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		<title>Friday Facts: Taupe, Bertram Cates, Waspgrass</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/04/friday-facts-taupe-bertram-cates-waspgrass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: As temperatures start to warm up, we would like to offer a reminder that a city ordinance passed last year makes public male toplessness illegal in the area bordered by 4th St, Gordon Ave, 57th St, and Burton Blvd. :: Several street name re-dedications are scheduled for summer 2007 including: Rue de la Meuse becoming Jim Henson Blvd, Megan Road&#8217;s addition to the city grid scheme as 223rd Street, and Folcher Street becoming the first convertee in the Mayor’s scheme to “contemporize” city street names (Folcher will become “The Internet Blvd”). :: Mustard, scarlet, clay and taupe (or a combination thereof) are the most popular colors for newly constructed bank branches, according to the Financial Business Journal. :: As of this weekend, the number of years LaRue&#8217;s has been open in the Polynesiantown neighborhood: 25 :: Estimated number of Lapu-Rama-Rum-Bowls served there over those 25 years: 65,000 :: The city&#8217;s bike lanes are 8 inches narrower than the national average. The League of American Bicyclists claims this has led to three bike-car fatalities in the past 14 years. :: The Council of Concerned Christian Parents will be sponsoring a potluck at Pennington Park on May 25th, in celebration of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City loses hummus title</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/02/city-loses-hummus-title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 11:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferran Habash may be out of the record books for now, but he&#8217;s confident he&#8217;ll be back. Habash is the owner of Ferran&#8217;s Middle Eastern Restaurant (429 Kerchavel), until recently the world-record holder for World&#8217;s Largest Vat of Hummus. In July of 2003, Habash and his staff prepared 3,300 gallons (15,000 liters) of hummus in an above-ground pool that the restaurant rented and assembled in the parking lot adjacent to the restaurant. Only about 1/3 of the hummus was actually eaten by locals attending the event before the hot July sun rendered the remaining amount dangerously inedible (and decidedly malodorous). The record lasted for nearly four years until last Saturday, when Sinbad&#8217;s Delight of Charleston, SC prepared an enormous 7,432 gallons (13,000 liters) of hummus in a not-yet open for the season city pool during the Taste of Charleston Festival. &#8220;The record is ours now and forever,&#8221; said Sinbad&#8217;s Delight proprietor Muntasir Al-Fulani. &#8220;And we didn&#8217;t even use cheap chick peas like those skinflints at that place up north. Only the best!&#8221; Habash scoffs at Al-Fulani&#8217;s boasting. &#8220;You&#8217;ll see. We&#8217;ll be in the record books again. We&#8217;ll beat that record as soon as I can decide what to put all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Leftover Cod, Pauline, Selleck-san</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/13/friday-facts-leftover-cod-pauline-selleck-san/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The Mid-Town Lions Club has decided to carry over their popular Friday Fish Fries, normally only held on Fridays during Lent, throughout the rest of April. &#8220;Well, we&#8217;ve got all these fish still lying around, so why not?&#8221; said president Mark Pembroke. :: Thirty-five percent of the steel used in municipal construction since January 1, 2000 has been imported from China. :: Total cost of cleaning up the 1999 Backstreet Boys Millennium Tour &#8220;Soccer Mom&#8221; riot: $13.4m :: More than two thousand city residents were asked what type of robot they would most be afraid of, if robots ever invaded the city. “Man-Eating” was the most popular answer. :: Number of pints served at The Blarney Stone on 17th during St. Patrick&#8217;s Day 1997: 3,717 ::Number of pints served at The Blarney Stone on 17th during St. Patrick&#8217;s Day 2007: 7,320 :: A little bit of trivia for fans of “Ripperology:” The legendary serial killer Jack the Ripper was rumored to have a trio of cousins living in our very own city. Two of them were butchers (the third was a librarian, according to legend). :: Number of working Donkey Kong video game units: 26 :: Number of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: The Spaghetti Giant</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/28/what-a-character-the-spaghetti-giant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. What stands twenty-five feet tall, wears a toga with a garland of grape leaves and was a fixture of the city’s “Restaurant Row” for thirty-five years? If you said “The Spaghetti Giant,” then are you ever correct! Between 1949 