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• 杂菜肉 A28. Pork with Vegetables
• 叉烧蓉蛋 98. Roast Pork Egg Foo Young
• 蛋花汤 S2. Egg Drop Soup
• 厨师特别菜 42. Chef's Special
• 炸蟹角 B6. Fried Crab Rangoon Wonton (
• 鸡菜汤 S5. Chinese Vegetable Soup

Mrs. Baker was deeply involved in the acquisition and preservation of White House China until her death in 1923. The White House staff and first families who sold china apparently did not see the historical importance of the collection, and the proceeds of the sale were likely more important to them than the china itself. It is now known that the china was personally collected at the auctions by White House staff members, and pieces of presidential china turn up with great frequency in the presidential house museums throughout the country. In addition to a state service, the first lady often purchased less elegant china out of public funds for everyday use. Sometimes the only clue to distinguish between the state china and the less formal china is the number of pieces listed and the price paid for the china.

杂菜肉 A28. Pork with Vegetables

There are countless types of traditional Chinese houses, both old and new and modern models. Virtually every province and region of the country has different old Chinese houses. In this article I will try to summarize the most famous and typical Chinese traditional houses of the country. The early editions of this book were confined to a study of china purchased specifically for the President’s House.

叉烧蓉蛋 98. Roast Pork Egg Foo Young

The term "china," used throughout this book, can be defined as both porcelain and earthenware used for table services at the Executive Mansion. The term acquired this meaning as early as 1889 when Theodore R. Davis wrote his first articles on White House China for The Ladies Home Journal, and it was continued by Abby Gunn Baker and the other writers of the early twentieth century. It is still in use today at the White House where the terms "China Room" and "The White House China Collection" include both porcelain and earthenware used on presidential tables from 1789 to the present. The places of purchase, the types of china being used, the pieces which make up a dinner service and its design, tell much about the material culture and the social customs of our country.

蛋花汤 S2. Egg Drop Soup

These Chinese houses were built between the 12th and 20th centuries in the Fujian and Guangdong regions. For thousands of years, the Chinese of the Loess Plateau have built their houses in caves called Yaodong. These Chinese houses are built vertically downwards forming a sunken courtyard that has horizontal and vertical rooms on its sides. These traditional Chinese houses are built on a horizontal axis with the main door always facing south, according to the principles of Feng Shui.

厨师特别菜 42. Chef's Special

Once you crossed the main door some found in a small room intended for visitors. This dinner plate was purchased during the McKinley administration and features a blue-green border and gilt scrolls. By the middle of the nineteenth century, china was sought after at these auctions and cherished for generations by the families who acquired it, but often the purchasers knew little about the history of their prized possessions. The lack of mobility of nineteenth-century Americana resulted in a heavy concentration of these early collections in the Washington area. In the beginning of the White House story, it was Congress that made it possible for the public to acquire articles used in the President’s House.

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With this edition we have added additional references to privately owned china—each of which has a particular reason for being included. By the beginning of the Wilson administration, the collection had grown to fill four small cabinets in the downstairs corridor. First Lady Ellen Wilson suggested renovating a Ground Floor room to permanently display the collection, but her death soon after delayed implementation until 1916–17, when the China Room plans were executed with the support of President Wilson’s second wife, Edith. Orange print indicates hot and spicy.Any dish may be ordered hot and spicy.We do not use MSG. Sun is fond of talking about employees he’s worked with over the years, and is especially fond of talking about his three children.

Abby Gunn Baker’s association with the collection continued until her death in 1923. She publicized the search in the public press, descendants of the presidents were contacted, and contributions were sought openly. Nothing was to be bought, for Mrs. Roosevelt’s instructions were that pieces must be either given or loaned. In an effort to form a collection representing every administration, Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Roosevelt accepted china that was privately owned by the earlier presidents as well as that purchased with government funds. Mrs. Roosevelt had the collection designated official government property and placed with other White House furnishings under the care of the commissioner of public buildings and grounds to ensure that it would be a permanent feature at the White House. This was the beginning of the collection displayed in the China Room at the White House today.

The act of March 3, 1797, which granted John Adams funds to furnish the President’s House, also allowed him to sell things that were worn out, out of style, or unusable. The proceeds could be put towards a so-called “furniture fund,” and the sales, often in the form of a public auction, gave the public a chance to buy the White House furnishings acquired with public funds. Chinese architecture in reference to their houses has changed a lot throughout history, more so than we have been in the last century.

鸡菜汤 S5. Chinese Vegetable Soup

At her request, curator at the Smithsonian Institution, Margaret Klapthor, spent several weeks at the White House helping to identify and arrange the pieces in the collection. In return, the White House agreed to lend to the Smithsonian Institution pieces of state services not then represented in the museum collection. In making an inventory in 1901 he found comparatively little china left in the house from previous administrations. Before his appointment, Bingham had served as a military aide in the American embassies in Berlin and Rome, where he was impressed with the care given to royal palaces and their furnishings, and he felt such care was lacking at the White House. During the summer of 1901, Bingham expressed his feelings to Abby Gunn Baker, a journalist who specialized in historical subjects.

That’s why the people who lived in that part of China decided to make their houses under the soil instead of on top of it, because it was easier. The further you went into the house, the more private the room in question became. The closer you were to the family, the more they let you into the house, allowing you to be received in their second courtyard. The buffet, with heaps of fried food, steamed vegetables and meats in a variety of sauces, was the marquee attraction.

He says he’s a self-proclaimed promoter for people raising families in the Valley, and is proud of his own experience doing so. The inner courtyard of the tulou may be “empty” or full of other smaller communal buildings. Chinese Yaodong houses protect from both cold and heat when they are underground. In the north there are villages where there are only Yaodong cave houses, which are very attractive for tourism.

