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  • Chef gets personal with the women

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    There's really only one reason to watch "Hell's Kitchen": to see just how high chef Gordon Ramsay can turn up the heat on his charges. Using... more

  • Reality TV's main course

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    JOEY is executive chef at New York's tony Cafe des Artistes. Josh is a former Marine with a couple of years of culinary training. Julia works... more

  • Not just cooler heads prevail

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    GORDON Ramsay, the chef and TV kitchen taskmaster, had 55 couples booked for dinner one night last week and three new dishes to try out. The... more

  • BUZZ CLUBS

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    Already thriving As downtown continues to boom, an exhausted J.D. Iriarte is putting in 18-hour days to finish up his new nightclub, Tatou... more

  • No way to treat a king

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    Packed into the tiny Elephant Space Theatre, even the audience in the back row could call out a drink order to the bartender on set designer... more

  • Call it her double play

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    HEATHER WOODBURY loves words. She loves how they sound and act, and all the ways we use and misuse them -- accents, drawls, grunge slang... more

  • Adventure awaits the hearty traveler

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    EAT your heart out, L.A.: The Southland's two indispensable dance events this summer take place hours outside the city limits. From June... more

  • In a '50s quagmire, struggling to escape

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    WHEN teaching writing, I often cite Janis Joplin's lyric "O Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz" as the story of our lives: from grand... more

  • Teaching to a very different drummer

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    In the world according to the Paul Green School of Rock Music, tradition maintains that when a branch opens up, the first concert the new... more

  • Their lives writ large

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    Yes, I knew him when. So did hundreds of people -- all kinds -- in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City's West Side. We knew Jim Sheridan... more

  • 'In America' is a Sheridan family affair

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    Jim Sheridan is a born storyteller, with a particular knack for stories that examine the human condition. Although the Irish writer-director... more

  • Struggling to survive in Hell's Kitchen

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    "Bobby G. Can't Swim" is being promoted as "in the tradition of 'Taxi Driver' and 'Mean Streets,' " which does a disservice to a little independent... more

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