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We Just Updated Our Washington, D.C. Dining Guide

New York Times

2 hours ago

Entertainment
New York Times

We Just Updated Our Washington, D.C. Dining Guide

Hi folks! Korsha Wilson here with some exciting news: We've updated our Washington, D.C. restaurant list! I was born and raised in the D.M.V. — the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area — and I've always bristled when people talk about D.C.'s reputation as a 'steakhouses for senators' town. That characterization ignores the abundance of diverse, independent restaurants that are, and have always been, part of the city's dining scene. I can still remember my first bite of injera and tibs at an Ethiopian restaurant in Adams Morgan, or jerk chicken sandwiches at Negril in Silver Spring, or sweet-and-sour pork at a Chinese restaurant near the Gallery Place Metro station. Those restaurants, among others, created fertile ground for the dynamic dining scene in D.C. today, which includes deeply personal cooking, like that at Pascual, where the chef Isabel Coss showcases her love for her native Mexico City in several dishes. But dining here is also fun, as evidenced by the playful baked Alaska at Providencia on the busy H Street corridor, or the Taylor Swift songs you'll hear blasting at Moon Rabbit, or the surprising Japanese American mash-ups you'll find at Perry's in Adams Morgan. Here are three dining options worth considering on your next visit to the nation's capitol. Sometime during your meal at Pascual, you will get the feeling that you're not only eating delicious and modern takes on Mexican cooking, but also that you're getting the chef Isabel Coss's most beloved and personal tastes of home. All of your senses are engaged here; snapper aguachile with tart lime and heady lemongrass accents snaps the room into focus, while the char on the lamb-neck barbacoa makes you acutely aware of the open wood-fire grill. Reservations can be hard to come by, but dropping in on the early side, around 5 p.m., is always a good bet. 732 Maryland Ave NE, Capitol Hill Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

Barcelona records hottest June and Eiffel Tower's summit closes as Europe sizzles

Boston Globe

01-07-2025

Climate
Boston Globe

Barcelona records hottest June and Eiffel Tower's summit closes as Europe sizzles

Advertisement Barcelona's Fabra Observatory reported an average temperature for last month of 26 C (78 F), breaking records since books were started in 1914. The previous hottest average for June was 25.6 C in 2003. The same weather station said that a single-day high of 37.9 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) for June was recorded Monday. Barcelona is usually spared the worst heat in Spain, thanks to its location between hills and the Mediterranean in Spain's northeastern corner. But most of the country has been gripped by the extreme heat. 'We are seeing these temperatures because we are experiencing a very intense heat wave that has come early in the summer and that is clearly linked to global warming,' Ramón Pascual, a delegate for Spain's weather service in Barcelona, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Advertisement Pascual added that the inhabitants of the Mediterranean region are not being helped by the rising sea temperatures, which greatly reduces any cooling effects of a nearby body of water. Spain's weather service said that recent surface temperatures for the Mediterranean near the Balearic Islands are between 5-6 degrees Celsius higher than average. 'With water surface temperatures from 26-30 Celsius (78-86 Farenheit), it is difficult for our nights to be refreshing,' he said. Spain's national average for June of 23.6 degrees Celsius (74 degrees Fahrenheit) was 0.8 C hotter than the previous hottest June in 2017. It was also the first time that June was hotter than the average temperatures for both July and August. Spain also saw a new high mark for June established on Saturday when 46 degrees Celsius (114 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded in the southern province of Huelva. The streets were scorching as well in Spain's capital, with Madrid forecast to reach 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit), as people tried to keep cool by drinking refrigerated drinks and sticking to the shade. But the hot nights offered little relief. 'Today is very bad, but yesterday wasn't any better. So we're just surviving,' said Miguel Sopera, 63. 'At night it's impossible due to the terrible heat.' In France, the national weather agency Météo-France placed several departments under the highest red alert, with the Paris region particularly hard hit. More than 1,300 schools in the country were partially or fully closed. Visitors to the Eiffel Tower without tickets were told to postpone their visits as the summit of the city's landmark was closed until Thursday. The operators said the closure was 'to ensure everyone's comfort and safety.' Advertisement Climate experts warn that future summers are likely to be hotter than any recorded to date. By 2100, France could be up to 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius expected every year and extreme heat spikes potentially reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Farther south, 17 of Italy's 27 major cities were experiencing a heat wave, according to the health ministry. There were torrential rains in Italy's north on Monday and parts of Bardonecchia near Turin were covered in sludge after the Frejus river burst its banks. Near Bologna, one of the cities under a heat alert Tuesday, the 46-year-old owner of a construction company collapsed and died while repaving a school parking lot, state-run RAI reported. An autopsy was being conducted to determine the cause, but heat was suspected. In the Dutch town of Soest, first responders said they were bringing a firehose to an early evening water gun fight. 'Bring your water pistol and swimming clothes with you, because you're guaranteed to get soaked!' the firefighters said in an Instagram post. The Portuguese weather service issued a statement Monday night confirming the highest single temperature ever recorded in mainland Portugal for the month of June at 46.6 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit) on June 29 in the town of Mora, west of Lisbon. The prior record was 44.9 degrees Celsius (112 degrees Fahrenheit) in 2017. Firefighters across Turkey tried to contain wildfires that have forced the evacuation of some 50,000 residents for the third consecutive day. Temperatures were expected to reach 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by Wednesday in large parts of the Czech Republic, including the capital. Advertisement The Prague zoo distributed up to 10 metric tons of ice daily across the park, with especial attention given to polar bears native to the Arctic. Zoo director Miroslav Bobek said twin brother bears Aleut and Gregor looked pleased when they found parts of their open-air enclosure covered with a thick layer of ice Tuesday morning. They rolled on their backs and discovered frozen pieces of squid.

