Arts & Culture
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Looking like a Christmas ornament that has come to befuddled life, Placido Domingo lumbers into view at the world premiere on New Year’s Eve of “The Enchanted Island” at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen is a great-looking restaurant. The style is industrial, yet with clever lighting and enough quirky detail to break up the cavernous space and imbue it with a degree of personality.
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Brann Dailor, drummer of progressive- metal band Mastodon, wants to scoot down to the East Village after the interview and buy a picture he saw in a shop. A late- 19th-century memento mori, it shows a man holding hands with his deceased wife.
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When Croatia was part of Yugoslavia, government policies forced farmers to rip out more than 160,000 hectares of vineyards. Ethnic conflicts in the 1990s destroyed thousands more.