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Oakland, the impoverished sister city of San Francisco, has long been at the forefront of the legalisation movement. It already taxes the sale, at dispensaries, of marijuana for medical purposes with an annual turnover of $28million. With a state-wide referendum on legalising possession for recreational use due in November, Oakland is positioning itself to take full advantage of the increased tax revenues from this growth industry.
The coalition seeking to relax laws governing the sale of cannabis is essentially unchanged since the 1960s. Libertarians find common ground with left-wing pot smokers, while civil rights campaigners argue that because of disproportionate arrest rates for young black men, current drug statutes perpetuate racial inequality.
Opposition to decriminalisation, from religious groups, conservative law enforcement organisations and the self-described 'moral majority' is as vehement as ever. But across America, in legal and electoral battles the balance is tipping in favour of those who want to treat marijuana like alcohol or cigarettes: as a drug to be licensed, taxed and sold under state supervision.
The most important factor driving the rush towards legalisation, by far, is a nationwide fiscal crisis that has seen city and state revenues collapse. Politicians cutting taxes, coupled with the recession, have created huge local government budget deficits. California is $19m in the red, despite slashing public services for the past two years.
Tom Ammiano, a member of the California state assembly, said debt-hit councils find the idea of a new revenue stream irresistible. "The issue has become seductive in a way that perhaps it had not been before," he said. "People see their schools closing, they see furlough days and reduced health care, and then they see this $14billion industry that's untaxed and unregulated."
Oakland's initiative would charge each of the new facilities a flat fee of $211,000 annually, plus sales tax, plus payroll taxes, potentially bringing in millions of dollars each year. Other struggling cities, including Detroit, are considering similar measures.
In November, California's voters will consider Proposition 19, which would legalise possession of up to an ounce of the drug for personal use. Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, a veteran proponent of legalisation, has estimated it would generate up to $7billion a year in revenue, while saving $13billion in law enforcement and prison costs.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that "it's time for a debate" last year, and with the freedom of a film star whose time in office is almost up, told journalists he has frequently enjoyed smoking marijuana. According to a recent poll, Californians who disapprove of the proposal outnumber supporters by 48% to 44%. Its backers say that in the anonymity of the ballot box, people are more likely to vote yes.
Medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996 when patients and primary care providers have been allowed to cultivate the plant. This has been extended to cover farming co-operatives and dispensaries, but because it is still a federal offence to grow, distribute or sell cannabis, these operate in a legal grey area.
Anyone who wants to get a prescription for marijuana can do so, from shady doctors who charge around $200 for a diagnosis of insomnia, back pain or minor ailments requiring 'treatment' with the drug.
In northern California, where much of the state's marijuana is grown, drug enforcement agency busts and robberies are a threat to growers. Mexican cartels plant huge cannabis crops in remote forests protected by armed guards. It is a risky, violent business.
All that could change if the tide of legalisation continues to sweep across the US. A recent study estimated that a $50 an ounce tax would generate around $1bn a year for California, that the price of marijuana would drop by up to 80% and that consumption would rise as a result. That is a prospect anti-drug campaigners say is too scary to contemplate.


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Though much of the world in NBC's "Crossbones" believes the pirate Blackbeard (John Malkovich) to be dead, that simply isn't the case. It'll be a rude awakening for those who fear the legendary figure, as the series follows a fictionalized version of his life.
In the clip above, which is exclusive to Zap2it, Tom Lowe is tasked with killing Blackbeard at any cost. Though he's surprised to learn the pirate is actually alive, he considers it an honor to be the one to end him.
"Crossbones" premieres Friday, May 30, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
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An apple a day will soon keep Frankenstein away. Particularly if Canadian Okanagan Specialty Fruits of Summerland has its way. The privately held biotechnology company has recently approached the USDA to approve a non-browning genetically engineered apple.
The British Columbia company describes a naturally browned apple as "unattractive", explaining that non-brown apples are necessary "as consumers will be drawn to a non-browning apple for its appeal and convenience A non-browning apple will provide a more enjoyable eating experience and lead to increased consumption in many new ways...a non-browning apple will even produce a tastier, truer-coloured apple juice or sauce."
The company plans to utilize a licensed non-browning Australian technology described as a "SF patented Polypheunol Oxidase (PPO) technology able to silence the browning reaction, to deliver a fruit that will not turn brown when cut or bruised."
The ability to sell an older genetically engineered apple that doesn't brown will have direct benefits for apple producers and sellers who will be able to significantly extend the life of their product. No word yet on what it does for humans.
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Fifteen renowned teachers have been picked as Nigeria's best teachers to be honoured at the 18th edition of the prestigious THISDAY awards holding in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on Tuesday, February 26.
Among them are one of the Oyewole brothers who founded Abeokuta Continuing Education Centre in Ogun State, Chief Dotun Oyewole; educationist, Chief Reuben Majekodunmi; a catholic priest and educationist who hails from a Carribean island called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Rev, Father Angus Fraser; and another educationist who established the Dorothy Daniels Childcare School, Mrs. Dorothy Ugwu.
Others are former Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Iya Abubakar; a lecturer in Economics at the University of Benin, Edo State, Prof. Michael Obadan; a professor of Humanities, Prof. Frank Ugiomoh and Christie, wife of Prof. Ade Ajayi, the former vice-chancellor of University of Lagos.
Others are Ahmed M. Bawa Faskari, Hadiza Thani Mohammed, Mrs. Victoria Jolayemi, Chief D.B.E Ossai, Mr. Yakubu S. Dimka, Mr. John O. B. Adeaga and Prof. Eunice Nkiruka Uzodike.
The victorious teachers emerged under three categories of primary, secondary and tertiary school teachers from a list of 750 nominated from across the country and were selected by a team of reader's panel based on voting, which ended late last night. They will join 12 other eminent Nigerians from various walks of life who will be conferred with THISDAY Lifetime Achievement awards.
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CHOW Cheong-lap, CHOW, Chiu-woo (2000)." Interpretation and Demonstration from Martial Arts to Metaphor of Living Philosophy in Tai Chi Chuan: A Study of Value Education Model of the Body and Mind." International Conference on Values Education and Citizenship Education in the New Century. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
CHOW, Chiu-woo. (2003) . "Health and Tai Chi Chuan." . Journal of Information on Health. Hong Kong. pp.27-29
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In celebration of my 600th post (really), I wanted to do a free pattern. This tutorial uses recycled plastic bottles and upcycles them into life as a fashion accessory. It's a knitting pattern meets recycling tutorial.
So here's the scoop. My mom drinks damn near everything from a single serving bottle and they don't recycle. It drives me nuts! So I've been hoarding them in bags and stashing them in my closet. While there are a lot of really great plastic bottle DIYs, a lot of them aren't practical for my space or really my style. So I had to really think about what I wanted to try with them. As I was examining the tiny Coke bottles that dominate my stash, I noticed that they have one perfect smooth band in the center. That's kind of perfect for a bracelet base, says I. The plastic gives a sturdy base for the cable pattern while also lending it a natural curve.
*Also* I've started a mailing list for anyone interested in updates from this website. If you enjoyed this tutorial, make sure you receive all of them right in your inbox so you never miss patterns or recipes. I will not sell your email addresses or spam you – promise.
For this tutorial you'll need:
- About 20-40 yards of worsted weight yarn depending on length
- Size 7 needles*
- a plastic bottle with a flat round
- Scissors or a knife to cut the plastic
- A jewelry closure
- Darning needle
* A note on the needles: The method I used is described below, but this can easily be done on double pointed needles or knit flat and seamed. I prefer this method so that I can easily see the front and back while also being able to slip the plastic in while it's still on the needles.
You can also download the Upcycled Plastic Bottle Bracelet instructions here to print.
Cable Knit Bracelet Pattern
CO 18 stitches
- Row 1: Place market at beginning of round. Knit all stitches
- Row 2: P2, K5, P2, K to end
- Repeat Row 2 three more times.
- Row 3: P2, Sl3F, K2, K3CN, P2, K to end
- Repeat Row 2 eight more times
- Knit Row 3
- Repeat Row 2 four times.
- Knit Row 3
- Repeat Row 2 nine times.
- Knit Row 3
- Repeat Row 2 four times.
