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Hem Sovann


Hem Sovann
Location:Cambodia, Batambong
Activity:Services

Shamim Akhtar Nasar Ahmad Group


Shamim Akhtar Nasar Ahmad Group
Location:Pakistan, Raiwind
Activity:Transportation

Niètaga (le Succès) Group


Niètaga (le Succès) Group
Location:Mali, Koutiala
Activity:Retail

Photo Friday: Sabroso

If you closely enough, you can see it actually says RINCON SABROSO (which means something like “tasty corner”).

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Veselka, I love you; ya tebe lyublyu, Veselka.

Almost ten years ago, my not-yet-husband took me to NYC for my 26th birthday. I’ve written about this trip before, about how eating at La Caridad on the Upper West Side made me want to live in New York, but that wasn’t the only place we went on that trip that turned my head around. [...]

Free MetroCards! No, seriously!

As part of Dunkin Donuts’ newly launched “You Kin Do It!” campaign (a slogan which, I’m sorry, I think is just awful—in my brain I hear it said by Cletus from The Simpsons), the Double-D is giving away subway rides!

Dunkin’ Donuts people will hand out free MetroCards between 6:30 am and 9:30 am on the [...]

This is why I love Mayor Bloomberg:

[Addendum: Ha! Obviously, I don't love him well enough to spell his name right on the first go. It's fixed now. Sorry, Mayor Mike!]

While we were all busy still celebrating the election (or lamenting it, I guess, if you’re a jerk), this piece of news slipped into the NYTimes last week:

In its struggle to make [...]

In which there is a Birthday and a Surprising Gift.

Last week, whenever my birthday plans came up, my husband alluded to us going somewhere where I would pick something out. He had already made at least two trips to said place, it having been closed the first time he stopped by. All I knew was that it was somewhere fairly far downtown and I [...]