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- Perspective | Miss Manners: Young-looking teacher tired of comments - The Washington Post
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| How to Shop Amazon Prime Day's Best Product Deals for 2019 - TeenVogue.com Posted: 02 Jul 2019 11:47 AM PDT There are certain sales we love to highlight on our calendars: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Memorial Day Weekend, Nordstrom's Anniversary sale, etc. But the one we always highly anticipate is Amazon Prime Day, or how we like to call it Christmas in July. Because just like Christmas, we anxiously await this bonafide deal event with open arms (and wallets). And if this year, which if you haven't taken note is July 15 and July 16, is anything like last year's sale (which only lasted 36 hours, btw) you'll get access to everything from great beauty deals to must-have clothes and accessories for 48 whole hours. Basically, what we're trying to say is that you can't miss out on this major shopping event. So, make sure you don't spend all of your money on the best Fourth of July sales (even though this year there are great deals, too) and follow our step by step guide so you're ready to go when Amazon Prime Day arrives. Step 1: Make sure you sign up for Amazon Prime or Amazon Prime Student. Just head over to Amazon's website and follow its on-site instructions. Easy as that. Step 2: Download the Amazon App on your iPhone or Android. There you'll be able to track the best deals, and even view them before they're live. Step 3: Go the extra mile and make sure you read through Amazon's Prime Day Insider Guide. Here you will learn what to expect during this year's 48 hours of sale. Step 4: Charge your laptop and your phone. You don't want them dying on you when the deals go live! Step 5: Stretch your fingers and get ready to shop! Make sure you have a list prior to shopping of the things you know you can't miss out on so you don't end up overspending. Or make sure you're following along our Amazon Prime tag so you stay up-to-date on all the best deals to shop before, during, and after. Step 6: Do a little dance! Your deals will be at your doorstep sooner rather than later!  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2019 10:30 AM PDT  With the quality of your favorite drugstore beauty products getting higher every day, it's already tough to walk into a store like CVS and not walk out without some serious loot. And now the store is making things even more difficult — but in a good way. Throughout the month of July, CVS will be giving away a swag bag stuffed with free beauty products to online shoppers who spend $30 or more on qualifying beauty items. (Or just $25 if you happen to be a member of the CVS's ExtraCare Beauty Club.) Yes, you read that right: Your reward for stocking up on your must-have makeup, skin-, and hair-care products is even more of those goodies for free. It's like planting a beauty tree in your front yard and watching it bear fruit all freaking month. And this haul is no joke, either. The retailer and pharmacy is offering a swath of 10 summery products, including hair conditioning spray, sheet masks, sunscreen, and even an eye-catching liquid highlighter, all tucked into a cute reusable clutch. And there are a couple of different ways to take advantage of this promotion, so listen up. If you can't wait another second to get your hands on a bag, joining the CVS Beauty Club is the way to go; those members get early access to the swag bags starting June 30, and have to spend just $25 to qualify for the beauty-brimming pouch. (Plus, you'll qualify for all kinds of other perks as part of the program.) But even if you aren't a member, don't stress, because you'll get your shot at the freebies beginning July 6, and you don't have to spend much more to qualify: just $30, total. No matter your CVS Beauty Club status, once you've filled your cart and hit the minimum, all you have to do is enter a promo code at online checkout to choose your bag color — either FREEBAGPINK or FREEBAGBLUE — and you're off to the races. When your order arrives, along with whatever you picked out for yourself, you'll get every product listed below. As far as skin care, it's a good day for mask lovers because you'll be receiving the Beauty 360 Watermelon & Vitamin E After Sun Mask, from CVS' in-house beauty brand, as well as the Cucumber After Sun Sheet Mask from K-beauty line Oh K!, and The Crème Shop's Dead Sea Mud Mask. You'll also have your skin protection bases covered with a range of products from Sun Bum that includes the brand's 3-1 Hair Conditioning Spray, their SPF 30 lip balm, a Sun Bum hair elastic, a travel-size sunscreen in SPF 30, and a Sun Bum sticker for good measure. And you won't be neglected on the makeup front either because CVS will also include the Wet n Wild Hello Halo Liquid Highlighter, and a coupon for $3 off the Maybelline Dream Cover Foundation With SPF 50, which will be hitting stores later this month. It's a lot to try out, and at zero risk, because it comes as a gift with purchase for items you'd be stocking up on anyway, so you have nothing to lose. Head over to CVS.com and either join the Beauty Club so you can snag your free kit now, or wait until the promo opens up to everyone on July 6. But no matter which you do, this promotion ends on July 27, so don't miss out.  |
