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...Mikimoto, famous for their cultured pearls, is also stepping up its fashion week presence here with a new collection called "Stormy Weather," designed by Yohji Yamamoto, who was inspired by the variations of grays on the house's pearls and the "forms and colors trailing in the wake of a boat in stormy weather." The collection includes a $55,000 necklace made of 28 white gold discs, each containing a pearl and each representing one of the 28 phases of the moon...
...Bulli may be the most fussed-over restaurant in the world, its 33-course meals the object of countless gastronomic pilgrimages, its 8,000 reservations per season snapped up in a single day, its edible foams and spheres now part of the contemporary culinary vocabulary. But since its famous chef, Ferran Adrià, was named a featured artist in this year's edition of Documenta, the provocative contemporary art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany...
Smack in the heart of 'Londonistan' sits the Edgware Road, known for its mosques, colorful markets selling headscarves and niquabs and, above all, famous all-night shisha cafes. Since they were set up in the 1980s, the cafes have become a mecca for students, bohemians and free-thinkers of various stripe to congregate with Muslims and engage in that most ubiquitous of Middle Eastern pastimes, smoking the hookah. Scented tobacco is burned on coals and sucked through an ornate water vessel before being inhaled, inducing a strong nicotine high. Originally intended for visiting Gulf sheikhs and Middle Eastern expats...
...addition, the inclusion of native band the Happy Mondays heralds a nostalgic throwback to the city's famous music scene of yore - dubbed "Madchester" on account of fans' excessive drug use - which produced such precocious talent as Joy Division, the Smiths and Oasis. It also ensures that the symposium has a distinctive local flavor: a mixture of high-art and hooliganism that is peculiarly Mancunian. Although many of the 10 major acts premiering will later tour Paris, New York, Berlin and Tokyo, local organizers are keen to stress that Manchester is a natural heir to these more established cultural loci...
...arthritic jaw, seemed to match Joey Chestnut dog for dog until the end, when he appeared to regurgitate a couple of them. Both men broke the world record of 59, but when the July 4 competition was over, Chestnut was proclaimed the new champion of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island, with a total of 66. Kobayashi was credited with...