- Row 4: Knit all stitches
Knit until the length is to your liking, 7 to 8 inches is standard for a bracelet.
Assembly instructions
- Once you have knit your cable tube, cut a ring of plastic from your bottle making sure it is just slightly narrower than your tube opening.
- Shimmy your plastic into the center of the cable tube.
- Cut off any excess plastic and close the ends of your knit tube either using a three needle bind off or by stitching them closed.
- Weave in your ends and attach the jewelry closure.
How I do it:
I find it easier to cast on 9 stitches using a straight needle. Kfb each stitch to create 18 stitches. I slip every other stitch onto a circular needle, then pick up the rest of the stitches, and use a magic loop method to knit around, then use a three needle bind off once the plastic is in place. This creates less ends to weave in and a nicer looking finish.


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During the January 26, 2015 meeting the Board approved the use of mannequins for the State Board's Barber & Hairdresser practical exams.
The Board determined barbers & hairdressers may use a mannequin for their practical examinations. The examination candidate may use one (1) new (without any previous services performed) mannequin for the practical examination portions which ask for a live model. Candidates must be able perform the required haircut, shave and all other required examination operations on the mannequin.


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An accomplished director and producer, Shin Sang-ok, nicknamed the "Prince of Korean Cinema", was one of a handful of directors who were instrumental in making the 1950s and '60s a golden age for Korean cinema. The Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA)'s "Restored Treasures" series in October and November will screen two of his masterpieces. The two selected films were also the first and third restored treasures of the Korean Film Archive (KOFA).
One of the films is the historical drama "Prince Yeonsan" (1961), which was crowned the "Hamlet of Korea" by foreign critics and won Best Film at the 1st Daejongang Film Festival in 1962. "Bound by Chastity Rules" (1962) was awarded Best Film, Best Film Editing and Best Actor at the 2nd Daejongang Film Festival and was screened at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. The two films will be shown on October 2 and November 6 respectively at 2pm at the Cinema of the HKFA.
Two post-screening talks, conducted in Cantonese, will feature discussions with film critics Mr Shum Longtin and Ms Kinnia Yau.
Shin's life was larger than movies. In 1978, he and his ex-wife, actress diva Choi Eun-hee, were kidnapped by now North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to help produce better films for the communist half of the divided nation. They were imprisoned and forced to make seven films before successfully escaping after eight years. Shin continued to participate in the film industry after returning to South Korea in 1994.
There is also a Hong Kong connection for Shin. He was involved in early border-crossing co-productions in the 1960s and '70s, such as "The International Secret Agents" (1967), "The Goddess of Mercy" (1967) and "The Ghost Lovers" (1974). The abduction of the couple took place in Hong Kong, then a hub of international intrigue during the Cold War.
Under pressure to meet a New Year release date, Shin made "Prince Yeonsan" in haste. Although the film received an enthusiastic response when it was screened in 1961, the director hated the film and declared his intention to burn the film's original negatives together with its sequel, "Tyrant Yeonsan" (1962). The film tells of a young prince who wants to restore the honour of his mother, who has been killed on the orders of the King - the prince's father. His efforts are blunted and the prince is haunted by his failure to comfort his mother's spirit.
"Bound by Chastity Rules" is a variation of Shin's early film "Mother and a Guest" (1961). Things get complicated when a young widow, played by Choi, falls in love with a young worker from the city. She has no choice in the matter, however, and is pressured to sacrifice her love under the arch of chastity.
Restoration of the two films was carried out by the KOFA in collaboration with the Hfr-Lab, a lab that specialises in digital intermediate technology. Scratches, dust and other blemishes were removed. "Prince Yeonsan" also underwent colour grading. In honour of Shin's wishes, the restoration was based on the 133-minute version re-edited by the director (the version screened in 1961 was a 147-minute cut). For "Bound by Chastity Rules", restoration included compiling the best image and sound from each available print, and the whole restoration process took four months to accomplish.
Both films are in Korean with English subtitles.
Tickets priced at $50 are available at URBTIX outlets. Half-price concessionary tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. There is a 10 per cent discount for each purchase of tickets for both screenings. Credit card bookings can be made on 2111 5999, or on the Internet at www.urbtix.hk.
Detailed programme information can be found in the "ProFolio 59" leaflet distributed at all performing venues of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. For enquiries, please call 2739 2139 or 2734 2900, or browse the webpage www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/filmprog/english/2011rt3/2011rt3_film.html.
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A film still from "Bound by Chastity Rules" (1962).


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Best Beer
Schlafly Coffee Stout
Schlafly has been on an innovative roll over the past several years, and the introduction of Coffee Stout as one of its fall seasonal bottlings seemed to have been a catalyst for the burst of creativity from St. Louis' craft-beer pioneer. Coffee Stout is a magical potion made from marrying Schlafly's Oatmeal Stout to cold-brewed coffee from local roaster Kaldi's.…
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Best Asian Market
Olive Farmers' Market
Don't let the tame name and kelly-green awnings fool you. Olive Farmers' Market is a wonderland, everything you hope for when you consider the ideal Asian market: vaguely industrial vibe, brightly packaged foods that are unrecognizable as anything edible, Pocky galore, a ramen selection so large as to almost cause psychological distress (a whole aisle! Have you ever?). And where else…
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Best Meat Counter
Miller's Meat Market
Before we proceed with this citation, a moment of silence, please, for the Garden Spot Market, which closed at the end of August. The Garden Spot sold dry-aged beef, processed at its own plant in Salem, Illinois. It was delicious. Now, if you want meat that fresh, you're going to have to travel for it. An hour to the southeast,…
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Best Snack
"Pretzel Bites" at Joey B's on the Hill
Few marriages work as well as a soft pretzel and melted cheese. Joey B's on the Hill takes the next step, though — or, rather, the next two steps. First, it gives the cheese a jalapeño kick. Second, it serves the piping-hot pretzels coated in melted butter. The result is absolutely indulgent: salty, sweet, spicy. You could easily polish off…
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Best Waffle
The Walkaway Waffle at Tropical Moose Shaved Ice
The Kirkwood Farmers' Market has become such a popular weekend gathering place, even in the off-season, that last winter Jack and Pat Williams, owners of the on-site shaved-ice stand known as "Tro Mo" (for Tropical Moose), decided to experiment with a new seasonal creation: the Belgian waffle. Not just any waffle, mind you. This hot, faintly sweet disc of dough…
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Best Ice-Cream Parlor
Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream
Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream offers ice-cream noshing beyond the norm for the dairy-treat connoisseur unimpressed by the everyday sugar rush. Nearly every flavor boasts of something novel — the shop's take on classic cookie dough is "Cookie Monster," which combines cookie dough with cookies 'n' cream, all swirled through vanilla ice cream in a lovely shade of Muppet blue. Craving…
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Best Coffee
Goshen Coffee Company
Anyone else sick of being exhorted to eat local? We live in the Midwest. At certain times of year (known as "winter"), if we had to eat local, we'd starve. And what about coffee, the bean of life? It doesn't grow here. What to do? Ah, but wait! Coffee can be roasted locally. Here in St. Louis we're lucky to…
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Best Bakery
BitterSweet Bakery - CLOSED
At first blush the cakes in the case at the BitterSweet Bakery appear to be stand-ins. Their undulating layers of frosting seem too perfect to have been rendered by hand. The ribbons of solid dark chocolate, piled ever so precariously, must surely be glued together. And those single-bloom flowers! My, oh, my. They couldn't possibly be fresh — could they?…
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Best Diner
Billie's Fine Foods
Now this is a diner. Cozy booths jammed against the wall, a wide counter with chrome stools, over which there's a flat-screen TV showing Great Day St. Louis and graphic footage of butt-enhancement surgery (which is, it turns out, a fairly disgusting procedure). On the menu there's all the basic breakfast food: eggs, pancakes, bacon, fried potatoes and, naturally, the…
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Best Outdoor Dining
Onesto Pizza & Trattoria
Tucked away in a sea of one-way streets, brick houses and manicured lawns of the Southampton neighborhood lies a taste of Italian café fare. Onesto, which opened in 2008 and is owned and operated by mainstay restaurateurs the Racanellis, is an unassuming corner joint with no obvious flash or flair. But the simple patio, with its flickering strings of lights…
