Saturday, July 6, 2013
Cherry Hill Mall Restaurant Week 7/14 - 7/20
We recently enjoyed a wonderful meal at the Capital Grill, Cherry Hill. It's long been one of our favorite spots.
And we're happy to say that the Capital Grill is taking the lead in launching the first-ever Cherry Hill Mall Restaurant Week. Every restaurant at the Mall will participate. And that means you will have a full selection of dishes and environments to choose from. Can you imagine an easier or more fun restaurant week anywhere? You select from nine great eateries with plenty of free parking (even free valet parking) and Nordstrom, Macy's, jc penney and scads of other stores if you feel like shopping. It's like no other restaurant week anywhere. And you're gonna love the dining specials and very appealing all-inclusive prices.
Cherry Hill Mall Restaurant Week debuts from July 14 – 20. With 100 percent participation, dining guests can select from an array of destination restaurants: The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, California Pizza Kitchen, Maggiano’s Little Italy, Grand Lux Café, Bahama Breeze, and Bobby’s Burger Palace, Nordstrom Marketplace Café and the Bistro at Cherry Hill. All nine restaurants will offer special menus and pricing.
 July 14–20, 2013Click on the participating restaurants for special menus & pricing. |  |
“With so many premier dining destinations in one location, Cherry Hill Mall is an ideal venue to host a Restaurant Week,” said Lisa Wolstromer, mall marketing director. “The quality of dining experiences complements our exclusive retail selection and we are looking forward to introducing an event that offers our shoppers an entertaining way to sample excellent cuisine.”
Guests are encouraged to make reservations at their favorite restaurant during Cherry Hill Mall Restaurant Week. Visit www.cherryhillmall.com for menu details.
Cherry Hill Mall is anchored by Nordstrom, Macy’s, and jcpenney and features several exclusive retailers including American Apparel, Apple, A/X Armani Exchange, Crate and Barrel, H&M, Henri Bendel, Hugo Boss, J. Crew, MAC, Michael Kors, Pandora, Pottery Barn, Sephora, Swarovski, Teavana, The Art of Shaving, The Container Store, The North Face, True Religion, Urban Outfitters, and Forever XXI. Furthering the mall’s position as a regional dining and entertainment destination are leading restaurants Grand Lux Café, Bobby’s Burger Palace, California Pizza Kitchen, Maggiano’s Little Italy, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, and Bahama Breeze.
About the Cherry Hill Mall Restaurants
Bahama Breeze
With its unique combination of Caribbean-inspired food, handcrafted tropical drinks, vibrant atmosphere and people happy to be of service, Bahama Breeze is the restaurant that brings you the feeling of a Caribbean Escape. The first Bahama Breeze opened its doors in 1996 in Orlando, FL, and now operates 24 restaurants nationally. For more information, visit www.bahamabreeze.com.
Bistro at Cherry Hill
The Bistro is a family owned restaurant that specializes in fresh, made to order pastas, salads, sandwiches, and soups.
Bobby’s Burger Palace
Bobby's Burger Palace (BBP) presents 10 signature burgers inspired by Chef Bobby Flay's extensive travels throughout America and love of the grill in a convenient casual setting. From north to south, coast to coast, each BBP burger is Bobby's tribute to America's regional flavors and traditions, made with Certified Angus Beef and served on a sesame seed bun. All burgers may also be prepared with ground turkey, chicken breast or served Topless, where the burger is simply stacked onto a bed of greens without the bun. For more information, visit www.bobbysburgerpalace.com.
The Capital Grille
The Capital Grille boasts a culinary artistry of dry-aged steaks, fresh seafood and seasonal daily features. The celebrated wine cellar features bottles from the world’s legendary vineyards and their service blends finesse with a dash of surprise. For more information, visit www.thecapitalgrille.com.
California Pizza Kitchen
Guests are encouraged to make reservations at their favorite restaurant during Cherry Hill Mall Restaurant Week. Visit www.cherryhillmall.com for menu details.
Cherry Hill Mall is anchored by Nordstrom, Macy’s, and jcpenney and features several exclusive retailers including American Apparel, Apple, A/X Armani Exchange, Crate and Barrel, H&M, Henri Bendel, Hugo Boss, J. Crew, MAC, Michael Kors, Pandora, Pottery Barn, Sephora, Swarovski, Teavana, The Art of Shaving, The Container Store, The North Face, True Religion, Urban Outfitters, and Forever XXI. Furthering the mall’s position as a regional dining and entertainment destination are leading restaurants Grand Lux Café, Bobby’s Burger Palace, California Pizza Kitchen, Maggiano’s Little Italy, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, and Bahama Breeze.
