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This winter was oddly long. Summer will be predictably longer. Now is the ideal time to dine al fresco in a city where world-class dining and outdoor spaces often collide.
Bacchanal
600 Poland Ave., New Orleans, 504.948.9111
Word has spread far and wide at least as far as Hollywood about the seductive allure of the urban southern wild that is Bacchanal's back yard. It is regularly packed at night for live music and the generally terrific new American cooking. A more recent revelation is the equally good daytime lunch menu, stocked with sandwiches made on housemade ciabatta. It's hotter in the day, but way fewer people, and lots of shade.
Bayona
430 Dauphine St., New Orleans, 504.525.4455
It is hard to imagine the lush tranquility of Bayona's patio if you've only ever seen the restaurant from the sidewalk, or even if you've only ever viewed its patio through the windows of the restaurant's tiny lounge in the dead of winter. French Quarter properties are like this: They conceal what is behind the faade, making the revelation of hidden banana trees and palmettos all the more pleasing. Not only are Bayona's scant outdoor tables the best seats "in the house." They feel like the best seats in New Orleans while you're occupying them.
Bouligny Tavern
3641 Magazine St., New Orleans, 504.891.1810
New Orleans' gastropubs are interestingly patio-centric. (See also: Cane & Table, Sylvain, Oxalis.) John Harris' polished, cocktail-friendly food and Bouligny's stylish barroom are such a harmonious package it's easy to forget there's a courtyard on the side. Don't.
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Nest Labs Inc., the smart thermostat company, has partnered with a national electricity supplier to get their devices in more Connecticut homes.
The power company, Direct Energy, will offer the Nest Learning Thermostat for free to customers who enter into a electricity contract for a set period of time, with rates and length details still being worked out, said Direct Energy's head of strategy and acquisitions, Nick Henn.
"The fact that it gives control to customers, it allows them to think differently about how they use energy," Henn said in an interview.
The Nest promotion will be available in Connecticut, as well as the Direct Energy's other major markets, such as the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and areas of Canada. Other power companies around the country, including ComEd, CPS Energy, nPower, and Columbia Gas of Ohio, also announced similar discount promotions.
Over time the thermostat learns customers' schedule and heating preferences. It adjusts temperature settings, for example, when the house is empty to reduce energy consumption. Nest says the thermostat can lower heating and cooling bills by 20 percent.
The company, founded by Apple engineers in 2010, was acquired in February by Google for $3.2 billion.
The Direct Energy offer comes as third-party energy suppliers are pushing more than ever for new customers. Companies can spend hundreds of dollars in advertisements and marketing to gain a single new customer.
But a promotion from a power company specifically targeted to lower energy use is something different.
"If you asked energy companies a few years ago, How do you feel about helping your customers use less energy? It would be a difficult conversation," Henn said.
The promotion fits, Henn said, into a larger effort to change the way people use power. As one example, in an effort to reduce power use during the week, when demand and prices are both higher, Direct Energy has in some markets instituted a free power Saturday.
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DEAR MICK: Can you think of any actor or movie professional who made millions of dollars early, and then just decided to quit the profession, retire and live on the money?
Robert M. Lange, Albany
DEAR ROBERT: There are some examples that seem that way anecdotally, but then you look into them and you find out otherwise, that no one leaves the party without getting shoved out the door.
For some people, a gentle nudge is enough. In 1942, for example, MGM got rid of its three most popular leading ladies from the '30s. Two of them went ahead and retired, while one of them, Joan Crawford, clawed her way back to stardom at Warner Brothers. Some stars have had successful second careers. Ricardo Cortez became a stockbroker, and William Haines became an interior decorator, but both turned to their new callings only after their stars had faded.
Basically, some people are content to pull the plug when the best is over and others won't quit until a brick wall buries them, but nobody but nobody walks away from being a movie star, because it's not about the money. It's about being a movie star.
HI MICK: I don't understand the movie industry's obsession with Amy Adams. I don't find her very compelling. She seems to play Amy Adams in every role. Is there something I'm not seeing, or am I seeing something that others aren't?
Ken Ogle, San Francisco
HI KEN: You're not seeing something others are seeing, and while you're not obligated to, you might want to try, just for your own pleasure. She's remarkable, either a great actress or someone in the process of becoming one. She is different in every role, but as with all actors, she has the same voice and face, and there are some elements that are either consistent or recurring.
In a review of "Sunshine Cleaning," I wrote that, "Adams gives us a portrait of raging want beneath a veneer of surface diffidence. In her every encounter ... you can see her eyes turn in on herself, measuring her own worth in terms of others' reactions, wondering if she's being powerful enough or if the other person has noticed that she is as frightened as she feels." That's a familiar Adams mode, but she can play off of that, as in "American Hustle," where she plays someone a lot more grasping and confident, even while roping in hints of her more usual self.
She's like the American Isabelle Carre, in that a part of her seems like a little girl who woke up one morning, suddenly 35 years old, and decided not to tell anybody, but to test out her newfound power.
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Recently, Antioch College officials announced that Yoga Springs owner/director Monica Hasek has been named the new director of the schools new Wellness Center. The center, an upgrade of the former college gym, will have cost around $8 million when it opens to the public late this summer or early fall.
Hasek, a professional interior decorator and realtor as well as yoga teacher, will replace Becky Harrison, who was hired in February but left the job two weeks ago. According to Dorothy Roosevelt, the Wellness Center project lead, college leaders sought someone local to replace Harrison so as to move forward as quickly as possible. Hasek, who had met several times with Roosevelt to discuss visions for the new center, seemed the perfect choice for the job, according to Roosevelt..
When I got the phone call, I couldnt resist, Hasek said recently regarding the opportunity to expand what I was already doing and create a broader wellness community.
The facility has been designed to meet the needs of the community as well as the college, and leaders hope that membership costs will be comparable to area fitness centers, Hasek said. All aspects of the old gym have been upgraded, with new windows, lighting and flooring throughout, a new floor plan, and an expanded pool in a natatorium with a south-facing wall of glass.
See the May 15 News for longer article on the Wellness Center and its new director.
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