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Axios
6 days ago
- Business
- Axios
Denver International Airport's newest restaurants
Denver International Airport has added 19 concessions so far this year, many of which are homegrown. Why it matters: The airport is expanding its "vibrant culinary concepts" with a focus on local flavor, says CEO Phil Washington. Zoom in: Among the latest Denver-centric additions: 🥢 Uncle — Well-known as one of the city's top ramen shops (gate A24). 🍸 Williams & Graham — This speakeasy-style cocktail bar is hidden behind a faux bookstore (gate A38). 🌽 Tocabe — A rare and standout Native American eatery, dishing up modern Indigenous cuisine (gate A38). 🥟 Maria Empanada — Beloved for its flaky, authentic Argentinian pastries (gate A24). 🍷 The Bindery — A restaurant, bakery and wine market serving New American cuisine (gate A24). 🥗 Olive & Finch "On the Fly" — A go-to for scratch-made salads, sandwiches and baked goods (gate A48). 🥖 Woody Creek Bakery & Café — A local staple for sandwiches and fresh-baked pastries (gate C46). 🥯 The Bagel Deli — A Jewish deli serving New York-style bagels in the city since 1967(gate A38).
The South African
02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The South African
SA TikToker shakes up trending song with dramatic flair
Viral videos never seem to dry up on the World Wide Web. Isn't it wild how there's always something bizarre or hilarious making the rounds? From people surfing shopping trolleys on highways to cringeworthy challenge fails, the Internet never stops surprising us. The latest viral sensation has grabbed the attention of millions, racking up likes and shares all over social media. Today's Eish Wena segment features a TikTok performance by a South African user that went viral for its strikingly dramatic delivery of a popular song. Watch the video below @iamkvsh_10 Never again 🙂↔️ ♬ original sound – Uncle_X Need your news quickly? Visit The South African website for all you need to know. Enjoy a wide variety of videos from news, lifestyle, travel, sports, viral videos and lots more! There is always something to watch here! Why not follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok while you're at it? Get ALL the news you need to know on the go at your convenience! Submit your videos for a chance to be featured in the daily Viral Video article and get your name mentioned. Let us know by leaving a comment below, or send a WhatsApp to 060 011 021 1 Subscribe to The South African website's newsletters and follow us on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and Bluesky for the latest news.
NZ Herald
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Weekend essay: An expat's daydream for a perfect Napier day
I'm here right now, and it's pretty nice, I have to say. Balmy evenings, endless, benign sunshine (no ozone hole), Marina's new album blasting on my speaker on the banks of the Danube, Aperol spritzes till I'm sick of the fake-orange sight of 'em. And even so – must be a grass-is-always-greener kind of thing – I'd rather be in Napier. I can't help it: I have this thing about that little city. It's a love affair, and I'm still in the honeymoon phase. I grew up in Havelock North, and Napier being 'my' town still feels new. I can't get enough of her; she drives me crazy; I can't get her out of my head. The stunning Napier Hill from Westshore Beach. Photo / Daisy Coles Even sitting here on a terrace dotted with geraniums and oleanders, with a tiny bitter coffee on a red-checked table cloth beside me, sweating in a caftan and gold sandals, I miss the hell out of her. And so, I daydream. And I'm indulging my obsession, imagining my perfect Napier day. I close my eyes, tune out the Hungarians around me discussing the football and their doomed politics, and I'm there ... I drive in to town early, and my first stop is Uncle, where I chat to Ryan about school because our kids are in the same class, and he makes me a perfect little flat white. I take it with me as I drive through Ahuriri – hello, sleepy little village – and over the hill on Shakespeare Rd, where I'm lucky enough to find a free park on the town side (this is a daydream, remember). I walk down through the old telephone exchange and past the cathedral. Everything in this wee quarter seems somehow too big for its boots, in the most endearing way ('You call it a 'cathedral'? Really?" the Europeans would laugh). I dump my stuff at my desk. But this is my dream – I'm not going to work today. I just wanted to say hi to the Folkl team and the gang of likeminded souls who share their co-working space. I pat Juno, listen to Henry rant about one social issue with a hot take that's impossible to argue with, stay to the end of one of Will's carefully selected tracks, and I'm off. I go to Georgia, and Ella yells out my name before I'm even through the door. Georgia's flat whites. Benny makes me an even more perfect little flat