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Famoso defies expectations at every turn. I was in an elegant restaurant, but was told I had to place my order at the counter.
Famoso defies expectations at every turn. I was in an elegant restaurant, but was told I had to place my order at the counter. I was served a hand-tossed, genuine Neapolitan pizza made of imported, low-gluten flour and topped with imported Italian tomatoes which cost less than Famoso’s less exotically sourced competitors. And finally, though the pizza itself was crafted with care, it was cooked in 90 seconds!
I picked a full-sized Vesuvio ($13.50), since I didn’t figure that the lunch-sized pizzetta ($8.50) would be enough. I then combined a delicious dark roast coffee ($2.50) with a small glass of heady limoncello ($8.25) — the sweet lemon liqueur balanced beautifully with that deep, rich java.
There was way too much of the spicy sopressata pizza for me to finish. Unfortunately, I also savoured a few too many slices before I discovered the gelato bar — the tubs of sweet, icy goodness beckoned, but I could not answer … this time. I’ll be back to try the movie-and-dinner deal soon, and make sure to save room for that gelato.
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With Intel-based Mac machines now widely available, hackers find a way to get it done. One site even offers contest with prize money.
(San Jose, Calif.) Hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot.
Or, make that dual-boot -- the way to make a computer switch between two operating systems.
Some users of Apple Computer Inc.'s Macs have clamored for such a solution since Apple said it would be switching its computers to Intel Corp.'s chips, putting the feat within reach.
Their reasons vary, but a common denominator is that they would like to run Windows-based programs on their Macs.
Colin Nederkoorn, a shipping broker in Houston, says he just wants to streamline his work: instead of using his Apple PowerBook computer for some programs and a Windows PC for other tasks, he'd like to just use one machine.
That's why Nederkoorn, 23, started a contest back in January to goad programmers, soliciting donations for a cash prize for anyone who came up with a hack.
Late Thursday, the prize went to two San Francisco Bay Area software developers, Jesus Lopez, 33, of Alameda, and Eric Wasserman, 41, of Berkeley.
Lopez said he did most of the technical work -- spending late nights and weekends on the challenge -- while Wasserman, a devoted Mac user, introduced him to the contest in February and supported him in the process.
Lopez, who never even owned a Mac computer until he had to get one to assume the challenge, said in an interview Friday his previous tinkering projects were all personal.
";But this is something that I feel a lot of people could use, and that the tech community will benefit from this," he said.
On Friday, Nederkoorn's Web site was busy with collaboration between developers working to improve upon Lopez' work. Nederkoorn said the so-called "Windows on Mac" project is open-sourced, meaning anyone can build on it.
The hack, which is downloadable from the Web site, still takes some tedious labor and technical know-how, but Nederkoorn predicts an easier version for mainstream computer users might be available within a year.
"It should be as easy as two clicks at some stage" he said.
When Apple introduced its first Intel-based computer in January, company officials said Apple has no intention of selling or supporting Windows on its machines, though it has not done anything to preclude people from doing it themselves.
"If there are people who love our hardware but are forced to put up with a Windows world, then that's OK," senior vice president Phil Schiller said at the time.
Tuesday's earthquake here was placed variously at 5.8 to 6.2 on the Richter scale. But it didn't take a seismologist to tell veterans of California temblors that the quake was ''strong.'' Buildings swayed wider and windows and doors rattled louder than they usually do in the routine rumblings beneath California.
What a seismologist can tell residents, however, is that the quake was not unexpected and that there are likely to be more just like it over time. Further, emphasizing the area's quake-prone position, Tuesday's temblor came just before next week's anniversary of the major Coalinga quake in 1983 and following last week's anniversary of the huge San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Emanating from the Calaveras Fault, where it runs through Morgan Hill 50 miles south of here, this week's quake was a near duplicate of a 5.9 quake 30 miles further south in 1979, says Gerald Eaton, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey. (That quake received less attention because it occurred in a more isolated area.) The two quakes are evidence of the strike-slip pattern of activity along the fault, which heads in a northwesterly direction, ending near the western shore of San Francisco Bay, Dr. Eaton says. The Pacific side of the fault is sliding toward the northwest as it grates along the eastern side of the fault, he explained.
''The break (on Tuesday) was to be expected. The only question was when it would occur. Historically there have been some large-ish earthquakes here, and somewhere along the whole stretch of faulting it will indeed break again in the range of 6 to 6.5 (on the Richter scale),'' Eaton says.
Where the ''breaking'' will occur is not certain. But he notes that much of the rest of the Calaveras Fault lies north of here, in the heavily populated East Bay, where damage would be worse.
Although Tuesday's quake caused some minor injuries to San Jose and Morgan Hill residents, knocked homes off foundations, sparked fires, cracked highways, and interrupted phone and electric service, the damage was considered light compared with last year's 6.5 quake, which flattened Coalinga.
Eaton explains that if a quake were to hit closer to the metropolitan area of San Francisco, damage would be much worse. He says most of the structures in the farming community of Morgan Hill were new, low-lying buildings made of relatively limber wood and nails. The masonry and multistory construction of older buildings in the bay area, he says, would incur more damage in a quake.
