by admin on August 29, 2008
The Le Meurice is located in scenic and romantic Paris, France. Enough can’t be said of the magnificant terrace that provides direct views of Paris’ key sites.
You’ll feel as though you can reach out and touch the Louvre museum, Arc de Triomphe, Place, de la Concorde, and Eiffel Tower.
The Charles X-style decor contains finely crafted [...]
by admin on August 28, 2008
A small drawing of a group of very civilized rabbits tickled the art world by selling for over $500,000 in London recently.
Expected to sell for about $80,000 at Sotheby’s in London, the illustration, ”The Rabbits’ Christmas Party: The Departure” by Beatrix Potter, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, instead found several buyers willing to [...]
by admin on August 27, 2008
La Madeline au Truffe, created by Fritz Knipschildt (whose shop, Knipschildt Chocolatier, is in Norwalk, Connecticut), has a ganache (rich chocolate center) made of Valrhona dark chocolate.
High-quality stuff yes, but is that a legitimate reason for a single chocolate truffle to launch into the triple digits? $250 to be exact.
This ganache also contains heavy cream. Well, so [...]
by admin on August 26, 2008
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a rock orchestra founded by Paul O’Neill, Robert Kinkel, and Jon Oliva in 1996. O’Neill had managed and produced rock bands including Aerosmith, Humble Pie and Scorpions, later writing for and producing Savatage, where he began working with Kinkel and Oliva.
The roots of TSO are found in Savatage, a traditional heavy metal [...]
by admin on August 26, 2008
Does our brain trick us when we have the choice between two wines - one more expensive than the other? It seems that we tend to like the taste of the more expensive wine.
A study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology discovered that when people were given two different bottles [...]
by admin on August 25, 2008
In my never ending efforts to find the right tools and aspects of technology that make my computing life easier to manage I happen to run across a new player in the managed server hosting space.
Now, I don’t give recommendations lightly and I also don’t give them without an extensive amount of research. With that [...]
by admin on August 25, 2008
The movie-star glamour and ladylike sophistication of the 1920s is being reinterpreted for fall 2008.
Chris Benz, Donna Karan and Milly are just a few of the names returning to the nonchalant romanticism of the flapper era. Heidi Handler, designer for fashion line Lovenia, pays close attention to details such as beading and fringe, which were [...]
by admin on August 23, 2008
Misty May-Treanor and “Six Feet of Sunshine” Kerri Walsh, won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball Thursday at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing China.
Playing through a steady and sometimes driving rain, May and Walsh defeated China in straight sets and extended their amazing winning streak to 108 matches in a row.
The winning American team defeated [...]
by admin on August 22, 2008
Varq, Delhi’s newest fine dining Indian restaurant, opened August 1 at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
Varq is a modern Indian gourmet dining experience with authentic, artistic dishes created by Taj Corporate Chef Hemant Oberoi and paired with teas to enhance enjoyment of the dishes’ ingredients.
Varq is part of Chef Oberoi’s masala cuisine concept, which reinvents Indian [...]
by admin on August 21, 2008
It looks like there’s a changing of the guard in luxury car market. The Bugatti Veyron is no longer the most expensive car in the world. The Veyron also lost its spot as the fastest car.
That most expensive car title now goes to the One-77. It’s a $2.3 million hand-made coupe that Aston Martin will sell [...]