Results tagged “costarica”

Just how well do you know your morning snack? [Cue ominous music] Find out tonight at KGB Bar when Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, reads from his book. Koeppel’s dedication to unpeeling the history of the fruit (turns out it’s actually a berry) admirably resists puns like the one found at the beginning of this sentence, and what seems at first to be another “single item history” nonfiction food book (Potato, Salt, Beans, Caviar, Vanilla) at times brims with manic, even evangelical writing, but Koeppel has good reason: It turns out the modern banana crop is the lynchpin for more than a half dozen topical issues, everything from terrorism (including state-sponsored terrorism) to the locavore movement.

Over three years after Maria Cruz's death, Dean Faiello finally pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in her death. Faiello had posed as a doctor and was removing a growth from Cruz's tongue in April 2003. It's hard to decide what's more reprehensible: That Faiello was on cocaine while performing surgery or that after he realized Cruz had a reaction to lidocaine, he deliberately didn't take her to the hospital because he was already being investigated for practicing medicine without a license. Faiello had even called a doctor friend who said he should take Cruz to the hospital. Cruz died, and Faiello buried her body in the concrete floor basement of his basement in Newark.

My childhood is vague snapshots of memories that cannot be trusted. I remember trying to repeat some Bill Cosby bits back to my dad that I didn't even understand. I remember him laughing though, just at the fact that I had memorized them. He probably didn't get them either, now that I think of it. But I was always a big fan of stand-up until I started doing it and realized that most of it was a trick.

It is the most watched sporting event in the world and while the US has participated the last four times, they are still viewed as novices in the sport the everyone else refers to as football.

Gothamist doesn't want to get in trouble here (one of us is marrying a Portuguese woman in October), but Portugal has done nothing but choke in big events in the last two years. First it was a disappointing run in the 2002 World Cup, losing to the U.S. on the way to an early departure. Then in this year's European Cup (hosted in Portugal) they lose to Greece in the finals and now they lose to Iraq in the Olympics. Now they have dug themselves into a huge hole. The way it stands right now, the best Portugal can hope for is a match in the first elimination round against Argentina.