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Vincent Chirico’s Vai—West Side Newcomer is Hot

Monday, February 6th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Dining Around

The blocks between 79th and 81st Streets on Amsterdam are chockablock with restaurants but few good ones. A newcomer, Vai, whose focus is contemporary Mediterranean

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The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini

Friday, December 23rd, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around

It’s hard to over praise this landmark exhibition. It’s so filled with ravishingly beautiful portraits – paintings, drawings, sculpture, manuscript illumination and medallions – by

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Morso—Reasonably Priced Food with a Pedigree

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Dining Around

Good news for Upper East Siders: Morso, a new, reasonably priced top-drawer contemporary Italian restaurant with Mediterranean ingredients recently opened, tucked away on the ground

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Alexandra Mathie as Hilda and Frances Grey as Amy in Neighbourhood Watch - photo by Karl Andre Photography

Welcome to the Neighborhood—Not!

Thursday, December 8th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around

Is there anything more dangerous – or funnier – than self-righteous extremists? Yes, those who live in a gated community, as Alan Ayckbourn deftly demonstrates

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The “New Cuisine” of Mexico’s Colonial Cities
Part III – Chefs Ada Valencia and Monica Solis

Monday, November 14th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Living Around

Forget everything you think you know about Mexican food—it’s heavy, it’s fried, it’s fattening—and come with me to discover new, sophisticated Mexican cuisine in the

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Diego Rivera Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Thursday, November 10th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around

What could be more timely in New York City, as the Occupy Wall Street movement grows and expands, than an exhibition of the murals of

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The “New Cuisine” of Mexico’s Colonial Cities:
Part II – San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato

Monday, November 7th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Living Around

Forget everything you think you know about Mexican food – it’s heavy, it’s fried, it’s fattening – and come with me to discover new, sophisticated

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The “New Cuisine” of Mexico:
Part I – Mexico City and Queretero

Monday, October 31st, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Living Around

Forget everything you think you know about Mexican food – it’s heavy, it’s fried, it’s fattening – and come with me to discover new, sophisticated

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