December 2007

Best of Queens 2007: Vote!

by zora on December 22, 2007

This isn’t shameless self-promotion: Weirdly, I didn’t make the list. There’s always next year to become a one-woman phenomenon. In the meantime, head over to queens.about.com and vote for the best things to happen to Queens this year. Ali of the Kabab Cafe appearing on No Reservations makes the list, but he’s lagging in the [...]

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Christvertising

by zora on December 18, 2007

Hot on the heels of off-topic discussion of the Thighble and the Pentaturkey comes Christvertising–not just a genius portmanteau word, but a hot new marketing movement! I am so out of touch with the rest of America–that scary part of America that’s taking Huckabee and Romney seriously, according to all the godless news sources I [...]

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Fascinating…

by zora on December 14, 2007

I just happened across this “Behind the Scenes at a 5-Star Resort” article. I’ve always found large-scale food prep intriguing, and all the other stuff about staffing and electricity is equally cool. Well, cool if you don’t think about the larger evils of all-inclusive resorts, that is…

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Budget Travel Trip Coach

by zora on December 14, 2007

If you missed the chat I did for Budget Travel online, here’s the transcript. The questions I got about traveling in the Yucatan cover a lot of common issues: when to rent a car vs. when to take a bus, whether it’s possible to see all the Maya ruins in X amount of time, and [...]

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