Small wonder that the citizens have considered the President’s House their own and have taken such a great interest in its furnishings. It is only since the 1960s that private donations have substantially influenced the style in which the house is furnished. As housing they were small courtyard houses arranged in a row, facing south, with one or two main alleys that served as shops and shops. They had a stone façade at the entrance to the neighborhood, and other secondary alleys that were for domestic, semi-private use. Pieces of the state services ordered by Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman were added to the White House China Collection as soon as they were received at the White House.

Dinner

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• 鱼香豆腐 76. Bean Curd in Garlic Sauce
• Presidential and First Lady Portraits
• 什菜牛 A21. Beef with Vegetables
• [Dinner Specials]
• 锅贴 B4A. Pan Fried Dumplings

These Chinese houses were built between the 12th and 20th centuries in the Fujian and Guangdong regions. For thousands of years, the Chinese of the Loess Plateau have built their houses in caves called Yaodong. These Chinese houses are built vertically downwards forming a sunken courtyard that has horizontal and vertical rooms on its sides. These traditional Chinese houses are built on a horizontal axis with the main door always facing south, according to the principles of Feng Shui.

鱼香豆腐 76. Bean Curd in Garlic Sauce

Following the renovation of the White House in the spring of 1952, the chinaware of the presidents was reinstalled in new cabinets in the same China Room. Beginning with the day President John Adams first moved into the new house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the fortunate few invited to dine have shared their impressions with family, friends, and neighbors back home. Because hospitality is so bound up in ceremonial eating and drinking, such accounts often include some description of the type of food served and the manner and ware in which it is presented. This interest in food and the dishes of the Executive Mansion has been an inspiration for the formal collection of the White House china itself. The family rooms are arranged vertically and all face the large inner courtyard, which is usually round or rectangular. The Fujian Tulou are traditional dwellings from southwest China built by the Hakka minority.

Presidential and First Lady Portraits

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Traditional Chinese houses often come to mind when we first think of Chinese culture. This cabinet in the China Room contains the personal services of President George Washington and President John Adams. Attain harmony of taste, texture, colorand aroma in every dish.Healthy food made from fresh ingredients. Another ad from a decade ago shows Sun, in Bob Rossian fake fro and beard, dabbing soy sauce onto a canvas using “happy little eggrolls.” Another spoofs South Korean artist Psy’s 2012 hit “Gangnam Style” — rechristened “House of China Style” for Sun’s purposes. A migrant from Taiwan, Sun built a thriving business and carved out a home for himself in McAllen, which welcomed him back warmly.

什菜牛 A21. Beef with Vegetables

Once you crossed the main door some found in a small room intended for visitors. This dinner plate was purchased during the McKinley administration and features a blue-green border and gilt scrolls. By the middle of the nineteenth century, china was sought after at these auctions and cherished for generations by the families who acquired it, but often the purchasers knew little about the history of their prized possessions. The lack of mobility of nineteenth-century Americana resulted in a heavy concentration of these early collections in the Washington area. In the beginning of the White House story, it was Congress that made it possible for the public to acquire articles used in the President’s House.

The interest of the Smithsonian Institution in presidential china began with pieces of china acquired by the Institution in collections of presidential memorabilia. In 1955, this china was exhibited for the first time as a collection in the then newly renovated First Ladies’ Hall in the Smithsonian Institution’s Arts and Industries Building. The information gathered also proved valuable when Mrs. Eisenhower wished to improve the exhibition of the china collection at the White House.

[Dinner Specials]

The Lilong appeared as a response to the increase in Shanghai’s population in the mid-19th century (as a result of people fleeing the Taiping Rebellion). In the end the house used to have a small sanctuary dedicated to the family ancestors. The larger the family, the larger the courtyard house, which could be enlarged by building more courtyards and rooms as the family grew. Some have nothing to do with the typical Chinese traditional house, an example of this are the Tulou of which we will talk later.

Lo Mein or Rice Noodle

This photograph of the China Room was taken in 1918 during the Woodrow Wilson administration. First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the first to display the china in this room in 1917 and today every president is represented in the room, though not all designed and purchased a state service during their administrations. He suggested she write a story about the presidential china in the White House in the hope that the resulting attention would lead to its preservation. According to Mrs. Baker, he said that “if somebody does not do that pretty soon, there won’t be any left to preserve.”4 Delighted with the opportunity, she told him that before writing the piece, she would have to study the ware in the house and the records concerning it. The house in which the President of the United States lives has always had a great fascination for American citizens who have come to feel they share in the ownership of the Executive Mansion. Throughout its more than 200 year history, the style in which the house is furnished has been determined—to varying degrees—by the money appropriated by Congress from public funds.

锅贴 B4A. Pan Fried Dumplings

For the earlier administrations, both the miscellaneous china purchased for general household use and the formal services are listed in some detail in this study, but as soon as the pattern of purchase becomes clear, repetitious details are no longer included. The term “state china” is used to refer to a banquet service purchased for use on state occasions, such as the formal dinners given for members of Congress, foreign diplomats, and heads of states, and any other occasion which calls for a formal meal served in courses. Early in 1955, President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower selected a set of handsome service plates with a wide gold rim that could be used with any of the other state dinner services. It was the addition of these plates to the china collection and Mrs. Eisenhower’s own love of beautiful china which prompted her great interest in the collection. With the assistance of the Smithsonian Institution, all of the pieces in the White House china collection were carefully examined in 1957, and many of them were relabeled on the basis of research done by the Smithsonian staff. Abby Gunn Baker, a journalist and amateur historian, was asked by Colonel Theodore Bingham, the man in charge of public buildings and grounds during the McKinley administration, to write an article on presidential china.

