Happy Hour International

Dali brings tapas and tango to San Mateo
Spanish cuisine has descended on downtown San Mateo, bringing not only the classic tapas, paella and sangria but also flamenco, guitar and another Latin tradition: tango. Dali, which opened two months ago, offers a cultural experience that doesn’t end with…

The Citadel

The only dungeon in town.

Cafe Zoet

Great little cafe!

The Afro Joint Event @ 222 Club

Afro Rhythm Event

Alive and well
Memo to doomsayers: Not only is classical thriving, but the debuts of Disney Hall and Golijov’s ‘San Marco’ also helped give it a new energy.

Ten years ago, cultural commentators found it fashionable to forecast the death of classical music. That bit of silliness ended on Sept. 5, 2000, with an unlikely work by an unlikely composer in an unlikely place. The Stuttgart Bach Academy in Germany commissioned four composers from different cultures to write new passions on each of the four Gospels. The third work, devoted to St. Mark, was by Osvaldo Golijov, an Argentine of Jewish Eastern European descent who had studied in Israel and Pennsylvania and settled in the Boston area.

An all-star ‘We Are the World’ remake for Haiti relief
Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Kanye West and Keith Urban join an all-star chorus at the Los Angeles studio where the dozens had gathered in 1985 to sing for famine relief in Africa.

Twenty-five years after the all-star recording of “We Are the World” became a signature moment in celebrity altruism and pop-music history, a new collective of stars came together Monday at the same Hollywood recording studio to record a new version for Haiti earthquake relief.

La La La Human Steps
Édouard Lock’s Montreal company rethinks Tchaikovsky with ‘Amjad’ at Royce Hall.

WE can refuse history, but we can’t forget about it, even with the new technologies. Those are Luciano Berio’s words. They were also the theme of the late Italian composer’s Norton Lectures at Harvard 15 years ago. Last week, I was sure I had long ago proved Berio wrong. Having shuffled dying swans and such into the category of ritual rather than renewable art, I not only, good Modernist that I am, refused Tchaikovsky’s ballets but also had put them out of my mind. Would good reviews have made American Ballet Theatre’s “Swan Lake” at the Music Center an event? Not for me.

Ascending Dragon Music Festival
Ascending Dragon Music Festival What: 17 concerts performed by Southwest Chamber Music and musicians from the Vietnam National Academy of Music Where: Pasadena, Los Angeles, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

bel mondo - DINNER 2 COURSES $55 DEGUSTATION 5 COURSES $77…
DINNER 2 COURSES $55 DEGUSTATION 5 COURSES $77

Galileo Restaurant - Galileo will be hosting a wine dinner with Weingut Schloss Lieser on the 3 …
Galileo will be hosting a wine dinner with Weingut Schloss Lieser on the 3 March 2010.Time 6.30pm, Galileo Restaurant.Price:$145.00 pp Menu:7 Course Dinner with 16 Matching Wines. Contact: email@observatoryhotel.com.au

Tandoori Palace - Friday & Saturday - Dinner & Show $50pp Bellydancer + ELVIS + Drag Queen K…
Friday & Saturday - Dinner & Show $50pp Bellydancer + ELVIS + Drag Queen Karaoke Host + Karaoke + Free night club passes + Banquet = $50pp

Tank Girl
I’ve been wanting to re-create one of my favorite bad movies, Tank Girl, in a series of photos. Here’s one of them. Sexy Lia Lanett was the perfect subject. Post apocalyptic badass!

Model: Lia Lanett

I’ve been wanting to re-create one of my favorite bad movies, Tank Girl, in a series of photos. Here’s one of them. Sexy Lia Lanett was the perfect subject. Post apocalyptic badass!

This image was taken out in the Florida Everglades, using just a speedlight on a stand with an umbrella.

Pamela & Muñeca
Wasabi Fashion Kult leader, Pamela Wasabi with her attack dog Muñeca (Babydoll). Pamela’s unique sense of style & fun have made her parties and fashion shows a popular attraction in Miami Beach. Her online fashion magazine is a big hit as well.

Model: Pamela Wasabi

Wasabi Fashion Kult leader, Pamela Wasabi with her attack dog Muñeca (Babydoll). Pamela’s unique sense of style & fun have made her parties and fashion shows a popular attraction in Miami Beach. Her online fashion magazine is a big hit as well.