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Best Coffeehouse
Stone Spiral Coffee and Curios
Located on a sleepy corner in Maplewood next to Ryan Hummert Memorial Park, the Stone Spiral, named for the faux-Druid ring of rocks on the patio, is nothing if not a throwback. The windows are handpainted with ads for lemonade and slushies, the interior is decorated with handmade bric-a-brac and concert posters from the '70s, and the varieties of coffee…
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Best Approximation of Texas
Kolache Factory
Kolaches are the original breakfast sandwich: fillings savory or sweet, baked inside a light, delicious pastry. Czech immigrants have made them quite popular in Texas — there are even festivals in their honor. (The Czech Stop, a 24-hour kolache bakery, is a must if you're traveling along Interstate 35.) Texas is the corporate home of the Kolache Factory, a small…
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Best Thai Restaurant
Pearl Café
Brothers Tommy and Scott Truong already owned one of the area's better Thai restaurants, Simply Thai, when they opened Pearl Café just down the road. The difference between the two is reflected in the names. Simply Thai is a no-frills conversion of an old Taco Bell. Pearl Café is much warmer, with more modern décor, and these little touches make…
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Best Bosnian Restaurant
Bosna Gold
St. Louis and Bosnian restaurants were made for each other: We love grilled meats, and they excel at grilling them — none more so than Bosna Gold. Cevapi might be the best known of these dishes: grilled beef sausages served on a spongy flatbread known as somun or lepinja. That bread is addictive, and it accompanies almost of all the…
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Best 24/7 Restaurant
Courtesy Diner
A simple test: Sit down at the counter of Courtesy Diner. Close your eyes and listen. Eggs and bacon sizzling on the flattop grill. Coffee sloshing into a mug. A newspaper rustling as the pages are turned. Classic rock or old country music humming from the jukebox. What time is it? It doesn't matter. That's the point. The Courtesy Diner…
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Best Lunch Counter
U-City Grill
Generic name, back-alley entrance — check, check. Menu board, speedy straight-to-the-point service — check, check. Pocket change, full belly — check, check. U-City Grill in the Loop has all the hallmarks of your perfect greasy spoon, except that the basic fill-'er-up is bibimbap with bulgogi beef: Korean comfort food. Grab a vinyl-seated stool at the counter, and with little more…
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Best Fast Food
Steak 'n Shake
No matter the time of day, if you're out and you're hungry, the red-and-white Steak 'n Shake sign gleams like the entrance to fast-food Valhalla. Stuck in a study group until 1 a.m.? Steak 'n Shake awaits your arrival. Need to feed the whole junior-varsity football team after a grueling two-a-day? Touchdown, Steak 'n Shake! Craving something that'll sop up…
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Best Farmers' Market
Land of Goshen Community Market
Though the Land of Goshen Community Market is often referred to simply as the Edwardsville farmers' market, the official name is more than apt. The market feels like a community gathering. That's due in large part to the setting: smack in the heart of downtown Edwardsville. And the crowds that throng North Main and St. Louis streets every Saturday from…
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Best Cheese Counter
The Wine and Cheese Place
What's the best cheese to go with merlot? Uh, and what's merlot? Trust us: It's much easier to fake being fancy than you'd think. And the easiest way to fake fanciness: a wine and cheese party. Stop by the Wine and Cheese Place, and with the help of the knowledgeable staff you'll be talking cheese in no time! Stinky cheese,…
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Best Popcorn
King Louies
Doug Meyer swears that popcorn's been a passion since he was a kid toying around with it at his grandparents' bakery. And in a sense, it still is a hobby. The marketing exec works nights and weekends popping the King Louies kernels that stock the shelves at City Gourmet downtown, Serendipity and Sweetie's Candy & Cones in Webster Groves, and…
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Best Pancakes
La Dolce Via - CLOSED
It is an incredibly sad thing that La Dolce Via only serves brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. But let's stop yearning for what we can't have and learn to appreciate the good things in life. Like that for two days a week, we get to eat brunch at La Dolce Via! In the past year, owner Marcia Sindel has expanded…
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Best Popsicles
La Vallesana 2 - CLOSED
Mexicans call popsicles paletas, and you should, too: The word "popsicle" seems too quaint, too childish, for something as grown-up as the paletas at La Vallesana 2 (sister restaurant to La Vallesana, the taqueria across the street). While the paletas at La Vallesana certainly are sweet, they aren't as cloying — as fake — as, say, a Bomb Pop. You…
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Best Coffee-Shop Innovation
Espresso Ice Cubes
The argument for global warming has a powerful ally: Summer 2010 in St. Louis. Worried our terrestrial ball is getting a little too toasty? Just step outside into a 110- degree August afternoon and confirm those fears right quick. In addition to raising concerns for future generations, the warming planet is also a total bummer for iced coffee. Delicious at first,…
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Best Chain Restaurant
P.F. Chang's China Bistro
No one is going to call P.F. Chang's Chinese Bistro authentic. But, in the case of this deservedly popular restaurant, authenticity is not the goal. P.F. Chang's serves thoughtful, often innovative and always delicious Chinese-inspired food in trendy-comfy surroundings. While most "Americanized" Chinese food is a gloppy tangerine-hued horror show, the fare at P.F. Chang's is replete with fresh veggies…
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Best Restaurant to Die in the Past Year
For a while after it opened, Moxy was the hottest restaurant in St. Louis. Open kitchen. TV monitors above the bar flashing famous artworks. Sleek lounge vibe. All the elements were in place for just another mid-2000s flash in the pan. Yet grounding all this was the assured cooking of owner and chef Eric Brenner. Brenner didn't ignore trends of…
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Best Restaurant Trend
Food trucks
It took the cupcake craze more than half a decade to reach St. Louis after it became the trendy dessert in New York City. By that math it should be 2015 before the area sees a representative of the hottest food trend of the past couple of years: the food truck. These aren't your father's lunch wagons. They serve anything…
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Best Restaurant Concept
Cheese-ology Macaroni & Cheese
After fourteen years as a medical researcher at Washington University, Bill Courtney wanted to try something new. He decided to open a restaurant. A risky proposition at any time — even more so in the midst of a sputtering economy. Yet Courtney had a way to make his restaurant stand out: mac & cheese. Who doesn't love mac & cheese?…
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Best Approximation of Kingston
De Palm Tree
For many Americans, Jamaican cuisine begins and ends with jerk chicken, Red Stripe beer and speakers pumping Bob Marley tunes. A visit to De Palm Tree explodes the myth, starting with seafood, from baked red snapper and shrimp sautéed in curry sauce to escovitch (pickled fish) and the national dish of salt cod and ackee (a lychee-like fruit). The menu's…
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Best Kept Secret (Restaurant Division)
The Piccadilly at Manhattan
The Piccadilly at Manhattan is no secret to residents of the city's Ellendale neighborhood. The Collida family opened the restaurant in the 1920s. After a five-year hiatus — and a thorough renovation — Nick and Maggie Collida reopened the Piccadilly in late 2007. Though hidden in an otherwise residential stretch at an intersection that doesn't get very much through traffic,…
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Best Mexican Restaurant
Milagro Modern Mexican
At first glance you might not recognize just how different the menu at Milagro Modern Mexican is from St. Louis' many Mexican restaurants. The dishes are familiar: tostadas, enchiladas, quesadillas. Blame the complimentary chips and salsa for luring you into a false sense of security. Look more closely. The tostadas are topped with duck and a tart, searingly spicy blood-orange-habanero…
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Best Place to Eat Out Alone
Café Ventana
Solo diners aren't uncommon near college campuses. It's easy to blend in among students engrossed in their studies, swilling cups of bottomless coffee. Trouble is, the joints kids tend to frequent are uninspiringly similar, in both menu and décor, to the dorms in which they live. But not Café Ventana, an elegant throwback to New Orleans' past, located on the…
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Best Fast-Casual Restaurant
SanSai Japanese Grill - CLOSED
Since its introduction to the St. Louis market in 2004, SanSai Japanese Grill has hipped our region to what West Coast diners have known for some time: Good sushi is not found only in expensive restaurants with icon-status chefs — nor should sushi lovers have to settle for blah-tasting California rolls procured from a supermarket cold case. A delicious middle…
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Best Fresh Eggs
Claverach Farm and Vineyard
