Tangier (Accomack, Virginia)

'Spring Breakers' star Selena Gomez heats up SXSW

2013-03-13 10:02:00

Justin Bieber who? Actress and singer Selena Gomez hit the SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival stag to promote her new film "Spring Breakers," scheduled to hit theaters March 22. It may only be a couple months since Gomez and Bieber split, but Gomez...

Unique Boutiques

2012-01-13 10:00:28

Palm Springs is home to a staggering diversity of boutique hotels. Each of these small, intimate properties (the city’s municipal code defines a boutique hotel as “containing at least four guest rooms and no more than forty-nine”) has...

Recipe: Lamb tagine with layered onions

2011-12-08 00:00:00

I've always done my armchair traveling through cookbooks — whether it's Elizabeth David's Mediterranean, Fuschia Dunlop's Sichuan or Claudia Roden's Middle East. My copy of Paula Wolfert's original "Couscous & Other Good Food From Morocco"is stained...

How to haggle in Europe

2011-08-07 00:00:00

At Europe's lively open-air markets and bazaars, bargaining for merchandise is the accepted and expected method of setting a price. Whether you're looking for door knockers or hand-knitted sweaters, seize the chance to bargain like a native. It's the only...

Market Watch: The wild and elusive Dancy

2011-01-27 11:43:47

While mandarin cultivation in California has quadrupled over the last decade to about 40,000 acres, the classic Dancy variety has fallen by the wayside, becoming rare to find even at farmers markets. That's a shame, because it's a charismatic, flavor-...

MOROCCO: Rioting breaks out ahead of Sunday pro-reform protest

2011-02-19 16:32:21

Eric Greenspan's new Grilled Cheese restaurant

2009-12-16 00:00:00

Eric Greenspan, chef-owner of the Foundry on Melrose who was a competitor on the Food Network's "The Next Iron Chef," says he's in the process of purchasing the space next door to the Foundry for his new restaurant, Greenspan's Grilled Cheese. Greenspan'...

Discoveries: 'Shoplifting From American Apparel'

2009-09-27 00:00:00

Shoplifting From American Apparel A Novella Tao Lin Melville House: 104 pp., $13 paper It's easy to be skeptical. There's little character development, less plot and scrawny dialogue. Landscape? The warm blue glow of Internet Explorer, the NYU campus...

Inara George gets fatherly guidance from Van Dyke Parks

2008-05-24 00:00:00

Mike Andrews, the producer of Inara George's new album, "An Invitation," calls it "the father-and-daughter record she never got to make." That might sound strange to students of Los Angeles rock history, who know that the singer's father, Lowell George,...

Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs

2008-05-14 00:00:00

Robert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...

'On Moving' by Louise DeSalvo; 'The Winter Sun' by Fanny Howe; 'Salvation Army' by Abdellah Taia.

2009-03-08 00:00:00

The Winter Sun Notes on a Vocation Fanny Howe Graywolf Press: 210 pp., $15 paper "The formation of our relationship to the world (for some of us) is experienced as an unfolding." This is how poet and essayist Fanny Howe has always written about the...

Israel, starting from scratch

2008-05-12 00:00:00

Today's question: Could Arabs and Israelis have done anything differently before 1948 that would have laid a better foundation for the Middle East? Later in the week, Pearl and Bisharat will discuss relations with Hamas, their personal connections to...

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2013-03-13 09:24:23

Tangier Island, Virginia

2012-07-19 12:39:00

Bieito and his gutsy actors unleash a feverish landscape of sadomasochistic sex and aging voluptuaries behaving very badly, explicitly linking "Camino Real" to the alcoholism of its author.

2012-04-13 12:11:00