I Don’t Know How She Does It (U.S.), Opening Feb. 2Comedy. Directed by Douglas McGrath. Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is one busy woman. She is a high-earning financial executive at a Boston-based financial management firm, a devoted mother of two young children, and a supportive wife of her out-of-work architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear). She manages to be on top of her schedule every day, and is used to hearing people say ‘I don’t know how you do it.” Yet things begin to change when s

From the day it opened 20 years ago, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” has been hailed as perhaps the greatest of the Disney animated classics, nominated for multiple Oscars, including best picture, upon its release in 1991.And as a new wave of ecstatic reviews greet every re-release (“the quintessential Disney masterpiece,” according to Christianity Today), Paige O’Hara, who sang the role of Belle, the “Beauty” of the title, recalls first looking at the songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken for

Last of ‘Child 44’ trilogy disappointsAgent 6By Tom Rob Smith(Hachette)There are two books fighting for attention in Tom Rob Smith’s latest novel, and the fact that one of them is fairly compelling isn’t enough to prevent “Agent 6” from becoming something of a mess. The third and final work in what has been up to this point a bracing, original series, “Agent 6” turns out to be a disappointment. It’s overcrowded with plotlines and stretches over too long of a timeline to sustain any narrative mom

Special Lecture on Korean Paintings By Oh Ju-seokTranslated by Lee Subun, Cho Yoon-jung(Hollym)Of the many experts on Korean traditional art and paintings, the late scholar and author Oh Ju-seok had his own way of appreciating them. Oh believed one should “see them through the eyes of the past, and feel with the heart of the past,” while trying to imagine what the art must have meant for the people in those days.One of his popular books on Korean traditional art, “Special Lecture on Korean Paint

Eomandu is thinly sliced white fish fillet (croaker, sea bream, flatfish or gray mullet) that is stuffed with beef and vegetables, coated with starch, then steamed. The white fish fillet as dumpling skin is unique, light and sweet in taste. It was originally a summer dish but now people enjoy it on special occasions year-round. Ingredients ● 3 white fillet fish (croaker, codfish, frozen pollack) slices ● 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp ground white pepper ● 70g minced beef (top round), 3 sheets brown oak

He may have inadvertently paved the way for McDonald’s, but great Victorian chef Auguste Escoffier was so slight a man that he even couldn’t reach the stove. He had platform shoes made and went on to cook his way into culinary history. In a time before Twitter or even phone service, Escoffier, who was born in 1846, quickly rose to become known as the Ambassador of French cuisine and was eventually knighted for it.Kaiser Wilhelm II once remarked to Escoffier: “I am the emperor of Germany, but you

HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) ― An eagle and a birdie-birdie finish helped Canada’s Graham DeLaet grab the clubhouse lead Thursday in the $5.5 million Sony Open, the first full-field event of the U.S. PGA Tour season.DeLaet, celebrating his return from back surgery that threatened to derail his career, carded a seven-under par 63 on the par-70 Waialae Country Club course.He had a two-stroke lead over South Korean Choi Kyung-ju, Sweden’s Carl Petterson and Kyle Reifers, who were all in the clubhouse on

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― The flashy passes between the legs of defenders and behind his back to open teammates on the wing have been dazzling.The stutter-step drives to the basket have been electrifying and the jump shots swishing through from distance have been downright unexpected.Ricky Rubio has brought energy, excitement and a little bit of magic to the Minnesota Timberwolves in his rookie season, but his true impact on one of the NBA’s struggling franchises can be measured in a subtle moment from