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With fall in full swing, diners and foodies will find lots to do around town. Here are some of the latest restaurants/events to check out.

Le Pain Quotidien, a Belgian cafe-bakery chain with more than 160 locations worldwide, recently debuted in The Commons at Calabasas in the space formerly occupied by Damon & Pythias Greek restaurant. Open 7 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays, until 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Offered are freshly baked organic goods along with breakfast, soups, salads and sandwiches. 4719 Commons way. 747-444-5163. www.lepainquotidien.com.

Mandarin Bistro, a sit-down, family-owned restaurant is new in Newbury Park in a former Pick Up Stix location. The menu features Chinese fare – with more than 100 Mandarin and Szechwan dishes available. Open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. daily. Reservations taken. No liquor currently. 501 S. Reino Road. 805-375-1668.

Pyramido, a Greek/Mediterranean establishment, has opened in North Hollywood. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner daily. Table service. full bar. Hookah service offered on the patio. 4907 Lankershim Blvd. 818-761-0900.

Vibe Rolls & Salad Cafe opened in Glendale at 514 W. Colorado St. A fast, casual spot, order at the table or counter, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Salads, wraps, chicken meals, burgers, sandwiches, pasta and soups available. No liquor. 818-243-6103.

East West Dining Group recently debuted SmithHouse Tap & Grill in Century City. Angelo Sosa, a former contestant on “Top Chef,” is the consulting chef. Featured are classic American dishes with global ingredients and notes of whimsy. The custom-blend burger is topped with a bone marrow and Parmesan crust; slow-baked salmon is accompanied by charred bok choy and a lemon-yuzu butter; and a dry-aged new York strip steak is glazed in a ginger-soy emulsion and sprinkled with five spice walnuts. more than 120 selections of draft beers are cooled in six distinct temperature controlled zones and can be poured through Draft Master, a table-top tap system that allows diners to pour their own draft beer at the table. full bar offers an array of custom cocktails. The 240-seat restaurant is open for lunch and dinner daily. Reservations taken. 10351 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. 310-432-4360. www.smithhousela.com.

An eighth location of Vosges Haut-Chocolat shop opened in Beverly Hills (other shops in Chicago, new York and Las Vegas). In a remodeled former nine West shoe store, the shop is decorated with arches shipped in from Marrakesh. There’s a cafe in front, a marketplace with products in the middle and a chocolate lab in the back. Offered are an array of exotic and interesting chocolate candy/sweet combinations, cocoa mixes and more. Consumers can purchase by the collection (Italiano, Aztec, Global), by the bar or box (caramels, toffees, etc.). Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 311 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. 310-275-3621. www.vosgeschocolate.com.

Rose restaurant has opened in West Hollywood with a menu of Provencal- and Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. Open for dinner Tuesday-Saturday and Saturday brunch. full bar. Valet parking. Reservations taken. 861 N. La Cienega Blvd. 310-289-1294. www.roserestaurants.com.

The Six is scheduled to open in the former Risotto restaurant space (across from Jerry’s Deli) in Studio City at the end of this month. The full-service, casual concept restaurant will feature new takes on traditional American classics – such as burgers on brioche buns with Maytag blue cheese, potato crusted salmon with seasonal vegetables, organic jidori chicken breast, mussels and housemade banana cream pie. Beer and wine will be available. 12650 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. another location of The six has been open at 10668 W. Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles, 310-837-6662, for a year and a half. Partners are Jake King, Will Karges and Alex Trumble.

Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air, is scheduled to open Nov. 1. The new restaurant’s fine dining culinary concept, headed by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, will focus on modern California cuisine with European and Mediterranean influences. It will showcase top quality fresh ingredients, all-natural poultry and sustainable seafood. Open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. full bar. Valet parking. Reservations taken. 701 Stone Canyon Road, Los Angeles. 310-909-1644. www.hotelbelair.com.