Michael Pollan, whose books The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto have made him the de facto spokesman for the movement toward sustainable agriculture, irked even some of his supporters this past summer when in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece he wrote that we shouldn't hesitate to spend $6 for a dozen eggs. Mere weeks…
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Best Fresh Seafood Counter
Bob's Seafood
In Alaska there's an old folk song called "Fish Head Stew." You can probably guess what that's about, and given the 49th state's fish-rich status, it's hardly surprising that they'd have a song about chomping down on fish heads, in stew or otherwise. Here in good ol' landlocked Missourah, not so much. (We're more likely to be found singing tunes…
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Best Goat
Pueblo Nuevo
Bacon is so last year. Goat is the new "it" meat — or should be. At a time when pork is overexposed, steak is overpriced, and chicken is, well, chicken, goat is a refreshingly pungent alternative. Introduce yourself to its rich, funky flavor at Pueblo Nuevo, where it's the centerpiece of the Mexican restaurant's standout dish, birria. This traditional stew…
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Best Burger (Non-Beef Division)
Sweet Art
Veggie burgers — especially if they're vegan — generally aren't feisty. They're docile, meek creatures that prefer to coast on their healthy attributes. (In dating parlance, you might say they "have a great personality.") Sweet Art's vegan Sweet Burger, on the other hand, is a rebel. A wheat bun cradles a fat tomato slice, fresh lettuce and a crumbly patty…
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Best Snow Cones
Purists can argue for days about the merits of shaved ice vs. chipped ice vs. crushed ice, but when you have a summer as brutal as St. Louis just did, any kind of ice is damned refreshing. No, the vital issue is the range of flavors available for that ice, whatever its form, and for that no one can beat…
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Best Use of the Worst Cheese
"The Hill"
"The Hill" mac & cheese at Cheese-ology almost qualifies as molecular gastronomy. It looks like mac & cheese, sitting there in its mini cast-iron skillet, but one bite and your taste buds scream pizza. It's the perfect union: classic American comfort food done up St. Louis style: Provel cheese in its glorious near-liquid form, a dose of marinara and good…
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Best Breakfast After a Bad One-Night Stand
Lumière Place Casino
You shouldn't have to resort to this. You should have sneaked out in the middle of the night. Even though it all went down at your place. But here it is Saturday morning, and for some ridiculous reason you feel the need to be hospitable. So it's off to Lumière Place Casino and the $12 breakfast buffet. The grub's actually…
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Best Local Chef
Kevin Nashan
When more than a dozen St. Louis chefs traveled to Swiss Meat & Sausage Co. in Hermann to watch the butchering of a Mangalitsa pig — a prized breed originally from Hungary — Kevin Nashan watched raptly as the master butchers took apart the hog and then was the first volunteer to attempt one of the unfamiliar cuts. His eagerness…
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Best Lunch Counter
U-City Grill
Generic name, back-alley entrance — check, check. Menu board, speedy straight-to-the-point service — check, check. Pocket change, full belly — check, check. U-City Grill in the Loop has all the hallmarks of your perfect greasy spoon, except that the basic fill-'er-up is bibimbap with bulgogi beef: Korean comfort food. Grab a vinyl-seated stool at the counter, and with little more…
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Best Restaurant Neighborhood
Lindenwood Park
Lindenwood Park might be best known for the thoroughfares that form its boundaries: Hampton Avenue, Arsenal and Chippewa streets, and Interstate 44. Within this predominantly residential neighborhood, however, you can find a topnotch restaurant for almost any taste. Biggie's is the Platonic ideal of the neighborhood bar and grill (the veal parm's outstanding), while Stellina Pasta Café turns out terrific…
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Best Breakfast With a Hangover
Chris' Pancake & Dining
It's 1 p.m. on a Saturday. You're just waking up. (Too many brewskis.) Bleary-eyed, you can only think of one thing that'll make you a human being again: eggs. Specifically, eggs served with greasy, salty meat — bacon, sausage, ham or country-fried steak, or maybe all of 'em — and a side of carbs. Waffle-ridged potatoes or...pancakes! Starchy, drenched-in-syrup, buttery…
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Best Vietnamese Restaurant
Phuc Loi
Phuc Loi is easily missed or even ignored, a tiny storefront in a bland strip mall with a Laundromat and a check-cashing joint. But to dine here is to plunge into Vietnamese cuisine feet first. There are familiar dishes, plates of tender meat and rice served with the restaurant's delicious take on the traditional condiment nuoc cham, but these are…
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Best Italian Restaurant (Not Cheap)
There is no Italian dish in St. Louis any better than the egg raviolo at Acero. There is no dish any less complex: a single raviolo surrounding the deep orange yolk of a farm-fresh egg. This simplicity, this beauty, goes a long way in explaining why, three years after it opened, Acero remains unique among the area's many (so very…
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Best Soul Food Restaurant
Yummies Soul Food Café
Yummies Soul Food Café's name isn't boastful; it's a statement of fact. Forgoing soul food dished up cafeteria-style, servers at the small Compton Heights café seat patrons in draped chairs and offer tiny bites of the restaurant's signature banana pudding to whet the appetite. And that appetite needs to be in gear for the expansive menu, which focuses on the…
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Best Fried Chicken
Young's Restaurant & Ice Creamery
Popeye has his spinach. Young's Restaurant & Ice Creamery has its fried chicken. How else to explain the restaurant's survival through not one, but two eminent-domain claims, a fate that would have shuttered most restaurants for good? The fried chicken is too good to be kept from its fans. Rinsed in saltwater, light battered and pressure fried (rather than deep…
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Best Pizza (Thin Crust)
If we had a nickel for every snobby opinion about pizza posted on the Internet over the past couple of years, we could hire a heavyweight champion to punch each one of those self-righteous foodies right in the kisser. On second thought, we'd take the money — and the snobs — to Pizza-a-Go-Go. There's nothing flashy about the place, nothing…
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Best Bakery, Language Barrier Be Damned
Diana's Bakery
When you walk into Diana's Bakery, your stomach's eyes pop with desire. Huge cakey disks labeled "Galletas," flaky triangles branded as "Empanadas de Calabaza" and swollen pastries covered in colorful confections left mysteriously unidentified line the (numerous) shelves. While English translations are offered for some of these delicious goodies (galletas/cookies and calabaza/pumpkin), the majority is left unexplained. Still, the key…
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Best Mussels
Frazer's Restaurant and Lounge
When it comes to bivalves, no one really wants to take risks. This explains why concepts like Littleneck Larry's Diesel Stop & Clam Bar never quite took off. It also explains the popularity of the mussels at Frazer's Restaurant and Lounge in Benton Park, where the only risk is that you'll eat three whole orders by yourself. Expertly prepared and…
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Best Doughnuts
Donut House - CLOSED
The only thing better than comfort food is 24-hour comfort food. Yes, Donut House never closes, but what's more notable than simply its range of hours is its consistency in offering a huge selection of deep-fried confections whose quality never disappoints — no matter what the hour. Whether they're Sunday Morning Church Doughnuts, After-Dinner Dessert Doughnuts or 3 a.m. Stumbling…
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Best Frozen Yogurt
Dieting 101 says dessert is an indulgence meant only for a special occasion. Obviously, whoever made that rule never went to Chill. The Clayton froyo emporium whips up all- natural, small batches of the stuff, ensuring that its dessert is overflowing with active yogurt cultures and is chock-full of calcium, protein and vitamins. Chill doesn't sacrifice taste for nutrition, however: Patrons…
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Best Food & Drink Blog
One Hot Stove
Nupur Kittur obtained her master's degree in public health from Saint Louis University earlier this year, but among the local food scenesters she is best known as the author of One Hot Stove. The blog chronicles the Mumbai-born Kittur's exploration of the vast, vast landscape of Indian cuisine. Her posts are recipes, first and foremost, enlivened with insightful commentary on…
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Best Never Went
Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas
Tapas restaurants come and go. Maybe they call their food "small plates" instead of "tapas," but they still want to plug into the same long-outdated trend that usually has nothing to do with actual Spanish tapas — either specific Spanish dishes or the general spirit of traveling from this bar to the next, snacking on what's good, washing it down…
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Best Neighborhood Restaurant
Mama Josephine's
The true neighborhood restaurant isn't simply a restaurant that happens to exist in an otherwise residential area. Like the best neighbors, it must make you feel welcome — like family, even. Here, Mama Josephine's has a natural advantage. Mary Samuelson's cozy restaurant in the city's Shaw neighborhood draws its recipes from the owner's late mother, Josephine Spallino, who spent her…
