If you walked in on your teenage daughter and caught her looking at pictures on her computer of Nicole Richie or Mary-Kate Olsen, would you think anything of it? Or would you assume she was checking the latest gossip?
To this island, where Greek dining usually means a diner or souvlaki stand, comes Ethos, by way of Manhattan and Astoria, where fresh grilled whole fish is the draw and reason alone to celebrate. An impressive makeover to the spot that housed the legendary Millie’s Place for years has an airy skylit back room making for an appropriate setting for appreciating the Mediterranean menu. The conceit here is a counter with crushed ice, where diners are supposed to choose their fish for dinner. But on busy nights, the fish are already in the kitchen, waiting their turn on the charcoal.
Barbecue purists insist that fall-off-the-bone tender is not the desired result when cooking ribs. Ribs need to be chewy enough to be gnawed clean, to be deemed properly prepared by experts. Just plain hungry folks will probably disagree. But BBQ fanatics and commoners will agree that Swingbellys Beach Side BBQ knows how to make their bones.
Rupert Murdoch, Mortimer Zuckerman, James Dolan. Casual newspaper readers might not recognize the names, but they should, because a major source of information is soon to be filtered by the winner of a heated bidding war.
One of these media moguls will beat out the other two by ending up with the winning bid that buys [...]
