A few brand new restaurants get it right from the outset — the location, the menu, the look. Wood Tavern, which opened two months ago on College Avenue, is one. It was an instant hit.
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Ici, former Chez Panisse pastry chef Mary Canales’ thrilling ice cream shop, is a destination in its own right. It serves the stuff of dreams, ice cream with flavors so big, bright and true, only a magician could concoct them. The trick? The ice cream boasts 50 percent seasonal fruit puree, and the sorbets, 100 percent.
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You’d think that when a woman throws a divorce party to celebrate the end of her marriage, the breakup is pretty final. But Shanna Moakler, who feted her freedom from Blink-182 rocker Travis Barker back in November, is now partying by his side again.At her early birthday bash in Miami on Friday, the reality star proudly confirmed to People magazine buzz that the once-estranged couple is back together, saying, "Yes, I’m madly in love with my husband."
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Looks like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have kissed and made up. As Scoop! reported last week, the scowling newlyweds were not speaking to each other at a recent outing. But at Cruise’s son Connor’s basketball game Saturday, a source told Star, "They were looking much happier — laughing and joking with one another." We can all sleep now.Five quick takes- Actress-singer Vanessa Williams received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday.- Angelina Jolie will visit the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, to apply for son Pax’s visa today.
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Hilary Duff has gone from a baby-faced teen queen to a super-svelte starlet in the public eye. And the actress-singer admits that her weight loss a couple of years ago was motivated by media criticism of her figure.The 19-year-old "Material Girls" star admitted to the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday that "I did get skinny. I’ve felt that pressure like everyone else in my position. When a newspaper comes out that says ‘Duff Puff — she must have gained 15 pounds’ or something like that, how would any normal person react?"
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Has Lindsay Lohan reverted to her pre-rehab ways? The hard-partying actress is reportedly sober following a successful stint at the Wonderland treatment facility. But when the diva DJ’d at NYC hot spot Plumm, fellow partygoers allegedly saw her hit the sauce. Thursday night, La Linds was the club’s guest of honor, and rocked the DJ booth along with celeb spinster Samantha Ronson, singing and dancing. But an online report claims it wasn’t all good clean fun.
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It’s official! Angelina Jolie has a new son: Vietnam native Pax Thien Jolie, almost 3½. His name combines the Latin word for "peace" and the Vietnamese word for "sky."According to the director of the Ho Chi Minh City orphanage where he had lived since 2003, the child, formerly known as Pham Quang Sang, was abandoned at a hospital at birth. Reportedly, the boy cried when he met his new mom at an adoption ceremony.
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Mischa Barton was really partying like a rock star last Thursday night in NYC. Reportedly, the former "O.C." actress got so carried away that she ended up upchucking on the street — but went right on carousing.Fellow scene queens Kirsten Dunst and Jamie-Lynn Sigler were hanging with the Keds model at the Anchor in NYC. A witness described the scene to Us magazine’s Web site: "They were partying, going crazy. At one point, Mischa suddenly ran out the door and threw up outside. Jamie-Lynn ran outside after her, but it wasn’t a big deal. They were laughing."
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The rift between Tori Spelling and her mother, Candy, was widened by the death of her father, Aaron Spelling — but now the birth of her son may reunite them. Tori gave birth to Liam Aaron McDermott at a Los Angeles hospital yesterday.As Tori prepared for the delivery of her first child with husband Dean McDermott, she reportedly had been making overtures toward her estranged mama.
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The union of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony has always been something of a mystery. Since quietly marrying in 2004, they’ve largely kept mum about their relationship. Now comes a report in the New York Post that cracks may have begun to appear in the surface of their domestic bliss.One source claims to have witnessed the couple fighting on New Year’s Eve, while another told the paper of a spat on Super Bowl Sunday — and a painful incident at a recent Miami album listening party.
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