High-End Design, Low Prices in Punta del Este
Street.Com
Designer reception: The fashionable eye quickly identifies that Casa Zinc isn't your average design hotel of armless chairs and leather-clad loungers. A gravel courtyard with eclectic iron tables and Art Nouveau chairs is illuminated by can...
Year's 1st shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Japan+
Big Hollywood
NARITA, Japan, Nov. 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)—This year's first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau arrived from France at Narita airport east of Tokyo on Tuesday ahead of nationwide sales from Nov. 19. Japan is expected to import about 4.8 million 750-m...
Tornado damages homes in northwestern Oregon
The Sun News
You can say that only if you've never see the tornado-like intensity with which a nouveau-neat freak can rip through a house. The only hope you have of surviving is to either run as far and as fast as you can or strap in like a race-car dri...
Art nouveau jewelry exhibit delayed again
Cincinnati.com
Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry, originally scheduled to open Oct. 24 at Cincinnati Art Museum, then postponed to Oct. 31, has been delayed again. No opening date is currently set, but Museum director Aaron Betsky expects the openi...
Kate Hudson
YAHOO!
At the beginning of the new century, Hudson was Tinseltown’s reigning nouveau hippie chick, a sensibility likely passed down from flower power mom Goldie Hawn and… See Full Kate Hudson Biography
Four Seasons Hotel
New York Times
The property actually melds ... In the tasteful and lower-priced Art Nouveau wing, comfortable doubles can be booked for less than $300, but the street-side views are much less impressive. All rooms are fitted with fine solid wood furniture...
Small chest from early 20th century is real find
Detroit News
When I discovered this German metalware, I fell in love with the various styles of art nouveau, including secessionist style (similar to the simplicity of arts and crafts), as well as more traditional art nouveau style -- Scherf and Co.
On demand picks
Boston Globe
( Comcast Movies and Events) Rodney Dangerfield as a nouveau riche businessman gets plenty of respect but deserves not a bit of it when he enrolls as a middle-aged freshman at his son’s college to help the boy get some fun out of life. Lack...
Kevin McDonald pegs Manchester City back once more
Times Online
The nouveau riche required good fortune to pull one back on the paupers. Shaun Wright-Phillips held the ball beautifully while Blake tried to tackle him and struck a shot which cannoned off Stephen Jordan and pinged fortuitously past Brian ...
A la carte: Beaujolais nouveau dinners in the Bay Area
Contra Costa Times
In France, the third Thursday in November is always cause for celebration. That's when the government allows the release of the fruity Beaujolais nouveau, a fresh, lightly fermented wine made from gamay grapes picked just weeks earlier. But...
Manchester's literary renaissance
The Guardian
The real classics of the city, from WG Sebald's strange The Emigrants (1993) to Michel Butor's nouveau roman L'emploi du temps (Passing Time; 1956) via Val McDermid, who uses Manchester regularly in her crime fiction, portraying the place a...
Hilton Prague Old Town
New York Times
Each room is strategically lit, with warm woods and contemporary earth tones, but without any of the accents found at the Old Town's Art Nouveau hotels. The rooms include comfortable modern beds, LCD flat-panel TVs, and clean, fully tiled b...
New wine, new friends and a killer sandwich
Summit Daily News
Think Beaujolais Nouveau, except with a lot more personality. Michele says the wine was shaken up a bit too much in the car during the ride from Foggia. The sediment will settle to the bottom in a day or so, improving the taste. But we all ...