什菜鸡 A13. Chicken with Vegetables

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He said the closure is difficult and prompted him and his wife to take a Mexican cruise, a vacation after a career that hasn’t allowed for many.

The act of March 3, 1797, which granted John Adams funds to furnish the President’s House, also allowed him to sell things that were worn out, out of style, or unusable. The proceeds could be put towards a so-called “furniture fund,” and the sales, often in the form of a public auction, gave the public a chance to buy the White House furnishings acquired with public funds. Chinese architecture in reference to their houses has changed a lot throughout history, more so than we have been in the last century.

The majority of the Chinese population of cities now live in flats of large apartments or skyscrapers, like most of us. At first glance it seems that these houses are going to fall as they are supported by simple wooden columns. The ground floor is usually used as a warehouse, while the second and third floors are for the inhabitants of the house and their families. Diaojiaolou are ancient Chinese houses built by the Miao minority in southwestern China. They are usually built of wood near mountains and rivers, usually with an extended floor space. The Loess plateau has a fertile clay soil, which makes it very useful for both cultivation and digging.

With this edition we have added additional references to privately owned china—each of which has a particular reason for being included. By the beginning of the Wilson administration, the collection had grown to fill four small cabinets in the downstairs corridor. First Lady Ellen Wilson suggested renovating a Ground Floor room to permanently display the collection, but her death soon after delayed implementation until 1916–17, when the China Room plans were executed with the support of President Wilson’s second wife, Edith. Orange print indicates hot and spicy.Any dish may be ordered hot and spicy.We do not use MSG. Sun is fond of talking about employees he’s worked with over the years, and is especially fond of talking about his three children.

That’s why the people who lived in that part of China decided to make their houses under the soil instead of on top of it, because it was easier. The further you went into the house, the more private the room in question became. The closer you were to the family, the more they let you into the house, allowing you to be received in their second courtyard. The buffet, with heaps of fried food, steamed vegetables and meats in a variety of sauces, was the marquee attraction.

However, some modern Chinese architects have wanted to mix the traditional with the new in many of their projects. One of the most famous is the Tea House project, a house located south of Tiananmen Square. Legend has it that these houses were built one floor above ground level because their first inhabitants had to defend themselves from wild animals. The alleys are part of the house, where food is prepared and children are raised, but the interior of each house is private.

He says he’s a self-proclaimed promoter for people raising families in the Valley, and is proud of his own experience doing so. The inner courtyard of the tulou may be “empty” or full of other smaller communal buildings. Chinese Yaodong houses protect from both cold and heat when they are underground. In the north there are villages where there are only Yaodong cave houses, which are very attractive for tourism.

The term "china," used throughout this book, can be defined as both porcelain and earthenware used for table services at the Executive Mansion. The term acquired this meaning as early as 1889 when Theodore R. Davis wrote his first articles on White House China for The Ladies Home Journal, and it was continued by Abby Gunn Baker and the other writers of the early twentieth century. It is still in use today at the White House where the terms "China Room" and "The White House China Collection" include both porcelain and earthenware used on presidential tables from 1789 to the present. The places of purchase, the types of china being used, the pieces which make up a dinner service and its design, tell much about the material culture and the social customs of our country.

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• The Teeth
• The Batman Movies, Ranked
• These Latina queens will be on Season 9 of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’
• Here's every version of Sonic the Hedgehog, from 1991 to 2020
• Roberto Cavalli, Italian designer whose fashions filled runways and red carpets, dies at 83

Sonic's smooth blue fur became a darker shade of blue, and his eyes became green to contrast with his skin. His shoes with the buckle were designed to be like something Michael Jackson would wear, and the red and white color scheme was inspired by the album cover of Michael Jackson's "Bad" and Santa Claus. Needlemouse is the literal translation of the Japanese word for hedgehog.

The Teeth

The trailer reportedly receives the highest like-to-dislike Google ratio of any official studio trailer released within the last three years; Paramount quietly removes the first Sonic trailer from its website. Deadpool director Tim Miller boards the family-friendly project — which will reportedly follow Sonic and “friends such as Tails and Knuckles, who run around collecting items and points as they attempt to foil the global domination plans of Doctor Eggman Robotnik” — as executive producer. And Fowler, a 2005 Best Short Film Oscar nominee for writing and directing the anthropomorphic animal romp Gopher Broke, is installed as director. Sonic has come a long way from Teddy Roosevelt and rabbits to the live-action form we see today. But the latest backlash just goes to show that fans prefer the Sonic they grew up with in the '90s and that change isn't always a good thing. This franchise is seen as an outlier in terms of Sonic's appearance, though, as the modern Sonic is still being used in other games and media.

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He's also no longer wearing standard running shoes, which helps him look more like an animated character and less like a person. Similar to Sonic's oddly human hands, the original design gave Sonic oddly human teeth. They looked too big for his mouth and they only added to the strange mixture of human and animated character that made the whole thing difficult to look at. If there was a single place where the old Sonic the Hedgehog design made people absolutely scream in uncanny valley terror, it was the hands. Five long fingers that were covered in white fur, but were still, without question,hands based on that of a person. Most of the differences in the new Sonic the Hedgehog that influence the rest of the redesign can be seen in Sonic's face.