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Best Seafood Restaurant
You don't have to live on the coast to eat good seafood. Thanks to next-day air, restaurants that are willing to pay — or, rather, restaurants with customers who are willing to pay — can obtain very good fish and shellfish. A chef who understands seafood, though, is another matter. In that respect St. Louis is lucky to have Kevin…
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Best Décor
Bobo Noodle House
Two years after opening, Bobo Noodle House remains the hippest-looking restaurant in St. Louis. Space Architects' design is the rare one that manages to be both of-the-moment and timeless. The light fixtures are the most striking feature: Each is a cylinder from which thin black spokes protrude; attached to the end of each spoke is a sheet of paper on…
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Best Approximation of Saigon
Pho Long
In America the beef-noodle soup pho usually rates its own category on Vietnamese restaurant menus. In Vietnam pho usually rates its own restaurant — or simply a stall, open to the air, full of diners slurping noodles and broth. In, say, Ho Chi Minh City, a restaurant like Pho Long would be one of many pho joints. In St. Louis…
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Best Restaurant for a First Date
Newstead Tower Public House - CLOSED
It's an accepted fact that victory is attractive. But what of the poor skill-less souls for whom winning doesn't come all that naturally? How should that kind of player hope to get some play? Well, that kind of player should schedule a first date on a Wednesday at Newstead Tower Public House. Not only is the gastropub's menu uniformly delicious,…
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Best Place to Start Your Weekend
Blues City Deli
If you're so fancy that you swear by starting the weekend with some oontz-oontz at nine on a Saturday night, do yourself a favor and stop reading. Only hoosiers with bona fides will want the scoop on the city's best midday Saturday street party. Every week at 11:30 a.m. at the corner of McNair Avenue and Victor Street in Benton…
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Best Place to Induce a Diabetic Coma
Jennifer's Pharmacy & Soda Shoppe
Jennifer's Pharmacy & Soda Shoppe is a Norman Rockwell hallucination, from the counters lined with pies overflowing with fruity fillings to the ice-cream sodas you sip through a straw while swiveling on your stool. Homemade pies. A wide selection of phosphates, milkshakes and sundaes. A choice of 30 syrups with which to flavor your soda — all the makings of…
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Best Chicken Wings
Weber's Front Row
How hard is it to make a chicken wing? You just toss it in the deep fryer for a few minutes and voilà! Well, try it. You'd be surprised. Some wings don't get fried long enough and wind up with soggy skin and frozen centers. Some get fried too much and are so tough that the mere act of chewing…
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Best Takeout Counter (Gourmet Division)
Salume Beddu
Mark Sanfilippo is quite the specimen, but that wasn't the only reason it was always hard to pass his stand at the Tower Grove Farmers' Market. It was also the taste of his coppa romana, the aroma of his guanciale and the snow-white loveliness of his pancetta that not only compelled you to fling money at him on the spot,…
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Best Bread
Great Harvest Bread Company
Forget about learning the calendar at the Great Harvest Bread Company. Just remember this: closed on Sunday. Every other day brings a changing array of dense, honorable loaves that are worthy of sandwiches, toasting or snacking. A couple of styles do make daily appearances, such as the versatile honey whole-wheat and the sinfully sweet cinnamon swirl. (Good luck getting the…
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Best Salad
Katie's Pizzeria
Served on skateboard-size platters, the salads at Katie's Pizzeria are a little exotic (and a little overwhelming). Even the molto semplice insalata mista brings more than enough fresh greens for two; the fried artichoke salad or the grilled tuna niçoise salad could make you forget all about the café's acclaimed pizzas. Katie's makes brilliant use of shaved fennel and never…
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Best Pie
Mills Apple Farm
There's really no need to get fancy with a pie. As long as you've got a good crust — and, it's true, it's not easy to get that elusive mix of crisp and flaky — and good filling, you don't have to jazz it up by cutting cute little season-appropriate shapes in the crust or constructing elaborate sculptures from meringue.…
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Best Lemonade
Sunflower Savannah
Farmers' markets are terrific, of course, but in St. Louis the peak of the market season coincides with temperatures near 100 degrees and humidity that makes it feel like you're living inside someone's mouth. Maybe that's why the cries of "Lemonade!" that resound from Sunflower Savannah's stands at the Tower Grove and Maplewood farmers' markets are as enticing as a…
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Best Hot Dog
St. Louis BBQ Bacon Dog
It may seem like a cheat to award Best Hot Dog to a vendor at Busch Stadium, a veritable clearinghouse of cased meats. But understand that the St. Louis BBQ Bacon Dog is no ordinary frankfurter: It is nothing short of a perfect marriage between culinary fusion and American gustatory excess. As can be gleaned from its name, the BBQ…
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Best Place to Eat Out with Grandpa
Bob Evans
Is Bob Evans your favorite restaurant? Doesn't matter; it's not about you. It's about Grandpa. It's maybe not even his favorite restaurant, but here are the secrets that make it his favorite place to eat: Is Bob Evans your favorite restaurant? Doesn't matter; it's not about you. It's about Grandpa. It's maybe not even his favorite restaurant, but here are the…
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Best Approximation of New Orleans
The Gumbo Shop - CLOSED
The Gumbo Shop is barely big enough to contain those eating and those waiting in line to order. Yet within such cozy confines, the cuisine of New Orleans feels right at home. Yes, the gumbo is fantastic: thick and spicy and chock-full of shrimp and andouille. But this is no mere one-dish specialty shop. The jambalaya is nearly as good…
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Best Steak House
Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse - CLOSED
Jeff Ruby is very proud of the steaks served at his namesake restaurant. At each table a glossy placard bearing the Cincinnati-based restaurateur's visage tells diners so. His self-regard isn't misplaced. Each steak is USDA prime (the highest grade), dry-aged, rubbed with a secret blend of twenty herbs and spices — so secret that the blend is split between two…
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Best Barista
Jessica Jarvis
When the doors are unlocked at 7 a.m., a small cadre of caffeine junkies will already have gathered outside Shaw's Coffee, Ltd. champing at the bit for their morning espressos. Lucky for them Jessica Jarvis is pulling the shots. Open since 1999, Shaw's has thrived in its historic Italian neighborhood — the Hill, of course, is an area where espresso…
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Best Approximation of Paris
Brasserie by Niche
To many Americans, a French restaurant is, ipso facto, a pretentious restaurant. Spend a few days in Paris, though, and you will discover a wealth of unpretentious, even humble, cafés, bistros and brasseries. These tend to serve the French dishes true gastronomes fall in love with: cassoulet, duck confit, steak frites. And the pâtés — oh, the pâtés. Now to…
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Best Chinese Restaurant
Lemay Wok
Lemay Wok isn't the biggest or the flashiest Chinese restaurant in town. If there is a "secret menu" of "authentic" Chinese fare, then it is a very, very secret menu. What this modest storefront wedged into the middle of a south-county strip mall does offer are tasty renditions of the Chinese and Chinese American dishes Americans have come to love:…
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Best Italian Restaurant (Cheap)
Joe Fassi Sausage & Sandwich Factory
Those who like laws and sausages, an old saying goes, should not see how either is made. Laws? True. Sausages? Not so. How bad can any process be when it results in something as delicious as the salsiccia at Joe Fassi Sausage & Sandwich Factory? The sausage itself — the recipe has been passed down through eight decades to current…
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Best Underground Dinner Experience for Those Who Are Having Trouble Experiencing an Actual Underground Dinner
Chef's Night
So you're curious about these "underground dinners" you've overheard folks talking about. You've always considered yourself interested in the cultural vanguard and passably well informed (if not, as a rule, an actual participant). And you might not be a "foodie" (don't you detest that word?), but you certainly know your way around a menu if you do say so yourself.…
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Best Whole Roast Chicken
Don Carlos
Devotees of roast chicken will espouse its many charms: the succulent meat, the satisfaction of stripping every morsel from the bird, the sweet grease that coats fingers and face after a job well done. We'd never admit as much to our cardiologist, but the not-so-secret pleasure of a whole roast chicken is the skin — the crisp, salty shell that…
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Best Takeout Counter (Grocery Division)