white. It's a heart, its borders ever-expanding, and it seems to me to be a picture of my own heart, ever-expanding too, from this point in Tennyson Street at the centre to Waipātiki Beach at the edges. Benny's wearing his red beanie, so I know it's going to be a good day. I sit in the sun with my coffee. Mark Sweet, the best writer I ever worked with, is here, so I have to stay until he's definitively set the world to rights for me plus given me some advice on how to organise my love life. Then I'm off down Tennyson St towards Wardini. I like the traffic lights at this intersection because while you wait, you can cast a surreptitious glance into Tennyson Gallery to see what Lizzie is wearing today, and it's always amazing. Whatever colour it is, it somehow always goes with her hair, her lipstick and her shoes. God, she's fabulous. Daisy Coles might live in Hungary at present, but she yearns for Napier's delights. In the bookshop, I spend some luxurious time browsing, after I've done the obligatory rifling-through of books that I know have my name in them ('Thank you to my editor ... '). Not only can Ro tell me the plot of every single book I'm interested in, she also gives a pithy, reliable summary of each one, because she's some sort of walking, talking book wiki with crazy shoes and a cute dog. I buy the latest Catherine Chidgey. I head to the library next, where I check out the second-latest Catherine Chidgey and three semi-current Vogues. Libraries are the best. (Napier deserves better than this pokey, temporary one, but it's charming all the same, with its Narnia feel of walking from one wardrobe into the next and its reliable cast of friendly librarians. There's even a hot one – the mark of a good library is a hot librarian, right?) Back down the road to my favourite block again; I pop into Chantal. Because this is my dream, all the organic produce I like best is in season and luscious; I buy heirloom tomatoes and those glorious Japanese grapes and as many blueberries as I can carry. I continue on to Vinci's for lunch because where else would I go? The special is somehow always delicious even though it's an insane combination of foods. It's, like, venison sausage, roasted kūmara puree, watercress pesto, crushed-up Hands Down tortillas and Japanese mayo with Vinci's famous hot honey. (I'm making this up. But it could work?) Always get the special. Everyone who works here is 57 times cooler than me and the miracle of it is that, unlike the cool folks in a place like Wellington, or Budapest, they're nice. Vinci's is ingeniously designed so that one slice isn't quite enough, but instead of buying a second I dip back through Chantal and into Hāpi, where I get the berry version of those raw cheesecake slices that used to have a gluey-mouth feel but seem to have had their recipe refined recently, so that they're now perfect: like something the fairies would stir up together on a girls' night in. On Hastings Street, as I head back towards Shakespeare Rd for my car, I spot Freeman White, art god of Havelock North High School in the nineties, who has somehow since become even more famous. I act like he remembers who I am and say a warm hello; he's polite enough to nod and smile back. It's time to indulge in my favourite Napier hobby (after café-hopping). The joys of op-shopping in Westshore. I hit the Carlyle Street op-shop strip first. In Vinnies, my man gives me a huge smile (he once told me I look like Leona Lewis; I love him). In the Sallies, my favourite lady is working too. A while back, she sold me a pair of cowboy boots that had an $80 price tag on them for $30. Perhaps I looked like a down-and-out? But I prefer to believe it's because she recognised in me the rightful, predestined owner of those boots. My favourite op shops for true vintage dresses and fill-a-bag deals are Knox Church and Westshore respectively, and the atmosphere in those two is superior and just how an op shop should be. Dusty and dim, with the smell of Yardley in the air, the radio tuned to Magic but quietly enough that you can hear every word of the op-shop ladies' chat. Dee and Karen at Westshore know me by name because they were teacher aides in my kids' classes, and they've always got personal recommendations for me. I'm full of good food, good coffee and good cheer, and my car is full of books, organic produce and op-shop treasure. It's time to head home to the sleepy, green Waipātiki Valley. This has been such a perfect day, and I'm glad I spent it with you, as Lou Reed would say. We can say we spent it together, because it exists only in my head and on your screen: our collective imagination. But you, reader, are lucky, lucky, lucky: because you're there, you have the luxury of walking these paths, going to these places, talking to these precious, lovely Napier characters in your real life. Go! Now! Say hi to them for me! And I'll see them, and you, in the spring – I'm counting down the days already.