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Fans of the blue hedgehog and his friends are currently riding a high from both films delivering what they wanted from the franchise since they were kids. But it was a success that they had to essentially will into happening in the first place, in a way that goes beyond simply seeing the movie. Sonic first made a cameo appearance in the arcade game Rad Mobile (1990) before starring in Sonic the Hedgehog, a platform game for the Sega Genesis, in 1991. Sega sought a mascot character to compete with Nintendo's Mario, and Ohshima designed Sonic based on a prototype programmed by Naka.

A sequel, Sonic and the Black Knight (2009), continued the storybook theme, this time taking place within the realm of the Arthurian legend. That pushed the Sonic movie to a February 2020 release, but it also gave it a much better chance of not totally pissing off everyone who's ever played a Sonic game. To illustrate the differences, we grabbed screenshots from the old and new trailers and put them side-by-side below. CinemaBlend’s resident theme park junkie and amateur Disney historian, Dirk began writing for CinemaBlend as a freelancer in 2015 before joining the site full-time in 2018.

The new version's facial features are also more similar to Sega's design with his cartoonish nose, mouth, and teeth. “The first Sonic the Hedgehog live action movie poster is creepy as hell,” blares a headline on PC Gamer. In May, James Marsden and Jim Carrey join the film’s non-animated cast with the latter portraying Sonic’s chief antagonist, Dr. Robotnik (Parks and Recreation co-star Ben Schwartz provides the attitudinal hedgehog’s voice). In August, Paramount announces that Sonic’s release date has been pushed up by a week to November 8, 2019. Sonic fans hated the design so much that director Jeff Fowler promised he would change it to better reflect Sega's modern version of Sonic. Overall, he became more angular and less round, and he lost his potbelly.

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He is the star of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Sega. Sonic is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds. He races through levels, collecting rings and avoiding obstacles, as he seeks to defeat his archenemy, Doctor Eggman. He is accompanied by supporting characters, such as his sidekick Miles "Tails" Prower, self-proclaimed girlfriend Amy Rose, and friendly rival Knuckles the Echidna.

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The original concept for Sonic was to make him look, for lack of a better word, real. The hair on Sonic's face, beyond being bright blue, looks like it could be on a real animal. The face is wide, giving Sonic a bit more of an aerodynamic head, which makes some sense, but just never sat right with fans. The added time allowed animators and VFX artists to insert an entirely new Sonic into the movie, unveiling the result of their hard work in a shiny second trailer. The criticism was so passionate and far-reaching that the filmmakers decided to take action, as director Jeff Fowler announced on Twitter just a few days later.

While Sega was seeking a flagship series to compete with Nintendo's Mario series, several character designs were submitted by its research and development department. Ohshima felt that people selected it because it "transcends race and gender and things like that".[14] On return to Japan, Ohshima pitched this to the department, and the hedgehog was ultimately selected as the new mascot. Here’s the director of Sonic the Hedgehog, Jeff Fowler, cracking wise at the reception to the original design after leaks and early reactions started appearing, but before the original trailer released. “I emphasize a lot in what the artist wants to show, express, and make people feel when they’re wearing it.

Initially, the designers for the film created a Sonic that was supposed to resemble a realistic hedgehog. He had creepy, humanlike teeth and generally looked like a small child in a onesie. To make Sonic look more like what audiences recognize in a hero, art director Bob Rafei gave him bandages, tattered hair, and a scarf. This design gave us another radical deviation from the traditional Sonic design in that this version had blue arms instead of flesh-colored ones.

In this particular image, the lighting has also been changed, to make Sonic brighter over all. This morning we saw the new trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. While most second movie trailers are mostly focused on giving us a bit more detail on the characters and the plot, the purpose of this trailer is really to show off the new look of the main character. In keeping with their desire for a realistic Sonic, their first take had a lot more noticeable fur on him. The new take still has fur, but his body seems smoother to reflect how he looks in Sega's design. And the spikes on his head and back are much sharper as a result and more closely resemble the Sega version.

Whale Watching in Los Angeles and Southern California

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• There was a time, not long ago...
• Seafood Sliders
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• WELCOME TO LBI
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Two years ago, it was bought by Gerri Gilliland, Santa Monica’s own One Hot Tamale. This summer, we’re lining up a whole schedule of entertainment from DJs to touring bands and some of the Island locals we love at Bird & Betty’s. We have live music at the Black Whale three nights a week in the summer as part of our commitment to local musicians. Join Alma Finca, Nocheluna, and Las Californias to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with reimagined versions of the world’s favorite drink, the Martini, across some of your favorite bars and restaurants in Los Angeles. Participating bars and restaurants include All Day Baby, The Mermaid, Otono, The Black Cat, Big Bar, Mirate, and Employees Only.

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The tri-tip seems the smokiest and the rich, meaty beef ribs the best. In the end, though, location cannot be denied, and Marina del Rey is still a beach town, with a beach town’s tastes. Santa Maria barbecue may be the unique deal here, but Washington Street B&G; moves a lot of seafood, just as the Black Whale did.

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The lengthy Redondo Beach Pier always seems to make headlines for close-to-shore whale sightings. But that doesn’t mean you can just stroll out onto the pier on a daily basis and see humpbacks breaching or pods of killer whales swimming by. Redondo is, however, still a useful destination for those looking to launch out of the South Bay. And there’s a list of pastas, most of them familiar, but the fettuccine with portabello mushrooms is distinctive. The mushroom slices are have a smoky flavor--hey, maybe they’ve been grilled over red oak.

Seafood Sliders

That said, you can still find a few boats in search of sea lions, dolphins and sometimes whales. Another whale species you might see in the off-season is the humpback whale, whose adults range in length from 40 to 50 feet and often appear from April to June. These whales are particularly acrobatic, so you might see them splashing about on the surface of the ocean in addition to coming up for air. Check for local whale spotting reports before scheduling a whale watching trip in the spring.

Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor is a popular spot to take a stroll or to board a cruise. It’s also home to the Aquarium of the Pacific, which offers combo museum and boat tickets through Harbor Breeze Cruises. I’ve had a great halibut in a smoky, tangy chipotle pepper sauce. This is particularly so among the appetizers, where you see the usual seafood nibbles, such as oysters and peel-and-eat shrimp (the latter arrive hot on a bed of chopped ice, but they’re more flavorful before they cool off). The menu boasts of a Really Good Crab Cake, which is at least pretty good, served on baby greens with a thousand island dressing.

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Some dove off the boat as it returned to the docks in Beach Haven. We have no idea who those people were.But when we opened our spot in 2005 on Centre Street in Beach Haven, a block from those docks, we knew we wanted to name it after the Black Whale Cruise.Before the Black Whale, we did fish. Opening the Black Whale wasn’t just an exciting new foray into running a local watering hole – it was part of the thriving Queen City, just far enough off the Boulevard, easy to duck into just off the beach.

According to volunteers at the Aquarium of the Pacific, there have been gray, sperm, humpback, blue, fin, and Minke whales sighted on their whale watching tours. There have also been rare glimpses of pygmy sperm, pilot, killer, false killer, Cuvier's beaked, and Stejnegers beaked whales in the San Pedro Channel off the SoCal coast. Gray whales, the most prevalent of the species cleaving our waters, migrate 6,000 miles south every October from their feeding grounds in the Bering Strait to mate and calve in the warm lagoons of Baja, Mexico. Prime whale watching season is from January through April when the mamas return north with their young. Gray whales get to be about 52 feet long and are a splotchy gray and white due to parasites that attach to them in the warm water and fall off again when they head north. In the summer, another rarer species, the North Pacific Blue Whales, have been migrating along the west coast since 2007.

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You can choose between different types of excursions, like luxury catamaran cruises and sunset tours. There’s even a high-speed sailboat tour with a submarine-like viewing pod for you to experience marine life below water as you cruise around the coastline. Many species of whales can be seen off the coast of California year-round, but especially during the winter and summer migratory seasons.

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There’s a chocolate tart, which is like a warm brownie with an oozy chocolate center, and there’s a blast from the ‘80s, a chocolate box--a lidless box made of chocolate, filled with chocolate mousse and strawberries. The mudd pie is partly chewy, partly gooey and partly crunchy, but all chocolate. As for the Santa Maria barbecue dishes, don’t expect anything very exotic. They taste to me like very good California backyard barbecue stuff, particularly the pork ribs, only with a scent of red oak smoke.

It’s served on a distinctive fresh home-baked bun, which has a chewy, bready texture. The shoestring fries that come with it may not be literally as thin as shoestrings, but they are fried properly crisp. They’re thickly breaded like old-time beach-town fried shrimp, and they’re unusual among fried calamaris in coming with mustard. The best appetizer is the mussels, which are cooked in a quasi-Thai style, with coconut milk, curry spices and chopped tomatoes.

Even when it's really hot at the beach, it's cool out past the breakwater. If you're traveling to southern California and are a fan of the open ocean and marine life, you can spend the day whale watching in Los Angeles and Orange County either on the coast or on a cruise of the Pacific Ocean. Home to chartered yachts and booze cruises, Marina del Rey’s boats are more catered toward leisure than wildlife spotting.

In between whale migrations, the whale watching excursions become dolphin and sea life tours, since half-a-dozen dolphin varieties, as well as sea lions and seals, can usually be found in our waters all year long. Of the other whales that may appear off the coast of southern California, fin whales are the most likely to appear year-round. Fin whales are the second largest mammal, reaching up to 88 feet long, and although they are endangered, their populations are spread out across many oceans and their migratory patterns are not well understood. As a result, you might only catch them off the coast of SoCal on occasion, and it could happen any season. We’ve also noted a couple of harbor cruises that, while unlikely to bring you near whales, will possibly put you near dolphins and sea lions for a fraction of the price. They’d arrive in Atlantic City for a night on the town and then voyage back under the stars.

If there’s a wait we will do our best to get you seated as quickly as possible while you enjoy a drink and appetizer on our deck or at the bar. The Reynolds are a family we love working with on events and in the community. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. Even the grilled hamburger is great, as smoky as a shish kebab in the Aleppo souk.

If you do not see what you are looking for please add your name to the notify list and be the first to know if there are cancellations! Starting at 6 text your address and number of people in your party. Not to be overshadowed, there’s all sorts of news coming out of the Black Whale this summer.

7 White House with Black Trim Combinations for a Dazzling Effect

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• #5 // Modern Ranch with Wood Accents
• Black Home Siding With Stone
• Black Door Thin White Trim
• New England House With White and Light Teal Exterior Walls and Black Trim
• Do Concrete Walls Block WiFi?
• Southern Transitional Home with Black Trim

These elements are tied together to create a gorgeously elegant modern farmhouse that will have all the neighbors wanting to paint their brick. In other words, a white house with black trim will never go out of style. By opting for black trim against white exterior walls, you can create a contrast that adds depth to your modern or traditional home. A black window interior helps develop a noticeable contrast with white or light wood cabinets and light-colored countertops.

#5 // Modern Ranch with Wood Accents

We always recommend adding a bit of contrast to any home and black houses are no different. Simple green landscaping and porch plants are what we like best. Notice how beautiful these two small, simple green plants look next this this little black lake house.

