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Bistrot Ha Is the Right Kind of Restaurant Evolution
A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha’s Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened Ha’s Snack Bar, an itsy-bitsy restaurant on the Lower East Side. The Snack Bar, like the pop-up, served Vietnamese-inspired dishes that were clever, cheffy (and more than a bit French-inflected),…
Read MoreMore deadly incidents reported in Gaza Strip
At least nine Palestinians have been killed and others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Sunday, noting there were deadly attacks in the north and south of the coastal strip. The Israeli military said the attacks were on targets of the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas. The…
Read More‘Our life is gone’: Ex-hostage couple exchanged letters while in Hamas captivity
Arbel Yehoud and Ariel Cunio started dating in 2018. Five years later, on October 7, they would be kidnapped from their home in Nir Oz by terrorists, taken into Gaza, and separated. Arbel Yehoud and Ariel Cunio, a couple kept in captivity in Gaza after October 7, spoke to N12 on Friday about their relationship,…
Read MoreEuropean nations: Kremlin murdered Navalny with lethal frog toxin
Forensic analyses indicate that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died two years ago in an Arctic penal colony, was killed with a powerful frog toxin, European governments said on Saturday, directly accusing the Kremlin of murder. Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom allege that analyses of Navalny’s remains showed traces of…
Read MoreEuropean nations: Navalny murdered by Kremlin using lethal frog toxin
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison camp two years ago, was murdered by the Russian government using a powerful frog toxin, European countries said on Saturday. Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom allege that analyses of Navalny’s remains showed traces of the highly potent toxin epibatidine. The…
Read MoreA Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me rethink all this. The work was made concurrently with another series, “Open Space in the Inner City: Ecology and the Urban Environment.” The Ramble, a wooded area on the center-west side of Central Park,…
Read MoreGerman state employees set for 5.8% pay rise after weeks of strikes
Public sector workers in Germany’s states are set for a 5.8% bump in pay after a collective bargaining agreement was struck on Saturday following weeks of strikes. The deal covers more than 900,000 employees of the country’s 16 federal states, including childcare workers, administrative staff and doctors. The agreement was announced on Saturday after months…
Read MoreOne of Lima’s top beaches to close Sunday over pollution
One of the most popular beaches in Peru’s capital Lima will close for one day on Sunday, in a rare move by authorities who say that heaps of garbage left each weekend has made the cherished spot unusable. Agua Dulce, which stretches for about a kilometer (0.6 miles), hosts up to 70,000 visitors every weekend…
Read More“Crime 101” Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite
Those qualities bind him, in a spiritual sense, to Lou, who can’t suppress a quiet admiration for the criminal he’s pursuing, and also to Sharon, the insurance broker, who is unwittingly drawn into both men’s orbits. She’s investigating a claim filed by Sammy Kassem (Payman Maadi), a jewelry-store proprietor who was robbed by Davis, and…
Read MoreThe Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds that, a lot of the time, the quest for the perfect room is self-defeating: tormented by sounds in his neighborhood (among them a neighbor’s rooster), Thomas…
Read MoreCharli XCX Misses the Moment
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled, the singer was approached to make a documentary about the tour—a practice that’s been embraced by the likes of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.…
Read MoreThe Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that many were what might be termed anti-Westerns. “Most Westerns are great adventures about risk and endeavor and glory,” he said. The books that he loves invert that mythology, focussing on characters in situations that don’t…
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