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Authentic Artisanal
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Last year I wrote a rave review for Terrance Brennan’s Picholine. This year, I herald my return by visiting another of his Manhattan restaurants, Artisanal. It is designed to look like an authentic French bistro, complete with weaved chairs, cushioned booths, black and white tile floors, and high ceilings. In appearance it reminded me of Café Luxembourg (a bistro near where I live) and L’Express (a favorite of mine in Montreal). However, Artisanal differs in a way as would be suggested by its name. Artisanal generally means traditional and small scale and the restaurant holds an astonishing array of artisanal meats and cheeses, many of which are aged next to the diners.
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More Than 140 Cornell Students Report Flu-Like Illness
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The University announced late Friday afternoon that more than 140 students have reported influenza-like illness to Gannett Health Services over the past two weeks.
“It is clear that the predicted second wave of H1N1 flu has come to Cornell,” Dr. Janet Corson-Rikert, executive director of Gannett, wrote in a statement. She urged the Cornell community to be vigilant about personal health and take precautions to prevent the further spread of the flu.
Although most of the flu cases have been mild and students have recovered fully, one student living off campus was hospitalized due to complications related to the flu, according to the University.
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Coppola's Silver Screen Beauty Is Skin Deep
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The horror … the horror. Lo and behold, famed director and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola has laid an egg: he calls it Tetro. Carrying the tagline “Every family has a secret,” Tetro is Coppola’s second “amateur-again” film after Youth Without Youth. Tetro is Coppola giving himself second chance, his personal spurning of Hollywood and its fakeness, unoriginality … one could give Hollywood a bad name a thousand times over. At age 70, Coppola has left living room legends Apocalypse Now and The Godfather trilogy behind him, and has purposely regressed his budget with the intention of rediscovering what it is that made him apply to L.A. film school.