Black Home Siding With Stone

The color makes a strong visual statement that needs minimal accessories to look incredible. Black metal is a beautiful siding option generally reserved for trim and accent pieces or on modern homes. Usually only very modern homes use black metal as a primary siding choice. It comes in large panels which are secured to the outside walls over a rain screen. The exact color of black can be pretty much whatever you like since the panels are painted.

Black Door Thin White Trim

However, with black windows, this is not an issue since it is a drastic contrast. As you can see a house’s architectural style does not limit the ability to choose from our black and white paint color ideas. Here is a fabulous, custom home with a softer spin on the white house with black trim. Going with more of a warm white exterior paint color rather than a stark white creates a classic, romantic, elegant look and feel. All of the black window frames on this home are an absolute dream and I love the dimension the different sections create. The landscaping here adds some nice greenery and the tall trees and wildflowers surrounding this home are completely charming.

New England House With White and Light Teal Exterior Walls and Black Trim

This classic and timeless color pairing has become a huge trend that looks fresh and sophisticated in both modern and traditional homes. If you want to spruce up your white house with black trim, consider grey roof shingles instead of black. This idea will enhance the view of your home from the street. Grey is the ideal color to contrast white and black, thus resulting in an interesting visual impact that makes the house look unique and cozy. Home designers have been steering siding colors away from muted, neutral colors into white with black blamed windows and doors or rich, dark tones. Bold black siding options will most likely never be a mainstream choice you’ll see on every block however when they’re used it has a dramatic effect.

Glass inserts and metal hardware are also excellent add on. They will shine beautifully against white, while dirty handprints (and paw prints) are quickly disguised. Black can also frame and highlight the view behind glass doors like a picture, inviting guests and company to come in by having an effortlessly stylish welcome.

Southern Transitional Home with Black Trim

It also uses a broader casing at the top than along the sides. A monochromatic color scheme has a magical influence on a white brick house with black trim’s attractiveness. This color scheme may be used for the outside of the home, and the windows can be given a black tint to increase the contrast. Mediterranean style houses, such as the classic white stucco house with black trim, are characterized by stucco walls and graceful arches. When adorned with the bold touch of black trim, these homes transform into inviting retreats. This addition accentuates their unique features, creating a warm and inviting aura that welcomes you with open arms.

White bricks, trimmings, eaves, and siding have been famous for a long time in these houses. This white hallway with black doors by Chango & Co. and trim create a clean and contemporary look, adding visual interest and modern touch to the overall design. A stunner for sure, this home features black windows, copper gutters, beautiful stone and incorporates a white exterior as well for a breathtaking combination.

Diagonal lines make a bold statement that can’t be ignored, making even the most traditional homes look and feel modern. Every pair of eyes that walks by will be drawn to your home. A quaint little two-story single-detached house surely makes you release a sigh of happiness. It not only has everything you need like a chimney, but it’s very cozy and perfect for small families. If you want to go even simpler, you might find this design just your style. Bungalow houses offer more privacy and are very low maintenance.

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At the same time, the tan color gives it a neutral look, perfect for any occasion or holiday. It’s sometimes daunting when you’re tasked to pick a color for a longhouse like this. But choosing a trio like black, dark brown, and gray makes it an easy task.

This contemporary dining area is both inviting and spacious. The outside space may be quickly accessed through the black glass windows. Because of all the fancy amenities, you can tell it’s a high-end, modern space, but this living room manages to exude an air of calm and renewal. Open the large windows in the contemporary living area and take in the scenery—one of Alexandre Parent’s better creations.

Teenage Engineering CM-15 review

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• Types of Home Studios
• Ableton Live: Innovative Performance Tips for Electronic Music Producers
• Reducing reflections creates better vocal recordings.
• Teenage Engineering CM-15: What is it?
• MIDI Controllers

You can pretty much buy the cheapest gear for this, it doesn’t matter. The problem is, most people make this type of home studio with the wrong expectations. If you want to bring a freelance engineer into your home studio, you’re also going to have to have a better home recording studio that’s more suited for mixing. Contact us today to learn more about our music studio design services and how we can help you create the perfect space for your creativity.

Types of Home Studios

It’s much harder to do once you start furnishing the room. If you’ve already furnished the room, you’ll be busy moving everything around while you do this and it may mean rewiring the whole studio as a result. Sound coming into the studio from outside isn’t the only thing that can mess up a recording. So can the reflections of sound bouncing around the walls inside the studio. You might be able to find a local carpenter to make you a booth but the ability to break it down for transport will vary. Small vocal booths are more simple for a carpenter to make.

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Reducing reflections creates better vocal recordings.

Since then plugins have come out that offer the same features of analogue desks (other than the preamps) right inside the DAW. Even certain models of famous mixers such as API, Neve, SSL, Trident, have all had various plugin emulations for their EQs and compressors. Many people joke that they are just overpriced mice lol.

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This one you probably didn’t notice but 30k worth vocal mics are sitting on separate stands instead of being stored in their cases with a desiccant which means eventually the capsules will degrade and they’ll break. Maybe they were just displayed for the photo but given that there is only one vocal booth and recording area, it’s likely they are always kept this way. With acoustic panels, you never need to cover the whole wall with them. Before you work out where to put the acoustic panels, you have to work out where you’re going to sit. If the room is rectangle, make the short wall where you will put your desk. For a square shaped room, you’re going to need thicker acoustic panels and more bass traps.

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Buying audio gear is risky and closer to buying a used car than it is to buying a used sofa. There is lots going on under the hood that can go wrong. You’ll be surprised how much of a different lighting can make to the vibe and feel of your studio.