This photo moved on the wire this week. It was military appreciation day at the Century Link Field in Seattle over the weekend and, a C-17 from the 446th Airlift Wing out of Joint Base Lewis McChord did a flyover before the Seahawks beat the Ravens.
Also at the game, Staff Sgt. Angie Johnson of the Air National Guard band Sidewinder performed the National Anthem. Sidewinder will disband as the result of restructuring in the Guard. (See my story here.) Video after the jump.
Dozens of tech giants, including Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, have written to the US government urging ‘to bring to the floor’ a bill which gives more privacy protection to their users’ emails and other information stored on their servers.
The companies want Email Privacy Act to be approved by the authorities. It was introduced May 2013 and is still waiting to be passed by the US bodies.
The new bill “would make it clear that the warrant standard of the US Constitution applies to private digital information just as it applies to physical property,” say the companies in two letters to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The bill would update the 1988 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications. It was harshly criticized for failing to protect all communications and consumer records, mainly because the law is outdated.
“Updating ECPA would respond to the deeply held concerns of Americans about their privacy,” wrote the tech giants.
Under the ECPA, a government agency may demand service providers to hand over personal consumer data stored on their servers.
The legislation also allows police authorities to made warrantless searches of people’s emails and other information stored on the ‘cloud’ that are more than 180 days old.
The companies argue that the old bill says that “data stored in the cloud should be afforded less protection than data stored locally."
The recent leaks of celebrities’ intimate photos from the Apple iCloud may help the authors of the letter to raise the awareness of the US authorities towards information privacy.
After the scandalous leak, Apple’s chief executive said the company intends to keep hackers away from clients’ private data stored in iCloud’s database by using mail and push message security alerts.
Now, an iCloud user will be notified if someone tries to change the password to his or her cloud, if some electronic device is connecting to the service for the first time, or when restoring iCloud data to a new device.
Robin Leach poses at his home in Las Vegas Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 \| 8:36 p.m.
Longtime celebrity journalist Robin Leach looks back on his 50-year career, talking of some of his favorite stories and friends in his 50 years in the field. Also, country music star Neal McCoy remembers some of his more compelling USO tour shows and why he never performs Encores. He is at Buffalo Bill's in Primm on Saturday night.
Robin Leach poses at his home Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.
Robin Leach poses with a Keep Memory Alive cap at his home Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Keep Memory Alive raises money for research to develop a cure for Alzheimer's Disease.
Holly Madison and Robin Leach at the Nikki Beach and Club Nikki White Party Grand Opening at the Tropicana on May 26, 2011.
Robin Leach with Elizabeth Taylor after filming “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”.
Steve Wynn discusses Phil Ruffin and his recent purchase of Treasure Island, as well as the "unbundling" of hotels on the Strip during an interview with Robin Leach.
Steve Wynn talks about the structure of financing new development in Las Vegas during an interview with Robin Leach.
Steve Wynn discusses the state of the economy and its effect on Las Vegas during an interview with Robin Leach.
Steve Wynn discusses gaming and the demographics his properties cater to during an interview with Robin Leach.
Steve Wynn discusses changes in the nightclub industry in Vegas during an interview with Robin Leach.
Steve Wynn reflects on the evolution of the hotel-casino business in Las Vegas over the years during an interview with Robin Leach.
It was a warm June afternoon in 2008. The scene could take place only in Las Vegas, and in the life of Robin Leach.
A cluster of media members was invited to view five tiger cubs under the care of famed illusionists Siegfried & Roy.
The spunky cubs were being shown to the public for the first time and were to go on display soon at the duo’s Secret Garden at the Mirage.
Siegfried & Roy and the cubs were positioned on a grassy expanse in a tented area on the grounds of their vast estate across the street from Las Vegas Municipal Golf Course.
Reporters were instructed to park in open spaces along the neighborhood’s tight streets. Reporters were led to a covered patio where pastries, juice and water were laid out as we all waited for the big unveiling.
Certainly, he was out there, talking with Siegfried & Roy and getting the first glimpse of the new litter. No one could begrudge Leach the special treatment, as he had been friends with the duo for decades.
I looked over at a grinning Garcia, not needing to say what I was thinking: Welcome to Vegas, and, especially, welcome to the world of Robin Leach.
Leach has lived and worked in Las Vegas for a little more than a decade, having been fascinated by the city when he began luring celebrity chefs to the then-under-construction Venetian for specials on the Food Network, a powerhouse cable channel he helped found. First it was his good friend Wolfgang Puck and his Postrio, then Emeril Lagasse with Delmonico. This was in 1995, just as “Lifestyles” had played out after 14 seasons. At that point, Leach saw an opportunity to push Las Vegas’ visual dynamism to television on a regular basis, as TV viewers love celebrities and glitz, and the Strip is famously bathed in both.
But today, Leach is far more a former TV personality than a current one. He is a veritable writing machine, as the host of VegasDeluxe.com, his Luxe Life blog appearing there several times a day and rolling over to LasVegasSun.com and LasVegasWeekly.com.
