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Just a Taste, nestled in the middle of Aurora Street and perpendicular to the Commons, is an Ithaca-take on tapas, the Spanish tradition of food served in small portions on small plates. This should trigger a red flag, as in the restaurant world the smaller portion is usually accompanied by a higher price. Indeed, you can rack up quite the bill at Just a Taste as you’ll continue to order dish after dish of succulent greens and perfectly sautéed meats.
Sometimes RPU and Appel just don’t hit the spot the way they used to. The H ADM 405 students capitalized on this, and took a bit of Banfi’s to Trillium Saturday evening. Transforming the eatery that’s usually closed at dinner and mostly a cafeteria into a sit-down establishment, these hotelies offered at four-course pre fixed menu to anyone with a Cornell Card and a hankering for some steak. With everything from sparkling and still water to three more utensils than you ever thought there would be a reason to have, no detail was spared. There wasn’t as much pomp and circumstance as the Guest Chefs dinners, but that made the experience more accessible to the average Cornellian.
Facebook now has a “people you might know” feature, in which it shows you a selection of pictures and names of people many of your friends are online friends with, but you are not. Clearly Facebook does not take into account that these may be people you intentionally are not friends with on the online. Perhaps one day it will show me someone intriguing from Cornell that my friends are all inexplicably friends with, perfectly suited for my personality quirks and online friendship.
Although my caffeine tolerance is as low as a newborn, I’ve decided to put my health in jeopardy and tweak out like a meth addict for the sake of cafe-music awareness. So, now that I’ve gotten my scone on at CTB and decided that I couldn’t stand their Disnasty pop hits, I moseyed down the street to the place where the yuppies get their drink on (or so the “protester” with the “go to CTB” sign says). 20 minutes of Starbucks music — on your mark — get set — GO!
It’s a Monday afternoon at 1:20 p.m. Do you know where your Clear Channel Top 40 hits are? Uhh, I found out that Collegetown Bagels kidnapped them and is holding Miley Cyrus hostage until you buy a Brooklyn Bagel with cheese. If you were planning on coming to the 415 College Ave. establishment to have some indie tunes on the side of your raspberry scone like I was, more likely you’ll get a big helping of Nickleback.
In the netherparts of South America, they kind of listen to mostly a lot of the same crap we do, with a lot of British influence. Globalization and proliferation of the likes of Coldplay and, for a blast from our ’90s past, Oasis en el radio have influenced a lot of Argentine youths to whistle “Clocks” while they walk down the streets of Palermo SoHo. The Arctic Monkey’s tour de force “Fluorescent Adolescent” is one of the most spun tracks on the Buenos Aires radiowaves (as rightly it should be.) However, the non-Clear Channel radio DJs spin a great variety of tunes from all over, and here are some of the artists popular with college kids down way south of the border:
Andrés Calamarod
Wander into the Statler on a Saturday evening during the spring semester and you may find something funny going on. Banfi’s, already one of the more elegant restaurants in Ithaca, is now over-the-top extravagant. Who’s behind all of the pomp, circumstance and wine pairings? Obviously the hotelie from down the hall.
The Guest Chefs Series is one of the Hotel School’s prime offerings for both students and the community alike (if you can afford the $150 a plate price —though they do take Cornell Card …) Three Saturdays each spring for the past 19 years, the Hotel School has let the approximately 25 students in its HADM 403 Guest Chefs course take over Banfi’s with some of the world’s most renown chefs at the helm of the menu and the kitchen.
When The Whigs came to Cornell last spring to open for OK Go and the All-American Rejects, it wasn’t clear who those kids in hoodies on the stage were until Parker Gispert got up to the mic and started growling out “Violet Furs,” a song that completely overshadowed anything the Rejects would spit at the students later that night. The Whigs’ musical scruff reflected their physical scruff, and at the time Gispert hadn’t even been out of the University of Georgia for two years, making it all the more impressive. The band was DIY without being all snooty about it, taking that mentality to the level of loading their own equipment and not asking Cornell students for help at all.
The Slope Day Programming Board announced yesterday that Gym Class Heroes — whose guitarist is Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo ’04 — will headline Slope Day 2008 on Friday, May 2. Hot Hot Heat will open for Gym Class Heroes. Gym Class Heroes’ hits have combined hip hop, rock, rap, R&B, emo and funk to create a wildly successful pop formula. Lead singer of Fall Out Boy Patrick Stump guest starred vocally for one of their biggest hits, “Clothes Off!!” In 2007, the band won the Best New Artist award at the MTV Video Music Awards where it was also nominated for Best Group.
Just like the rest of France, Rennes and Brittany have a magical atmosphere, especially emanating from the majesty of the region’s architecture. Once I checked into my hotel room, I even took a picture of the beautiful canary yellow mansion across the way that looked like a Martha Stewart property of some sort. Later I found out that the building housed one of France’s largest women’s correctional facilities, so it was still a type of Martha Stewart facility, just more the rug-poncho type — with a French sense of style.