Going on around the areaDineLA Fall Restaurant Week continues today and also Monday-Oct. 14. Offered are fixed price lunches ranging from $16 to $28 and dinners from $26 to $44 per person. View restaurants participating along with their menus online at www.discoverlosangeles.com/restaurantweekv2.

Burbank’s Smoke House Restaurant celebrates its 65th birthday Wednesday with a complimentary champagne toast, birthday cake celebration and raffle drawing at 7 p.m. also, on Wednesday , every entree on the regular menu will be 50 percent off. through the end of this month, the restaurant is also partnering with Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles and will donate 10 percent of garlic bread sales to the foundation. every Tuesday after 4 p.m. this month, entrees will be 40 percent off the regular menu. A special $19.46 dinner menu will be available during the month and early diners (4-6 p.m.) can still receive 25 percent off any entr e on the regular menu. 4420 W. Lakeside Drive, Burbank. for more information or reservations, call 818-845-3731.www.smokehouse1946.com.

Good Habit Foods, a gourmet market specializing in artisan, gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options, opened last month in Thousand Oaks. The market is owned by Nina Burr, who offers a line of gluten free cookies. 1625 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. 818-292-8599.

Los Angeles Food & Wine, a four-day festival with top chefs from around the country and events at venues in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Los Angeles and Santa Monica, is Oct. 13-16. Check website for various events. Tickets start at $50. 877-234-8425. www.lafw.com.

Morton’s The Steakhouse, Woodland Hills is hosting an outdoor, four-course puff on the patio dinner paired with wines and cigars, 6:30 p.m. Thursday . $115 per person. 6250 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills. Reservations required. Contact Ashlea gross at 818-703-7272. www.mortons.com/woodlandhills/specialevents.

Karl Strauss Brewing Company-CityWalk teams up with four Los Angeles breweries to kick-off LA Beer Week with Reverse Tap Takeover. The craft beer and food pairing event 5-9 p.m. Thursday. $20 per person. 1000 Universal Studios Blvd., Universal City. 818-753-2739. www.karlstrauss.com.

To help with a cure for breast cancer, on Monday, Panera Bread will donate 100 percent of sales from its Pink Ribbon Bagels to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation. Also, throughout this month, 10 cents from each $1.29 Pink Ribbon Bagel sold and $1 from every Power of Pink Baker’s Dozen Pack of 13 Pink Ribbon Bagels ($10.49) will be donated to the organization. The bagels, shaped like a ribbon and baked fresh daily, feature cherry chips, dried cherries and cranberries. Pick up the bagels at stores in Burbank, Glendale, North Hollywood, Northridge and Studio City. for additional locations, go to www.panerabread.com/cafes/find.php.

Boccaccio’s, Westlake Village, offers a five-course wine dinner with Pali Wine Co. wines at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Cost is $79 per person. Reservations required. 32123 Lindero Canyon Road, #110. 818-889-8300. Menu at www.paliwineco.com.

Los Angeles magazine’s The Food Event at Saddlerock Ranch is 1-4 p.m. Oct. 23. $95 per person in advance; $110 at the door. more than 40 restaurants and wineries will be participating. 31727 Mulholland Highway, Malibu. www.lamag.com/thefoodevent.

Lazy Dog Cafe is thinking pink during Breast Cancer Awareness month and from 5-9 p.m. Oct. 18 will donate 15 percent of each dinner bill to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Customers need to bring in a flier to participate (available at www.lazydogcafe.com/promotions).

The Langham hosts a five-course Farm to Table tasting dinner showcasing beer from Pasadena-based Craftsman Brewing Company 6:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. dinner Oct. 19. $95 per person including beer pairings. Reservations required. 1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena. 626-585-6218. www. pasadena.langhamhotels.com.

The L.A. Oktoberfest Benefit for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is 1-5 p.m. Oct. 22. It will feature German beer, food and entertainment. Tickets $25 per person. Event at Olympic Collection, 11301 Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. 213-915-8003. www.laoktoberfest.com.

If you know of any new restaurants now open or soon to open in the Valley, email the names and addresses to natalie.haughton@dailynews.com.

