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Oh, I'm sure that's true. Fabio is still one of both my and Mrs. Dewelar's all-time favorite Top Chef contestants, and we were looking forward to the restaurant's opening given his association with it. We went a couple weeks after opening, and the place was nearly empty. The food was mediocre at best, on par with your standard mid-tier chain restaurant (e.g. Longhorn Steakhouse). I will say that the theming was really cool, and the staff was very attentive (perhaps a bit TOO attentive...), so it wasn't all negative. I guess we were just hoping for more.

I suppose he needs something to do after the restaurant he was associated with here in Orlando crashed and burned within a few months. I think it was promoted for longer than it was open 😐 .

What if he ruins it himself? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mariano-rivera-wife-clara-lawsuit-b2684423.html

I hope so too! I wouldn't be surprised to see Andy as well. I have noticed, though, that they never have bakers from the most recent season, so since Netflix is a year behind on the holiday shows, it'll likely be 2026 there.

This annoys me every year. Just because it happens to mention packages and mittens, I guess. Seriously, any song that even mentions Christmas (e.g., "River") or, hell, anything to do with winter ("Let It Snow", "Winter Wonderland", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", etc.) is automatically a Christmas song.

Possibly because when they mentioned who won the bakers' vote later in the episode, the judges seemed surprised, which struck me as odd.

On Extra Slice, she said that she'd spotted it the first week when her station was in the back row.

Here's one in a different vein. This was the song I used to use to pump me up when I played the sports ball things, but it still feels pretty uplifting to me now.

...and now I am giggling like mad imagining a couple Hell's Angels types randomly riding in and stealing all the toppers...

Honestly, Michael Franti is probably my go-to feel-good guy these days, for either the happy-peppy stuff like "Say Hey" (which became annoyingly ubiquitous a few years back) or the burn-it-all-down stuff like a lot of his early albums. Here's a lesser-known one of his:

Just another reason why orange is my favorite color.

Women's 3000M steeplechase gold medalist Winfred Yavi of Bahrain.

From a sport that deserves way more attention, I give you Dutch handball player Angela Malestein.

I usually enjoy badminton, but so much of it has only been available in three-way split screen that it's been impossible to watch.

This is my favorite of Disney's live-action movies of the era. Disney had so many great character actors under contract at the time, several of whom were used here to great effect -- Mills, Jones, Lanchester, Demarest, Roddy McDowall, Richard Deacon -- add in Frank Gorshin and Neville Brand as the villains, Bobby Darin to sing the theme song, and, of course, DC himself and you have what I consider a brilliant film. Good call. A sad waste of Christina Ricci, who looked too bored to even bother to rise above the material. Should've been a DCOM.