Subject: Marie Antoinette

• Intercontinental Hotel keeps some of the frills

  What was the line that French queen Marie Antoinette allegedly uttered upon hearing that the starving populace was begging for bread? "Let them eat cake?" Fancy desserts -- fancy everything -- is fast going out of style during this economic climate. Newsweek is reporting that fine dining establishments around the world are cutting out frills. The frills might include tablecloths and fresh flowers... and amuse-bouches. The Intercontinental Hotel Kansas City is keeping a few frills for its Oa

  March 30, 2009

• Our top DVD picks for the week of October 10:

  October 12, 2006

• Boarding Gate

  April 24, 2008

• Stop Motion

  Two art professors work in different media but create similarly strange spaces.

  February 7, 2008

• Royal Flush

  February 15, 2007

• French Confection

  October 19, 2006

• Let Them Wear Drag

  Le Fou Frog is jumpin' on Bastille Day.

  May 20, 2004

• Shoe Business

  With Cinderella, TYA undergoes a transformation.

  June 19, 2003

• Louche Life

  A simple meal becomes a scene from French cinema at Le Fou Frog.

  February 20, 2003

• Springtime in Le Brookside

  Paris meets E-Bro at Café Maison.

  May 16, 2002

• Poetry on pickled hearts and old bones

  Crystal K. WiebeHeid E. Erdrich: poet among the stacks.​ The Northern lilt of Ojibwe poet Heid E. Erdrich bounced off the bookstacks in a room on the fifth floor of the downtown library last night. "I love reading in libraries because I get to talk out loud," she said with a chuckle before cracking into National Monuments, her latest volume of poetry. Erdrich, who hails from Minnesota, is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. Her ancestry and gender figure prominently into her w

  October 1, 2009