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The goods: Upscale Mexican lands in Broward with the opening of Dos Caminos at The Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale. The dark and sexy spot occupies a corridor-like space in the renovated Yankee Clipper hotel steps from Fort Lauderdale beach. This is the first Florida outpost of the New York-based chain and there's a big-city feel to the proceedings.
Ambience: A cave-like bar features over a hundred varieties of tequila while high-top tables are offset by dimly lit Aztec lanterns. Dark brick walls, burgundy booths and painted Mexican skulls give the dining room a Day of the Dead meets urban bistro vibe. There's outdoor seating on the oceanfront veranda if you're in the mood for salty breezes and traffic noise.
The grub: Stylized South-of-the-Border food. Expect fresh-pounded guacamole served in molcajete bowls, strong margaritas (made with cucumbers and mango) and belly-filling portions of modern Mexican cooking. Prices are reasonable given the beachfront hotel location: starters can be had from $11 and most entrees are under $20.
Dinner starts with a basket of complimentary chips and a trio of salsas – a mild tomatillo, the more fiery roasted tomato with chiles and a spicy habanero dip. From there, it's on to chunky guacamoles (available with chiles) and hearty appetizers like generously stuffed plantain empanadas filled with black beans and cojita cheese and a snapper ceviche marinated in tomatoes, olives and serrano chiles. Basic tacos come filled with grilled mahi-mahi, chipotle-marinated steak and slow-roasted pork, while the more interesting "tacos en cazuela" are served in small cast-iron pots and include a Lamb Barbacoa flavored with mint-jalapeno sauce and a conchita pibil – a Yucatan-style pork with habanero-pickled red onions. Most taco entrees come with generous sides of saffron rice and black beans. Don't miss the traditional Mexico City "street corn," served on the cob and slathered with lime-spiked mayonnaise.
Desserts include a forgettable chocolate fondue served with slices of bananas, strawberries and mini-churros. Stick with a scoop house made Mexican chocolate ice cream, fragrant with cinnamon.
Verdict: Modern Mexican food in a raucous saloon-like setting.
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Lora Schlesinger Gallery presents Hamon (Cloud-like Pattern), a new series of ephemeral and luminous abstract paintings and works on paper by New York artist MIYA ANDO. A descendant of Bizen sword makers turned Buddhist priests, Miya combines traditional techniques of her ancestry with contemporary industrial technology, transforming metal into ethereal abstract paintings. This will be the artist's third solo exhibition with the gallery. The show opens January 11th and is on view through February 15, 2014.
Miya Ando uses aluminum plates as blank canvases to create quiet minimal meditative environments that transcend the physical properties of metal, into metaphysical landscapes. Her work is an exploration of the duality of metal and the fleetingness of light. Miya Ando's new series of white paintings and related drawings extends her interest in creating a body of work that investigates multiple levels of temporality and impermanence. In the process of Japanese sword-making, a cloud-like pattern is created as a result of hardening steel, called 'Hamon'. Though a cloud appears solid it is temporal and constantly changing while suspended in atmosphere. Her interests in transference and extending traditional notions of process onto contemporary objects, explores how light can change materials. Using a signature daily layering technique of dye, pigment, lacquer and resin on aluminum plates, she creates gradations of color that interplay with the reflection of light. The resulting shifts in color resemble abstracted metallic horizons, reflective of the transitory nature of all things in life.
Miya Ando has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in galleries throughout Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Tokyo. She recently completed two 9/11 Memorial Sculptures from pieces of steel from the World Trade Center for the cities London, England and Santa Cruz, California. Miya's public commissions include projects in Puerto Rico, South Korea, London, New York and California. Her work can be found in the collections of the Aldrich Contemporary Museum in Connecticut, The New House Center for Contemporary Art in New York, The Byzantine Museum in Greece and the Chapman University Collection in California. She is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner award in 2012, a Gilber Slomowitz Foundation Grant in 2011, a Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Winner and a Puffin Foundation Grant winner in 2010. She received her Bachelor of Science Magna Cum Laude in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley and continued her studies at Yale in 1998 in addition to an apprenticeship in 1999 to a master metal smith in Japan.
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Posted Jul 31, 2012By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer
LONDON (AP) — Tony Parker scored 17 points and fed a lob pass over San Antonio teammate Manu Ginobili for a key basket down the stretch to help France stun Argentina 71-64 on Tuesday in an Olympic men's game featuring 10 NBA players.
Parker, wearing goggles to protect a left eye seriously injured in a New York nightclub brawl in June, got the best of Ginobili in the first game between the two longtime Spurs guards.
With France leading 67-62, Parker — one of the world's most dangerous players with the ball in the open floor — drove the left side and threaded his pass over Ginobili's outstretched arms to Kevin Seraphin, who laid it in to make it 69-62 with 1:07 left.
Following a miss by Argentina, Parker made two free throws to put the game away for France, blown out by 27 points in its opener against the U.S.
Nicolas Batum added 14 points for France (1-1), which came in 0-4 in Olympic competition against Argentina.
