A French restaurant where diners cannot see what they are eating, often spill their wine and must conduct conversations while staring into pitch darkness has proved such a success in Europe that it is making a foray into the Americas. After expanding from Paris into London, Moscow, Barcelona and St. Petersburg, the "Dans Le Noir" chain, staffed by blind waiters, will open an outlet in the neon-lit tourist hub of New York's Times Square this month. What seemed at the outset to be just a bizarre fad, has proved surprisingly popular, as patrons who have often never encountered a visually impaired person before discover what it is like to be blind and realize how skillfully the blind adapt. "When I started this business, everyone thought I was crazy, from my bankers to my mother," Edouard de Broglie, 49, CEO of the chain's owner, Ethik Investment, and founder of the restaurant chain, told Reuters. "I wanted to show that a company where 50 percent of staff are very heavily handicapped … [Read more...] about Blind French eatery seeks to conquer New York
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New York airport terminal flooded as brutal cold grips US east coast
Gushing water compounded meltdown at John F Kennedy International Airport, where furious passengers have camped out for days as a result of equipment damaged by the storm and a backlog of flights.Water poured from the ceiling and the arrivals area was submerged by standing water, through which a few intrepid passengers picked their way gingerly, according to footage broadcast by CNN.International flights into Terminal 4 were suspended and the water main break occurred just before 2.00pm (3.00am Singapore time Monday), said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that runs the airport.The west end of Terminal four lay under about eight centimetres of water, where maintenance crews were mopping up, with police and fire crews on site, the spokesman told AFP.The cause of the break is being investigated, he added.JFK confirmed the water main break at Terminal 4 and warned passengers via Twitter of flight delays, advising them to check with their airline … [Read more...] about New York airport terminal flooded as brutal cold grips US east coast
DJs Diplo, Ronson to debut collaboration at New York festival
NEW YORK — Diplo and Mark Ronson, two DJs who have achieved wide success as producers, will premiere a new collaboration at New York’s Governors Ball music festival, promoters announced on Wednesday. Unveiling the lineup for the June 1-3 festival, Governors Ball said the two would launch a new act called Silk City, the name likely an allusion to a Philadelphia club where Diplo used to play. The artists themselves did not immediately reveal more details but Diplo, in an interview last year with GQ, said he and Ronson were working on an album together based on their shared love of disco music. Ronson, a Londoner who had his start in New York, has had a major behind-the-scenes impact on pop music as a producer for artists including Adele mand Amy Winehouse. He finally achieved stardom on his own with his infectious 2014 hit Uptown Funk, which featured vocals by Bruno Mars. Diplo became known for his work with hip-hop globalist M.I.A. and has since recorded with a who’s … [Read more...] about DJs Diplo, Ronson to debut collaboration at New York festival
New York fire injures 23, including nine children
NEW YORK — A fire destroyed a building and injured 23 people in New York on Tuesday, just days after the city’s deadliest inferno in a quarter of a century. The blaze broke out in The Bronx, the same northern borough where last week’s fire claimed 12 lives. "Our units arrived and were immediately faced with heavy fire. Numerous people were brought out of the building by the firefighters on scene," said New York City fire chief Daniel Nigro. "They’ve all been transported, and they will all be ok, thankfully," he said, noting there were at least nine children among the injured. But a spokesman for the fire department later said that four of the injured were in a life-threatening condition. A firefighter was listed among the 19 people suffering minor injuries. The fire left 11 families, including 29 adults and 11 children, homeless. Barely four minutes after the emergency call, around 200 firefighters arrived in three dozen vehicles at 5:30am at a three-floor, … [Read more...] about New York fire injures 23, including nine children
Famous war movie update screened in New York
The update-version of The Last Ghost of War, which examines the impacts of Agent Orange on American veterans and the Vietnamese population, was screened at The New School, New York, on March 28. This update version also adds developments of the US Court of Appeals on the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims’ lawsuit against US chemical companies.US last summer. Source: VNA … [Read more...] about Famous war movie update screened in New York