| Perspective | Miss Manners: Young-looking teacher tired of comments - The Washington Post Posted: 01 Jul 2019 09:00 PM PDT  Dear Miss Manners: I'm a middle school teacher, and often when I meet with parents for the first time, they will remark "You look so young," or "You look like you could be one of the students!" I understand they don't mean any offense, but I am in my early 30s and do my best to wear professional clothes and makeup. My co-workers tell me I should take it as a compliment, but lately I've been feeling a little insulted, especially when they compare me to a middle-schooler. I normally tell them "thank you," but I don't feel like my response is genuine or appropriate. How should I respond in the future? "I can assure you that your child is fully aware that I am a grown-up, and that I am in charge here." Miss Manners just asks you to say it with a smile. Dear Miss Manners: I have two acquaintances who each have PhD degrees from Harvard. They insist upon being addressed as "Dr." Smith and "Dr." Jones. I have a PhD from another school. It has always been my opinion that this is not a social title, and should only be used in professional contexts. I believe that only M. D.s should be addressed and identified as "doctor" in social settings. People may need to know that they are medical doctors. What is your knowledge of this? A bit of knowledge that your acquaintances failed to pick up at Harvard: awareness of the reverse snobbery practiced there, and at other schools, where doctorate degrees are assumed, and therefore not broadcast. In certain professional situations, it is necessary to state that as a qualification, but the fastidious do not use it otherwise. Miss Manners is well aware that your opinion and hers will bring on indignant responses along the lines of "I earned my PhD, and I'm proud of it." She is also aware that the concept of not flashing all one's achievements as widely as possible will baffle many people. Dear Miss Manners: I go to a coffee shop and sit with some older ladies. I am 15 years younger. Having been a widow for three years, I have luckily now become engaged to a wonderful man. One older lady always wants to look at the obituaries and talk about her husband, who died a year ago. When an elderly man who was widowed four years ago asked her out, she was insulted. The other older woman also talks about her dead husband. Unlike them, I am very busy. I take yoga and art classes, and do belly dancing. I have decided to sit with another friend and my fiance at another table. Sometimes, one of the ladies tells me I am insulting her by not sitting with them. What is a kind way to tell them that I want to sit with my fiance at another table? Why are you making this obvious by going to the same coffee shop at the same time? You are not obliged to sit with them, but this does strike Miss Manners as provocative. If you must, you and your fiance should exchange courtesies with them before saying, "Excuse us, we have things we must talk about." New Miss Manners columns are posted Monday through Saturday on washingtonpost.com/advice. You can send questions to Miss Manners at her website, missmanners.com. 2019, by Judith Martin  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2019 10:23 AM PDT  The body of a suspected stowaway fell from an aeroplane and narrowly missed a software engineer sunbathing in his back garden, it has emerged. John Baldock, an Oxford University graduate, was asleep when the man's body violently plunged into the ground only three feet away. One neighbour said yesterday that the impact was so loud they thought a bomb had gone off. Another saw "blood all over the walls" of the garden. Mr Baldock was last night recovering from the experience at his parents' home in Devon. One close relative told the Telegraph that he had been "extremely traumatised" by the experience. Police believe that the unidentified dead man hid himself inside the landing gear of a Kenya Airlines flight from Nairobi in an attempt to reach Britain. His body fell from around 3,500 feet as the plane lowered its wheels before landing at Heathrow after a nine hour journey. A bag, water and food were later found on board. A large crater was visible in the garden of the home in Clapham, south London, yesterday. It appeared that the man's body had plunged through a tree before landing partly on concrete paving slabs and an astroturf lawn.  