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Ambar Launches Bottomless Dinner on Monday
We’ve enjoyed many a bottomless brunch—in the unlimited-mimosas, pants-on sense, of course. As of Monday, you can order a similar deal at dinnertime. Capitol Hill’s Balkan spot Ambar is set to launch an all-you-can-eat evening menu, complete with all-you-can-drink specialty cocktails, wines, and beers, for $49*.
Restaurateur Richard Sandoval is well versed in bottomless brunching, offering similar options at Masa 14, El Centro, Zengo, and Ambar on weekend afternoons. With the dinner deal, many of the regular menu items will be available for unlimited ordering within a two-hour window; think platters of meats and cheeses, spicy crab spread, and the yogurt-topped Ambar burger. For an additional $10 you can add on specialty dishes such as a mixed grill or a rib eye with cognac jus. On the beverage side you’ll find vodka-spiked mango lemonade, mojitos, and a Sarajevo Old Fashioned mixed with plum brandy and rye whiskey, as well as house wine and Dos Equis beers. The restaurant is partnering with Uber to get tipsy guests home should they overindulge.
The menu starts on Monday, January 27, and will be served during regular dinner hours.
Via Washingtonian
'Share a Coke' — Unless You're Gay
Coca-Cola's latest advertising gimmick added fuel to the fire of LGBT activists angry about the Sochi Olympic sponsor's silence surrounding human rights violations in Russia.
A South African website that invites users to "Share a Virtual Coke" returns an unseemly error message when one tries to enter words like "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," and "queer."
"Oops," the site responds when a user tries to enter any of the above words. "Let's pretend you didn't just type that. Please try another name."
But words like "straight," "hetero," "homophobe," "homosexual," and even "LGBT" are allowed through the system, producing a shareable graphic with the words emblazoned on Coke's classic red can.
More HERE Via advocate
Best Vegetarian in DC
Yesterday marked the beginning of another DC Meat Week (check out our preview for that HERE, btw-ed). This means that leafy greens won’t get their chance to shine (pesticide free, of course) until next week, but we’re here to prepare you for that. Whether you’re a long time herbivore, a novice in the green eating world, or just trying to adhere to your healthy eating New Year’s resolution, we’ve got you covered. We’ve done vegetarian guides in the past, but nothing as diverse or comprehensive as this. Below you’ll find recommendations from our own staff, picks from your favorite district food writers, and DC’s own chef selections from their own restaurants and elsewhere.
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22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist
Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs. Different geographical locations, climatic conditions and even seasons offer the widest variety of natural wonders: pink lakes, stunning lavender or tulip fields, breath-taking canyons and mountains, and other places you can hardly believe actually exist!
Some of the pictures in this collection will be of all natural sights you can find while traveling around the world, while the others have experienced human interference – but even in these cases, the result of such collaboration is spectacular. The Japanese learned how to tame thousands of orchids and form a romantic tunnel out of them; another one was formed all the way in Ukraine by a passing train; and what eventually ends up as hot tea in our mugs, first grows in stunning tree fields in Asia.
No wonder that traveling in one of the best forms of recreation – even looking at these pictures takes your mind to far away places… And yes, all those of those places are real!
More HERE Via boredpanda.com
In-N-Out's Burger Queen
About 40 miles north of the Irvine headquarters of In‑N‑Out Burger, the noonday sun makes the gritty industrial landscape of Baldwin Park simmer like a Double-Double fresh off the grill.
Hulking tractor-trailers emblazoned with the fast-food chain’s familiar logo navigate the narrow asphalt arteries of a sprawling warehouse complex that serves as In‑N‑Out’s distribution center, a short distance from the spot where Harry and Esther Snyder opened their long-since-shuttered first stand back in 1948. A tour bus contingent of Asian visitors, apparently fresh from lunch at an In‑N‑Out on the edge of the complex, is now milling about in front of the In‑N‑Out University training center, snapping photos and perusing the classic car-themed memorabilia in the company gift store. The visitors’ fascination with a regional hamburger chain is no surprise, considering that over the years, In‑N‑Out—whose freshly-made, premium burgers are famously craved by Hollywood luminaries and rock stars—has become an enduring part of California’s mystique.
The sightseers don’t seem to notice an SUV pulling up. It contains a trim, athletic blonde in a chic black-on-black ensemble accessorized by a stylishly chunky rose-gold Michael Kors wristwatch and a necklace with a glittering Star of David pendant. She is just 31, but Bloomberg News recently valued the company she controls at $1.1 billion, making her the youngest woman with a 10-digit net worth in America. Forbes estimates her wealth at $500 million.
