You don’t really find fortune cookies in Asia, but Lazy Susans, by contrast, are all over. The composer Igor Stravinsky ate off one in 1959, at a Chinese restaurant in Japan. In 1971, an American visitor to Taiwan found them in common household use. And just before President Nixon’s historic 1972 visit, the first American commercial flight in decades landed in Shanghai, 23 years after Chairman Mao Zedong severed most of China’s ties with the West. The plane’s crew was promptly treated to lunch—served on a Lazy Susan. So either this style of eating really was, so to speak, made in China, or it had been outsourced from the West even during an era of chilly international relations.

For hungrier arrivals (and those bamboozled by the general carnage of Leicester Square), rocking up unguided can be overwhelming – so allow us to give you some direction.

Investors were unimpressed, dumping shares of Target Corp., Kohl’s Corp. and others that released their quarterly results. The selloff, part of a broader market decline, included retailers such as Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. that didn’t report on Tuesday.

3. Competitive Landscape and Dynamics: Smart Elevator Market share, Product Portfolio, Product Launches, etc.

Japanese investor Unizo Holdings closed its sale of a Far West Side building to Taconic Investment Partners and TH Real Estate, as part of Unizo’s continued unloading of its more than $1 billion Manhattan portfolio, Commercial Observer has learned.

As previously mentioned, Norma is a big part of fleshing out Jud’s character and his relationship to the Creeds, and her passing away is a contribution to the novel’s exploration of grief and death. But she too is cut from the ’89 film for brevity.

The percentage on display is affected by space constraints, but also by how much of a collection is devoted to works on paper, which cannot be shown for long due to light sensitivity. The Met collection is particularly weighted toward works on paper, but its percentage on display, about 4 percent, is in rough parity with other museums on the list.

Silvio Frlic has been working at Brooklyn red sauce stalwart Bamonte’s for 41 years. Silvio Frlic has seen some things.

Frank Altamirano’s day starts at 4 a.m. He bounces between Powell and Civic Center stations, and often spells his workers with shifts in the elevators. Photo by Abraham Rodriguez

You may not be familiar with the name Claude Le Tohic yet, but trust us, the Frenchman is about to be the most talked-about chef in San Francisco. Le Tohic is the mastermind behind One65, an ambitious $20 million, six-story, multirestaurant concept opening later this winter near Union Square. The project was three years in the making, and Le Tohic, who has only ever worked in Michelin-starred kitchens, has partnered with the Alexander’s Steakhouse group to realize the French culinary destination.

It was the Pacific Northwest’s first American Viticultural Area, federally approved on April 4, 1983.

“Many of the other pictures were not even worth showing,” he wrote. Upset, Mr. Hoving said he demanded an answer from Rousseau, “What were we going to do with them?”