The body was wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt, and was described by one neighbour as being frozen "like an ice block". A cousin of Mr Baldock told the Telegraph that his family were "very close" and were "rallying round him". "John is extremely traumatised by what happened. He'll live with this for the rest of his days. But at least he's got his mum, dad and sister to get him through," the relative said. Speaking at the house in Clapham yesterday, the landlord's brother, who did not wish to be named, said Mr Baldock was "obviously very shaken up". "He's gone back home to his parent's house. He wasn't hurt but it was a narrow miss. The garden isn't very big," he said. "It was more than a lot of blood. It wasn't pretty." Tim McKean, 46, was in his garden when a "black streak" shot over his head and crashed yards away. Initially fearing it was some kind of bomb, the consultant "faceplanted" on to the floor before rushing inside to ensure his family was safe.  Mr McKean told the Telegraph he saw the dark shape fly over his head from west to east and expressed astonishment it had not hit any buildings. He said: "I was out fixing something in the shed and I saw this black streak and heard a proper 'whoompf'. "It was such an acute angle that it was coming down - it had to miss so much, I'm stunned. "The object looked quite small but it was going so fast. "If you've heard a rocket or similar explosive device it sounded like that - it was the sound of wind." In 2012, Jose Matada fell to his death from a British Airways flight inbound from Angola. Mr Matada, originally from Mozambique, was found on the pavement in East Sheen on September 9. An inquest into his death heard he is believed to have survived freezing temperatures of up to minus 60C for most of the 12-hour flight. But he was understood to be "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground. In 2015, the body of a man landed on a shop in Richmond having clung on in the undercarriage of a plane from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow. Kenya's airports authority has launched an investigation into the unidentified man managed to breach security. There have twice been stowaway incidents, both of them fatal, at Nairobi's airport in the past. However, Kenya, a frequent target of Islamist terror groups, has substantially tightened security in recent years. Investigators are probing whether the stowaway could have been a baggage handler, sources said. "This incident is being treated with the seriousness it deserves," a spokesman for the Kenya Airports Authority said. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said it would be liaising with the airline and international authorities.  |
| Is this the last video-rental store in Vermont? - vtdigger.org Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:33 PM PDT  Andrea Jones scans DVDs from the overnight return box at Nancy's Video in Irasburg last week. The store shares space with a gun shop, Green Mountain Sporting Goods. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger IRASBURG — What might be Vermont's last video-rental store lies on a long, lonely stretch of Route 5. Nancy's Video has stood there in Irasburg since 1990, eight miles southwest of Newport, and inside its walls Brien Lemois Jr. has been trying to outlast the inevitable. "The industry's been slowly dying over the last 20 years," the 40-year-old store owner said on a recent afternoon. "People are more for convenience than for going to a store. Why go to a movie store when you can rent it off Netflix?" With the rise of online streaming and kiosks like Redbox, that's a question video-rental shops around the state seem to have been asking themselves. As Lemois puts it, they've been "dropping like flies." Google Maps turns up scant results for other shops, and the ones that do show up appear closed. Take Video Queen, which opened five years ago in Middlebury and as of last year housed a sandwich shop. A 2015 article in Seven Days featured three rental stores that looked to be surviving industry trends. But Gagnon's Video in Hardwick closed at the beginning of last year, and the phone number and Facebook page for Videos & More in Northfield have been disconnected and deleted. The third store in that piece, Harry and Lloyd's in Barre, stopped renting movies about a month ago, a representative said, focusing instead on retro video games. And in April, the St. Johnsbury stalwart Video King announced it'd be closing this year. VTDigger's business coverage is underwritten by:Those closures are part of a national trend. An analysis published two years ago in USA Today found that about 86% of video-rental stores that were open in 2007 had closed. In Vermont, that leaves Nancy's, run by Lemois and Trish Jones, his wife. The gray vinyl-sided building is off a bend a few minutes from Coventry, across from a farm. The store opened on June 6, 1990, founded by Lemois' parents: Nancy and Brien Sr. The family had moved from the Providence, Rhode Island, area, where they lived just a few blocks from a Major Video, part of a rental chain bought out by Blockbuster in the 1980s. The younger Brien Lemois remembers going there as a kid, marveling at a play area set up inside.  