The protocol used will determine the amount of control you have over your DAW. Mixing with the mouse will mean thousands of clicks with your index finger. Using a mouse for mixing requires small precise movements which favors less than optimal mouse and wrist positioning. This can be slower, inefficient and will cause RSI when mixing for long hours. Buying too much gear isn’t going to solve your problems.

MIDI Controllers

This avoids you having to purchase a more expensive studio monitor controller and makes it seem more like a desktop interface. That’s why most home studio people just use a cheap mic and the preamps in their interface. You might not be able to get permission to paint your apartment but if you google ‘apartment wallpaper’ or ‘non-woven wallpaper’ you’ll find a lot of wallpaper that is easy to remove. The wallpaper I used in my studio is a non-woven wallpaper but unfortunately it’s been discontinued but there is plenty of cool wallpaper out there.

Doors and windows can be problem areas for sound leakage. Consider investing in solid core or soundproof doors. To handle windows, there are solutions such as double-pane or soundproof glass.

The issue with this is that the vibration from the speakers will run through your desk and cause you to hear all sorts of things that aren’t there. To hear them accurately, studio monitors should be placed so that the tweeter is at your ear height. I noticed these are also the studio monitors in the more money than sense home studio photo from earlier lol. When choosing a set of studio monitor speakers most people make the mistake of choosing the most exciting and impressive and best sounding monitor speaker.

From all of our discussions on recording studio design or music studio design, we must realize that one size does not fit all. One room size for all usages whether a recording studio design or music studio design will not work. You must decide your usage and match the energy requirements of your usage to your room size and volume. There are volumes and dimensions of rooms that will simply not work, so one size does not fit all and if people are telling you that, they’re misleading you. The direct is that straight-line energy from your monitors. That’s the music only, what’s in the mix, and obviously the reflected energy from the sidewalls is the room itself.

You can seal cracks off with sealant but often the air conditioner is a problem. The air conditioner unit acts like a small speaker to outside. Modern split systems and ceiling units are less of an issue. You could make an MDF box with a foam seal to go over it but then you’ve got no air-conditioner. They make portable air-conditioner units but you need to run the tube somewhere. Best is into another room that you’re not recording in but if you only have a studio apartment, there isn’t too much you can do about this.

Szechuan Mountain House Restaurants in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles

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• Takeaways and Surprises From the ‘New York Times’ 25 Best Restaurants in Boston List
• Leading L.A. vegan restaurant goes un-vegan. ‘I knew the vitriol that would come my way’
• Rice Chicken
• The Best Sichuan Restaurants In NYC
• East Village’s Newest Sichuan Restaurant Dares to Experiment

La-zi chicken, another Szechuan Mountain House specialty, marinates its diced chicken and deep-fries then stir-fries it with a small mountain of dried peppers, peppercorns and sesame. The menu lists dishes as either ma-la, traditional or modernist, along with categories for vegetables, soups, cold items and noodles and rice. Other hard-to-find Sichuan dishes on the menu include Qian Jiang-style chicken giblets with pickled pepper and mala chicken stew. Szechuan Mountain House also features offal like pig intestine, tripe, beef tongue, kidney, chicken giblets, curdled blood, and fish maw. There is also a wide variety of vegetables, as well as the popular golden baked salted corn kernels with salted egg yolk, which tastes like creamy, buttery, elevated popcorn, and an expansive vegetarian menu.

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“Many people in the U.S. believe that Sichuan food equals red hot chiles and peppercorn. They think that they should be sweating and crying for help to extinguish the burn, but we want to show people that Sichuan food is more than that,” says Zhu.

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It first launched in the East Village in 2015 and gained attention for its experimental, eclectic approach to the cuisine in New York. Soon after, a second New York City location popped up in Flushing, and a West Coast expansion followed this past summer in Los Angeles. Luo and Wang didn’t disclose specific further expansion plans at this time, but said that they generally hope to keep expanding across the U.S. “If there is a huge demand for Szechuan food, Mountain House will try our best to be in that location,” Luo says. “It feels really satisfying to be growing the company the way we want to be growing it,” Kramer said. In addition to newly focusing on catering, Kramer and Hymanson are planning multiple other Kismet Rotisserie locations, including one slated to open in Culver City this fall.

Rice Chicken

To be the finest food city in the country and might be biased on that count but doesn’t believe she’s wrong. Aviad “Avi” Yalin’s Avi Cue pop-up, serving shawarma roasted on a spit imported from Israel, has taken over the former Tacos 1986 location in Studio City, running as a three-week pop-up with the possibility of permanent extension (follow Avi Cue on Instagram for updates). Yalin began pandemic-spurred Avi Cue roughly four years ago, consistently drawing lines of fans for fresh pita stuffed with shaved and ground wagyu. With a bricks-and-mortar location, Yalin is offering new, larger pita and additions such as fries, loaded shawarma fries and imported Israeli fruit juice. Zhu says that they take great care in the selection of peppercorns, all of which are grown in Sichuan. It is not out of the ordinary to use more than 20 different kinds of spices for a particular dish.

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The New York City location of this Allston Szechuan spot is an institution, and it’s one of the few transplant restaurants in Boston we’re actually excited about. Their swinging pork belly dish has mandolined strips of meat and cucumber draped over a wooden stand, with the whole thing dangling above a bowl of garlic and chili oil. Once it arrives at your table, it’ll first get your attention for presentation, and then for being your new favorite way to eat pork belly. Order that, the pepper lover chicken that has some decent spice without setting your tongue on fire, and a couple of other plates to celebrate crushing the first half of the workweek. One of NYC’s best Chinese restaurants has opened in L.A.—or, to be more precise, Rowland Heights’ Pearl Plaza, which also houses Eat Joy Food, a 2023 Michelin Bib Gourmand.

