Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup

Sam Sifton Provides Solace For Those Afflicted by 'That Brooklyn No-Reservation Thing'
Has it gotten to the point when one cannot talk about dining in Brooklyn without an us-versus-them, Manhattan-is-for-snobs mentality? The buzz on Twitter and, in today's "Hey, Mr. Critic" post on The New York Times' Diner's Journal, seems to suggest as much. Last week saw a bit of a catalyst in the guise of former Times food critic Mimi Sheraton's blanket dismissal of the borough of Brooklyn. "The Times has certainly been very exaggerated in its Brooklyn coverage, because most of them live the...

Ben, You're Always Running Here & There
Get ready to scream. (Via - Gothamist) Labels: gross, NYC, rats, subway New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Hundreds Die in Brazil Floods, Mudslide
(AFP) - Days of Flooding and Mudslides left as many as 250 people dead in southeastern Brazil, with a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro bearing the brunt Wednesday. At least 237 people were reported to have died in the Serrana mountain region north of Rio Tuesday and Wednesday after extremely heavy tropical rain sent hillsides sliding into towns and rivers over their banks. "I've only ever seen this before on television. It's like a horror film. Houses, cars were carried away by torrents of...

Flooding kills hundreds in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Flooding and Mudslides have killed 348 people in southeast Brazil, officials said. Rescuers were bringing in helicopters as the search for survivors continued in the region north of Rio de Janeiro, the BBC reported. Nova Friburgo reported 168 dead, Teresopolis reported 146 dead and Petropolis reported 34 killed. All are mountain towns. A river burst its bank in Teresopolis, submerging buildings, while the rainfall set off several mudslides. "It's a huge catastrop...

Floods, mudslides kill 245 in Brazil
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Flooding and Mudslides have killed at least 245 people in southeastern Brazil, officials said Wednesday. Jornal do Brasil reported officials said the death toll included 97 people in Nova Friburgo, 130 in Teresopolis and 18 in Petropolis. The Brazilian newspaper said local officials said the number of dead in Petropolis could reach 40. The dead include four Firefighters killed while on a rescue operation when their vehicle was buried by a landslide in Nova ...

Floriana chef cooks with heart
If you should stumble upon his Facebook page, you'll learn that Guilherme Barreto, executive chef of Dupont Circle's popular Floriana restaurant, has some unusual likes: super-chef Alain Ducasse, Confederacao Brasileira de Futebol, and "Hell's Kitchen" and "Top Chef" television shows. That's probably not surprising considering that this flamboyant young chef has led what many would call a colorful life. After all, he's pictured on his Facebook page sporting a ponytail and readying a piglet for s...

At least 270 dead in Brazil floods
By Pedro Fonseca and Stuart Grudgings Rio de Janeiro | Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:27pm EST Rio de Janeiro (Reuters) - Floods and landslides devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, killing at least 257 people as torrents of water and mud swept through the region, burying many families as they slept. The Heavy Rains also killed 13 people in Sao Paulo state on Tuesday, bringing the total death toll in Brazil's south to at least 270. Hillsides and river banks in the picturesqu...

Brazil landslides leave hundreds dead
Damage caused by the Mudslides in the town of Teresopolis. Photograph: Roberto Ferreira/EPA Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, is due to visit a string of mountain towns devastated by floods and landslides today, as the death toll from the disaster reached at least 361. Heavy Rains on Tuesday night triggered some of the deadliest landslides in Brazilian history, sending mud tearing through three towns and burying entire families alive as they slept. In Teresópolis, a small town about 6...

Floods in Brazil and Colombia: Inundated
IN THE state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil this week the rains were sudden and torrential. In Colombia they have been relentless, lasting months. In both countries they been far more lethal than the more publicised Flooding in Australia see article). They have left survivors and authorities with an expensive job of rebuilding—and the more elusive one of trying to prevent such tragedies from happening again. In Brazil the forested mountains behind Rio de Janeiro received a third more rain in ...

Two Additional SITECH Technology Dealers Established in Brazil for Heavy and Highway Contractors
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that two additional SITECH® Technology Dealers have been established in Brazil. SITECH Sul Brazil and SITECH Noroeste Brazil join the premier network of SITECH Dealerships—the first fully dedicated global distribution network offering the most comprehensive portfolio of construction technology systems available to the heavy and highway contractor. With the addition of Sul Brazil and Noroeste Brazil...

Brazil slides toll up, survivors tell of horrors
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — Survivors of Mudslides in mountain towns north of Rio recounted Thursday the horrors of watching homes swept away by walls of earth and water and of frantic efforts to dig with bare hands and reach trapped neighbors. Officials and a television report indicated the death toll in the slides climbed above 350, with at least 50 people still missing. “We were like zombies, covered in mud, in the dark, digging and digging,” said Geisa Carvalho, 19, about th...

Brazil slides toll up, survivors tell of horrors
Cars sit in debris in a flooded street in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing at least 140 people in 24 hours, Brazilian officials said Wednesday. Survivors of Mudslides in mountain towns north of Rio recounted Thursday the horrors of watching homes swept away by walls of earth and water and of frantic efforts to dig with bare hands and reach trapped neighbors. Officials and a televisi...

At least 270 killed in Brazil floods
Floods and landslides devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 257 people as torrents of water and mud swept through the region, burying many families as they slept. The Heavy Rains also killed 13 people in Sao Paulo state, bringing the total death toll in Brazil's south to at least 270. ...