Nancy's Video, one of the last movie rental stores in the state, is on Route 5 in Irasburg. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Lemois' sister, Barbara Annis, took over the shop after their father died in 1998. When she died in 2005, Lemois became owner. He and Jones started seeing each other in 2010, and around 2012 she came on as the store manager. Why did Lemois decide to take the reins? "To keep it going," he said. "I grew up in it. It was just second nature." In 1998, he said, the store had about 25,000 titles. Nancy's started moving from VHS tapes to DVDs around 2000 before getting rid of tapes entirely in 2012, he said. These days, the store stocks 4,400 titles, and most of its rentals are new releases. Nancy's has 1,400 customers on file, according to Lemois and Jones, along with 1,000 "authorized members" — relatives or friends that customers OK to join their account.  Nancy's Video in Irasburg shares space with a gun shop. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Lemois has seen generations pass by in this store. People he knew as a kid have their own families. Children he met when he took over are now adults. "For the longest time, the video store was like the neighborhood bar," he said. He and Jones met in the store as children, in fact, when her mother would bring her there as a reward. Part of what keeps a brick-and-mortar joint like Nancy's alive are the close bonds developed with customers. "They're not blood family, but they've become family," said Jones, 36, after listing off several regular patrons. Getting to know families goes both ways: 3-year-old Samantha, the youngest of their five children, scampered around with a DVD in her hands that recent afternoon, stopping to pet the family's Lab-mix puppy, Luna. "The personal touch," Lemois said, describing what a store like Nancy's can offer in the age of streaming. The couple has a good grip on their regulars' tastes. They rattled off a few: Scott stops by daily for a new release; Ashley picks up old action movies for her husband; Dawn likes TV seasons. "You get to know people's personality more by what they watch," Lemois said. Sometimes, when stocking up on new titles through their distributor, the couple chooses movies they think certain customers will enjoy.  Trish Jones, with her shop dog, Luna, at Nancy's Video. Rifle scabbards hang off the racks holding DVDs for rent. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger That kind of connection is something lost with the decline of local video stores, Jones said. "The more technology grows, the farther apart — the less human interaction you need," she said. The slow technological growth in the Northeast Kingdom is one reason Nancy's is still around, Jones figures. According to 2018 data from the Vermont Department of Public Service, the Kingdom's counties make up three of the five counties with the highest percentage of locations underserved by broadband internet providers. Essex and Caledonia counties hold the top two spots at 28.8% and 18.9%. Orleans County, where Nancy's is, comes in fourth at 10.9%. Slower internet speeds make it harder to stream video from platforms like Netflix or Hulu, so renting movies and shows in person becomes a viable alternative.  Andrea Jones empties the drop box at Nancy's Video. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Kingdom's older population means there may be more customers who can't afford cable or internet — or know how to use computers — which also helps, Jones said. And Nancy's has diversified. It shares a building with Green Mountain Sporting Goods, a gun and ammo store Lemois started that attracts a healthy stream of customers. The sporting goods store was incorporated in 2014, according to state records, and it's "the only reason we've survived," said Lemois. DVD racks sit across from a glass display case for pistols and rack of shotguns lining the wall behind it. For now, Lemois and Jones are banking on their loyal customer base, the depth of their catalog and their ability to quickly bring in new releases. Lemois hopes the kids will take over the operation some day. He's sad about the shuttering of so many rental stores, the "piece of history that's going to be lost." "But I'm kind of looking at the glass as half full," he said. He and Jones are thinking about opening another location in nearby Derby, where they already have a second Green Mountain Sporting Goods. Who knows, he wonders. "Maybe they'll come back." Want to stay on top of the latest business news? Sign up here to get a weekly email on all of VTDigger's reporting on local companies and economic trends. And check out our new Business section here.  |
