An East 44th Street landlord has dropped a strongly worded lawsuit against the government of Senegal in which he claimed breach of contract and warned that his experience “should serve as a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about doing business with Senegal,” and has instead moved ahead with the sale of 227 and 235 Read More
Butai, a new Japanese restaurant that has opened near Union Square, has a style all its own.
“Thank God it’s Friday,” said our hostess cheerfully as she showed us to a candlelit table in the upstairs dining room.
Indeed. The place was packed, and judging from the sound of laughter and clinking glasses, the Read More
“World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a convenient but patronizing expression that comes in for a fair amount of high-minded abuse. But the release this month of a superb new album, Specialist in All Styles (World Circuit/Nonesuch) by the Senegalese group Orchestra Read More
