Saturday, June 30, 2012

After health ruling, will U.S. be ready for the law? (reuters)

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Debt crisis: Germany caves in over bond buying, bank aid after Italy and Spain threaten to block 'everything'

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Saveur Summer BBQ 2012 | Chef Monsta

Summer is officially here and I?m happy to recap the next NYC food fest ? the 3rd annual Saveur Mag Summer BBQ! Outgrowing last year?s venue The Frying Pan, this year the BBQ was held at the 79th St Boat Basin on the Upper West Side. I got to hang out and taste the dishes of some of the country?s finest chefs ? Chris Cosentino, Aron Sanchez, Anita Lo, Susan Feniger, Francois Payard & more.

The boat basin

Opening up the event was the masala spice rubbed lambchops by the chefs of DC?s Indique Heights.

Spicy lambchop with a cooling sweet mango chutney and cilantro sauce.

Next up was a BBQ tri-tipped sandwich with shaved fennel salad and garlic aioli by Damon Wise of The Monkey Bar.

[Not fried] Chicken and waffles by NY Brewery Ommegang, the events? beer sponsor.

Hi Susan Feniger of Top Chef Masters and chef owner of Cali?s STREET. Cutest woman ever.

Susan?s noodle and steak dish was one of the biggest hits of the event ? she kept running out of noodles due to popular demand! They were cold and spicy and refreshing on a hot summer eve.

My new BFF, Susan.

Pick up her latest cookbook, Street Food for this noodle recipe and many others inspired from the street foods of her global adventures.

Cafe Boulud?s shrimp and polenta.

Chef owner of Annisa, Anita Lo brought a pork jerky and green papaya salad to this potluck party.

Chef Shea Gallante was grilling fresh Maine lobster to perfection.

Grilled lobster with onions and pepper jam.

Grilled octopus from Tertulia?s Seamus Mullen. Who knew.

These pickled vegetables were delightful, btw.

Hello Anita Lo!

Hola, Aron Sanchez.

After mucho food and drink, it was dessert time. The Sussman bros created a panko fried peanut butter cheesecake treat that I ate in 2.2 seconds.

They were promoting their new cookbook, This is a Cookbook. Their mama must be proud.

This is Francois Payard?s macaron and milkshake, quite the killer combo.

Ending the night in the arms of James Oseland, Saveur mag?s editor in chief and host of TOP CHEF MASTERS!

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Huge win for Obama as health care reforms stand

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Brave | Arts & Entertainment | South Philly Review

Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) in Pixar?s ?Brave? shows girls that they can shoot a bow and arrow, too.

It may be clearer than ever that Pixar?s golden era went out with ?Toy Story 3,? the jewel in the crown of an animation studio that ruled over its medium for 15 glorious years. But does ?Brave,? Pixar?s new badass-Scottish-lass adventure, deserve to be flogged simply because it?s not ?WALL?E?-level transcendent? Yes and no. Solid yet innocuous, moving yet minimally ambitious, this old-fashioned fantasy is an oxymoronic specimen, aiming for progressiveness while clinging to safe traditions. But it nevertheless offers something rarely seen in the world of toons: A mother-daughter tale that leaves the boys on the side.

Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) is your typical oppressed tomboy princess, a nervy athlete who?d rather fire arrows than follow the rules of her mother (voiced by Emma Thompson), a stern queen trying to marry Merida off. Before you can say ?Mulan,? our free-thinking heroine is pulling an Ariel, consulting a shady witch to ?change her fate.? What results is as zanily random as it is intentionally gender-subverting, and when not inducing yawns with lazy plot offshoots (the male characters simply holler and spar), the combo yields tender common ground for its feuding kinswomen.

Directed by Pixar?s Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, ?Brave? follows Disney?s ?Tangled? as a film in which hair proves a benchmark in animation?s evolution (Merida?s springy, scarlet locks are wondrous to behold). But, more importantly, the movie boasts Pixar?s first female lead, a separate benchmark many will view as a blown opportunity.

