Finding inner peace is not always easy in the hectic modern world, and traveling to India for a retreat is not always convenient, so The Lalu hotel is turning a corner Sun of Moon Lake (日月潭) into an oasis of calm, where guests can practice water yoga at dawn in the hotel’s infinity pool and enjoy a “cleansing” menu at the restaurant, all under the direction of Rajesh Mishra of Bhagalpur University, who recently took up the post of spa manager at the hotel. For bookings and more information, contact the hotel at (049) 285-5311 or visit its Web site at www.thelalu.com.tw.
Another high-profile addition to Taiwan’s increasingly diverse hospitality scene is the appointment of Antonio Tardi as the head chef of the Shangri-La Far Eastern Plaza Hotel’s prestigious Marco Polo restaurant. Tardi, 36, a native of Naples, was a guest chef at the 2006 World Gourmet Summit, and has also worked at numerous Michelin-starred restaurants. He will draw on his vast experience of Italian cuisine to launch a new menu that represents his own culinary style.
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Tardi can be found at on his blog at www.antoniotardi.com. For bookings, call (02) 2376-3156 or visit the hotel’s Web site at www.shangri-la.com.tw.
Towering high above Taiwan’s capital city at 508 meters, Taipei 101 dominates the skyline. The earthquake-proof skyscraper of steel and glass has captured the imagination of professional rock climber Alex Honnold for more than a decade. Tomorrow morning, he will climb it in his signature free solo style — without ropes or protective equipment. And Netflix will broadcast it — live. The event’s announcement has drawn both excitement and trepidation, as well as some concerns over the ethical implications of attempting such a high-risk endeavor on live broadcast. Many have questioned Honnold’s desire to continues his free-solo climbs now that he’s a
Francis William White, an Englishman who late in the 1860s served as Commissioner of the Imperial Customs Service in Tainan, published the tale of a jaunt he took one winter in 1868: A visit to the interior of south Formosa (1870). White’s journey took him into the mountains, where he mused on the difficult terrain and the ease with which his little group could be ambushed in the crags and dense vegetation. At one point he stays at the house of a local near a stream on the border of indigenous territory: “Their matchlocks, which were kept in excellent order,
Jan. 19 to Jan. 25 In 1933, an all-star team of musicians and lyricists began shaping a new sound. The person who brought them together was Chen Chun-yu (陳君玉), head of Columbia Records’ arts department. Tasked with creating Taiwanese “pop music,” they released hit after hit that year, with Chen contributing lyrics to several of the songs himself. Many figures from that group, including composer Teng Yu-hsien (鄧雨賢), vocalist Chun-chun (純純, Sun-sun in Taiwanese) and lyricist Lee Lin-chiu (李臨秋) remain well-known today, particularly for the famous classic Longing for the Spring Breeze (望春風). Chen, however, is not a name
Lines between cop and criminal get murky in Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, a crime thriller set across one foggy Miami night, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Damon and Affleck, of course, are so closely associated with Boston — most recently they produced the 2024 heist movie The Instigators there — that a detour to South Florida puts them, a little awkwardly, in an entirely different movie landscape. This is Miami Vice territory or Elmore Leonard Land, not Southie or The Town. In The Rip, they play Miami narcotics officers who come upon a cartel stash house that Lt. Dane Dumars (Damon)
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