Hardworking, hungry people of downtown, munching your soggy, lettuce-stuffed sandwiches: There is a better way! There are fresh panini! There's a compact salad bar! There's gazpacho and gelato and stacks of ham and salami the thickness of a phone book stuffed between the halves of a fresh baguette! There're weird-but-delicious cold buckwheat salads! Best of all, you don't have to…
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Best Bagels
Black Bear Bakery
A good bagel is like a New Yorker: thick-skinned, but with a soft, yielding interior that explains a tendency to consistently vote Democrat in presidential elections. A good bagel is no-nonsense. It doesn't need any of those froufrou streusel toppings, cloyingly sweet chocolate chips or seasonal variants that are a desperate cry for attention; a good bagel is like a…
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Best Guacamole
Pueblo Solis
When you sit down at south-city Mexican mainstay Pueblo Solis, you'll be offered guacamole before your drink order is taken. That's how good it is: Patrons come to the restaurant with avocados on the brain, and everything else takes a back seat to the chunky, salty, slightly tart green stuff. The guac goes best with Pueblo's housemade chips (served complimentary,…
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Best Cupcakes
Whipt Cream - CLOSED
When the question is "Want a cupcake?" the answer, invariably, is yes. But when the question is "Want a cupcake from Whipt Cream?" the answer involves everything from vigorous nodding to gleeful applause to knocking over a coworker in the mad scramble to get to the box. This Chesterfield bakery turns out some of the most beautiful, most delicious cupcakes…
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Best Burger
Newstead Tower Public House - CLOSED
The burger at Newstead Tower Public House is never exactly the same burger twice. That's its beauty. Unlike so many burgers, merely the end product of an agricultural-industrial process, the patties more often than not formed by a machine in another state and thawed in the restaurant kitchen, this is a product made by human hands. The patties are irregularly…
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Best French Fries
Five Guys Burgers and Fries
There's an infinite number of wrong ways to make French fries, but only one right way. Five Guys Burgers and Fries makes them the right way: hand-cut in the store from fresh potatoes — a chalkboard tells you the exact location from which the day's potatoes hail — blanched and then fried to order. The result is a fry with…
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Best Sunday Brunch
Café Madeleine
Water gently splashing into a marble basin, light filtering in through high windows, starched white tablecloths and places set just so amid sculptures and bountiful green plants — the Piper Palm House is so elegant that it nearly verges into cartoonishness. Nearly. Brunch (served buffet style, $21.50 adults, $9.95 kids ten and under) brings an astonishing bounty, and not in…
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Best New Restaurant
Farmhaus is not, in fact, a farmhouse. The cuisine isn't German. Owner and executive chef Kevin Willmann chose the name as a tribute to his heritage, several generations of Illinois farmers, and his first solo restaurant works as a sort of biography-in-food of the supremely talented chef. Yes, locally sourced ingredients are a dime a dozen these days and no…
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Best Desserts
Carolyn Downs, owner and pastry chef at the popular Webster Groves café Cyrano's, doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. Her desserts are classics, perfected: The key lime pie is as velvety as the richest cheesecake and sings with key lime's signature balance of sweet and tart. Carrot cake is perfectly moist, the flavor rounded out by toasted coconut atop the…
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Best Wine List in a Restaurant (Value)
Duff's Restaurant - CLOSED
"Value" isn't the same as cheap. It's about getting quality at a fair price. Duff's offers great value that unjustifiably flies under many people's radar. The food is tasty, well prepared and reasonably priced, the atmosphere is relaxed, and the wine list is a treasure. At any given time, Duff's offers about 30 reds, 30 whites and a smattering of…
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Best Approximation of El Salvador
Tres Banderas - CLOSED
You won't find much Salvadoran cuisine at Tres Banderas, an Ellisville restaurant that serves mostly Mexican fare. But you don't need much more than the pupusa, one of El Salvador's most famous dishes. A pupusa is a corn tortilla stuffed with cheese, meat or beans. Think of a tamale smushed into a quesadilla. Tres Banderas offers a choice of three…
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Best Indian Restaurant
When the Indian restaurant Ruchi became Mayuri in 2009, local fans of Indian cuisine worried. Ruchi was one of the area's best Indian restaurants — this publication had dubbed it so in 2008 — its large and varied lunch buffet especially beloved. Thankfully, the menu remained more or less the same, and the quality of the dishes and the variety…
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Best Greek Restaurant
Anthonino's Taverna
Anthonino's Taverna flies the flags of both Greece and Italy, but one bite of the gyro will leave no doubt where the restaurant's heart lies. The sandwich is overloaded with delicious gyro meat (lamb and beef, though the gamy nature of the former is more apparent), tangy tzatziki sauce, feta cheese and roasted red peppers. Other standout dishes include topnotch…
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Best Place to Get Fatter
The U - CLOSED
Only two years into its operation, the U is famous far beyond midtown for its mouthwatering selection of hamburgers, hot wings and griddled sandwiches served well into the wee hours (3:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday!). In January the U launched a successful foray into breakfast and brunch options, dishing up omelets, pancakes and some of the city's most potent…
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Best Taqueria
Taqueria Durango
The word is out: Several of the best traditional Mexican restaurants in St. Louis are located near the airport. Still, Overland's Taqueria Durango feels like a hidden gem, a modest space set far enough back from the road that, without a GPS device, you'll almost certainly have to double back to find it. Inside you can enjoy stellar tacos. The…
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Best Delicatessen
Eovaldi's Deli
When your deli is located inside the Oldani Brothers Salami factory, chances are you make a mean Italian sandwich. Sure enough, Eovaldi's nook-like location on the Hill can pile on the salty cured meats with the best of them — favorites likes Genoa salami, mortadella and coppa are available, as well as the more pedestrian deli meats. Eovaldi's long list…
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Best Pizza (Thick Crust)
Pi Pizzeria
Chris Sommers and Frank Uible have had quite a ride since opening the original Pi two and a half years ago: a trip to the White House to cook for the restaurant's highest-profile fan, Barack Obama; new locations in Kirkwood, the Central West End and Chesterfield; a food truck, nicknamed Pi on the Spot, to capitalize on Pi's popularity and…
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Best Spring Rolls
Banh Mi So #1 — Saigon Gourmet
There are any number of reasons that Banh Mi So #1 – Saigon Gourmet is the perpetual winner of this category. There's the neon sign in the front window brashly declaring that the restaurant's spring rolls are the best in town. There's the simple alchemy of noodles, mint, basil and rice paper. (You choose your protein; we're partial to shrimp.)…
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Best Chocolate
Kakao Chocolate
Just four words: bacon sea-salt caramels. You need to know more? Really? Fine. In the three years since Brian Pelletier abandoned a career in PR to run Kakao Chocolate (pronounced "ka-kay-oh"), he has been steadily pushing the boundaries of confectionery. There are truffles in unexpected flavors, including smoke, green tea and spiced rum; barks that mix dark chocolate with white…
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Best Sparkling Lemonade
Lemon Grass
It would be easy to describe the sparkling lemonade, or soda chanh duong, at Lemon Grass as "lemon-flavored sparkling water" or "lemon soda," but neither quite captures why the drink is so refreshing. The flavor is too clearly lemon, wonderfully tart (though not overwhelmingly so), to mistake it for mere sparkling water; while it is sweet, it doesn't have the…
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Best Barbecue
Pappy's Smokehouse
Pappy's Smokehouse has never been a secret. More or less from the day it opened in February 2008, it has been a smash hit, a mecca for St. Louis barbecue hounds. The lunch-hour line is legendary. (Pro tip: Call in your order ahead of time.) Bad news: That line only grows. Good news: The line grows as people outside of…
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Best Comeback
Dunkin' Donuts
[THE SCENE: A school lunchroom. A Krispy Kreme doughnut and a LaMar's doughnut share a table, where they munch cafeteria food. A Dunkin' Donuts doughnut enters with a tray and looks around for a place to sit.] KRISPY KREME: So check out the new girl. [Gestures to Dunkin� doughnut] LAMAR�S: Yeah, I know. Can you believe it? She�s been gone ten whole…
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Best Dining Destination
17th Street Bar & Grill
Barbecue geeks don't visit the original 17th Street Bar & Grill in Murphysboro, Illinois, so much as make a pilgrimage there. Founder Mike Mills is a legend in the barbecue scene, an unprecedented three-time winner of barbecue's best-known award, the Grand World Championship at Memphis in May's Super Bowl of Swine. As if Mills hadn't received enough acclaim, in a…
