Fusion Done Right at The Tropical Restaurant
Fusion, Pacific Rim — those are culinary buzzwords (more so in the late 1990s than now) but most places get them wrong. The Tropical gets it right. Fusion means a marriage of Asian and American ingredients and cooking techniques, but all too often the vibrant, exciting flavors of the East are dumbed down in the process. At Tropical, those flavors shine. One reason, perhaps, is that the chefs and owners of most fusion restaurants are American. At Tropical, they are from Thailand (although the owner, Tana Karnchanakphan, grew up here and attended Holland Hall, which is a fusion of sorts).
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Party, Party , Party!
&Nbsp;Here are her friends who came to the party. When the girls first arrived, they sewed a felt bird together and stuffed it. I am just now realizing I didn't take a picture, but the bird looked like Dot Starlight's bird. I found a great website for party games and I used about 6 of them from here . The girls had the...
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Mat Collishaw
The bed, the shark, the bullet: Besides his classmates from Goldsmiths College, Sarah Lucas, Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, 46-year-old Mat Collishaw made the YBA movement the pivotal junction of the art world in the 90s.
At the legendary first Freeze exhibition he showed “Bullet Hole,” his best-known work until today—a large photograph, showing a head being fractured by a bullet. It paved the way for subsequent work dealing with controversial subjects such as diseases, transience, sex and violence. In July 1988, the legendary art show that was mainly organized by the 23 year old Hirst staged in London’s Docklands becoming one of those magical moments in modern art history where the likes of Charles Saatchi attended the students show and purchased art works of Collishaw and others. Since his debut, Collishaw, in contrast to his highly visible peers, always flew a bit under the radar.
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