| 5 Seattle Food Vendors You Must Try This Farmers' Market Season - Seattlemag Posted: 02 Jul 2019 09:45 AM PDT Poulet Galore Editor's note: Poulet Galore will be opening a new brick-and-mortar location in Ballard, hopefully later this summer.
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| A Whirlwind, Round-the-World Food Tour of Queens - The New York Times Posted: 01 Jul 2019 02:02 AM PDT  The $3.50 kebab was supposed to be a stopgap measure, a placeholder for a lunch that would have to wait until after an appointment in Manhattan. Neither the foil-wrapped sandwich nor the dumpy corner shop was much to look at. But the first bite — moist ground lamb laced with onion and a jolt of spice, wrapped in pillowy naan and doused with a Pakistani cucumber-yogurt sauce — stopped me short. It was the best thing I had eaten in a month. (And, pizza slices aside, the cheapest.) I sat down to savor it, then walked across a pedestrian-clogged plaza, past a Tibetan dumpling truck and a samosa-filled shop window before entering the subway. Three stops later I was in Midtown, easily making my appointment. I was using an easy trick for finding delicious cheap meals in New York City: Eat in Queens. Though the city's biggest borough may be home to Kennedy and La Guardia airports, most travelers fly in and head for the glamour of Manhattan and the bright, shiny objects of hipster Brooklyn. Alas, their wallets are the lighter for it. The kebab shop, by the way, is called Kabab King, but there's no pressing need to jot that down. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of others of its kind, unceremoniously serving unadulterated national cuisine to working-class compatriots. [This story is part of our package about Queens, New York City's most diverse borough. It also includes 36 Hours in Rockaway Beach, and a review of the new TWA Hotel, by our architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman.] Whether you're coming from another state, or country, or (in the case of Brooklyn) world, you have two options: Choose your own adventure by hopping off the 7 train at a random stop and following your nose, or do exhaustive research. If you tend toward the latter, start by looking for Queens articles on Eater, Serious Eats, Grub Street and this publication's Hungry City column. Then explore specialized publications like Chopsticks and Marrow, Culinary Backstreets' Queens page, and Edible Queens. For the deepest dive of all, click on any Queens neighborhood in the vast listings of Dave Cook's Eating in Translation blog. Joe DiStefano, the author of 111 Places in Queens You Must Not Miss and the creator of Chopsticks and Marrow, deftly sums up the borough's culinary appeal: "If I want to eat Thai food, I eat where Thai people live and work and play and pray: Elmhurst," he said. "When you go there, you're getting a huge degree of specificity. You don't go to where the menu is an encyclopedia, you go where 'all we do is chicken and rice.' That analogy holds true in every neighborhood in Queens," he added. " 'We're a Korean barbecue restaurant but our specialty is kalbi. Or we do Korean sashimi or we do just porridge and we don't care.'" There's far more to do in Queens than eat, which is lucky, because you certainly want to have something to do between meals. What follows is a humble sample of my recent food adventures in three areas, plus a handful of suggestions for pre- and postprandial activities. Image  Jackson Heights and ElmhurstWalk east from the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue subway stop, and you'll pass Mexican taco trucks and Colombian bakeries; north, and it's South Asian sweets shops and Himalayan momo trucks; southeast and you'll pass a Chinese supermarket on your way to some of (most of?) the best Thai food in New York. If this is not the most diverse neighborhood in the world, it's at least the most diversely delicious. As you stroll, occupy yourself by shopping for saris and spices on 74th Street, admiring the prewar buildings of the Jackson Heights Historic District, or having a drink at Terraza 7, a quirky, thumb-sized Colombian bar featuring eclectic live music. But the star nonfood-related attraction is a few stops east on the 7 train: Corona's Louis Armstrong House Museum, the place where the trumpeting legend lived for three decades, frozen in time from the 1970s and open for tours Wednesday through Sunday. But mostly you'll eat, which is how I lured my friends Lee and Caryn and their two teenage daughters to join me one afternoon. We met up at Diversity Plaza, an accurate, if cloying, name for the pedestrianized block of 37th Road I mentioned earlier, in the South Asian business district of Jackson Heights. Our