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Food, glorious food - Sunday travel section digest
"You don't expect to read the words 'Manhattan' and 'kayak' in the same sentence." Matt Rudd (The Sunday Times) is right. You don't. Of all the ways to see Manhattan - by skyscraper, helicopter or boat - kayak would not be the first conveyance to spring to mind. This is where the Manhattan Kayak Company comes in. Rudd, a complete beginner, has 35 minutes of training - on dry land, the carpet of the Kayak Company to be precise - and then hits the Hudson River, paddling where, in the words of the hard-boiled receptionist: "In one direction, you got the mile-wide Hudson. In the other, you got 3,000 miles of Atlantic tidal power." Hooray for Hollywood for there are two features on it today. Tim Jepson (The Sunday Telegraph) discovers that West Hollywood, where the stars come out to party, is packed full of bustling cafes, clubs and shops, while Daisy Waugh (The Mail on Sunday) goes in search of early Hollywood, when "Hollywood Boulevard was still surrounded by orange groves and film stars weren't yet required to speak".
Sailing across the silver screen
Ahuge turnout is expected for the Friday opening of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." The sequel to the 2003 blockbuster reunites Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Kiera Knightley. But it is Bradenton native Stephen Ananicz that family and friends will be cheering for when his face graces the screen."Everybody's excited," said proud mom Marianne Ananicz. "We're all going to go see it together."
Marianne works at Faces Salon in Bradenton. Her husband, Stephen, is chief operations officer for Chiles Restaurants Group. The couple has three sons: Stephen, 19, Michael,14, and Nicholas, 5.
"We were so proud when Stephen sent us back pictures of him in the pirate outfit," Marianne said. "Nicholas is a little young to understand it all but Michael is very proud of his brother - he's been showing off the pictures to all his friends."
Ananicz landed a part in the supernatural swashbuckling adventure after auditioning in Orlando back in September of 2005.
Protect natural assets as the economy develops
I thank you for the fine recent articles by Mr Huggins on development in the Bahamas calling for an approach that recognises the need to integrate concern for the environment along with concern for a healthier economy. I have been following developments in particular in Guana Cay when I first learned about the plans for the large resort by the Discovery Land Company. I have been most interested in how citizens and officials concerned about such projects can have the earliest input as well as access to needed information to protect the larger public interest, a role the Sierra Club has played for over 100 years in protecting the larger public interest in securing the important natural resource base that sustains our livelihoods and protects the many important values of our wild places and respective inhabitants.
Darden Posts June Same-Store Sales
Darden Restaurants Inc. said Monday same-store sales at its Olive Garden chain grew 3 percent to 4 percent in June, while Red Lobster saw a 5 percent decline during the same period.Same-store sales, a widely watched gauge of business performance, measure activity at restaurants open at least a year.
The company said Olive Garden same-store sales were higher thanks to 1 percent to 2 percent more customers, as well as higher menu prices.
Red Lobster saw fewer guests, and had a slight increase in pricing.
The company also owns the Bahama Breeze restaurant chain and Smokey Bones Barbeque & Grill.
Darden closed up 47 cents at $38.41 on the New York Stock Exchange, then fell 40 cents to $38.01 in aftermarket trading.
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Man indicted in 3 immigrants' deaths
A federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale indicted a man on second-degree murder charges for allegedly leading an immigrant smuggling operation from the Bahamas that resulted in the deaths of three women, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday.The 15-count indictment charges Zhivargo McBride, 24, with alien smuggling for profit, bringing in aliens at a place other than a designated port of entry resulting in death and serious bodily injury, and second-degree murder.
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What's new in Toronto
Canada's cultural capital - aka hollywood North, thanks to its celebrity count - is buzzing with new galleries, restaurants and bars. Sarah Hampson gives the lowdown on what to see and where to be seen in her home townSunday June 18, 2006
The Observer
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Island Grill heads for Barbados
ONE OF the most guarded secrets in Barbados is the level of revenue generated within the local fast food sector.Yet it has to be significant, otherwise the major players in Barbados would not have been expanding, the country would not have been attractive to many of the foreign ones knocking on its doors, and Government would not have been reluctant to open the sector to competition from outside the region.
All of this comes in the wake of plans by Island Grill, a Jamaican fast food franchise to open an outlet in Barbados, under a partnership with Goddard Enterprises Limited.
"We plan to locate the restaurant at the airport in Barbados," said Thalia Lyn, managing director of Island Grill.
Lyn said officials from the Goddard group in Barbados were to visit Jamaica to plan out the details, deadlines and procedures of the agreement and to finalise the deal.