BBC News
18-07-2025
- BBC News
Bradford mum jailed for using children to smuggle cocaine
A mother from Bradford who used her children to smuggle £14.4m worth of cocaine into the UK from Mexico has been Kauser, 54, of Waterlily Road in Manningham, was jailed for 13 years and four months at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday, after admitting importing 180kg of cocaine in was arrested while collecting her four sons, daughter and daughter-in-law from Birmingham Airport on 11 November 2024 as they returned from Cancun with suitcases loaded full of Mackenzie, National Crime Agency (NCA) senior investigating officer, said Kauser was "very well practised in her life as a high-end cocaine trafficker". He said: "To her friends and people who thought they knew her, Farzana Kauser was a thoughtful, loving mum who seemed very normal."She took great pains to delete any trail of evidence."She pushed her children into huge danger and has allowed their futures to be effectively destroyed."He added her youngest son was aged just 17 when he was "encouraged to play a major role in couriering drugs into the country". Kauser had worked with an unidentified accomplice in Pakistan, who was known as "Uncle", to help with the smuggling of cocaine from Cancun to the claimed she was only there to collect her children when they arrived at the airport with 180kg of cocaine that had a street value of around £ of the drugs were due to be handed over to a courier, while the rest were set to be taken back to Kauser's home and moved on from NCA also discovered that it had been the fifth time the group had couriered cocaine into Birmingham Airport between August and November 2024. They had booked short one or two-night trips to Amsterdam or Dublin and travelled without any luggage, but then timed their return flights to Birmingham at the same time as arrivals from Cancun – where there was an insider bringing suitcases full of group then headed to the Cancun baggage carousel after landing to collect the suitcases and the family would then walk through customs as though returning with their own four eldest children admitted their roles in the conspiracy, while her youngest son and daughter-in-law pleaded guilty to participating in the activities of an organised crime Mohammed, 22, of Waterlily Road, Bradford, was jailed for eight years and one monthJunaid Shaffaq, 33, of Waterlily Road, Bradford, was jailed for 10 years and nine monthsMohammed Shaffaq, 28, of Waterlily Road, Bradford, was jailed for eight years and nine monthsSafa Noor, 20, of Waterlily Road, Bradford, was jailed for seven years and two monthsSarah Hussain, 28, of Hollybank Road, Bradford, was given a two-year suspended sentenceHamza Shaffaq, 18, of Waterlily Road, Bradford, will be sentenced on 7 October. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Dublin Live
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Dublin Live
Man orders pint of Estrella in Benidorm and says price could be 'world's cheapest'
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A British expat reckons he may have discovered the "world's cheapest pint" in Benidorm, Spain. Louis Grier, who resides in the municipality in Alicante, is accustomed to reasonably priced pints. He purchased a beer for less than a Euro at Uncle Ron's a fortnight ago, but has now uncovered an even more budget-friendly alternative. The 32-year-old, who boasts 42,800 followers, documented his experience on social media platform TikTok following a visit to 4 JKS. In his brief video, he requested an Estrella Damm for merely 50 cents. And it's not a one off either – as people have been travelling from far and wide to make the most of the deal. Louis came up with the idea to offer the "cheapest pints on the planet" alongside the establishment's proprietors, Brett and Andrea. They agreed to sell the beer for 50 cents as part of a four-day weekly special offer. However, despite the bargain price point, the trio maintain it's "not a cheap beer" since the quality remains excellent. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Play now Louis says the pint has already achieved "a local legend" status – with the boozer owners even permitting him to step behind the bar to serve one himself. He remarked: "People are coming from everywhere to meet up and try it with me. They're calling it the 'Fanatic Pint'. It's the cheapest in Spain, maybe even the world." The beverage has proved so sought-after that Benidorm holidaymakers are reportedly prepared to "queue for the opportunity" to sample one. Part of the appeal involves joining the queue alongside fellow tourists and locals who relish having a laugh over a pint of beer! Louis declared: "It's not just about the pint; it's about the people, the laughter, and keeping Benidorm fun and affordable. This is my second home. Actually, scratch that; this is my real home." (Image: Jam Press/@thebenidormfanatic) Bar proprietors Brett and Andrea commented: "It's about bringing people together and giving people in Benidorm what they want. "We're not pursuing five-star reviews. We are here for good times, reasonable prices, and a bit of madness. That is what Benidorm is all about." It may not be the cheapest beer you can find on the planet, but you'd definitely struggle to find prices like that in Dublin! Central Statistics Office figures from 2024 show that the average price of lager in Dublin is €6.01, which is much more steep than you'll find in Benidorm. Meanwhile, the typical price of a pint of stouts like Guinness is €5.77, while cider will cost around €6.27 on average.
