Themed concerts, which pander to film and media trends, are standard fare designed to titillate a cynical, uninterested world.
The format of these dated back to the 1950s, when the attraction was that major singers, actors and comedians would appear in your front parlour in a bill of fare designed to appeal to viewers who would still don their best suits for their weekly visit to the cinema.
I was mortified imagining what this — this meal, this apartment, this family — looked like to him, what he made of our small, crowded existence, of our unsophisticated fare designed for famished people, of the loss that flickered in everything we did or didn't do.
Michael's Genuine Pub, with fare designed by chef Michael Schwartz, offered us everything we were craving -- and not quite expecting -- on a cruise ship: craft beers, polenta fries, deviled eggs, and homemade potato chips, just to name a few.
Picture books are becoming more and more lavish on the one hand, re-telling old tales with often overdone virtuosity; on the other hand, they're breaking out with strange, adventurous fare designed to put us all on "tilt," as if graffiti artists were smashed between hardcovers.
Meanwhile access is restricted by high fares designed to create profit in a model for franchising established in another era.
It wipes clean the slate, replaces it with a system of tolls and fares designed as incentives to minimize congestion in the central business district, ease circulation around the region and revive public transit.
Throughout the run, which ends on Sunday, the club will augment its usual barbecue fare with a tasting menu designed by Isma Prados, a Catalan chef.
The menu of enticing, pan-Mediterranean tapas fare is designed to play off those offerings and is refreshingly inexpensive.