Handball: Former Barcelona coach Pascual named Pharaohs new boss - Omni sports

Al-Ahram Weekly

25-06-2025

Sport
Al-Ahram Weekly

Handball: Former Barcelona coach Pascual named Pharaohs new boss - Omni sports

Spanish coach Xavier Pascual has been appointed as Egypt's national men's handball team coach; the Egyptian Handball Federation (EHF) announced on Tuesday. The 57-year-old former Barcelona coach replaces fellow Spaniard Juan Carlos Pastor, who had led the "Pharaohs" since 2023 but opted not to renew his contract. Pascual's deal will run through to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the EHF said. A highly decorated coach, Pascual guided Barcelona to numerous domestic and European titles, including the EHF Champions League crown in 2021. Most recently, he took charge of Hungary's Telekom Veszprém, who won the 2024 IHF Super Globe, with Egyptian star Yehia El-Deraa among the squad. Pascual's tasks will include preparing Egypt for the 2026 African Men's Handball Championship in Rwanda and the 2027 IHF World Championship in Germany. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports.) Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:

Al-Ahram Weekly

24-06-2025

Sport
Al-Ahram Weekly

Former Barcelona coach Pascual named Pharaohs new boss - Omni sports

Winnipeg Free Press

04-06-2025

Entertainment
Winnipeg Free Press

Emotional edge

Sahel Flora Pascual's dance career has taken her all over the world: Ballet Manila, the School of American Ballet in New York City, Ballet Austin in Texas and, for the upcoming 2025/26 season, London City Ballet. In April, it brought her to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Pascual, 22, is a choreographic fellow in the Pathways to Performance Choreographic Program at MoBBallet (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet), which links ballet companies to Black choreographers and those of colour so they can engage in a meaningful way. Ryan-Rogocki photo Choreographer Sahel Pascual leads Aspirants students through her new piece. Pascual was commissioned by the RWB to choreograph an original work for the students in the Anna McCowan-Johnson Aspirant Program in the Professional Division at the RWB School. The piece will be performed as part of On the Edge, the Aspirants' mixed-rep showcase this week. Pascual participated in the inaugural MoBBallet Symposium in Philadelphia in 2019 as a dancer. Lately, though, she's been considering ways she could contribute to her art form as a choreographer. 'I've always seen choreography as a way, not only to create my own artistic vision and exercise my own authorship of my voice and my idea of what art can do, but as also a way to facilitate growth within the artistic community, whether that's through creating more holistic dance spaces for mental health or for diversity's sake,' she says from London, England, via Zoom. The as-yet-untitled work she created on the Aspirants was inspired by the barrier-breaking American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker. It's a dialogue, she says, between Baker's legacy and her own experience, informed by her African American, Jamaican and Filipino heritage. 'My choreography draws from my own positionality as an expatriate artist and emerges as a physical meditation on displacement, trauma, discrimination and the reverberations of the colonial gaze,' she writes in her choreographer's note. 'What was really important to me was the piece itself is not a re-creation of her in any way, but it is a meditation on the things that were important to her, the parts of her that were significant, through the shared language of human emotion,' she says. Working in the studio with the Aspirants in the spring was 'truly just a beautiful experience.' 'They're young dancers, they're dancers of a lot of different backgrounds, and they want to engage. Something that was just lovely was that each one of those dancers wanted to engage with this work,' Pascual says. 'And it's difficult, because one would say, 'How can a group of dancers that does not have African American or Black heritage work within this framework that centres a Black woman?' And my response to that was,' Yes, it is about a Black woman, but each one of us, through whatever part of our life, can empathize in certain ways with her rebellion, with her love of not only people but of animals, of community, with her fieriness, with her desire to change things, with her desire to care and to break down barriers.'' Founded in 2015 by consultant, educator, advocate and former ballet dancer Theresa Ruth Howard, MoBBallet is an archive that preserves, presents and promotes Black ballet history. The RWB joined MoBBallet's Cultural Competency and Equity Coalition (C2EC), a membership-based organization that will see peers work collaboratively to become anti-racist, in 2022, and has previously commissioned works by MoBBallet Pathways fellows Meredith Rainey and Portia Adams. That commitment stands in contrast to what's happening south of the border, where many organizations are rolling back anti-racist and DEI initiatives. 'It's important for us to keep this relationship, because I have worked very hard on building that trust so when we bring choreographers in — it's a little bit cliché — but it's a safe place to be,' says Tara Birtwhistle, the RWB's associate artistic director. The fact that Pascual is working with the next generation of dancers on the precipice of their careers in the Aspirant Program is also significant. Wednesdays Columnist Jen Zoratti looks at what's next in arts, life and pop culture. 'We talk a lot about changing the culture of ballet, and we can't just talk about it anymore. We have to do something about it, and really, to lean in to these young people who have so much to teach us and guide us through a different lens,' Birtwhistle says. Pascual would agree. 'Why it's important that these kinds of stories that choreographers like myself are being engaged with is because we are the art that is current. We are the people who are dancing. It is the population that we are dancing for,' she says. 'If you think about ballet's audience now, there are many conversations about how it's diminishing, and although that in some ways is true, I think what we've seen from the dance world and the art world as a whole is an understanding that the audience must be broadened, and that the art that is being encountered, that is being created, must reflect the world as a whole.' Jen ZorattiColumnist Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen. 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