A reboot of a Chinatown spot that closed decades ago, Hwa Yuan serves great Peking duck, sesame noodles, and more in a massive space on East Broadway. Opening on an interior courtyard of a new shopping and hotel complex off Prince Street, Szechuan Mountain House was an instant hit among well-heeled dating couples out for an evening of innovative food in a romantic atmosphere. It grabbed the second-floor space formerly occupied by Grand Sichuan, itself an early advocate of the Sichuan peppercorns that have become ubiquitous in the neighborhood. “I’ve always enjoyed preparing spicy dishes to share with others since I was a child, which is why I chose to be a chef,” Zhu told The Times in an email. Bring a group to this crowd-pleasing Midtown restaurant and share a bunch of dim sum and Szechuan dishes. Szechuan Mountain House, an award-winning New York City-based restaurant group with a devoted fan base, has landed in Boston.

As the name suggests, the fiery cuisine of Sichuan — a province located in southwestern China — is the focus here. The group’s culinary director, chef Zhi Min Zhu, is overseeing the Boston menu, which includes many of the hit dishes found at the group’s other locations, including the crowd-favorite swing pork belly. The photogenic dish features thin strips of pork belly and slices of cucumber hanging on a wooden rod, suspended over a cup of minced garlic and chile oil dipping sauce.

A koi pond, fake gingko trees and yellow lanterns lend an air of serenity to the dining room, in sharp contrast to the trial by fire your taste buds are likely to experience with several of Szechuan Mountain House’s signature items, which include traditional and modern Sichuanese recipes. For a walk on the mild side, opt for tamer delights like the twice-cooked pork, yibin-style ran noodles and the Insta-worthy swing pork belly. The signature dish at Szechuan Mountain House is liang yi pork belly, Zhu’s modernized take on a traditional Chinese dish. Liang yi, which translates to “hanging clothes” in Mandarin, is intended to evoke the image of laundry hung to dry on a clothesline. Together with a slice of cucumber, the thin pork belly is dipped in chile oil with a wad of minced garlic. The translucently thin slices of pork and cucumber are presented draped over a miniature wooden rack above a minced garlic and chile oil dipping sauce.

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The group opened a stylish new spot at 89 Brighton Avenue, in Allston, in mid-November. Our guide to the best Italian restaurants in a city that has a lot of Italian restaurants. But the most exciting aspect of Szechuan Mountain House lies in the fact that the daring menu hasn’t been made blander for a perceived East Village audience, mirroring the sorts of experimentation and quest for novelty seen heretofore mainly in the new Sichuan restaurants in Flushing — and presumably, in China itself. The original Szechuan Mountain House was one among a raft of modern and more expensive Sichuan restaurants to hit Flushing during the last three years.

Rice chicken also offers fried chicken sandwiches, salads, cup-bap in spicy pork, beef bulgogi and other options, and sides like corn cheese, fried sausage and tteokbokki. The ma-la dishes feature the hot-and-numbing peppercorn that’s emblematic of the cuisine. But not all of Zhu’s cooking features its spicy heat and anesthetizing effect. Sautéed vegetables and especially the dishes from the “traditional cuisine” menu, such as braised pork atop shredded, preserved vegetables, showcase the flavors of the region without chiles. While the focus remains on Sichuan cuisine, along with most of the small chain’s iconic dishes, some recipes and ingredients have been altered for the Los Angeles location to utilize more local ingredients. The signature fried rice is ramified with mustard greens, while a dish of fried lotus roots and celery provides a spectacular snap that you can hear as diners around the table attack it, with a subtle flavor that you’ll dream of that evening.

The 3,000 square-foot, 47-seat restaurant is designed in the restaurant group’s signature upscale style, boasting classic Chinese ink paintings and calligraphy on the walls, flower art, and illuminated koi floats suspended from the ceiling. “Each Mountain House location keeps our core aesthetic,” brand operations manager Ariala Luo says. Stephanie Breijo is a reporter for the Food section and the author of its weekly news column. Previously, she served as the restaurants and bars editor for Time Out Los Angeles, and prior to that, the award-winning food editor of Richmond magazine in Richmond, Va.

In the near future she hopes to use the Porridge + Puffs space for occasional community-minded events such as cookbook dinners for guest chefs or potential collaborations with the nearby People’s Pottery Project. “I really wanted to stay true to our menu and not make any compromises just to please what we thought the local crowd would find acceptable. For us, this is what a modern-day Sichuan restaurant would actually look like in Sichuan,” says Zhu.

In actuality, the ribs should be singular and the bun plural, since the dish consists of a single humongous beef rib, somewhat resembling the sort found at the city’s Texas barbecues. Alongside are the kind of folded, steamed bao you now see in nearly every Asian fast food spot. The meat has been cut from the bone, and it’s tough and gristly from being roasted too fast and too hot, which is why the same rib is cooked “low and slow” in barbecues. A new Korean fried chicken shop that uses rice flour for its coating is now open in Koreatown with a range of styles, sauces, sides and more. Rice Chicken, a new concept from Paul Kim, a former partner in Long Beach’s Ren Sushi, offers wings, boneless chicken and whole pieces available by the half or full dozen.

A stone-clad koi pond and burbling waterfall confronts you upon entering the space. Enclosed bamboo booths trail off into an interior decorated with pottery and other elements, intended to evoke the eponymous mountain retreat. But far from mounting a menu obsessed with the rural or even the urban food of Sichuan, the bill of fare is an eclectic document. In addition to Sichuan standards and Sichuan-themed inventions, it borrows dishes from other regions, leaping from Hunan to Dongbei to Beijing to Hong Kong.