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A boat passes below a bridge at the Grand Union Canal in London

Think of a canal holiday and you think of ploughman’s lunch-fuelled bucolic puttering, of trim little lock-keepers’ cottages and humpback bridges. You probably don’t think of the Grand Union in west London, particularly if you’re me and punctuated your adolescence watching this neglected trans-urban waterway clog with the rusted trappings of antisocial behaviour.

As a commercial entity, the Grand Union met a suitably bitter end in 1981, when a final narrowboat consignment of lime juice left Brentford Wharf bound for the Rose’s depot in Hemel Hempstead. By then, London had long since turned its back on this stagnant legacy of low-tech, horse-drawn sloth. like almost every civic canal in Britain, the Grand Union was hidden away and fenced off, a secret realm where bad things happened: Narnia for tramps and vandals. associated misgivings pile up as my car’s sat-nav steers me towards the Willowtree Marina in Yeading, west London, through an unpromising hinterland of distribution centres and self-storage depots.

But the Willowtree, which began renting canal boats to holidaymakers earlier this year, is not the Grand Union as I remember it. Couples are sipping Pimm’s on a decked terrace, and the sparkling waters around them are full of swans and gaily-painted narrowboats, among them mine for the next three days – the four-berth, two-loo, billion-yard Caroline.

Presently I’m joined by my friends Ian and Simon, the most constant crewmates in a rolling roster that at various points over the weekend will include several family members, my wife’s cousin-in-law and her daughter, and an assortment of other people’s children. Jump-on, jump-off flexibility is one advantage of a 4mph speed limit. the wide-ranging appeal of this aquatic mini-break seemed to stem from its inherent incongruity, not least in regard to the ambitious finale: our circular barge tour of the capital’s waterways will be completed with a mad east-west dash right down the Thames, from the tidal lock at Limehouse to its counterpart at Brentford.

Many years ago I skippered my family on a narrowboat trip in north Wales, and as we chug waywardly out of the marina my knuckles whiten around the tiller in remembrance. the messily aborted U-turns, the head-on collisions, the shaming, dread cry that lives on in household folklore: “Oi, mate, yer kid’s in the water!” Manipulating these unwieldy and enormous things feels like driving a railway carriage from the back end, with a steering wheel that goes the wrong way.

But the rival traffic down this end of the Grand Union is forgivingly non-existent, and the late afternoon sun applies a soothing golden balm over the endless black roof that bisects the water ahead of me. It also helps that there’s a drink to suit every nautical mood: pear cider anchor-weighers, grog-pattern yard-armers, the manly, fuel-fingered downing of real ale around the clock.

At any rate, I soon find myself able to share my bargemates’ appreciation of London as we’ve never seen it before. even at walking pace, our surroundings seem to evolve in a blur. Dappled leafy silence suddenly gives way to concrete darkness and the overhead roar of an unseen rush-hour. Modest light-industrial dishevelment, garishly balconied new-build apartment developments, a haunted Victorian wharf stained with yesteryear’s soot and yesterday’s aerosol. We putter serenely across the last aqueduct in London, outpacing the North Circular road’s Friday evening gridlock beneath.

The towpath population at this stage comes directly from canalside central casting: joggers, mountain bikers and red-faced men gripping cans, typically hunched by a fishing rod whose line I take immense pains to avoid. When at length we encounter another moving barge, its exuberant young crew are climbing up from their roof on to the bridge above, then vaulting back down on the other side. I manage to overtake when they run aground trying to do something stupid by a cemetery.

As west London blends into north, the mood mellows. a young woman sits on the roof of her moored narrowboat in the lotus position, facing the sunset with a beatific smile and closed eyes. Two north Africans at a window acknowledge us with a tip of their hookah pipes. in the dying light I hang a 10-point left turn and bump awkwardly into the gracious gloaming of little Venice, London’s first venture in exclusive canalside living, and until very recently its last. Simon and Ian hop on to the deck of an unoccupied barge and lash Caroline to it. We’ve double-parked in what we later deduce, while climbing out over a locked gate en route to the nearest pub, to be a private mooring zone. oh well. Climbing back in a couple of hours later proves a more demanding procedure.

