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June 16, 2009 3:58 PM June 16, 2009 3:40 PMHere's a list that may inspire lots of debate among you. The "Top 100 Chinese Restaurants in the USA: Dining Guide 2009" counts six local restaurants among the best in the country:
- Helen's Gourmet
Award: Top 100 Overall Excellence 2008
7444 N. Fresno St., Fresno
(559) 432-4241 - Tang Dynasty
Award: Top 100 Chinese/Asian Fusion 2008
2066 W. Shaw Ave., Fresno
(559) 432-6118 - Sun Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant
Award: Top 100 Signature Dish 2008
1425 Draper St., Kingsburg
(559) 897-7221 - Hunan Restaurant
Award: Top 100 Regional Chinese Cuisines 2007
6716 N. Cedar Ave., Suite 104, Fresno
(559) 297-0336 - China Garden Restaurant
Award: Top 100 Chinese Buffet 2007
2719 Whitson St., Selma
(559) 896-3633 - Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant
Award: Top 100 Overall Excellence 2007
1952 E. Front St., Selma
(559) 896-0170
Continue reading The Best Chinese Food in the Valley.
Joan Obra
Continuing today's tattoo theme, I thought it might be fun to look at some celebrities who have tattoos that are misspelled, messed up, or just plain dumb. Observe:
David Beckham's tattoo is written in Sanskrit and is meant to spell out his wife, Victoria's, name. Instead it spells "Vihctoria."
Continue reading Celebrities with messed up ink.
Heather
She's not from the United States. I'm as shocked as you are.
From The Daily Mail: Eighteen-year old Belgian Kimberley Vlaminck wanted three stars tattooed on her face, so she went to a Romanian tattoo artist and placed her order in both French and English, two languages the artist apparently was unfamiliar with.
After describing what she wanted, Vlaminck claims to have fallen asleep. While the man drilled ink into her face. Ink that ended up being not three stars, but 56 stars, spread across the girl's face like a gorgeous constellation:
Continue reading Meet the dumbest person ever.
Heather
UPDATE: So it appears the group should have got an airplane ... promoter Johnny Q has announced that tonight's show is canceled because Sky Eats Airplane's van broke down this afternoon. Boo!
ORIGINAL: Rockers Sky Eats Airplane are back in Fresno for the third time in the last year -- (1) Last August's Warped Tour, (2) At the Crest Theatre earlier this year opening for Drop Dead Gorgeous. So if you're an all-ages hard rocker, you're probably looking forward to this one.
Question for readers: Is it harder to eat a airplane or a Megazone?
Continue reading To-Do Tonight: Eat Airplanes.
Mike Oz
- Beehive commenter Wet Towel wrote on Monday pointing out that the ACLU Web site's homepage features a prominent story from Fresno: A lesbian woman says Community Regional Medical Center temporarily barred her partner from visiting her in the emergency room after she collapsed at the Meet in the Middle rally. "Why is nobody talking about this?" he asked. The ACLU's interest certainly revved up coverage of the story. The Bee's Barbara Anderson writes about the issue in Tuesday's Bee.
- Sometimes when I finish reading a story in the New Yorker magazine I want to make copies for everyone I know. That was the case with a powerful piece in the June 1 issue written by surgeon Atul Gawande, the magazine's medical correspondent, who traveled to McAllen, Texas, to try to figure out why Medicare spends more per beneficiary there than in any other city except Miami. The conclusion: Our current system of paying doctors piecemeal based on how many tests, surgeries and other procedures they perform has led to a glut in -- big surprise! -- the number of tests, surgeries and other procedures. That leads to even greater medical costs and more of a chance that our health-care system -- which spends more per capita than any country on earth yet is leaving more people than ever without coverage -- will spiral into collapse. Gawande's article has struck a chord across the country. (It's described as a "must read" in the White House.) The New York Times wrote in an editorial praising the piece: "No doubt a vast majority of doctors strive to do the best for their patients. But many are influenced by fee-for-service financial incentives and some are unabashed profiteers ... In the long run, if doctors can't be induced to rein themselves in, there is little hope of lasting reform." As the debate on health care revvs up, this is a must-read article.
- If you haven't noticed, California's state budget is on the verge of collapse. My colleague Bill McEwen has an insightful column in Tuesday's Bee. He uses the interactive budget balancer on the Los Angeles Times Web site to try to wipe out the state's $24 billion deficit -- and realizes how tough it could be. Give the budget balancer a try yourself. What would YOU be willing to cut?
Donald Munro
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