first stop was Namaste Tashi Delek Momo Dumpling Palace, a decidedly unpalatial eatery in a dingy basement where curries are sold alongside lottery tickets. On our visit workers were tossing pallets around just off the cramped dining room. "This is what you've dragged us out here for?" my friends didn't quite say as we found a seat at a table near the counter. But then came jhol momos: tidily crimped, doughy dumplings swimming in a tomato-and-sesame broth spiced up with chiles and Nepalese hog plum powder (eight for $7). They were good, but not as much fun as the steamed beef momos ($1 cheaper), which we dressed up with three sauces of varying heat, spooned out of glasses capped with plastic coffee lids. Jackson Heights is also known as a Colombian neighborhood, and the country's largely chile-free, hearty and accessible cuisine includes great snack food: empanadas that pack meat or other fillings inside a fried cornmeal shell (try them at Empanada Spot, from $1.50); cheesebreads like pandebonos (Miracali, $1.25); and summertime fruit, ice and condensed milk treats called cholados for around $6. (I like the ones at Delicias Colombianas on 82nd Street near 37th Avenue.) But I've been to all those places countless times, so I dragged Lee, Caryn and company to the adjoining East Elmhurst neighborhood to eat at Cali Aji, which a Colombian friend had recommended. A few eyebrows were raised (in a friendly way) when our non-Latino group goofily paraded into the small, homey spot that looks like a converted pizza shop. We feasted on sobrebarriga ($13) — a slab of brisket in a tomato-based sauce that, dressed differently, would have felt at home at a Seder or barbecue joint — and several seafood dishes. It's also a good place to try juice made from the lulo — a citrusy fruit that looks like a persimmon on the outside and a quadrisected green tomato on the inside, and was a hit with everyone. The somewhat unlikely highlight, however, were the tostones, which were so perfectly round, hot and crisp that they even convinced Lee, whom Caryn referred to as an "avowed hater" of the fried green plantains, to reconsider. Mexican food is tricky business in this area, where, along Roosevelt Avenue, some spots exist more as Corona dispensaries for tired workers than culinary temples. That's why I was hesitant to take some friends to the Crus-Z Family Corp restaurant (sometimes known as Family Cruz online). But doubt faded when our server brought out warm, slightly greasy tortilla chips and dirty scarlet chile de árbol salsa that packed deliciously short-lived heat. We over-ordered — pozole and a packed cemita sandwich among our unfinished choices — but the highlight was a platter with four samples of goat tacos ($3.50 each): moist shredded barbacoa; an "enchilada" or chile-marinated version of the same; the surprisingly tasty panza (stomach); and "rellena," coagulated blood with jalapeños and onion, my unlikely favorite. I brought the group next to the cafe side of La Gran Uruguaya restaurant, just a few blocks away, for the most Uruguayan dessert possible: chajá ($5.25). Vanilla cake with peaches and dulce de leche is buried in nondairy whipped cream studded with chunks of meringue ($3 for a small piece). I've never seen it anywhere in the city except on these few blocks of 37th Avenue, where the neighborhood's Uruguayan eateries are concentrated. You'd need a week to explore the Thai offerings found largely in Elmhurst, but the place to start is the south side of Broadway between 81st and 82nd streets, home to two specialized restaurants, Eim Khao Mun Kai for that chicken and rice dish Mr. DiStefano mentioned, and Moo Thai Food, which serves pork only. Down the block is Lamoon, which opened last year and specializes in northern Thai cuisine and makes food writers swoon. Order anything that includes nam prik noom, a Northern Thai "young chili dip," in the description. The ingredients of my second favorite Thai dish in town, sai aua, include an aggressively spicy sausage made with pork, pig ear, lemongrass, lime leaves and cilantro. (My favorite is miang kah-na, dried pork, onion, peanuts and chunks of peel-on lime wrapped in Chinese broccoli leaves. It's $11 at Paet Rio on the same block, but I'm partial to the $9.95 version, spelled ming ka-na, a few blocks away at Kitchen 79.) Astoria and Long Island CityThe two neighborhoods closest to Manhattan are also the ones you could visit even on a diet, stopping at the Museum of the Moving Image, MoMA PS1's contemporary art exhibits, and the Noguchi Museum, dedicated to the work of the 20th-century sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Long Island City is also home to Queens's lone Michelin star (versus 98 in Manhattan and Brooklyn) earned by Casa Enrique. It's delicious. Skip it. Instead, dive into traditionally Greek, now polyglot Astoria, starting with a startlingly non-greasy $8.95 