Belatedly I explore Caroline’s innards. For me, the joy of a canal holiday is its marriage of the great outdoors with the extremely bijou indoors. Caroline is a representative study in extruded cosiness, with a dolls’ house galley and ablution wardrobes that coerce the user into unusual postures. as skipper I commandeer the double bunk, whose dimensions uniquely permit rolling over without rolling off. This privilege must be weighed against my responsibilities, most especially the grim ritual with which I begin the following day. Defouling the propeller means unclamping a hatch and lowering a forearm deep into the dieselly murk thus revealed. We’ve seen some terrible things floating past and most of them recur to me as I unbind and extract binliner shreds, fishing yarn, sub-aquatic weed and – with horrid, pulpy foreboding – a black towelling sock. how happy I am to have undertaken this task before priming the propshaft and tackling Simon’s fry-up.

We throb through the cobwebbed confines of Maida Hill tunnel, and emerge beneath the gaudily magnificent show mansions that border Regent’s Park. the Grand Union has now given way to the Regent’s Canal, and regentrification is well advanced. At Camden Lock we take aboard several new passengers and – with the most profound gratitude for my brother’s experienced hand on the sluice cranks – tackle our first lock. Standing at the tiller as water billows up inside this mossy tomb, I feel like Indiana Jones facing some desperate predicament. Then I look up and see a great weekend crowd of Goths and tourists peering down at us: our first gongoozlers, as canal-curious spectators are known in the barging community. There’s a strange celebrity in piloting a narrowboat through metropolitan waters. the last time passers-by waved with such frenetic regularity, the boot of my car was on fire.

The Caroline’s crew lunches at a waterside gastro pub in Islington, feeling the floor shift beneath legs now accustomed to gentle pitch and roll. Afterwards the sun comes out, luring hordes of sandalled Hoxton trendies to the towpath and a number of other recreational bargees to the water. We squeeze into a succession of locks side by side with a chatty old skipper, who fails to suppress consternation when I reveal our next-day itinerary. “The Thames? seriously? You got the licence?”

No one is allowed out on the River Thames in a boat larger than a coracle unless they’ve passed an exam demonstrating familiarity with VHF short-range radio and the technicalities of the Global Maritime distress Safety system. a couple of weeks before I had done precisely this, after a five-hour training day aboard a boat moored near Putney Bridge. the instructor had beamed when he handed back my exam sheet: I’d scored 21 out of 22, and could now let everyone within a 45-mile line-of-sight radius of my boat know that it was sinking, aflame or had been boarded by pirates. But though I knew how to respond to what mariners like to call “grave and imminent danger”, I had no idea at all about how to avoid that danger in the first place. the tutor’s smile withered as my farewell query tumbled out: “But which side of the river do I, you know, drive on?” (Navigator’s tip: it’s the right.)

Crew members are dropped off throughout the afternoon, as we pass through the construction cranes and old warehouses of King’s Cross, and head down to the East End. By the time the Caroline is tied up for the night in the marina at Limehouse, it’s just Simon, me and a creeping dread. We spend the evening in a Thameside pub, watching enormous, barge-eating cruisers and hydrofoils speed up and down. At one point in the night I awake with a start, abruptly certain that in failing to brim our freshwater tanks the Caroline carries insufficient ballast for the seesaw ordeal ahead.

The next morning we take aboard a cargo of wives and excitable young liabilities. At 11.25 sharp, the harbourmaster summons Caroline into the cavernous Limehouse Lock. the concrete wall before us parts; lifejackets are donned. We are about to “lock out” – a fearsome phrase, the verb of no return. I click the radio handset to Channel 14 and croak the compulsory announcement: “Thames VTS, Thames VTS, this is narrowboat Caroline entering the tideway at Limehouse. Over.” We await the howl of anguished protest this announcement deserves but there is no reply. Then the inrushing tide sweeps us helplessly away, like a pooh stick.

