Joël Robuchon is a bar-raiser, an experience that ruins you forever, if you let it. The dragon you chase, the love who got away. Because, after you've had it, you can't un-know this food, this service and this setting.
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Sometimes the artists have permission to create their art on spaces owned by other people. At other times the artists do not have permission to create art on spaces owned by other people.
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We forgot all about the cold for a little while to enjoy the show!
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The great thing about Chicago is the many different groups of immigrants who have made Chicago their home over the years. Each group brings their own traditions, food, religions, languages and customs.
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"Why is it so cold?" she asked when she arrived in Chicago. Well, Flat Stanlina, that is a question I ask myself almost every day around this time of year.
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A few months ago, our family friend Christine, who lives in Southern California, asked me if I'd be willing to host a young friend in Chicago named Flat Stanley. Before Christine asked me to do this, I had no idea who or what Flat Stanley is.
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They reminded me of the great potential that waited after the conference, through their very pleasant company for a few minutes’ drive (or few hours’ flight), and maybe a dart of their eyes in the rearview mirror or a sideways glance between movies.
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Manila, July 10. Sixteen buses carrying five hundred delegates were in the convoy. Ten were to go to Calamba, the boyhood home and shrine to Dr. Jose Rizal and six to Kawit. Bus Six never made it to Kawit, the hometown of General Emilio Aguinaldo.
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Give a public housing complex set to be destroyed over to street artists from around the world for a few months to work and hold an exhibition. Here's what happening in Paris.
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It only illustrated to me how transnational (to borrow a fancy word), migratory people we Filipinos are. Throughout the trip, I met a wide range of people with a strong, shared interest in our heritage. I was delightfully surprised with my impressive fellow travelers, and counted myself very lucky to be on such an experience especially with these compatriots.
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Everything about this place -- the calm and quiet, the water, the moonlight, the fireflies -- tipped my mind over, poured out my cares and spilled away the needless worries, and emptied me so completely that good things could find their way inside my heart again.
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"Divide and Share" is more than a slogan. The new bike share makes the public transportation pie bigger by adding more capacity -- whether those seats are on a bus, train, or the saddles of 4,000 bikes.
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