A random sampling of some of our favorite uncategorizables of the year. Stay tuned for a restaurant roundup, our favorite news stories, and some books and bars we love. If we can remember the bars. more ›

We were starving. We'd wandered the barren Valley, fruitless in our search for somewhere new and charming to eat. It is not without a twinge of irony that we wound up at The Grand Lux; how the mighty (and very hungry) have fallen. Our dining companion endorsed the restaurant, and she had that gleam in her eye that signalled indulgent dining that would break a girl's healthy eating regimen and mean an extra pilates routine to offset the damage. There was a short wait, which gave us ample time to people watch some very interesting people, and to start studying the menu, which was as long and weighty as a Hemingway novella. more ›