and 1984, the Family Italiano restaurant at the corner of Finnegan Curve and Finnegan Row was not only famous for its inexpensive, family-style buffet dinners and heaping plates of its trademark spaghetti and lasagna dishes, but for the titanic plaster mascot which stood proudly in the center of its parking lot. Literally tens of thousands of area children have squealed in delight from the gates of their parents’ station wagons as they’ve pulled into the parking lot, seeing the beaming face of the Giant looking protectively across the rows of patrons’ automobiles (While dozens of area teenagers may remember the homecoming night tradition of sneaking under the Giant’s toga and painting school slogans across his massive inner thighs). The Spaghetti Giant became such an inspired and recognized icon that he quickly found his way – in a much-less colossal illustrated form – onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Arby&#8217;s, Old Sparky, Pope Pius Ate Here</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/12/15/friday-facts-arbys-old-sparky-pope-pius-ate-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The city&#8217;s first legal execution was in 1843. The last was in 1922. :: For a few years, after the West Side Prison was decommissioned in 1953 and turned into a community center, the old electric chair was used as Santa&#8217;s throne for the annual Police Athletic League Annual Children&#8217;s Christmas Jubilee. It was covered with red fabric. :: The state&#8217;s first Arby&#8217;s opened here in Sheperd Park, in 1968. It is still open. :: Number of popes who have visited the city- 4 :: City Council members indicted in 2006- 0 (so far) :: Number indicted in 2005- 3 :: The current hit Broadway revival Hat Full of Maybes originally premiered here, at the old Pullman Theatre in 1961. :: City Council is considering a zoning rule for next year to no longer allow giant inflatable Christmas decorations to be exempt from outdoor advertising regulations. :: Only one person from this city has ever been elected governor. - R. White]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of (Chinese) Food</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/12/11/photos-of-chinese-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are, if you’ve stood in a Chinese takeout restaurant at any time in the last thirty-eight years or so, staring up at the menu whole deciding what to order, you’ve seen the work of Chroma Specialized Photographic Services, Ltd. (CSPS). They’re the country’s foremost photographers of menu items for Chinese food and happen to be located right here in the city (652 Locane Boulevard). The whole venture began by accident in 1968 when Gordon Nolan, a burgeoning portrait photographer, received a call from a friend who was starting up a takeout place in the Eaveston neighborhood. The budding restauranteur had decided he wanted somewhat professional photos of a few sample dishes hanging above the counter. Nolan set up his studio, the friend brought over ten dishes and a very specialized business was born. That first restaurant has long been closed, but through word of mouth at first, then solely on reputation, Gordon Nolan went from taking photos of families and high school seniors to dishes of Moo Goo Gai Pan. After doing this for about ten restaurants over the course of a year, Nolan decided to make this new sideline his specialty- establishing Asian Cuisine Photographic Concepts and specifically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How would you like your dog?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/20/how-would-you-like-your-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a city which has never had its own hot dog. Perhaps I should amend that, slightly. This is a city which has never had its own successful hot dog. This not because there&#8217;s a lack of interest in the things or a lack of trying. The two dominant styles which have won citizens over in the city seem to hail from nowhere near here, the reason stemming from the origins of the two most popular hot dog stands in town. First is Felix&#8217;s Frankfurters, in the Courthouse District (of course). On the menu at Felix’s, you primarily have two choices- the Chicago Dog or a standard burger. The Chicago Dog is an excellent example of the form- thick poppy seed bun, crisp spicy frank, topped with mustard, celery salt, onions, tomato wedges, peppers, a dill spear and frighteningly green relish. Felix Kozloski, a transplant from the Windy City, moved here and started up the place in 1965. The name goes over well with the lawyerly types in the area, but you still hear a lot of &#8220;No, get it? Felix&#8217;s Frankfurters? Felix Frankfurter? -sigh- Okay, in 1939, Roosevelt&#8230;&#8221; The longtime competitor for Felix’s is the Coney Shak, on [...]]]></description>
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