Ginobili scored 26 — 18 in the second half — and Luis Scola had 16 for Argentina (1-1), which had looked so impressive in a 23-point win over Lithuania in its opener.
Parker and Ginobili have been Texas teammates for 10 seasons, but this was the first time they gone against each other — except in practice.
Following the respective national anthems, the two Spurs sought each other out and shared a warm embrace near center court before the opening tip. They're good friends who have helped San Antonio win three NBA titles and have become one of the league's top backcourts.
The pair hugged again after the game, perhaps relieved they're on the same team most of the time.
After Ginobili's 3-pointer brought Argentina within 60-58, Parker, who had to be treated for a cut on the bridge of his nose, went to work.
He made two straight layups, the second on a nifty scoop after dribbling through traffic to make it 64-58. Ginobili threw the ball away on Argentina's next possession and Parker made the gold-medal contenders pay for the turnover by making two free throws to extend France's lead to eight.
A few days ago, Ginobili joked that he's been giving his teammates advice on how to defend Parker.
"Go up to him," Ginobili said, "and go 'whooo!'"
He then blew hard into the air.
"That should fog up his goggles," he said.
Parker, though, was the one blowing past Argentina's defenders, helping France open an early 19-10 lead. As expected, Argentina fought back and tied it at 22. But with Seraphin, who plays for the Washington Wizards, scoring twice on nice inside moves, France took a surprising 32-29 lead into the locker room at half.
France continued to hold off Argentina in the third and went into the final 10 minutes up 55-53.
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ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- Graeme McDowell has already moved on to other majors.
He may as well. McDowell's is out of the hunt for a second career U.S. Open championship.
The 2010 champ was 7 over after a 77 on Friday in the second round at Merion Golf Club.
"I'm temporarily dejected," he said. "This game is not about your bad weeks. Of course, it's about the major championships, and you're trying to prepare yourself as well as you can coming into weeks like this.
"I'll shake it off and I'll get ready for The Open Championship in a few weeks' time. That's my next target. The Irish Open and the French Open between then. I'll be competitively sharp going into Muirfield and I'll continue to draw on this season."
McDowell had double bogeys on the 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th holes. He posted just three birdies in the second round.
"It's not the way I wanted to play the last couple of days," he said. "But this place is very hard."
PAN'S MOVE: Amateurs Michael Kim of Cal and Cheng-Tsung Pan of Taiwan were 2 under for their second rounds Friday and among those who didn't finish.
Pan must finish his round Saturday morning. He had two birdies and no bogeys to zip into a tie for third place at even par. Kim was 1 over so far and tied for eighth.
Pan is a 21-year-old junior at the University of Washington. He missed the cut in his other Open appearance in 2011, saying he was too excited and had too many distractions to play his best game.
This time, Pan said he embraced the pressure that comes along with a major.
"I feel I belong to that kind of place," he said. "I'm not saying I'm good enough, but I love this kind of feeling and the competition is great. I just want to be here always."
PHILLY FAVORITE: Phil Mickelson is a favorite at just about any course, particularly in the U.S. Open. Philadelphia is no exception.
"He brings the energy out there," Justin Rose said.
Rose, however, has his own support in town. Three years ago, he won the AT&T National just down the road at Aronimink.
"The Philly crowd has been great for me," Rose said. "They have been very supportive of me this week. But obviously Phil, the U.S. Open fan favorite, I think there's a lot of goodwill for him."
DONALD'S DAY: Luke Donald holed out a chip for birdie on the short par-3 13th to reach 4 under and top the leaderboard in the U.S. Open.
Not for long.
He bogeyed Nos. 4-7 to totally spoil his round Friday. Donald was at 4 under Thursday before play was suspended, and finished with a 2-under 68 on Friday. He added a 72 in the second round to leave him even par for the tournament.
The English star had a run of five bogeys in six holes on his back nine in the second round.
"The greens have been tricky to read all week," he said. "They seem to be breaking a little bit more than I'm seeing, hence a couple of lip outs. But you try not to panic in U.S. Opens."
Donald, playing in his 10th U.S., has never won a major. The former world No. 1 played a pair of practice rounds last week at Merion to get used to the course. He even posed for a photo with David Graham, winner of the 1981 U.S. Open at Merion.
"I asked him, 'What's the secret?'" Donald said. "And he said, 'Keep it in the short stuff.' Obviously, I think most of us know that and it's all about doing it."
The 35-year-old Donald failed to make the cut last year in the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco because of putting failures. He has never finished better than 12th in an Open (2006) and missed the cut three times since his 2002 debut. He was 45th in 2011 and 47th in 2010.
Donald and Lee Westwood are the only players to be No. 1 without having won a major.
He's glad to at least be in the hunt this year.
"I haven't played very well, but when I saw this place last week, I thought it was a good fit for my game," he said. "It's nice to come here and feel like I'm swinging pretty well and I've got a chance. So, hopefully, I can throw a good one in tomorrow and really be in the mix come Sunday."