| Sun 5 Jul 2009 |
Charlie Sheen and family outgrow restored Mediterranean
The Miami Herald | Actor Charlie Sheen of Two and a Half Men and his wife, Brooke, have listed their 1927 Mediterranean in L.A.'s Los Feliz section at $3,697,000. | The Sheens spent the past year restoring and decorating the gated villa, which has four bedrooms and 4... |
Armstrong makes his Tour return
The News & Observer | MONACO -- The nervous plainclothes policeman scrutinized the frenzy, the cameramen elbowed and sweated in the Mediterranean sun, and that dead-shark look of determination was back in the eyes of the bike racer everyone came to see. | Yup, no doubt ... |
Cancellara wins Tour opener
The News & Observer | MONACO -- After four years away from the Tour de France, a race that made him a cycling legend, Lance Armstrong looked around Saturday and did not recognize the place. | "It's almost like a foreign environment," said Armstrong, who raced his first ... |
Family recipes, fresh ideas
The News & Observer | The mantra is freshness at Jamil Kadoura's restaurant, Mediterranean Deli, or "Med Deli" as the locals call it in Chapel Hill. | Kadoura, 48, doesn't just mean using fresh tomatoes or lettuce. The Middle Eastern dishes in his deli case are made fro... |
In first Tour since ending retirement, Lance shows a bit of rust.
Austin American Statesman | MONACO — The nervous plainclothes policeman scrutinized the frenzy, the cameramen elbowed and sweated in the Mediterranean sun and that dead-shark look of determination was back in the eyes of the bike racer everyone came to see. | Yup, no do... |
Live high on the hog in the Languedoc
The Observer | Club Med, eat your heart out. Mark Warner, look away now. I've seen the future of holiday villages and it involves taking pot shots at wild boar, treading Corbières grapes, and - if you're feeling reckless - tickling speckled trout. Wind sur... |
Sheens' Growing Family Outgrows Gated Villa
Hartford Courant Actor of and his wife, Brooke, both pictured here, have listed their 1927 Mediterranean in Los Angeles' section at $3,697,000. | The Sheens spent the past year restoring and decorating the gated villa, which has four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms. But... |
The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown
The New York Times | BY half-past 5 on a morning in early May, the sun rising over Blackwater Pond had already brightened the pine woods. I stood in a wide natural path, carpeted with brown-red needles, that rises up the forested dune from the southwest side of the pon... |
Max Lawson: Italy's record on foreign aid is immoral
The Independent | Like Gordon Brown before him, Silvio Berlusconi will be hoping for a boost to his poll ratings when he hosts world leaders in L'Aquila this week. Brown's performance at the G20 summit in London gave him respite from day-to-day political difficultie... |
Paradise costs
The Times | On a Mallorcan beach in 1950, a row of simple straw huts - not one of them with an ensuite - was made ready for the first Club Med holidaymakers. The huts had no lights, and the gentils membres (GMs) shared communal washing facilities, but the foun... |
Sailing: life, death and the shipping forecast
The Times | The great pleasure of ocean voyaging, as opposed to day sailing, is that as the land drops away astern, all the woes and worries that afflicted you on dry land - all the things you ought to have done, but have left undone, all the drab detritus and... |
Twitter Comes to the Rescue
The New York Times | IF you're not protesting an election or promoting a product, Twitter, the microblogging site that has been getting so much attention these days, can be easy to dismiss. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Andy Rash | TWEET TIPS | To get notic... |
Globespotters: Rome, Mumbai and Prague
The New York Times | Excerpts from recent posts on the Globespotters blog, a travelers' guide to cities around the world. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Sean Gallup/Getty Images | Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. | Get travel news from those in the know. | ROME... |
Alive and Evolving: the Paris Bistro
The New York Times | WHETHER the Parisian bistro is dead depends largely on how you define "bistro." If you need pigeonholes for your napkins, no wine choices because the owner's brother-in-law makes Beaujolais, a dependable blanquette de veau every Tuesday, and the ne... |
Tasting Slovenian Cuisine Right at the Source
The New York Times | LEAVE the highway from Ljubljana and wend your way west through the lush, vineyard-dotted region of southwestern Slovenia known as the Karst, and eventually you will come upon the tiny village of Tomaj and the flower-fringed courtyard of the Skerlj... |
Restaurant Review: BioMio, Copenhagen
The New York Times | Just a few weeks after opening in an old tool shop in Copenhagen's trendy meat-packing district in February, BioMio was already doing brisk dinner-hour business. Under the soft light of energy-saving bulbs in the large, open dining room (painted a ... |
Swiss Rider Steals Tour de France's Spotlight
The New York Times | MONACO - After four years away from the Tour de France, a race that made him a cycling legend, Lance Armstrong looked around Saturday and did not recognize the place. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Interactive Map Tour de France Stage by Stage |... |
Japanese Baseball: Root, Root, Root and Buy Me Some Eel
The New York Times | HANAMI, or cherry-blossom viewing, is jokingly referred to as the most popular spectator sport in Japan. In truth, the title belongs to baseball. Skip to next paragraph Japan Travel Guide | Go to the Japan Travel Guide » Multimedia Slide Show Fanat... |
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