December 26, 2007

A look back at the restaurants that generated the most buzz in 2007, a year in which small was big.

Today, Oscar Niemeyer is held up as one of Brazil’s greatest national treasures, and he seems as spry as ever.

“There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to hell.

Cellphones made the services of the professional letter writer obsolete, but G. P. Sawant isn’t complaining.

On Christmas Day, with the city taking a breather, the regulars had time to stretch their legs, take in the cityscape and watch the sun ricochet off the water.

Uneasy about the economy and unimpressed by merchandise, American shoppers delivered the bleak holiday shopping season retailers had expected. Spending rose just 3.6 percent over 2006.

“Hansel and Gretel" is performed in a very free English translation of the German, filled with clever rhymes and snappy vernacular.

Luxury taxes are the cost of doing business for the Yankees, but the business better be good, because bad business won’t be tolerated forever.

Alzheimer’s seems to strike suddenly in old age, but scientists believe it begins long before symptoms occur.

A proposal to ban the planting of a genetically modified corn strain sets up a bitter war within the European Union.

As global demand for Champagne soars, the French government is moving toward the largest expansion of Champagne vineyards in eight decades.

Warren E. Buffett’s deal for a conglomerate suggests that he is finally finding acquisitions he can get excited about.