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BEST OF ARTS AND CULTURE 2008

Here is a compilation of our favorites from the arts & culture in 2008:

Best Movies

(1) Tell No One
(2) Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
(3) There Will Be Blood
(4) Gunnin' for that #1 Spot (Tribeca Film Festival)

Our Favorite Movie Rentals

(1) No Country for Old Men
(2) Loves of a Blonde
(3) Gone Baby Gone
(4) Eastern Promises
(5) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(6) Rendition
(7) Be Kind Rewind
(8) Four Brothers
(9) The Counterfeiters
(10) Outsourced

Sharon's Favorite Rentals

(1) Waitress
(2) The Truman Show
(3) Sex and the City
(4) A Mighty Heart
(5) Into the Wild

Best on Broadway - Gypsy
Best Off Broadway - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Favorite Restaurants

(1) Tibetan Kitchen
(2) Wild Ginger
(3) Bliss
(4) Curly's Vegetarian Lunch
(5) Zenith

Magazines

(1) New York
(2) Scientific American
(3) Parenting

Domestic Travels

(1) Lancaster, Pennsylvania
(2) Chicago, Illinois

Best View of NYC - Empire State Building at Sunset

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Best of 2007

Here are our favorite NYC events from 2007:

Best NYC Vegetarian Restaurants:

Tibetan Kitchen
Hangawi
Wild Ginger
Ollies
Zen Palate
Vegetarian Paradise 2

Best Shakespeare: A Midsummer's Night Dream and Romeo and Juliet at FREE Shakespeare in Central Park

Our Favorite Movie Rentals:

Saturday Night Fever
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Pollock & Frida
Elizabethtown
The Last Kiss
Dogma & Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Rocky Balboa
The Last King of Scotland
Notes on a Scandal
Wall Street
The History Boys
The Science of Sleep
To Sir, With Love
The Namesake
Eastern Promises
Joyeux Noel

Best Broadway - The Color Purple (starring Fantasia)

Travel Destinations:

(1) Grand Canyon, Arizona
(2) Madrid, Toledo and Barcelona, Spain
(3) Trinidad and Tobago
(4) Sagadahoc Bay Campground in Maine
(5) Completion of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail in New York(!)

Bike Events:

Montauk Century - rode our folding bikes together from Babylon all the way to Montauk (The End)

Five Boro Bike Tour on Dahon mango folding bikes

Best Event of the Year: David's doctoral dissertation defense, graduation from Columbia University with his PhD and celebration dinner with friends and family at Tibetan Kitchen (we had the entire restaurant to ourselves!)