The shoot was for a two page spread in Argentina’s popular fashion magazine, D-Mode Mag. It’s on page 92 & 93 of the “Fantastica” issue #152.

Independance Pool Party @ The Surfcomber
he 5th Annual Independance 4th of July Pool Party in Miami Beach was a fantastic event just like last year. Bikini clad vixens prancing around to the music of Danny Tenaglia at the Surfcomber’s beachside pool will always be a good party!

Miami 4th of July Pool Party

The 5th Annual Independance 4th of July Pool Party in Miami Beach was a fantastic event just like last year. Bikini clad vixens prancing around to the music of Danny Tenaglia at the Surfcomber’s beachside pool will always be a good party!

Models & Playboy Playmates along with muscle-bound supermen make for some great people watching entertainment. Check out the photos and pretend like you were there.

The knives are out at Sun Wah
Daughters of Uptown restaurant founder look to blaze new trail — if they can just agree on something first

Eric Cheng opened the first Sun Wah BBQ in New York City in the early 1980s. He had nine feet of storefront, but it was a lot to him. He had grown up in southern China, a student from the city who had escaped his fate of being assigned to a collective farm. He swam to Hong Kong, clinging to a spare tire for eight hours.

At Prairie Fire, finesse elevates comfort food
Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris have returned to Chicago with the recent opening of their second restaurant. Like Prairie Grass in Northbrook, Prairie Fire on North Clinton Street features the two chefs’ signature American comfort food prepared with classic French sensibility and ingredients from local, sustainable farms.

Free cocktail-inspired cupcakes 5-7 p.m.
A cupcake happy hour.

‘This is it!’ Send-off Bash
Wish owner Rodney Alex good luck as he leaves Juicy Wine Company to start a new wine-making project on the West Coast. Expect wine deals, special guests, music and more to-be-announced fun.

Suntory Hall closes opera series with racy tale from Mozart
“Cosi fan tutte” (”Women are like that”), composed in 1790, was regarded as an immoral tale of fiancee swapping during the 19th century. While it offended sensibilities then, today the work is considered one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most sophisticated operas, and it will be staged at Suntory Hall in March.
“This is the final round of our Mozart opera trilogy and will be the pinnacle of our ‘Hall Opera’ series,” says executive producer Keiko Manabe, who has been at the helm of the hall’s operatic endeavors from the beginning.

Westin’s Austrian Fair hits 10th year
The Westin Tokyo will hold its annual Austrian Fair at The Terrace restaurant from Mar. 8 to April 4.
In its 10th year, the fair offers authentic Austrian flavors by inviting Executive Sous-Chef Bernhard Frais and Pastry Chef Thomas Loran from the prestigious Hotel Imperial in Vienna to cook at The Terrace.

Restaurants 2009: a year of double standards
The fact that fewer restaurants than anticipated closed down in 2009 may be a blessing, at least for the owners, but the real crunch, I suspect, is still to come, says Fay Maschler

Best disco nights in London
Disco is officially back, and with the kind of image change Prime Minister Gordon Brown probably dreams about nightly.

Best Halloween parties in London
So defy the wintry weather in Hammer horror-clad style and indulge your most ghoulish urges at the best Halloween parties in town.

John Mayer
John Mayer makes a lot of news off the stage dating starlets like Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston, but he doesn’t want you to forget he plays great guitar and makes great pop songs. Mayer will be releasing his fourth album, “Battle Studies,” in November and then will be hitting the road to…

4Play
The Flying Karamazov Brothers, world-famous jugglers, visit Gotham for a cool month.

The Most Micro of Brews
New home-brew suppliers and classes make fermenting a keg-quality IPA in your closet that much simpler.

Enemy of the People
A doctor fights the power when he finds evidence of a threat to public health.

Frances: top-quality food in casual setting
Sitting in Frances you’d swear you were in SoHo in New York rather than the Castro in San Francisco. That’s not saying that one place is better than the other, but at Frances, as at many SoHo places, every inch of space is precious and utilized, creating an…

Citizen Cupcake

sounds good-but….

Philz Coffee

tell a friend, or many

Canvas Cafe and Gallery

Laid-back and comfortable.

World Youth Day, Sydney

Pool Club Bar, Ivy, Sydney