| Buffet Fans Camp Out to Buy Tickets | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:29:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | Parrot heads camped out Friday night on the cold concrete of the Tallahassee-Leon Civic Center, hoping to grab the best seats in the house for the upcoming Jimmy Buffet concert. Tickets for the February 10th concert go on sale at ten o'clock Saturday morning. Fans were singing Jimmy Buffet songs, holding signs and ordering pizzas. Some fans got there as early as 1:30 Friday afternoon. Prices range from $39.50 to $125. "I'm not gonna afford rent. I can't even pay rent to get these tickets, but it's well worth it. I love Jimmy, he's a great guy. I don't know how long he's gonna be touring, so I said, pardon my language, forget it. I'm gonna put my rent up and I'm gonna buy these tickets," said Joe Piotrowski. Tickets can be purchased at the Civic Center box office or through Ticketmaster.... | |
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| | | A day in Latin New York: Un dia en Nueva York | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:34:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK (AP) -- Begin with breakfast in the Dominican Republic: cafe con leche and mashed plantains. Have the churrasco -- barbecued meat -- for lunch at a Brazilian buffet. Later, snack on a Colombian fruit shake, then stop at a Mexican taqueria for dinner. After dark, hit a salsa club. You can take this tour of Latin America all in a day, without ever leaving New York City. A new book called "Nueva York: The Complete Guide to Latino Life in The Five Boroughs" shows you how. "When we have people coming in from out of town, we don't want to just show them Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty," said Carolina Gonzalez, who co-authored "Nueva York" with Seth Kugel. "We actually want to show them the real New York, and to us, part of that real New York is all these different great Latin neighborhoods." New York City is 27 percent Hispanic, according to the 2000 Census, and one of the most heavily Dominican neighborhoods is Washington Heights, in northern Manhattan.... | |
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| | | Hotel Lounge Ladies Buffet at COEX InterContinental's Ladies ... | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:04:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Brasserie buffet restaurant will be offering a very special deal to groups of women who come to dine during the week at lunchtime, located on the first floor Lobby level of the COEX InterContinental Seoul. Depending on your group's size up to three people can dine free, while all the group's members enjoy complimentary soft drinks or juice. During this promotion one person in every group of five (up to 15 persons and only adults count) will not be charged for their meal.The Brasserie is well known for its private rooms, open kitchen, and constantly refreshed selection of over 150 menu items. This buffet is especially appealing to our female diners because it features a wide selection of fresh salad ingredients and fish, shrimp and seafood in addition to hearty on the spot made-to-order noodle dishes that are bound to please every palate.This special group offer is valid only during weekdays at lunch time.... | |
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| | | Energy drink buffet jolting a generation | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:14:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | More than 500 new energy drinks launched worldwide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why. Energy drinks aren't merely popular with young people. They attract fan mail on their own MySpace pages. They spawn urban legends. They get reviewed by bloggers. And they taste like carbonated cough syrup. Vying for the dollars of teenagers with promises of weight loss, increased endurance and legal highs, the new products join top-sellers Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar to make up a $3.4 billion-a-year industry that grew by 80 percent last year. Thirty-one percent of U.S. teenagers say they drink energy drinks, according to Simmons Research. That represents 7.6 million teens, a jump of almost 3 million in three years. Nutritionists warn that the drinks, laden with caffeine and sugar, can hook kids on an unhealthy jolt-and-crash cycle.... | |
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| | | Dating "buffet" popular | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:16:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Large dating meetings organized by media are very popular in China, and meetings like this are usually called dating "buffets", because one can choose one's prospective spouse from thousands of people in a meeting like this. A dating "buffet" held in Shijiazhuang recently and attended by thousands, left very good impressions. The young people who came to the "buffet" even set up special online forums to commemorate it. That day, the information of all the participants was posted on a bulletin board, and anyone may paste a paper butterfly on the information sheet of the person of his/her heart. There are always more women than men in dating "buffets", especially those too busy in their career to have time for social life. The "buffets" offer them opportunities to strike up new friendship and to find their true love.... | |
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| | | YMCA hosts Junior Achievement program | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 7:15:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Who will be the next Bill Gates? The next Ray Kroc? The next Warren Buffet? The right start in Birmingham-area institutions could make all the difference.Junior Achievement of Greater Birmingham (JA) recently launched JA "It's My Business!", an inspirational, six-session course in entrepreneurship for grades 6-8. The program began Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Birmingham YMCA in Alabaster. .... | |
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| | | Looking to leave? | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:09:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Haven't made it to the mountains yet to see the fall colors? With October halfway over, last-minute leaf peepers will find no rooms to be had at many of the inns and hotels in the high country, especially over the next four weekends. Procrastinators' best bets: Take the road less traveled -- to smaller-name towns situated near bigger-name locales. Perhaps Spruce Pine instead of Blowing Rock or Glendale Springs over Boone. Or, take your mountain excursions during the week, when places are much more likely to still have vacancies. Last week, MoneyWise took a look at four lower-profile Western North Carolina towns that still had some rooms for the remaining weekends in October and the first two in November -- the rest of the prime leaf peeping season. In many cases, the rooms at these inns are cheaper than lodging in the bigger-name destinations.... | |
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| | | Professor calls for smoke-free restaurants in Martin | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:09:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | I enjoyed your review of the Dragon Buffet restaurant, but you left out one important fact: the air is not clean. When I went to eat there and they asked smoking or non-smoking I couldnt believe it. Here was a single room, with a single air-conditioning system, in which everyone had to breath second-hand smoke. Anyone who opens a restaurant in this day and age which isnt smoke-free is out of touch with reality. Reality is that second-hand smoke is a carcinogen - its been proven. A restaurant with a smoking section is like a swimming pool with a peeing section - except that pee wont give you cancer. Ive had cancer once, and I dont want it again. When the Dragon Buffet comes into the 21st century and becomes smoke-free like the majority of Martins eating establishments, Ill go back - but not before.... | |
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| | | Murder Plot Case Goes To Jury | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 1:10:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Is Ira A. Bloom an enraged divorcé who planned and was prepared to underwrite the rape and murder of his ex-wife in a car-jacking scenario? Or is the real bad guy the confidential informant, Donald Levesque, a longtime friend of Bloom's who turned in his pal because he longed to be a police officer and had made his fair share of money and arrests in 16 years as an occasional informant? .... | |
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| | | Barnhill's Buffet closes shop | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:08:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | The kitchen at Charles Barnhill's Buffet in Atmore was busy with activity Monday morning, but as the clock approached the normal opening time, residents of Atmore began to realize that the day's activity was far from normal. After many months of rumors and speculation, Barnhill's closed its doors for good at 7:45 p.m. Sunday night after serving customers lunch and dinner. Customers who arrived for service on Monday were greeted with a locked door and a sign stating the restaurant's closure. "It was a hard decision to make," Barnhill's founder and owner Charles Barnhill said. "Atmore was probably $75,000 in the hole for the year. We had a big electric bill that came due that pushed us over the cliff. The stores in Goshee, Miss., and Saraland were making pretty good money and Atmore was losing it.... | |
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