Andrews and Chapman may pilot their film to an affecting resolution, but their introductory scene of Merida triumphantly scaling a mountain (one of many moments with misty vistas), is hardly a promise that?s kept. ?Brave? is an atmospheric jaunt with quirky flourishes, but its bound to leave the gals in the audience feeling a bit shortchanged. Whereas, say, ?Up? presented a man with startling human complexity, Pixar?s unwittingly regressive 13th feature keeps things light and unchallenging, all while quietly waving a flag of feminism. Instead of passing women the ball, it merely throws them a bone.

Brave

PG
Two reels out of four
Now playing in area theaters

Recommended Rental

The Hunter

R
Available Tuesday

Willem Dafoe fans shouldn?t miss the eco-drama ?The Hunter,? which sees the chameleonic actor take the lead as a sharp-shooting mercenary, tasked to hunt down an endangered animal in Tasmania. Shot on location, the film is predominantly picturesque, and it ably blends environmental themes with taut conflict. Its scattered missteps are overshadowed by Dafoe, who gives a soulful performance as the noirish antihero.

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    Tom Cruise 'Deeply Saddened' By Katie Holmes Divorce

    TMZ reports Holmes is seeking full custody of the couple's one daughter, Suri.
    By John Mitchell


    Suri Cruise, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
    Photo: James Devaney/ Getty Images

    Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1688835/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-files-divorce-statement.jhtml

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    Thursday, June 28, 2012

    Reader Survey 2012: Best Place for a Late Night Snack -

    Bar at Biwa, Portland Oregon

    Bar at Biwa

    In 2011, the order was Cartopia, Biwa and Beaker & Flask. This year Beaker fell off of the list, probably because they are now only open until 11pm. Pix moved up?considerably. The Gilt Club, Bunk Bar and Montage moved down.

    925 votes cast:

    1.?*Cartopia Food Carts ? 14% 1207?Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard??Portland, OR 97202??Map

    The carts at this location are:

    • Whiffies Fried Pies: ?Tues ? Sun until 3am
    • Bubba Bernie?s -?Wed through Sat, 6pm-3am
    • El Brasero ? Daily, morning through late night.
    • Pyro Pizza -?Tuesday through Thursday, 6pm-12am; Friday and Saturday, 6pm-3am
    • Perierra Creperie -?Tues ? Sat: 8am-3am; Sunday: 9am ? 3pm
    • Potato Champion ? Tues ? Sun: 12 pm ? 3 am

    Thanks to foodcartsportland.com for the listing

    2.?*Pix Patisserie ? 9%

    • 3402 SE Division, Portland OR. 97202 ?Map ?(503) 232-4408. Open until midnight, Fri-Sat 2 am
    • 3901 N. Williams, Portland OR 97227 ?Map ?(503) 282-6539. ?Sun ? Thurs: 10am ? midnight

    3.?Biwa ? 7%. ?215 Southeast 9th Avenue??Portland, OR 97214 ?Map ?(503) 239-8830.?Open until midnight.

    4.?Salt & Straw ? 3%

    • 2035 NE Alberta??Portland OR 97211 ?Map ?(503) 208-3867. Open daily until 11pm
    • 838 NW 23rd Ave, Portland OR 97209 ?Map ?(503) 271-8168. Open daily until 11pm

    5.?*le Bistro?Montage ? ?2.5% ?301 Southeast Morrison Street??Portland, OR 97214 ?Map ?(503) 234-1324. Tue-Thurs until 2 am, Fri-Sat 4 am, Sun 2 am

    6.??Papa Haydn?- 13%

    • ?701 Northwest 23rd Avenue, Portland, OR 97210 ?Map??(503) 228-7317 ?Mon-Thu 11:30 am ? 10 pm,?Fri-Sat 11:30 am ? 12 am,?Sun 10 am ? 9 pm
    • 5829 Southeast Milwaukie Ave., Portland, OR 97202 ?Map??(503) 232-9440? Mon-Thu 11:30 am ? 10 pm, Fri-Sat 11:30 am ? 12 am, Sun 10 am ? 9 pm

    7.?*The Gilt Club -?306 Northwest Broadway??Portland, OR 97209 ?Map ?(503) 222-4458. Open until 1 am Mon ? Thursday, 2 am Fri ? Sat

    8. *Cassidy?s ? ?1331 Southwest Washington Street??Portland, Oregon 97205 ?Map ?(503) 223-0054.?Open daily until 2am

    9.?Bunk Bar -?1028 Southeast Water Avenue #130??Portland, OR 97214 ?Map ?(503) 894-9708. Open until 2am Mon ? Sun.