The contrast with our progress to date could not be more compelling. in place of sloth and stillness there is frenzy, a mile-wide choppy sea afroth with larger and much, much faster craft. We barrel under Tower Bridge, a bullying current sucking us towards the pillars. I have both hands on the tiller and still it threatens to buck out of my grasp. more bridges come at us in a rush: Simon stands before me with a Port of London Authority flip chart, tolling out the navigation notes for each. “Cannon Street Railway, span two, second from right … Vauxhall, keep well clear of MI6 headquarters to the left.” But the tideway narrows and empties as we plough westwards, and by the time Simon is alerting me to the rowers’ buoys by Putney Bridge, I’m very close to enjoying myself.

Soon after the Caroline nudges up to the gates of Brentford Lock. We’re off the rollercoaster Thames and, with some relief, back on the Grand Union kiddy ride. Our delightful slow-boat study of industrial history, human geography and environmental behaviourism picks up where it left off. Sunburnt middle-aged skinheads jump into the uninviting water, Sunday gongoozlers mass at every lock. There are plenty – six alone in the Hanwell Flight, the longest in London. my crew now works the gates like an oiled machine, but I’m still literally barging Caroline into every lock like a drunk man shouldering a ladder down an alley. “Don’t worry mate,” calls out a genial waiting boatman above our booming, hollow thunks, “it’s a contact sport”.

This winningly laidback outlook is the essence of a canal holiday’s appeal, and I’m very pleasantly surprised to have discovered that it holds good even when circumnavigating the busiest city in Europe. a couple of hours later I drive out of Willowtree Marina with a big, lazy smile, at walking pace on the wrong side of the road.

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Details

Drifters (www.drifters.co.uk) offers three or fournight breaks aboard a boat sleeping four from £505, or a week from £750, starting at Willowtree Marina, Yeading. It also has 34 other UK rental locations. the oneday VHF course at Chas Newens Marine (www.chastheboat.co.uk) costs £90. For safety advice on boating on the Thames, see www.boatingonthethames.co.uk

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More urban boating holidays

Venice

La Serenissima might be famous for its gondolas but few visitors realise it is possible to hire a live-aboard boat and explore the city’s waterways under their own steam, writes Jessica Abrahams. a vessel also allows easy access to the less-visited outlying islands of the lagoon. Boats sleeping up to eight cost from £1,890 per week. www.leboat.com

Berlin

Boating through Berlin’s canal network has become easier in recent years with an increasing number of places to moor overnight. Acraft sleeping two costs from €770 per week. www.locaboat.com

Bruges

A week on the canals of Flanders lets you visit Bruges and Ghent, and with more time you could add Brussels. Starting in Eeklo, a six-berth boat costs from €1,014 per week. www.houseboat-hire.com

Amsterdam

From Warmond you can travel through the Dutch “lake district” to Amsterdam. a “supercruiser” for 12 costs from €2,850 per week. www.olympia-charters.nl

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I've never been to a hookah bar or lounge. but I read about it on the internet and I was wondering when you smoke from a hookah, are you putting your mouth on the same mouthpiece that everyone had put there mouth on to smoke out of it. How does that work.

They usually have these plastic mouthpieces for every person that way you all don't have to smoke out of the same mouth piece.

yea they usually provide you with it
but when i do it at home with my own hookah i dont use that since i dont get disgusted by my friends and family
but at that lounge you dont know who was using it before you right?

After about the second toke who cares LOL

When you go to a hookah lounge and smoke from a hookah do you use the same mouthpiece that everyone uses?

i saw some pictures on facebook of people who were about 15 in a hookah bar, smoking the thing. I thought you had to be 21 or something?! can you do it when you're younger?? or did they sneak somehow or fake their age? jw.

How old do you have to be to go to a hookah bar? And to smoke it?

