Why Chinese Food Isn't Hip Wall Street Journal Why did I wander out to Long Island on a steamy day, traveling some 14 miles from the center of the American restaurant scene to a dumpy place at the end of a New York City subway line? It seemed crazy to go all that way to visit Golden Szechuan. That is, until I plunged my chopsticks into a dish of...
Mah-jongg keeps on clicking Philadelphia Daily News The venerable game is winning a new generation of players. | By Bonnie Neubauer | For The Inquirer | Inside a Lancaster hotel conference room, the murmur of 136 excited women fills the air. When the clock strikes 10 a.m., a smooth voice comes over the loudspeaker: "OK ladies, we're on the clock." An...
Why Chinese Food Isn't Hip Wall Street Journal Why did I wander out to Long Island on a steamy day, traveling some 14 miles from the center of the American restaurant scene to a dumpy place at the end of a New York City subway line? It seemed crazy to go all that way to visit Golden Szechuan. Tha...
Monkey Menace Panders to McCain/Palin Crowd [FNFF] The Examiner Gawker.com - 1 hr 26 mins ago The damned moneys. Despite the warnings, the hundreds and hundreds of warnings, everyone insists on treating these near-human masterminds of evil as being just like us! After all, they can handle firearms, but they are a...
Monkey business Sydney Morning Herald | DAMON ALBARN, Jamie Hewlett and I stand on the balcony of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, where the huge stage work on which they have collaborated is being performed, looking at the fire roaring out of the pavement grille five flo...
The Cartoon Heart of Africa Wall Street Journal The graphic novel "Aya of Yop City" aims to show a new side of Africa. Marguerite Abouet, who wrote the book with her husband, illustrator Clément Oubrerie, says she "didn't want to write about war, famine and AIDS. We know these things happen...
A Far Wine Country Wall Street Journal There's one problem with Tasmania's cool-clime wines: What little there is tends to get drunk very close to home. | So the question for wine lovers is, are Tassie wines worth a trip? | Though Australia's southernmost inhabited outpost is a long, cost...
Movies: Friday-Monday, Sept. 5-7 The Providence Journal | Babylon A.D. * Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh. A nearly incomprehensible film that even its director has called "violent and stupid," Diesel is assigned to accompany a strange young woman who is either some kind of biological weapon or some kind of mess...
Rejected by Hong Kong, Glitter arrives in Thailand The Tribune San Luis Obispo By SUTIN WANNABOVORN | Associated Press Writer | BANGKOK, Thailand -- | Thai police said disgraced rocker Gary Glitter agreed Thursday to leave Thailand for London, possibly ending a two-day odyssey that began when he was released from a Vietnamese p...
Plexus Announces Expansion in Hangzhou, China The Examiner Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE | NEENAH, Wis. (Map) - NEENAH, Wis., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Plexus Corp. (Nasdaq: PLXS) announced today that it intends to begin manufacturing in Hangzhou, China and has entered into...
Manga prize goes to Hong Kong News24 | Tokyo - A Hong Kong cartoonist's tale of a love triangle on Tuesday won the Japanese government's prize for foreign manga comics. | Lee Wan Kit, who also goes by the name Jeffrey, received the second annual prize at a ceremony in Tokyo with Foreign...
Cage should've passed on tired Thai remake The Columbus Dispatch For an A-list actor with a $1 billion franchise behind him, Nicolas Cage certainly does do a lot of B-movies. | Some, such as Ghost Rider, are worth the effort because they will make money. Others, such as Next and Wicker Man and the new Bangkok Dangerous, are harder to explain. | Was he looking for the next John Woo out of Hong Kong, and thinking ...
World markets sink after Wall Street plunge The News Tribune LONDON -- World stock markets retreated Friday in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth. | Disappointing reports on U.S. retail sales and jobless claims overnight undercut hopes for a late-year recovery in the world's biggest economy, a critical export market. | By...