    10. Victory Bar -?3652 Southeast Division Street??Portland, OR 97202 ?Map ?(503) 236-8755. Open Mon ? Thu, Sun until 1 am, Fri ? Sat 2 am

    * signifies extra late closing time. My vote is for Cartopia Food Carts and Biwa. Just depends what type of food I am looking for. I tend to forget about the others ? Montage I forget about?deliberately. I don?t have a photo for Cartopia ? anyone?

    You can see all the Reader Survey 2012 winners here.


    View Best Place for a Late Night Snack in Portland Oregon in a larger map

    "I have a wide-range of food experience - working in the restaurant industry on both sides of the house, later in the wine industry, and finally traveling/tasting my way around the world. Whether you agree or disagree, you can always count on my unbiased opinion. I don't take free meals, and the restaurants don't know when, or if, I am coming."

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    'Hunger Games': The Week In Casting Rumors

    Hobnobbing takes a look back at the week's happenings, from Jennifer Lawrence's heroics to Johanna Mason contenders.
    By Amy Wilkinson


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    Mongolian election highlights those left behind by mining boom

    Kyodo News via AP

    A nomad voter arrives at a yurt temporarily serving as a polling station in Hovt, western Mongolia, on June 28, 2012.

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    The Associated Press reports from?ULAN BATOR, Mongolia?? Mongolians traveled by foot, car and horse to vote for a new legislature Thursday in an election that centered on better spreading the benefits of Mongolia's mining boom across the vast and still largely poor country.?

    A poll this month showed the opposition Democratic Party with a slight edge over the ruling Mongolian People's Party, though neither had the support to win an outright majority in the 76-seat parliament.

    The Democratic Party has cast itself as better placed to help the poor and unemployed and portrayed the ruling MPP as beholden to the rich.?Read the full story.

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    Herdsmen vote at a polling station during the Mongolian parliamentary elections in the village of Zurlug on June 28, 2012.

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    The Craft Beer Revolution Goes Abroad ? Costa Rica's First Craft ...

    I can?t speak for Kendon, but I love disruption, and I?m not talking about hundreds of hipsters on fixies blocking traffic or thousands of OWS?ers shitting in the park and complaining about Wall ST.? That?s not the kind of disruption that spreads a grin across my boyishly good looking face.? I?m talking pure Schumpeterian, do-something, grab the status quo and smash it into a million pieces disruption.? For the last century or more, beer in Costa Rica, or should I say all of Latin America, has been dominated by the pale lager monopolists ? you know, the 30% rice, skunky and stale, ?how long?s that been sitting on the grocery store shelf? beer makers.? So this past February when Luis Arce, co-founder of Costa Rica?s first home brew store, TicoBirra, asked me if I would like to sit on the inaugural board of directors for The Asociaci?n de Cerveceros Artesanales de Costa Rica ? Costa Rica?s Craft Brewers Association, I told him ?Well, you know my Spanish sucks, right?? But?I?m all in!?.

    Our first project?? Raising money so we can incorporate this bad boy!? Well how do we do that?? Here?s a little idea: bring lots of people together and give them LOTS of good beer and LOTS of good food.? People pay for that.? So over the next 2 months planning ensued to host Costa Rica?s first ever craft beer festival.

    Master Chef and Restaurateur Demian Geneau of Product C with the ladies of Treintaycinco

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    Spearheaded by the efforts of development group Avenida Escazu, restaurant Product C (probably the most Ambrosial seafood in all of Costa Rica, i.e. fit for the Gods!) and Costa Rica?s Craft Brewing Co, we organized and hosted our first ever festival.