The saris, which include work with chiffon, brochia, and shisha silk, range from Rs12,000 to 40,000. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD JAVAID/THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

According to Agha, wearing a sari is traditionally associated with India as it is the primary formal wear across the border. however, Agha is bent upon making saris sartorial in Pakistan, especially Islamabad.

For Agha, based in Islamabad, this is her first exhibition which forays into the local fashion scene. she has been working in the line for six months straight. although aware that the market might not be ideal, she is confident  that the collection will help establish her name. “This is my passion. I know it’s a big risk at the moment but I’ve got a whole creative team behind.”

Agha is, first and foremost, a businesswoman. “She’s got a good eye and knows what to sell,” said L’atelier’s CEO Zahra Raza. “It’s a new brand and she’s showing a lot of block prints as well.”  The prices of the saris range from Rs12,000 to Rs40,000.

“I want to promote saris as people usually have to buy them from India,” explains Agha, gesturing to a variety of pieces, colours and fabrics from her exhibition. In terms of what sets the Pakistani variety of saris apart from its eastern counterparts, Agha believes it is a matter of production and design. “We have work that’s neater. It’s a lot more delicate,” she said.

Agha is also working with simple, embroidered blacks and different hues of pink — two colours she feels women flock to, especially during the summers. she has worked with chiffon, brochia, and shisha silk from Dubai for the saris.  although JamaZaib may stress its sari collection, the brand is not entirely determined by it. Agha’s exhibition also included casual kurtas in bright, seasonal hues — ranging from Rs2500 and up. although Agha clarified that she is not ‘in it’ to rake in mega bucks from sales, she claims she is mostly here for advertising purposes and to get her name across. to the young designer’s delight, many of the items were already sold.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 10th, 2011.

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I have a mini maya hookah with a Vortex bowl, Kahlil Mamoon hose, CocoNara coals, and stock plastic base. it stands about 18in. now I want bigger clouds of smoke and dont know how to make em. Im thinking I need a bigger base?

Rock on Stoner, Rock on!

How to get monster cloud hookah hits?

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I'm an college freshman.
Never been drunk.
Never smoked a cigarette.
Haven't taken part in any other health risk activity.
I used hookah for the first (and only) time 2 days ago and will never do it again.
I was under the impression that it wasn't that bad for you.
I'm just worried that using hookah this one time will have horrible long term effects, like mouth cancer or something.

Its possible, but extremely unlikely for you to have any symptoms if you've only done it once. Good for you…that your never going to do it again…by saying that you are now 10xs better than you would've if you did it again. doing it once can lead to addiction so your blessed your not addicted. So make sure you don't do it again casue it could lead you down the harmful path of addiciton

I think you have sealed your fate. The statistics dont lie its been very well documented that 94 percent of 1 time hookah smokers develop some form of mouth cancer within 5 years after exposure. Good Luck & God Bless.

Has smoking hookah ruined my health?

I work for (the ONLY) Hookah bar in the state of Alabama and we are looking for a brand of premium shisha to carry. We have received a sample from Fantasia, which proved excellent results, and are currently working to get samples from Fumari. My question is does anyone know how to procure free samples from brands such as Tonic, Potion, Starbuzz…etc…etc… ANY other Shisha brands than Hookah-Hookah or Hookah Freak?

How to get FREE Samples of premium Shisha Hookah Tobacco?

I'd like to tone down one of my flavors by adding a more mellow flavor, but I'm not sure how to make the taste even. is the only way to o this to get multi bowls?

Lots of options here.

Mix them together. Just what ever ratio you want to try.

You can layer, but put the stronger flavor on the bottom.

Also try a milder shisha. Like Nakhla
http://www.hookah-shisha.com/store/pc/vi…

You can also mix a non flavor tobacco to tone it down a bit like Nakhla Zaghoul, Nakhla Light Zaghoul, or Tangiers Cooling.

Is there a proper way to mix different flavors of shisha together w/out buying multi bowls?