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Villa Can Mota is a great and fully equipped modern house in Ibiza (Spain), architectural award of the College of Architects of the Balearic Islands. The hou...
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Three regulars raised their glasses for a final toast to an institution that helped transform downtown New Havens upscale food scenebefore the scene even existed.
The toast took place Tuesday evening at Ibiza restaurant.
Doug Smith, Richard Formica, and Sanjay Kapoor (pictured), three Yale physicians, were the first customers seated at the High Street restaurant on Tuesday evening, Ibizas last night of operation
The doctors came as soon as they heard the news. Ibiza owner Sonia Blanco had sent out an email Tuesday afternoon announcing the restaurants abrupt closure and word spread fast among New Havens foodies.
Ibiza closed due to personal family problems and a dispute between the landlord and restaurant owners Sonia and Ignacio Blanco.
Ibiza, which serves upscale Spanish cuisine, was consistently listed among New Havens top restaurants. When it opened in 1996 as Pika Tapas, the restaurant was a pioneer of fancy food at a time when New Haven was known for its apizza but not for gourmet small-plate delicacies.
Shortly after the restaurant opened for its dinner service at 5 p.m. Tuesday, fans of the restaurant started coming in to say goodbye, to have a last drink or meal, and to ask why.
Sonia Blanco, who owned the restaurant with ex-husband Ignacio Blanco, said the landlord wanted more money and we couldnt really afford that.
He sent an eviction notice, she said.
They werent being evicted, said John Wareck, the landlord. He said he didnt raise the rent. There was a settlement after many months of them trying to meet their expenses. We were doing everything we could to accommodate them.
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Last Supper For A Foodie Pioneer
By Diana Riley
PUBLISHED: 04:43 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 07:23 EST, 5 March 2014
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Most of us have heard about Dubrovniks charms, but Zadar in the western corner of Croatia has pretty beaches, sunshine and medieval history on its doorstep.
Even better, there are fewer tourists. Its a two-hour flight from the UK, and travel in June when we are here and youll avoid the Germans and Austrians who have been parking themselves on the sunbeds for years.
We are spending a week based in the lively city and on the island of Pag, from which the crumbly local sheeps cheese takes its name. Zadar, home to around 70,000 people, is a joy to explore, with pedestrianised streets that seem made for strolling.
Italian style: The Zadar region was heavily influenced by Florence, which has given it a colourful culinary scene
Two thirds of the city was destroyed in World War II and the more recent War of Independence, but careful restoration sits happily alongside impressive modern architecture.
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Coasting along in Croatia: Combining island hopping with the lively city of Zadar
James Earl Jones shot to fame as boxer Jack Jefferson in Howard Sacklers 1967 play The Great White Hope. Jones won the Tony and, two years later, was nominated for an Oscar in the film version.
Now it may be the rapper commonly known as Commons turn.
Common (the former Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.) appeared in a reading the other week for a handful of producers and investors who are trying to get the play back in the ring, so to speak.
The reading went well, a source says, adding that Common was excellent.
The 41-year-old is eager to play the part and, Im told, has even offered to help finance the production.
But the bean counters are wary. The play has a cast of 25, and sources say a full-scale Broadway revival would cost nearly $4 million. Which means that, unless everybody agrees to work for scale (with a percentage of the profits thrown in if the productions a hit), Broadway is simply not realistic.
I think theyll have to hook up with one of the nonprofits, a source says. Its something the Roundabout could and should do. Its a lot more interesting than putting on Cabaret again.
It wasnt easy raising money for the original production. Despite the raves that greeted the premiere at Washington, DCs Arena Stage, backers were nowhere to be found. Sackler financed the show himself, using the $225,000 he earned from the sale of the play to Hollywood.
When the Broadway production took off, Sackler became a multimillionaire.
But he spent money as fast as he made it mainly on houses and cars and he never had another payday like The Great White Hope.
Focusing on the quality of enforcement actions, the administration proposes a $38.2 billion budget request for the Department of Homeland Security. Within that is a $2.6 billion allocation for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use to identify, detain and remove undocumented immigrants from the country.
Some $131.6 million is to go towards the apprehension of immigrant fugitives in the country who are considered public safety risks. Another $322.4 million will be used to remove those are in federal, state and local prisons.
But the policy proposal that continues to anger some advocacy groups is the $24 million funding to retain ICEs 287(g) program, which deputizes local and state law enforcement officials to take part in the immigration process.
Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing network, said keeping programs like 287(g) is a waste of money.
The presidents budget belies his rhetoric on immigration, and it calls into question whether he is sincere about protecting immigrants and advancing immigration reform in the Congress, Alvarado said. The administration cannot hide its own record behind Republicans extremism when it continues to propose funding for extremely cruel enforcement. The President must stop ratifying the premises of the nativists, and he must resolve the hypocrisy reflected in his budget.
But it wasnt all bad news for immigrants in Obamas 2015 budget. He took steps to reduce the controversial 34,000 per day immigration bed mandate to 30,539. DHS argued last year that it could save money by cutting back to about 31,000 beds under the $2 billion a year detention program by looking to cheaper alternatives. Obama has proposed $1.3 billion to fund the reduction as well as to supervise some 60,000 undocumented immigrants. Additionally, some $94.1 million would go towards alternative programs that put low-risk undocumented immigrants under supervisions such as electronic monitoring.
Still, the amount of dollars being spent on the dentition programs is worrying for experts who study the issue. New York University Professor Alina Das, who serves as co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, said research has found that DHS often uses appropriations as a symbol of a mandate for its detention and deportation activities. She said it a mistake but the agency, but certainly one the administration can fix either through decreasing the allocated funds or by clarifying that those funds dont mean specific number of people must be detained.
You are simply expanding the net of people who will end up being forced into the detention and deportation system, Das said. I worry that when you see these kinds of high numbers and allocations for what I view to be an arbitrary number of detention beds ... will result in continuingly high numbers of people who are being detained even though the smarter solution and the more humane solution would be to shift to alternatives to detention.
Das would rather see a much higher amount of funds allocated to alternatives to detention. When asked if she thinks Obama, who deports about 1,100 people per day, is trying to send a message to his detractors that he is tough on immigration law breakers, Das said, I don t think they will ever be satisfied so I hope the administration isnt using these numbers to satisfy them. The budget is really about good governance and making smart choices and giving people on the ground the flexibility to exercise discretion to make sure that we are not wasting billions of dollars locking people up and putting them in deportation proceedings when we are at the cusp of possible reform.
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