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Top Chef World All-Stars finishes up in Paris with the final 3. Given the classic challenge of cooking the best (four-course progressive tasting) meal of their lives, given a sous-chef, given €2000, given six and a half hours over two days, given a chef's table meal to celebrate the night before, given a table of global chefs led by three restaurant six-Michelin-star chef Hélène Darroze, the guest judge. And one of them is given the title. [more inside]
posted by Superilla on Jun 14, 2023 - 15 comments

The last three bakers face a signature, technical, and showstopper challenge, but one is named StarBaker of 2019. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 1, 2019 - 48 comments

Join us and a rowdy crowd of wild Texans from our live show at the ACL Live at the Moody Theater as we discuss What's-A Christmas to Me, Modern Day Knights and the art of arranging old, old meats and cheeses on slabs of ancient wood.
posted by Tevin on Dec 3, 2018 - 14 comments

The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final begins Saturday! May 13th! at 2100 CEST / 3:00pm Eastern! with results announced usually between 6-630pm Eastern! Can you tell I am excite! Most of the world can watch via the main Eurovision YouTube channel. Fans located in the US can tune their TVs to LOGO or computing devices to LogoTV.com, where the show will be co-hosted by Ross Mathews and Michelle Visage of "Rupaul's Drag Race" fame. Other options for following the action include accessing the main Eurovision stream on YouTube using a VPN, or using the delightfully Swedish feed from SVT (co-hosted, although probably in Swedish, by 2015 winner Måns Zelmerlöw). [more inside]
posted by zebra on May 12, 2017 - 577 comments

When Danny Heinrich confessed in court on Sept. 6 to abducting and murdering Jacob Wetterling and assaulting Jared Scheierl 27 years ago, investigators declared that at last, the public had the truth. But despite Heinrich's excruciatingly detailed accounts, the truth remains elusive. Many questions remain unanswered.
posted by ellieBOA on Oct 26, 2016 - 5 comments

In a rehash of the dramatic 2014 final, Real looks for the 11th title on their 14th final and Atlético for their first in their third final. It's a Madrid showdown in Milan's San Siro. [more inside]
posted by lmfsilva on May 26, 2016 - 12 comments

After beating Benfica and Dnipro, only Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool stand between Unay Emery taking the Europa League trophy to Seville for the third consecutive season. [more inside]
posted by lmfsilva on May 17, 2016 - 22 comments

It's the final... from thousands of applicants just 12 bakers made it to the tent, and now only three remain. [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Oct 8, 2014 - 13 comments