Via http://www.orangecoast.com/features/2014/01/27/in-n-outs-burger-queen
Man Asks Ex-Wife to Stay On As His Housekeeper
A British millionaire who divorced his ex-wife and moved his new girlfriend into the house while she was still living there couldn't understand why she became "so aggressive" when he asked if she would work as his housekeeper.
The couple, whose names were withheld from British press because it was a private family court matter, were married in the late 1970s and divorced in the 90s.
Despite officially divorcing, the two continued to live in the same home until about five years ago, when the man moved his new girlfriend and her 12-year-old daughter into the house.
At that point, the man apparently asked his fifty-something ex-wife if she would continue living in the house in a new role — his housekeeper.
According to reports, "he could not come to terms with why she, through her lawyers, had become so aggressive."
On Wednesday, a judge ruled she was entitled to about $8 million — half of her ex-husbands estate.
The judge ruled that there was "no distinction" between the couple's life before and after the divorce and that she should receive more than £6 million.
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What Is a Photograph?
The International Center of Photography’s new exhibit “What Is a Photograph?” highlights photographers whose work is redefining the medium. Organized by Carol Squiers, a curator at the center, the exhibit brings together the work of twenty-one photographers, including established artists like Floris Neusüss, Gerhard Richter, and Lucas Samaras, as well as emerging talent like Letha Wilson, Travess Smalley, and Artie Vierkant. In the exhibit catalogue, Squiers writes that she was looking for photographers who “reconsidered and reinvented the role of light, color, composition, materiality, and the subject in the art of photography.” This reconsideration, she notes, has been hastened by the revolution in digital technology, “which has resulted in creative reexaminations of the art of analog photography, the ever-mutating world of the digital image, and the hybrid creations of both systems as they flow together.”
“What Is a Photograph?” is on view from January 31st through May 4th.
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The Answer to Affordable Housing Could Lie Within a 3D Printer
Forget waiting weeks or months for your new home to be ready. Researchers from the University of Southern California created a 3D printer that can build a 2,500 square-foot house in 24 hours.
Since 2008, Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has led a research team in the creation and development of a new layered fabrication technology using 3D printing called Contour Crafting. Instead of using thermoplastics, a common material used in 3D printing, the robot applies layer after layer of concrete to construct straight and curved walls, as well as domes.
More HERE Via mashable
Beautiful headphones made with reclaimed wood help to fund hearing restoration
This line of stylish headphones made with reclaimed wood also has a deeper mission - to help restore hearing to a person in need.
Whether you use them to block out the background noise in your office, to motivate yourself with inspirational tunes while working out, to listen to your favorite music or podcasts while commuting, or to watch a movie without disturbing anyone else in your house, headphones have become quite a part of our gadget-centric culture. And with good reason, as so many of us use our cellphones for a lot of our media consumption, from movies to games to music, and without them, we'd all be struggling to hear over the rest of the noises around us.
However, most "over the ear" headphone designs aren't really that appealing to the eye, unless you're really into the audiophile look or the recording studio style, so this beautiful line of headphones from LSTN is like a breath of fresh air. And they not only look good, but they do good as well, through funding the restoration of hearing for people in need with every sale.
LSTN's headphones are made with reclaimed wood, and because of the organic nature of patterns in the wood, each pair is unique. The company has three lines of headphones, two of which are "over the ear" models, and one which is an "earbud" style, ranging in price from $50 to $150.
Farmer's Fridge Vending Machine
Fast food isn't usually healthy or environmentally friendly, but a new automated kiosk in Chicago is aiming to change that. Farmer's Fridge is like a vending machine, only it offers fresh salads, yogurt parfaits and veggie sticks.
Farmer's Fridge sources fruits and vegetables locally and organically as much as possible, something of a challenge during the winter in Chicago. The kiosk is stocked with fresh items each morning, and what isn't sold at the end of the day is donated to a soup kitchen. There's even a $1.00 discount on salads sold after 6:00 PM.
The produce is appealingly layered in clear plastic containers, which can be recycled with the rest of your number 1 plastics or returned to the kiosk for re-use. Founder Luke Saunders told Modern Farmer he hopes to one day offer an incentive program for recycling.
According to their website, the kiosk uses less than $10.00 of electricity per month and is built from reclaimed barn wood.
