The best carvers are found on Lamu, where they produce excellent chairs, doors, brass inlaid boxes, picture frames and small replica dhows.
Over at the excellent House Next Door, for instance, writer Matt Noller almost expires with enthusiasm: "It doesn't matter how big a Kaufman devotee you are, how many times you've seen Being John Malkovich or Adaptation or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
mmmmmmme, nyc Living like animals in a factory farm is a bit extreme... it's close but it isn't that bad!... New York is actually a great place to retire -- plenty of things to do and people to meet, you can get almost anything delivered to your door, excellent medical care at all hours, and your life doesn't come to a screeching halt when you can't drive a car anymore.
(The hotel also has an excellent taverna, Blue Door, on site, removing the need to go elsewhere for meals). It has a good spa as well although as a fan of Six Senses spas, I also went over to their outpost at the Porto Elounda Golf & Spa Resort for one of their mix of Aegean/Ayurvedic/Asian treatments, the perfect conclusion to a day spent climbing around ruins.
If you already have a closet with a full-length mirror for a door, excellent!
Bringing images of the dinosaurs to the park field trip and relating them to the plants that the students see is an excellent out-of-doors and learning experience.
Meanwhile the envy of the guy next door (an excellent Gary Cole) slithers from ridiculousness to tragedy.
Her attraction to the studly young doctor next door (an excellent Marc Kudisch) no longer feels merely pathetic, but somehow ennobling as well.
Other places vary the formula, like Aquiloni in the East Village, which serves sandwiches without wine, and Enoteca I Trulli on East 27th Street, which serves wine without sandwiches (though the food, from the restaurant I Trulli next door, is excellent).
Anyone who's ever had the pleasure of dining chez Sharkey knows that this is his house cocktail and that one will be thrust into your hand the minute you walk through the door — an excellent way to make guests feel welcome.