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Best Breakfast
Winslow's Home
Winslow's Home has the feel of an earlier era — a happier, healthier time when the poached eggs on special were freshly plucked from a backyard coop and accented with fresh herbs just harvested from the garden. Honest, delicious food. Cheerful chitchat. A place to linger. The cozy storefront that Ann Sheehan Lipton selected for her eco-friendly market and eatery…
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Best Beer Selection in a Restaurant
The Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar
It might be more appropriate to rename this category "Best Restaurant in a Beer Bar." The attractive new downtown spot from restaurateur Dave Bailey (Baileys' Chocolate Bar, Rooster) boasts a list of draft and bottled brews so lengthy that it might take you a pint or two before you even reach the food. American craft brewers such as New Belgium,…
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Best Tapas/Small Plates
Taste by Niche
The great American chef Thomas Keller prefers to build a meal out of a succession of small courses because he believes that after a few bites the act of eating a dish — no matter how good — loses its excitement and becomes rote. You can see for yourself at Taste by Niche, where the prodigious talents of Gerard Craft…
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Best Middle-Eastern Restaurant
The Vine Mediterranean Café & Market
Middle-Eastern restaurants, like their brethren in most other cuisines, tend to become known for one dish. You go here for the falafel, there for the chicken shawarma and another place altogether for the meat shawarma. When a restaurant opens that is able to nail not just one or two but a variety of traditional favorites, it's a cause for celebration…
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Best Vegetarian Restaurant
Nestled in a nondescript strip mall in Chesterfield, VegaDeli somehow manages to break just about every preconception we could have about vegetarian food. First off, it is strictly vegan, in a town that unabashedly embraces dairy. It even eschews faux meats, bucking the notion that those who kick the flesh habit simply long for a return to the comfort foods…
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Best Power Lunch
Papa Fabarre's - CLOSED
A power lunch doesn't have to take place at the poshest spot in town. In fact, power lunches might best be undertaken in more subtle surroundings. Like at Papa Fabarre's. Located on the second floor of the downtown Macy's, tucked behind the menswear department, Papa Fabarre's practically screams discretion. Not only does the eatery offer high-backed booths, but said booths…
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Microsoft has announced that they are buying PhoneFactor, a purchase aimed squarely at bolstering the companies enterprise authentication offerings.
The service is designed to allow folks to use their mobile devices as a way to authenticate against key Microsoft services such as Active Directory, Azure and Office 365.
The unstoppable rise of adoption in smartphone uptake means that pretty soon most of us will have a computer in our pocket. With that in mind the company has produced a product to allow for critical multi factor authentication to take place on the phone. At present many companies use security fobs/tokens which often times get lost stolen of just break, they also are not cheap or easy to replace.
The idea here is that the authentication system is simply an app on a device to enable the same functionality without all the hassle. As we move ever closer to heavy reliance on cloud based services its quite easy to see why Microsoft would be interested in making such a purchase.
Many of us are struggling with 100's of online passwords and simply having a multi factor authentication with a unique device could ease many security concerns. The press release doesn't't mention Windows Phone or even consumer use but it's almost inconceivable that Microsoft wont want to push this down the chain to normal users, especially if they want to keep their cloud services air tight. Now that MS own such a service we're sure to see apps created for Windows Phone 8, being as MS are keen to fill that number three niche that Blackberry is fast vacating, bolstering these types of services is now essential.


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CHICAGO | Even though their first post-lockout practice Sunday drew a packed house at Johnny's Ice House, Blackhawks management is following Rocky Wirtz's admonition to never underestimate paying customers.
"The message to our fans is simple," team president John McDonough said Sunday. "We are going to have to earn their loyalty back. We don't take any of this for granted...We're going to do everything we can to earn their allegiance back."
McDonough did not go into specifics, saving those announcements for later this week when the team announces "fan initiatives."
Apparently, the fans don't have to be sold as hard as many believe.
The overflow crowd at practice was one indication. McDonough revealed among the franchise's first public comments since the lockout officially ended late Saturday that the team's season-ticket waiting list actually increased by 250 during the four-month NHL shutdown.
The list will grow even more if the Hawks can return to Stanley Cup glory after the truncated 48-game season that begins Saturday in Los Angeles. One possible step toward that goal was the revelation longtime third-line center Dave Bolland will get first crack at moving up to fill the gaping center hole in the second line.
Bolland long has had the talent to play on the second line, but the Hawks loved him as the glue of the defensive and checking-oriented third line. Kris Versteed and Andrew Ladd flanking Bolland was a key to playoff success in the 2010 Stanley Cup run.
Now, if Bolland can make the transition, Hawks coach Joel Quenneville won't have to play wingers Patrick Kane and Patrick Sharp out of position at center.
"Everybody kind of puts him in…as a third-line center, in that checking role," Quenneville said. "But 'Bolly" offensively has some skill, and you could argue that on every team in the league Bolly could be a a second-line center."
Between seven recalled younger Hawks who played through the lockout at minor-league Rockford and others who played in European pro leagues, many team members should be in game shape. The question will be if they can become near ironmen with the compressed schedule. As an example, the first six Hawks games will be played in nine days, with back-to-back games on consecutive weekends.
"Every team is going to be dealing with stretches where you're going to be taxed," Quenneville said. "It's an amazing pace. I think one thing is depth in the organization is going to be important. We like the depth in all areas."
"Tough" is the one word Bolland used for the schedule crunch.
"You're going to be playing every second night," he said. "There's going to be no breaks. You're going to be ready for what's coming at us."
Making matters worse is the Hawks play 10 of their first 12 games on the road. The rescheduled home opener is Jan. 22 against St. Louis.
"You can look at it this way: we're going to spend a lot of time together as a team on the road right off the bat," Hawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "It's an opportunity for us to really come together early in the season."


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Victor Schwartz served as the Chairman and has interests in other corporate entities including Planters Point at Boca West Property Owners' Association, Inc. located in Boca Raton, FL Victor's past corporate affiliations include Riviera Wash LLC, Spin Smart USA LLC .
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climate change will affect the frequency and intensity of severe storms, but changes are possible, and societies can reduce vulnerabilities through improved forecasting. It is striking that, although normalized property damages caused by hurricanes in the United States in the twentieth century did not decline (because most houses cannot move when hurricanes are forecast), the loss of life was markedly reduced because better forecasting allowed people to evacuate.
Institutions. One of the most promising options is to conduct research leading to the development of improved institutions that will allow societies to withstand the greater risks that could be associated with abrupt climate change. Three examples—water systems, insurance, and statistical data—highlight the possibilities:
Water systems. Most evidence points to the likelihood that water systems will be severely stressed in the coming decades, and marginal regions face the possibility of droughts. Research can help identify better ways to manage water, such as the use of water markets or other flexible or innovative approaches that might prove to be useful strategies under scenarios of abrupt climate change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001a).
Insurance. An important way that individuals or even countries can adapt to extreme events is through insurance against the ruinous effects of fires, floods, storms, and hurricanes. In essence, the existence of insurance promotes risk-taking behavior. Because losses from some of these risks are highly skewed, insurance payouts from time to time will be extremely large and will threaten to exhaust the reserves of insurance companies. Through the development of new instruments, such as weather derivatives and catastrophe bonds, markets can accommodate extreme events. One important adaptation would be the development of better instruments to spread the large losses ($50 billion and up) attributed to extreme weather and other events; they should be priced realistically to reflect the risks to discourage excessive risk-taking. Research into the value of such better instruments is needed.
Statistical data. Analysis of statistical data may help identify beneficial, low-cost ways to reform rules concerning flood-plain and coastal management.