pork gyro at BZ Grill or, even better, their sandwich made with loukanika, a Greek sausage stuffed with pork and leeks and fragrant with red wine. Others will tell you to hit an old school Greek taverna next, but to me the unique Astoria Greek experience is at Astoria Seafood, where I took two out-of-town visitors: my brother Jeremy and our friend Len. The day before, Jeremy told us, he had met a friend for lunch in Manhattan and had a mediocre $16 turkey burger. That was a wrong that had to be made right. From the street, Astoria Seafood looks like an average neighborhood fish market. But the inside is as descript as the outside is non-. Boisterous lunch customers pack tables, blabbing in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Greek and English. Trays of fish line the back, and workers yak behind a counter filled with prepared dishes like spanakopita and seafood rice. "Pull the bag inside out and use it as a glove," the man behind the counter said, directing me to pick out my own fish, which I did: a $12 slab of swordfish, $11 for eight chunky scallops, and a bargain $4 for a slippery handful of calamari. I dropped it off with him, and minutes later, my purchase reappeared at our table, grilled and doused in olive oil, minced garlic and several jolts of vinegar. The caramelized tentacles of the squid were crunchy outside and silky inside; the swordfish was impossibly juicy. With drinks and sides, our bill came to $48: the equivalent of one lame Manhattan turkey burger each. You could go Egyptian or Brazilian or more Colombian in Astoria, but for my next visit, I took my friends Zack and Carolina and their young kids to Ukus, an extraordinarily casual Bosnian restaurant where we were greeted, waited on, cooked for and served by the same somberly friendly man. Beverages were self-serve — we tried the Cockta soda, a citrusy, less cloying version of Dr Pepper, and thick Croatian pear juice. Ukus's family-friendliness was tested when 5-year-old Clara began shooting spitballs, but neither our multitalented server nor the other customers batted an eye. We shared a $6.50 begova corba, a chicken and rice soup just like what your grandmother would have made, were she Bosnian, and five beef kebab/sausages called cevapi, served inside pita bread and ready to be doused in ajvar (a red bell pepper condiment) or kajmak (a fresh cheese spread) — a bargain at $7.50. We also had a dense dessert called a Russian hat, in this case a yellow cake buried inside shaved coconut and drizzled with chocolate syrup, but a better idea would have been to up the international quotient by heading over to Point Brazil for some tangy Brazilian passion fruit mousse ($3) and coffee. Flushing and beyondNo part of Queens presents a more bafflingly spectacular array of restaurant options than Flushing's Chinatown and the heavily Korean neighborhood of Murray Hill, easily complemented by the digestion-aiding (or at least digestion-neutral) attractions, situated in and around Flushing Meadows Corona Park, home to the Unisphere and other less-well-maintained structures from the 1964 World's Fair, as well as the Queens Zoo, Queens Museum and eastward, the Queens Botanical Garden. (The park is also home on Saturdays to the Queens Night Market, open April to August and for a month in the fall. It features food vendors from Norway to Singapore to Puerto Rico, and a crowd diverse in age and origin.) Flushing, a town merged into New York City in 1898, has several historic buildings you can visit on specific days, including the 17th-century Bowne House (Wednesdays), the Queens Historical Society (Tuesdays and weekends), and the Quaker Meeting House (Sundays). More on traveling in New York City ... I had three meals in the Flushing area, each of them nothing like the other. My first stop was a splurge, Xiang Hotpot, on the second floor of the New World Mall and, like a portal to a different universe, a palatial China-themed hall halfway between elegant and raucous, where on a Sunday night a friend and I were the only non-Asians. The fun of a hotpot restaurant is that you cook your own food, in our case pork meatballs, pig kidney, black tofu, shrimp paste with bamboo and (because I couldn't resist) a bullfrog. Here, the built-in pots are divided, in modified yin-yang style, allowing you to choose two soup bases including the "special spicy pot," with chiles, Sichuan peppercorns and globs of melting beef tallow. (Beef tallow is a standard cooking fat for hotpot restaurants, just as it used to be for McDonald's French fries and still is for Belgian street fries, for deliciously crisp results.) The rest of the fun is that sauce bar, where you can whip up your own dipping bowls based in soy or sesame or seafood sauce, say, and adding ingredients like ground peanuts, cilantro or red chiles. Despite the near-infinite combinations, it's really hard for even the most