About the Cherry Hill Mall Restaurants
Bahama Breeze
With its unique combination of Caribbean-inspired food, handcrafted tropical drinks, vibrant atmosphere and people happy to be of service, Bahama Breeze is the restaurant that brings you the feeling of a Caribbean Escape. The first Bahama Breeze opened its doors in 1996 in Orlando, FL, and now operates 24 restaurants nationally. For more information, visit www.bahamabreeze.com.
Bistro at Cherry Hill
The Bistro is a family owned restaurant that specializes in fresh, made to order pastas, salads, sandwiches, and soups.
Bobby’s Burger Palace
Bobby's Burger Palace (BBP) presents 10 signature burgers inspired by Chef Bobby Flay's extensive travels throughout America and love of the grill in a convenient casual setting. From north to south, coast to coast, each BBP burger is Bobby's tribute to America's regional flavors and traditions, made with Certified Angus Beef and served on a sesame seed bun. All burgers may also be prepared with ground turkey, chicken breast or served Topless, where the burger is simply stacked onto a bed of greens without the bun. For more information, visit www.bobbysburgerpalace.com. The Capital Grille
The Capital Grille boasts a culinary artistry of dry-aged steaks, fresh seafood and seasonal daily features. The celebrated wine cellar features bottles from the world’s legendary vineyards and their service blends finesse with a dash of surprise. For more information, visit www.thecapitalgrille.com.
California Pizza Kitchen
Born in Beverly Hills in 1985, California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is a leader in authentic California style cuisine and is widely known for its innovative menu items. California Pizza Kitchen provides a range of creative dishes, from signature California-style hearth-baked pizzas, creative salads, pastas, soups and sandwiches. A SoCal classic, CPK incites international cravings in over 11 different countries. For more information, visit www.cpk.com.
Maggiano’s Little Italy
Maggiano’s Little Italy® specializes in Italian-American cuisine served in a warm and friendly atmosphere. Each restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner and offers a convenient carryout service as well as delivery, in addition to beautiful and accommodating banquet spaces for special occasions. Maggiano’s menu features both classic and contemporary Italian-American recipes – homemade pastas, signature salads, prime steaks, fresh fish, regular chef specials and specialty desserts, accompanied by a large selection of wines from acclaimed vintners as well as its own private wine label, Salute Amico. The food is made-from-scratch daily. For more information, visit www.maggianos.com.
Seasons 52
Seasons 52 is a fresh grill and wine bar featuring a seasonally inspired menu and an award-winning international wine list designed to excite and surprise the palate. Evoking the fresh appeal of the farmer’s market, we strive to feature the freshest ingredients at the peak of ripeness and prepare our dishes through natural cooking techniques like wood-fire grilling and brick-oven cooking. The result is a promise that no menu item is more than 475 calories. From our signature flatbreads and popular Mini Indulgence desserts to our international selection of 100 wines, including more than 52 offered by the glass, guests feel both the freedom to indulge and the ability to celebrate living well. For more information, visit www.seasons52.com.
Grand Lux Café
Maggiano’s Little Italy
Maggiano’s Little Italy® specializes in Italian-American cuisine served in a warm and friendly atmosphere. Each restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner and offers a convenient carryout service as well as delivery, in addition to beautiful and accommodating banquet spaces for special occasions. Maggiano’s menu features both classic and contemporary Italian-American recipes – homemade pastas, signature salads, prime steaks, fresh fish, regular chef specials and specialty desserts, accompanied by a large selection of wines from acclaimed vintners as well as its own private wine label, Salute Amico. The food is made-from-scratch daily. For more information, visit www.maggianos.com.
Seasons 52
Seasons 52 is a fresh grill and wine bar featuring a seasonally inspired menu and an award-winning international wine list designed to excite and surprise the palate. Evoking the fresh appeal of the farmer’s market, we strive to feature the freshest ingredients at the peak of ripeness and prepare our dishes through natural cooking techniques like wood-fire grilling and brick-oven cooking. The result is a promise that no menu item is more than 475 calories. From our signature flatbreads and popular Mini Indulgence desserts to our international selection of 100 wines, including more than 52 offered by the glass, guests feel both the freedom to indulge and the ability to celebrate living well. For more information, visit www.seasons52.com.