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TV coverage of Super Bowl kicks off super early
NFL Network gets started at 4 a.m.; big game's on CBS
10 a.m. "Phil Simms All-Iron Team: Super Bowl Edition": The CBS analyst (and former Super Bowl MVP) will feature many of his favorite Super Bowl memories, with many of the players and coaches who were involved telling their own stories. One twist: a reunion of Leon Lett and Don Beebe, who combined for a memorable moment 20 years ago.
11 a.m. "The Super Bowl Today": The "official" CBS pregame show, hosted by James Brown and featuring the network's usual studio cast, plus Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews. Among the features promised: an interview with the Brothers (and Coaches) Harbaugh; the story of a player from the Ravens' championship team 12 years ago who now works for the team but suffers from ALS; a discussion of player safety; numerous player profiles; and the now traditional interview with the president, Barack Obama (at 1:30 p.m.). There will be musical performances, too.
3 p.m. "Super Bowl on CBS Kickoff Show": The final buildup to the game, including Jennifer Hudson joining the chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing "America the Beautiful," and Alicia Keys performing the national anthem.
3:30 p.m. "Super Bowl XLVII": The 49ers will be in red jerseys, the Ravens in white. Play-by-play man Jim Nantz calls his third Super Bowl, analyst Phil Simms his seventh. Kevin Harlan and Boomer Esiason again have the radio call on 1090-AM. The game also will stream live on the Internet
(nfl.com, cbssports.com) and via the NFL Mobile app for Verizon customers.
5 p.m. (approx.) Halftime: Beyoncé is the headliner this year, and for those who care, she promises to be singing live.
Postgame: CBS made an interesting choice to go with the Sherlock Holmes-themed drama "Elementary" in the post-Bowl slot. Good show, but just doesn't feel like a good fit here. There will be plenty of analysis and interviews on ESPN, NFL Network and, for the first time, CBS Sports Network.
Oh, and there will be lot of commercials. All day long. Some of them will be funny, some touching, some stupid. But you will be talking about them.
Now Watch This
"Smash" two-hour season premiere, 9 p.m. Tuesday, NBC
Singing divas! Sadistic directors! Crazy love triangles! This polarizing NBC drama about the launching of a new Broadway musical has stars in its eyes and soap on the brain, and while its first season was a symphony of sour notes, it was also one of the juiciest, most watchable hours on TV. And the retooled second season promises to be just as crazy, but half as aggravating.
Some of last year's biggest irritants are gone (Goodbye Ellis and Dev!), Jennifer Hudson is on board as a Broadway phenom, and Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty will be busting their lungs as they compete for the role of a lifetime. Pay no attention to the grumps and nit-pickers, because once "Smash" gets its shiny hooks into you, everything else is white noise.
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I wonder if Nick Neave is missing a trick when he says that men's magazines soaked in androstenol are unlikely to be picked over the competition (2 July, p 18). That may be the case, but could supermarkets pump the stuff out through the air conditioning system in the men's magazine section to increase overall sales? That's not as far-fetched as it seems. I have heard that they already pump canisters of gas smelling of baked bread, ground coffee or perfume at strategic points within a store for exactly the same reason.
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An app developed by the Max Planck Institute can be used for free to detect meddling in the use of BitTorrent, eMule, and Gnutella.
With media player Winamp headed to software heaven, Crave's Bonnie Burton, who once worked for the firm that made it, looks back on workplace tensions and fun -- and Mike the llama.
There will be no more llama whipping for media player Winamp when parent company AOL closes it in December.
Sensitive files like Secret Service safehouse locations, military rosters, and IRS tax returns can still be found on file-sharing networks, according to new report.
Following congressional complaints about sensitive data leaks, P2P software providers are modifying their apps to make them safer for use in enterprises.
Company CEO, Sam Hopkins, on how government blueprints and avionics for President Obama's helicopter wound up at an IP address in Tehran.
Get a look at correspondence between the owner of a Louisiana ISP and representatives of copyright owners. The ISP owner gets several of notices like this a month.
Today, Lime Wire announced a deal with The Orchard that will double the number of songs available through its online store. But if you're using LimeWire P2P software, are you going to buy music?
In response to questions raised by BitTorrent-based client Vuze, phone company denies using forged reset packets to disrupt peer-to-peer file sharing traffic on its network.
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I've been trying to find a useful list to find all discworld related books, not just novels but the mapps, science of the discworld ect. Unfortunately the list of books that most novels contain doesn't include everything and so I set out to make a list in Microsoft excel.
The list includes novels, science of the discworld, mapps, diaries and even David Landford's quiz books.
However I'm certain there's still stuff I've missed and I also need to find out the release dates of a lot of books (years are easy, it's just day and month) and I can't find accurate dates with all the re-releases of books. So I'm posting the list here and hoping that there are people who will be able to fix my mistakes and add upon the list of 64 related discworld books
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P.S. This is also the second version of the list that I made, that's why the files called discworld book list 2


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I could not be more excited that there are finally some European tour dates coming through. It should result in a full European tour, and I cannot wait to add to the current tally of 27! And I definitely want to add at least one new country to my list of places I have already seen them :)
2 weeks tomorrow and KoRn will finally be back in Europe! I am too excited and so happy I get to see them a few times on this tour! Fingers crossed a full European tour won't be too far away! Who else is seeing them in Europe this tour?
Like all KoRn fans, I am over the moon about the HEAD announcement. However as an old school KoRn fan, I can't help but feel that it is just not going to be the same without David. Ray is an amazing drummer, and just the loveliest guy, but if KoRn are to re-unite, then it needs to be KoRn in its entirety! David obviously still wants to drum as he nearly started again with INFINIKA,...
I cannot believe no-one else has picked up that Love and Death have been confirmed for Rock AM and Rock IM this morning! Too excited to see Head twice that day! So glad I got my tickets before it sold out =D 40 more days <3
So the day KoRn announced the Rock AM show with Head I went straight to the tickets page and treated myself! Who else is going? I think we should sort out some sort of KoRn camp! And just have a full on KoRn party for the whole weekend! Sound good to anyone else?
So ashamed to admit it but I really don't check this site half as much as I would like! Usually if I want to talk all things KoRn I chat to the people I have been lucky enough to meet on my travels whilst following the band on the usual social networking sites (FB\Twitter\Tumblr). So I am hoping to branch out a bit more and add more KoRn fans to my "Social Network". The next European...
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Here's my basic kit, still need to add some things, but I don't see a need to way over complicate things. My KLR didn't come with a stock kit.
On the right side, I have the tractor manual tube held on with 2 stainless clamps.
Stashed inside I have:
1) Lineman's pliers: pliers, cutters, and work well as a hammer
2)Small flat screwdriver with magnet on the handle side
3)Needle nose vice grip
4)Combo wrench, fits both front and rear axle
5)1/4" drive ratchet
6)Socket assortment, modified to remove sizes that the bike doesn't have and added a 1/4" to fit driver bits
7)Small needle nose
8)1/4" driver-doubles as extension for ratchet
9)Allen wrench in correct size to fit bars and forks
10)8,10,and 13mm wrenches
11) Big crescent wrench
I'm going to replace the driver and 1/4" ratchet with a 1/4" extension and use the 13mm wrench as a handle as soon as I make a 1/4" to 13mm adapter.
In the lid I have sand paper in 160 and 400 grit rolled around the edges and a cut off sock stuffed in with a selection of hose clamps and cotter pins.
Still need to locate a stamped spark plug socket
I relocated the stock bag from the rear fender to the front fender and in it I carry:
1)Spark plug caddy-one side is a plug, the other holds misc electrical crimp connectors
2)Motion Pro tire levers, not the fancy Ti ones, mainly because I ride a KLR....
3)Spare 21" tube w/core tool
4) Gutted cheapo tire pump. Paid 50 cents for it at a garage sale, works great. I have a 12V cig outlet on the bike, so with 2 alligator clips, the cord becomes a charger to revive other bike's batteries.
I still want to add a small patch kit up here.
I didn't pull it all out, but in the ammo can I have:
1) Cheap rain gear-neoprene face cover
2) Spare lenses for my goggles
3)Harbor freight ratchet strap -tow strap or to hang the bike(or myself depending on the severity of the failure) from a tree
4)14 Ga wire double the length of the bike
5) Mechanics wire
6) zip ties in various sizes
7) Two short jumper wires
'65 VW Double Cab redo
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