storage unit in New Jersey for a few years. Then finally, in 2008, Lowen decided she was ready to investigate what her brother had left behind. |
The room where Amy Lowen is storing her brother’s photography. |
Envelope after envelope, Lowen found celebrity after celebrity, premiere after premiere, night after night at Studio 54. And initially, the more she looked, the more excited she became. |
And then panic set in. |
“I mean, what do you do with it all,” Lowen says. |
It featured a nonprofit organization called POBA that specialized in helping families archive, organize and display collections they inherit. The name of the group comes from a Tibetan phrase that refers to new consciousness after death. |
McCarthy is the co-managing director of POBA. She has spent months consulting with Lowen. |
And preserving it can also be expensive. |
POBA provided consultations and access to the services at a fraction of what it would have costed to go through professionals directly. Much of the on-the-ground work, Lowen is doing herself, but she says her brother’s art is worth it. And others, like McCarthy, agree. |
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft curator Joey Yates says Spatz’s identity as a paparazzo makes his work interesting to consider in a curatorial context. |
“You look at these photos and they look very similar to fine art black and white photography from the time,” he says. |
It’s almost like the subjects just happen to be celebrities whom Spatz captured doing everyday things, like Andy Warhol getting seconds from a buffet line or Allen Ginsberg waiting — like everyone else — for a Bob Dylan concert to begin. |
In his photos, they’re just people from a time gone-by — and that’s why, after years of being boxed up, Lowen wants to make sure Spatz’s photography is recognized again. |
The POBA-hosted online gallery with Spatz’s work can be found here. |
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Josh Allen has the big arm. He has the size. And, now, he has the opportunity to take over as Buffalo's starting quarterback. |
Bills coach Sean McDermott said Wednesday the rookie will make his first career start on Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers. |
McDermott declined to elaborate on his thought process behind the decision, instead saying it was "the right move" for his team more than 10 times. |
"I don't feel the need, honestly, to elaborate," McDermott said. "We talk a lot in-house about decisions and things and what we've got to do and the right move at the right time, and right now, with all respect to your question, this is the right move for us." |
The move is a jarring and significant change for Buffalo, which planned on bringing along the strong-armed, raw passer at a calculated and methodical rate before inserting him into the lineup. Chosen seventh overall this spring, Allen has ideal physical tools but has been considered a developmental prospect at the posi... |
The Bills, however, were forced into making a change following one of the worst losses in franchise history. |
"Whoever's the quarterback, we've got to roll," running back LeSean McCoy said. "I'm confident in Josh. He's very talented, he's extremely smart, intelligent. So I'm happy with the move. Nate's a good friend of mine, he had his shot. We've got to move on. That's the type of business this is." |
Allen did his best to downplay the significance of his first career start while acknowledging that it was a lifelong dream. |
"I've got game experience and now I'm just starting a game," Allen said. "I'm just looking to do my job, try and be 1/11th of this team and this offense, and just help this team in any way possible to win football games." |
"Obviously I'm super excited and thankful for the chance to be the starter of this team. This is something I've dreamed for a long time. But now that it's here, come Sunday I'm just trying to do my job. I'm not trying to do too much. Trust in those around me and ultimately trying to be the quarterback that this team ne... |
Allen got a taste of regular-season action Sunday against Baltimore, entering the game when it was well out of reach in the third quarter. He showed some flashes while enduring his share of growing pains, completing 6 of 15 passes for 74 yards while being sacked three times. |
McDermott saw some positives in that time, noting Allen wasn't overwhelmed by the circumstances. |
"I thought his command of the offense was there," McDermott said. "There were some things that he did well in getting us in and out of the huddle. Those are the things you don't take for granted when a young player's out there. And then after the snap, executed fairly well at times, and there were other times where we ... |
It's not just the quarterbacks who struggled against Baltimore, however, and the Bills will need a lot more from their other positions to have any chance of rebounding against the Chargers. The Bills were blown out by Los Angeles last season, 54-24. That was Peterman's first career start, when the QB tossed five interc... |
"The one thing I'm going to talk to the offense about, especially the skill guys, is that (the key) for a rookie quarterback to have a good game is to make it easy on them," McCoy said. "Catching the ball, giving him confidence, moving the chains ... everything to get that extra advantage is critical and big for a rook... |
"If I had to draft a quarterback, I would draft a kid like him," McCoy added. "He's mobile, he's tall, he's strong. He's not afraid, he's smart and has a big arm." |
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