Grand Lux Café
Grand Lux Cafe features unique, casual global cuisine in an elegant, yet relaxed atmosphere. Using the freshest ingredients prepared with world class cooking techniques, Grand Lux Cafe’s menu offers classic American dishes and international favorites along with baked-to-order signature desserts made at on-premise bakeries. For more information, visit www.GrandLuxCafe.com.
Nordstrom Marketplace Café
Our contemporary food marketplace is perfect for a casual meal, offering wonderful menu selections to satisfy a discerning palate. We’re committed to providing local, sustainable, natural and organic foods and environmentally friendly products.
Nordstrom Marketplace Café
Our contemporary food marketplace is perfect for a casual meal, offering wonderful menu selections to satisfy a discerning palate. We’re committed to providing local, sustainable, natural and organic foods and environmentally friendly products.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Ten Summer Trends We Hate
Summer seems to bring out the worst in some people -- the very worst. Which is a shame because it's such a lovely season. Well, anyway here are ten summer trends we hate:
1) Showing off your tattoos. Hey, if you want to deface your body, that's your business. But we'd rather not see it. So, keep it covered. OK?
2) Under Armor. The Under Armor brand seems to be everywhere lately and we're tired of it. Tired of looking at it and the all-pervasive Under Armor logo. Give it up.
3) Wearing baseball caps backwards. This is so 1980s. And yet it seems to be coming back. Ugh!
4) Bikinis in plus sizes -- yes, ones that women actually dare to wear. Frightening! OMG!
5) Cigarettes and cigars on the beach. Please don't smoke on the beach. It's stinky, gross, dirty and dangerous. Go away!
6) Drinking beer in the pool. In fact, don't drink anything in the pool. If you want to drink, get the hell out of the pool and drink there. And please don't put your beer on the edge of the pool. It's gross.
7) Collapsable beach pavilions and beach tents. It's not enough for some people to bring a chair and an umbrella to the beach -- no, they have to set up a full-on encampment. What's what that?
8) Beer bellies. Guys, we can't imagine why in hell you would be proud of such a thing nor why you would attempt to show it off. Cover it up! And, BTW: We don't wanna see your butt crack either.
9) Huge vehicles and SUVs. We often wonder how much bigger they can get. And then we turn around and another big kahuna has pulled out in front of us or blocked our view as we're trying to pull into or out of a parking space. Whatever happened to sensible-sized family sedans?
10) Intense public displays of affection. Get a room!
1) Showing off your tattoos. Hey, if you want to deface your body, that's your business. But we'd rather not see it. So, keep it covered. OK?
2) Under Armor. The Under Armor brand seems to be everywhere lately and we're tired of it. Tired of looking at it and the all-pervasive Under Armor logo. Give it up.
3) Wearing baseball caps backwards. This is so 1980s. And yet it seems to be coming back. Ugh!
4) Bikinis in plus sizes -- yes, ones that women actually dare to wear. Frightening! OMG!
5) Cigarettes and cigars on the beach. Please don't smoke on the beach. It's stinky, gross, dirty and dangerous. Go away!
6) Drinking beer in the pool. In fact, don't drink anything in the pool. If you want to drink, get the hell out of the pool and drink there. And please don't put your beer on the edge of the pool. It's gross.
7) Collapsable beach pavilions and beach tents. It's not enough for some people to bring a chair and an umbrella to the beach -- no, they have to set up a full-on encampment. What's what that?
8) Beer bellies. Guys, we can't imagine why in hell you would be proud of such a thing nor why you would attempt to show it off. Cover it up! And, BTW: We don't wanna see your butt crack either.
9) Huge vehicles and SUVs. We often wonder how much bigger they can get. And then we turn around and another big kahuna has pulled out in front of us or blocked our view as we're trying to pull into or out of a parking space. Whatever happened to sensible-sized family sedans?
10) Intense public displays of affection. Get a room!
Pope: Marriage = One Man, One Woman
Pope Francis has issued his first encyclical -- his first letter to the world.
An encyclical is the highest and most serious form of teaching from the Holy Father. When the Pope issues an encyclical and speaks on matters of faith and morals, Catholics believe he is divinely inspired and therefore infallible.
Titled Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith), the encyclical was reportedly authored mainly by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who was still working on it at the time of his abdication and it strongly reflects the theological style of Francis’ predecessor. In his introduction, Pope Francis wrote that he merely “added a few contributions of my own.”
Section 52, on Faith and the Family, calls the family the “first setting in which faith enlightens the human city.”
“I think first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage," the Pope says. "This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgment and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation, whereby spouses can become one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24) and are enabled to give birth to a new life, a manifestation of the Creator’s goodness, wisdom and loving plan.
