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China on a charm offensive
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping nibbled on empanadas at the home of a Costa Rican coffee farmer. His wife played the steel drums in Trinidad and Tobago. With smiles and, of course, money, China is on an unusual charm offensive to win the...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Mexico City, Mexico, Xi Jinping, China
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Garage restaurant: A Northern Chinese breakfast that wasn't always served in a restaurant
This is a Tianjin breakfast restaurant in Monterey Park. While workers are ringing up handmade baos for $0.92 a pop, an elderly woman weaves in and out of the kitchen, sometimes momentarily pausing to take it all in, hands on her hips. Her name is Anna...
Tags: Chinese Restaurants, Soups, Foods and Beverages, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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CSO plays witness to China's cultural boom
TIANJIN — In this enormous manufacturing capital just southeast of Beijing, a new palace of the arts has opened. Looking like a graceful clam shell at the edge of a pond, the Tianjin Grand Theatre's cantilevered roof encloses an opera house, a small...
Tags: Arts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concerts, Music Industry, New York City
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32 best new theme park additions for 2013
The theme park industry will take a deep breath in 2013 after the launch of several landmark attractions and with more groundbreaking projects on the horizon. The last few years have seen several theme park additions that have altered the industry...
Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, SeaWorld, Wildlife, Aquatica, Gatekeeper (music group)
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Fast track to the American dream
— Amid the skyscrapers and coal power plants in this fast-growing manufacturing city of nearly 13 million people, eager investors filed into a convention center that thumped with dance music from a Florida beach party video. On sale was the dream...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Personal Data Collection, Immigration, Chicago Restaurants, Barbara Lee
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CSO, Muti announce tours of Far East, Mexico in 2012-13
No sooner have the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti unpacked their bags from their successful tour of Russia and Italylast month than they are making plans for two more foreign trips together next season. The music director will take his...
Tags: Mexico City, Seoul (South Korea), Opera (genre), Concerts, Italy
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Seven Stars Entertainment, city of Tianjin launch 'Chinawood'
Company TownIn another sign of China's growing appetite for the entertainment industry, Beijing-based Seven Stars Entertainment has announced a partnership with the Chinese government to open a new "entertainment and media hub" in the world's most populous country...... -
High Five wooden roller coaster to debut in China
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA racing wooden roller coaster debuting this spring at a Chinese theme park will feature a first-of-its-kind element in which riders in dueling trains reach out toward each other and attempt to exchange high-fives. Dubbed the High Five by the American...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks, Trips and Vacations, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Top 13 for 2013: Best new rides at theme parks around the world
Los Angeles Times staff writerIt already seems like 2013 is shaping up as a great year for ride enthusiasts around the world, as a number of new theme parks are planned for Asia and several major attractions are in the works for Europe. > Photos: Best new international theme park...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, United Kingdom, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Belgium, Paleontology
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Chinese make big push into animation
Entering the campus of the largest animation production facility in China, visitors are greeted by life-size statues of Disney and Pixar characters: Belle dancing with the Beast, Mowgli and Baloo sitting on a tree trunk and Buzz and Woody in a classic...Tags: Animation (genre), Movies, Television, China, Culture
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Review: 'Jet Li's Fearless'
Zap2It.com"Jet Li's Fearless" is one of those corny, lusciously mounted, almost predictably thrill-packed action movies you can't help but like, if you have any susceptibility to the rock-'em-kick-'em genre that produced Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and "Crouching Tiger,...Tags: Ang Lee, Jet Li, Arts, Movies, Bruce Lee
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