THERE is something unexpected on the menu at Pico, a new Portuguese restaurant in TriBeCa: brook trout wrapped in caul, with spinach, thyme, chanterelle mushrooms and green olives.
Yet there is something unexpected about these all-over expanses.
It's a hint that there's something unexpected inside," he said.
"My hand shakes when I pick up a paper, every day there is something unexpected, some peal of thunder".
Over 150 years later, we still find that combination reassuring, while sensing that there is something unexpected about it, bold even.
IN the middle of Chelsea, an area known historically for artists and more recently for luxury condominiums, there is something unexpected: an active theological seminary that's been in the neighborhood since the 1820s.
There's something unexpected and oddly reassuring about a media landscape where tradition and mission arrive measured by reputation as well as clicks; a world of technical innovation, to be sure, but one rooted in values rather than bucks.
Usually, there is something unexpected and eye-catching among the flurry of tax changes and revised spending policies.
There, along with the man's cancer genes, was something unexpected — genes of the virus that causes AIDS.
Tea was something unexpected and welcoming.