“Grounded in this love, a man and a woman can promise each other mutual love in a gesture which engages their entire lives and mirrors many features of faith. Faith also helps us to grasp in all its depth and richness the begetting of children, as a sign of the love of the Creator who entrusts us with the mystery of a new person.”
An encyclical is the highest and most serious form of teaching from the Holy Father. When the Pope issues an encyclical and speaks on matters of faith and morals, Catholics believe he is divinely inspired and therefore infallible.
Titled Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith), the encyclical was reportedly authored mainly by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who was still working on it at the time of his abdication and it strongly reflects the theological style of Francis’ predecessor. In his introduction, Pope Francis wrote that he merely “added a few contributions of my own.”
Section 52, on Faith and the Family, calls the family the “first setting in which faith enlightens the human city.”
“I think first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage," the Pope says. "This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgment and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation, whereby spouses can become one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24) and are enabled to give birth to a new life, a manifestation of the Creator’s goodness, wisdom and loving plan.
“Grounded in this love, a man and a woman can promise each other mutual love in a gesture which engages their entire lives and mirrors many features of faith. Faith also helps us to grasp in all its depth and richness the begetting of children, as a sign of the love of the Creator who entrusts us with the mystery of a new person.”
The encyclical strong links the traditional definition of marriage with the sanctity of human life so it speaks about both subjects as intrinsic gifts from the creator.
Here's how the Vatican describes it:
The Encyclical then considers those areas illuminated by faith: first and foremost, the family based on marriage, understood as a stable union between man and woman. This is born of the recognition and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation and, based on love in Christ, promises “a love for ever” and recognises love as the creator that leads to the begetting of children.
Then, youth; here the Pope cites the World Youth Days, in which young people demonstrate “the joy of faith” and their commitment to live faith solidly and generously. “Young people want to live life to the fullest”, writes the Pope. “Encountering Christ … enlarges the horizons of existence, gives it a firm hope which will not disappoint. Faith is no refuge for the fainthearted, but something which enhances our lives”. And again, in all social relations, by making us children of God, indeed, faith gives new meaning to universal brotherhood, which is not merely equality, but rather the common experience of God’s paternity, the comprehension of the unique dignity of each person.
A further area is that of nature: faith helps us to respect it, to “find models of development which are based not simply on utility and profit, but consider creation as a gift”. It teaches us to find just forms of government, in which authority comes from God and which serve the common good; it offers us the possibility of forgiveness that leads us to overcome all conflict. “When faith is weakened, the foundations of humanity also risk being weakened”, writes the Pope, and if we remove faith in God from our cities, we will lose our mutual trust and be united only by fear. Therefore we must not be ashamed to publicly confess God, because faith illuminates social life.
Another area illuminated by faith is that of suffering and death: Christians are aware that suffering cannot be eliminated, but it may be given meaning; it can be entrusted to the hands of God who never abandons us and therefore become “a moment of growth in faith”. To he who suffers, God does not give reasons to explain everything, but rather offers His presence that accompanies us, that opens up a threshold of light in the shadows. In this sense, faith is linked to hope. And here the Pope makes an appeal: “Let us refuse to be robbed of hope, or to allow our hope to be dimmed by facile answers and solutions which block our progress”.Click here for the entire encyclical.
Magical Hilton Head Daybreak Captivates, Inspires
This morning.
Daybreak.
Hilton Head Island.
Photos copyright 2013 by Dan Cirucci.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Clark DeLeon To Appear At Free Library, August 8
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Clark DeLeon | Pennsylvania Curiosities (Volume Four) (A)
When: Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 7:30PM
Where: Central Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Cost: FREE
No tickets required. For Info: 215-567-4341.
“Philadelphia’s favorite columnist” (Philadelphia Magazine), Clark DeLeon wrote “The Scene,” a beloved daily column in The Philadelphia Inquirer, for 20 years. In 2012, DeLeon returned to the Inquirer with a column entitled “A thousand heartfelt reasons to love Philadelphia” and a mission: “To love my city out loud. To help you love our city the way I do, by describing it the way I feel it, see it, experience it.” He is a longtime commentator on local news stations and teaches at Montgomery County Community College. A “sage of Pennsylvania” (Los Angeles Times), DeLeon is the author of four books, including the Curiosity Series, a guide to quirky people, roadside oddities, and offbeat phenomena in the Keystone State. His new book is the fourth volume in the series.
Christie Video: We're Helping Small Businesses Rebound
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in Ortley Beach, NJ yesterday.
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