    The festival hosted over 400 guests and brought representation from 2 established craft breweries ? Costa Rica?s Craft Brewing Co & Volcano Brewing Co , 2 craft breweries in planning ? Cerveceria Treintaycinco and La Perra Hermosa Coastal Brewery, Belgian beer aficionado and beer writer Joe Stange of ThirstyPilgrim.com, as well as other home brewers from all over the country.? Ticos (as Costa Ricans are known) got an education on a full range of styles while the gringos enjoyed a reunion with some long lost friends -Belgian pale ales, American pale ales, IPAs, red ales, barrel aged stouts, barley wines, brown ales, blonde ales, farmhouse ales ? the full spectrum.? The wide selection of beers paired with the gourmet finger-food confections of Product C ? fresh ceviche, chimichurri fries, calamari and mahi mahi ? was a knockout.

    Here?s a short list of my personal favorites on the beer offerings:

    - Gato Malo Brown Ale: Volcano Brewing Co?s nut brown ale was a real hit for those ticos looking to transition from pale lager to a beer with more body and flavor without being overwhelmed.? Light notes of caramel and chocolate with a subtle hop character and a sweet almond finish.

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    - Chocolate Orange Brown Ale:? La Perra Hermosa (The Pretty Bitch) Coastal Brewery hit the spot with this dark ale.? Brewed with roasted dark malts and tangerine peel, the deep dark chocolate aromas and body give way to a cirtusy effervescence.? Did someone say dessert?

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    - Espiral: Assistant brewer at Costa Rica Craft Brewing Co, Stefano Marin pulled out all the stops to bring a ?real? local beer to the event.? This dark brown ale was brewed with local cacao, honey, vanilla and sugar.? Well balanced with toasted barley and English hops, this beer sent you sailing across the flavor spectrum from sweet to bitter in a truly Costa Rican way.

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    - Majadera Strong IPA:? ?Majadera: Stubborn? ? A nice full-bodied IPA from Treintaycinco, dry-hopped with an ample dose of Cascade, this one left you reeling from a 1,2 knockout punch of grapefruit citrusy bitterness, courtesy of the wonderful Pacific Northwest hops.

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    - Maldita Vida Barley Wine: The guys from Treintaycinco are irreverent and they make no apologies about it.? This 9.8% barleywine literally translates to ?Fuck it/Fuck life!? and after a couple of tasters of this, well, the partakers were in agreement.? If grandpa had been at the event he would have been sucking this down like his signature cough syrup ? high gravity, malty and sweet with a sucker punch, rum-raisin goodness.

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    - C3 Cask Conditioned Stout: A rich, dark oatmeal stout, cask conditioned for 2 months in Ron Centenario rum barrels.? This one was my personal favorite ? notes of coffee and chocolate from the roasted malts balanced against the vanilla imparted from the rum-soaked oak.? I had been begging the guys from Costa Rica Craft Brewing Co to do a rum-barrel aged beer for months, so this was a real treat.

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    - Petite Saison: I think the Thirsty Pilgrim, Joe Stange, brewed this one to keep the ladies lining up all afternoon.? Seriously, this easy drinking 4% ABV saison was a real crowd favorite. A true farmhouse small beer, refreshing with a spicy zest and a little bit of fruity Willamette dry-hopped zing.

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    The real debauchery kicks in during after hours

    The beer tastings were balanced with various presentations on home brewing, beer and food pairing and using alternative ingredients in the brewing process.? Not sure how much of the presentations were retained, but they were informative.? The brain just isn?t a very good sponge when you are inebriated, and the folks at this event did not hold back on getting inebriated.? And of course we featured a home brewing competition judged by Costa Rica?s Craft Brewing Co brew master CS Derrick and former interim head brewer of Thomas Hooker Brewing, Stephen Province.? The 2 have over 30 years combined experience in brewing and we are lucky to have them as residents in Costa Rica.

    All in all the event was epic, the crowd was pleased and something tells me that next years event will be at least double the size, but if enough of you reading this are up for the vacay to Costa Rica, I?m sure that number will be tripled.? Stay tuned for more on the Costa Rica craft beer scene as I bring you video interviews from the irreverent, Venezuelan hijos de putas of Cerveceria Treintaycinco, the sustainability phenes of Volcano Brewing Co, the brewing in paradise trailblazers at La Perra Hermosa Coastal brewery and others.

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