amateur sauce maker (me) to make something that isn't delicious. The cost, at just over $120 for two (with tip), is a worthwhile splurge. My guide to Murray Hill was a Korean-American dentist and Flushing local, Ester Linton, who suggested we have the knife-cut noodle soup called kalguksu at Dae Sung Kal Guk Su. That the noodles are cut (into delicate, silky strands) is an important detail, for we also ordered sujebi, a hand-torn noodle soup traditionally associated with lower classes. "Ah, you like the peasant food," Ester told me when I indicated a preference for the sujebi. But it was actually a reaction to the variety: Whereas our kalguksu had come in plain, light broth with short-neck clams (delicious), the sujebi came with fish cakes and was jazzed up with spicy broth (more delicious). Both soups were $13.99, and were plenty for two or three. Ester also brought us to Myung San to try ganjang gaejang ($19.95), raw crab in a fishy, salty, soy-sauce-based marinade. The dish, she explained, is known as a "rice thief," since once the meat is gone, soaking the rice in the remaining marinade pooled in the crab shell yields results so allegedly delicious that Koreans cannot stop eating it. I had a different reaction and declare the dish innocent of all charges, and kind of disgusting. But if everything you try in Queens suits your palate, you're probably doing something wrong. 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| Quentin Tarantino Re-ups Retirement Claims: “I’ve Given All I Have to Give to Movies” - Vanity Fair Posted: 02 Jul 2019 11:39 AM PDT  Quentin Tarantino really meant what he said about retiring from filmmaking. For years now, the Oscar-winning writer-director has said that he will close up shop once he's directed 10 movies. Now that Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, his ninth film, is on the verge of hitting theaters, Tarantino is doubling down on his claims. "I think when it comes to theatrical movies, I've come to the end of the road," he said in a recent interview with GQ Australia. "I see myself writing books and starting to write theater, so I'll still be creative. I just think I've given all I have to give to movies." It's been said, quite frequently, that Once Upon a Time is Peak Tarantino, an ode to a formative period in Hollywood from one of the industry's most obsessive cinephiles. If the film—starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie, among others—is a hit, Tarantino also said he is open to the idea of making it his last film, instead of going off and making a 10th movie. "If it's really well received, maybe I won't go to 10," he said. "Maybe I'll stop right now! Maybe I'll stop while I'm ahead. We'll see." Pitt, who is also profiled in the GQ piece, said that he believes Tarantino is serious about this whole retiring-from-movies thing. "I don't think he's bluffing at all," Pitt said. "I think he's dead serious. And I kind of openly lament that to him, but he understands the math of when he feels like directors start falling off their game. But he has other plans, and we're not going to have to say goodbye for a long time." Tarantino has been announcing his 10-film retirement plan for (at least) the last five years, revealing it in detail in a 2014 interview with Deadline. "I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off," he said. "I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man's game, and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I'm not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I'm still hard.… I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I've got two more to go after this. It's not etched in stone, but that is the plan." He added a slight caveat to that in 2016, saying that if he found himself wanting to make another movie decades down the line, he would go ahead and make it happen, because it would exist beyond his original canonical 10 films. "Even if at 75, if I have this other story to tell, it would still kind of work because that would make those 10. They would be there, and that would be that," he said. As for what that 10th movie will be, there have been rumors that Tarantino will helm the next big screen iteration of Star Trek. However, Tarantino hasn't confirmed those reports, so whether he enters the final frontier is still anyone's guess. More Great Stories from Vanity Fair— Our cover story: How Idris Elba became the coolest—and busiest—man in Hollywood](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/idris-elba-cover-story?inline) — Our critics reveal the best movies of 2019, so far — Plus: the 12 best TV shows of the year, thus far](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/best-tv-2019-so-far?inline) — Why The Handmaid's Tale has a serious villain problem — Can Democrats win back the internet in the age of Trump?  |
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