There is no busier journalist in the city, as Leach often pumps out 2,000 to 5,000 words of copy each day.
Leach makes no secret of his approach to reporting about Las Vegas: He focuses on the grandest megaresorts and nightclubs. He consciously appeals to readers who live outside Las Vegas, particularly those who are eager to be informed of the latest celebrity happenings on the Strip.
Thus, you will not likely see him hanging out at such local hovels as Emergency Arts or the Griffin on Fremont East.
Leach is a writer at the core, a reality that might startle those who have observed him on the air over the past few decades. He is without question a dynamic, highly energized TV personality, but Leach first entered journalism simply to write.
As a 10-year-old student at Harrow County School for Boys, a working-class education facility about 10 miles outside London, Leach began peppering the editor of the hometown Harrow Observer with weekly stories about the latest happenings at his school. Those columns were printed in the Observer regularly, but little Robin received no byline or compensation for what amounted to the gossip column in the school pub, The Gayton Times.
This went on for five years. After graduation, a 15-year-old Leach walked into the Harrow Observer and was met by an editor who showed him his newsroom desk.
“We’ve been expecting you,” Leach was told.
He was hired at a rate even meager by today’s standards, about $6 a week, and thus began his career in journalism.
For one of Leach’s first stories, an article to accompany a picture page, his editor fired a dart at a map of the city on the newsroom wall. He then sent Leach to the random neighborhood the dart struck. Clad in short pants, Leach rode a bike through a downpour, waddled up to a door picked at his whim, knocked and was met by a gentleman.
The man said he was busy writing a play.
“What’s it called?” Leach asked.
“Stop the World, I Want to Get Off,” said the man, who happened to be that classic production’s co-author (with Anthony Newley), Leslie Bricusse. With random timing and a couple of clear questions, Robin Leach had his first scoop. Years later, he watched the opening of the production at Queen’s Theater on the West End and recalled, after the show, Newley banging his head against the wall after what appeared to be a smash (so to speak) performance.
“I asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ and he said, “ ‘I could have done it better!’ That’s what has drawn me to celebrities. A normal person does not do that.” That was 1961. By then, Leach had forged a successful career in print, working for the Daily Mail, where at age 18 he had become that publication’s youngest editor of Page One. He decided to immigrate to America, where the thirst for celebrity coverage far exceeded that of Great Britain.
Leach arrived in the states in 1963, less than a week after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He wrote prolifically for such publications as the New York Daily News, People (where he is particularly proud of his stretch of 11 cover stories launching the vastly popular magazine) and Ladies’ Home Journal. He launched the weekly pop-music magazine Go (a forerunner to Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone) and was later the entertainment editor of The Star. He strayed into celebrity broadcast journalism as one of the first on-air personalities, producers and field reporters for “Entertainment Tonight,” helping secure an interview with Siegfried & Roy on that show’s debut in September 1981.
Convinced TV viewers would want to delve into the undercarriage of celebrities’ home lives and their vast estates, Leach teamed with his longtime friend and “E.T.” founder, the late Al Masini, for an idea to create a syndicated show where a host would crisscross the globe, playing off celebrities’ pride in their estates and feeding a yet-unmet need for viewers to visit the homes of Liberace and Elizabeth Taylor and the like. The readily recognizable phrase “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams” was developed by Leach and Masini during an evening of getting bombed on the bubbly, and to this day fans still shout that phrase at Leach.
In a move that helped shape the latter stages of his career, Leach decided not to hire a star actor — whom he has never identified — as host of “Lifestyles,” as that individual commanded too high a price tag.
The show ran through 1995, employing Shari Belafonte as a co-host in its final season. Leach then parlayed his connections in the celebrity chef culture to start the Food Network, selling his equity in the breakthrough network “quite lucratively,” and through those culinary connections, turned his attention to Las Vegas.
The move to Las Vegas has done nothing to temper Leach’s image as a gallivanting celebrity journalist who sips Cristal and is just as likely to walk the red carpet as cover it. But he resists wholly accepting his status as a true celebrity, although he remains a universally identifiable figure. Observing such celebrities as Flavor Flav, Fergie and Neil Diamond spotting Leach on a red carpet and swiftly moving over to him shows he is atypical among those who work the carpet.
Still, he says, “I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.” He allows that he does have a public image, but it is largely a role he plays.
But Leach does still hold a strong bond with his family, and the public Leach and his more private persona once clashed years ago at, of all places, Costco on Martin Luther King Drive.
Buying provisions for an upcoming family trip to Lake Powell, Colo., Leach was practically unrecognizable, having pulled a ball cap over his face. At checkout for what was a pretty substantial haul even by Costco standards, a siren went off. Balloons and confetti descended upon his shoulders.
Turns out, Mr. Rich and Famous had just made the first $1,500 order in the history of the MLK Costco in Las Vegas. It was cause célèbre!
“It could have been anybody,” Leach says, still chuckling.
But it was not anybody. It was Robin Leach. And somehow, it all makes sense.
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