Brazil floods leave up to 250 dead
Rescue workers search for Victims after Heavy Rains caused Mudslides in a low-income neughbourhood in Teresopolis, some 100 kilometres from Rio de Janeiro. Photo: AFP Days of Flooding and Mudslides have left as many as 250 people dead in south-east Brazil, with a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro bearing the brunt on Wednesday. At least 237 people were reported to have died in the Serrana mountain region north of Rio on Tuesday and on Wednesday after extremely heavy tropical rain sent hills...

Brazil mudslides kill 350 people, more missing
Television footage showed many houses buried in mud as desperate residents and Rescue Workers searched for survivors. "There was no way of telling which house would fall. Rich and poor — everything was destroyed," resident Fernanda Carvalho was quoted as saying by the Globo network's website. Nearly all the homes in their Caleme neighborhood were swept to the bottom of a hill, seemingly turned inside out. Tangles of plumbing were wrapped in trees, Children's' clothing littered the earth...

Hundreds killed in Brazil floods, mudslides
Devastating Mudslides and floods swept away entire neighborhoods in mountains near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 335 people as Rescue Workers searched frantically for survivors on Thursday. Villages and homes in the three municipalities north of Rio were flattened by rivers of mud and tumbling rocks spilling from the mountains, GloboNews television said. "It's a huge catastrophe, a major disaster," Jorge Mario Sedlacek, the mayor of the worst-hit town of Teresopolis said. At least 146 people ...

Brazil slides toll up, survivors tell of horrors
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil - Survivors of Mudslides in mountain towns north of Rio recounted Thursday the horrors of watching homes swept away by walls of earth and water and of frantic efforts to dig with bare hands and reach trapped neighbors. Officials and a television report indicated the death toll in the slides climbed above 350, with at least 50 people still missing. "We were like zombies, covered in mud, in the dark, digging and digging," said Geisa Carvalho, 19, about the minutes after s...

Hundreds dead in Brazil slides, search to continue...
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) - Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing at least 287 people and leaving dozens more missing - lives rescuers hoped to save as they resumed searches Thursday. In the hardest-hit town of Teresopolis, where the local civil defense agency said at least 146 people died, hundreds of family members crowded around the town's morgue waiting to identify bodies. More corpses were laid out on a street in front to the Police Station...

More than 300 die in Brazil floods
Source: UKPA More than 300 people have died and rescuers are searching for dozens more who are missing after Heavy Rains triggered Mudslides in Brazil. In the hardest-hit town of Teresopolis, 40 miles north of Rio de Janiero, where the civil defence agency said at least 146 people died, hundreds of family members crowded around the mountain town's morgue waiting to identify bodies. More corpses were laid out on a street by the Police Station, covered by blankets. Rains hit the town overnight, th...

Brazil mudslides kill at least 355, destroy towns
RIO DE JANEIRO — Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into mountain towns, killing at least 355 people and leaving dozens more missing, Brazilian media reported Thursday. Hillsides and river banks in the picturesque Serrana region north of Rio de Janeiro buckled under about 10 inches of rain — the equivalent of a month's rainfall in 24 hours — destroying houses and killing many people early Wednesday, rescue officials said. Television footage showed many ho...

Mudslides Kill Hundreds In Brazil
Cars sit in debris in a flooded street in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on Wednesday (Jan. 12, 2011). "The number of people killed by Flooding and Mudslides in south-east Brazil has reached 348," the BBC reports, citing local officials as its sources. Reuters is putting the death toll at 361. The Associated Press writes that "driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns. ... In the hardest-hit town of Teresopolis, where the local civil defens...

Death toll rises above 300 in Brazil floods
Devastating Mudslides and floods swept away entire neighborhoods in mountains near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 335 people as Rescue Workers searched frantically for survivors on Thursday. Villages and homes in the three municipalities north of Rio were flattened by rivers of mud and tumbling rocks spilling from the mountains, GloboNews television said. "It's a huge catastrophe, a major disaster," Jorge Mario Sedlacek, the mayor of the worst-hit town of Teresopolis said. At least 146 people ...

Survivor tells of houses, cars being swept away in Brazil flooding and mudslides
"Like a horror film" ... a mudslide in Teresopolis. Photo: AFP At least 237 people were reported to have died in the Serrana mountain region north of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday and Wednesday after extremely Heavy Rain sent hillsides sliding into towns and rivers broke their banks. ''I've only ever seen this before on television. It's like a horror film. Houses, cars were carried away by torrents of water. It was terrifying,'' said a 55-year-old woman who gave her first name as Angela. The death t...

Brazil Floods, Mudslides Kill 361
(AFP) - Devastating Mudslides and floods killed at least 361 people in a mountainous area near Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities said Thursday. Rescue crews resumed their work at sunrise after taking a break overnight, as the scale of the devastation became clearer. Entire neighborhoods in the municipalities of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petropolis were swept away by rivers of mud and tumbling rocks. At least three firemen were killed when they were engulfed in tons of mud as they tried ...

Reason Morning Links: Obama Speaks in Tucson, Emerging Middle Class in Africa, Flooding in Brazil
Obama calls for healing, civility in Tucson Speech. Lebanon talks begin Monday to assemble new government. Africa's rising Middle Class. Loughner's community college files released. Flooding, landslides after Heavy Rains in Brazil. ...