There are currently two Farmer's Fridge locations, one at the Garvey Food Court and one at the Lake Forest Tollway Oasis.
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Magnificent Lion Sculpture Made from 4,000 Pieces of Hammered Metal by Selcuk Yılmaz
Turkish artist Selçuk Yılmaz spent over a year sculpting Aslan, which in Turkish means "Lion". His carefully detailed sculpture was made from 4,000 pieces of scrap metal that were hand-cut, shaped and hammered meticulously. The results are absolutely stunning and the attention to detail is beyond words. The final piece measures 330 cm (130 inches) long by 185 cm (73 inches) high and weighs 250 kg (550 pounds).
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Why Scarlett Johansson's Ad Was Banned From the Super Bowl
Johansson is the face of SodaStream’s newest commercial, which the company’s CEO says is too risqué for Fox. The television network isn’t banning the commercial because of any sexual innuendo or objectionable content. Rather, because of a parting shot to Coke and Pepsi.
From USA TODAY Money’s Bruce Horovitz:
Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream, bitterly complained to USA TODAY late Friday that Fox rejected the Super Bowl commercial “because they’re afraid of Coke and Pepsi.”
That’s the line that Fox has demanded that SodaStream kill, says Birnbaum. “What are they afraid of?” asks Birnbaum. “Which advertiser in America doesn’t mention a competitor? This is the kind of stuff that happens in China. I’m disappointed as an American.”
In the ad, Johansson says she wants the spot to go viral. Well, it has. In just over a day, the SodaStream commercial has done over a million page views.
More here Via USA Today
15 Women Who Are Killing it Right Now
Globally, women artists are dominating the streets. Through collaborative efforts, both literal and metaphorical, these artists are carving a place for themselves in the public sphere. From realism to abstraction, glass to aerosol, the range of diversity among today’s ladies in street art is ceaseless. This list barely scratches the surface of what has been accomplished by women in the game, but these are artists to keep an eye on this coming year
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Ten Habits of Healthy Couples
1. Go to bed at the same time
2. Cultivate similar interests
3. Make trust & forgiveness your default mode
4. Focus more on what your partner does RIGHT then wrong
5. Walk hand & hand, side by side
6. Hug each other immediately when you see each other after work
7. Say "I love you" and "Have a good day at work" every morning
8. Say goodnight regardless how you feel
9. Do a weather check on your partner during the day
10. Be proud to be seen with your partner
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US and British spies 'get personal data from Angry Birds'
US and British spy agencies routinely try to gain access to personal data from Angry Birds and other mobile applications, a report says.
A National Security Agency (NSA) document shows location, websites visited and contacts are among the data targeted from mobile applications.
It is the latest revelation from documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
In a statement, the NSA said it was not interested in data beyond "valid foreign intelligence targets".
"Any implication that NSA's foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smartphone or social media communications of everyday Americans is not true," the statement said.
More here Via BBC
The 8 Least Expensive Places to Live in the United States
Dalton, Georgia
The Living Wage Calculator — a tool developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — calculates that the living wage in Dalton is $8.44 per hour for one adult and $16.11 for two adults and one child. This compares against a required living wage of $9.23 per hour for one adult and $17.16 per hour for two adults and one child for Georgia as a whole. Required after-tax income to meet cost-of-living expenses in Dalton is $1,276 per month. - More here
Michigan City-La Porte, Indiana
The Living Wage Calculator puts the living wage in the area at $8.14 per hour -More here
Sandusky, Ohio
The living wage calculator puts the living wage in the city for one adult at just $7.60 per hour, Fun fact about Sandusky: In 2011, Forbes ranked the area its No. 1 place to live cheaply. It has low crime, a pretty good school system, and a relatively weak economy that has driven prices lower.
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Jonesboro, Arkansas
The living wage calculator puts the living wage in Jonesboro at $8.02 per hour for one adult -More here
Cape Girardeau-Jackson, Missouri-Illinois
The living wage calculator puts the living wage in Cape Girardeau County for one adult at just $7.35 per hour - More here
Danville, Illinois
The living wage calculator puts the living wage in Danville at $7.54 per hour -More here
Morristown, Tennessee
The MIT living wage calculator puts the living wage in Morristown at $8.35 per hour for one adult- More here
Jefferson City, Missouri
MIT’s living wage calculator puts the living wage in Jefferson City at $7.43 -More here
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