The Tribeca Film Festival is ON Suckas!

Very exciting and I'm hoping to jet over there after work today (I know, I shouldn't be working on a Saturday huh?). For those of you who don't know, The Tribeca Film Festival is the brain child of the legendary Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff to …

Tea as social adhesive

"Blending the activism of the Boston Tea Party and the ideology of the century-old Justice Party"

Prateep V Philip has a the right idea: promote a movement against inequality vis-à-vis "Social Justice Tea Parties" in indian tea houses.

Read about it here

Manchester United's Tea-vez is sup for cup

Maradona has described Carlos Alberto Tévez as the "Argentine prophet for the 21st century", but that's not the only reason this soccer star who plays for the Premier League champions Manchester United is a bad ass:

He drinks TEA in nightclubs!!!!

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Cute: Nightclub spot-checks turn into tea party

Kind of cute and funny:

"Where bars knew we were coming it was out of courtesy and when we stopped off for a cup of tea, it was just for a break."

Spot-checks by the Edinburgh licensing board to help bring calm to some of the city's wildest pubs and clubs due to …

IHT's Thomas Fuller's kick-butt PU'ER article

IHT has a wonderful article by Thomas Fuller (you rock) about the evolution of Pu'er in China's Southern Yunnan Province. We've written about Pu'er's surging popularity in urban Chinese hot spots before so I won't repeat, but it does include another subtle angle I've …

How Goth: St. Andrews Cemetery Tour & Tea (NYC)

So Goth (without trying to be):

The Staten Island Museum and the City Parks Foundation present:

A Historic Cemetery Tour and Tea, Sunday, May 18, 2008, 3:00 pm.

A talk and tour featuring the unique burial ground of this, one of Staten Island most …

See you in two years... (Ateava's Whitney Biennial 2008 Review)

See you in two years...

The Whitney Biennial 2008 just wrapped up and being a critical barometer of the American contemporary art scene, Ateava chose to brief review the event. For those of you who don't know, the biennial is a well regarded contemporary …

In case you forgot what pure talent looks like...

Siouxsie reminds us:

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Study: Antioxidants found in red wine and tea may help regulate blood sugar in diabetics.

I'm obsessed with studies bringing to light tea medicinal values (and yes, I also enjoy wine sometimes). Here is one more for the books:

Kalidas Shetty, Young-In Kwon and Emmanouil Apostolidis of the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest red wine and tea may …

Soooo sweeeett!

"TEA-loving residents at the Bupa Chestnut Court Nursing and Residential home in Newton Street, Bury, will be raising their mugs to mark Communi-tea Week.

The nationwide campaign uses the theme of tea to help tackle the problems of isolation and loneliness in older …

Star Wars tea drinking fans saw this coming.

I love Star Wars more than anyone I swear, but I'm not sure what to think about this new line of Star Wars tea towels .

Some one please tell me why?!

Once again, M83 shows us excess is good.

If you haven't heard M83's latest track "Couleurs" from their upcoming album, Saturdays = Youth, what are you waiting for!!!!!!!!!!!

(Sorry for Myspace link, but I didn't know where else it can be previewed legally)

BBC: Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

"This is the best evidence yet that caffeine equivalent to one cup of coffee a day can help protect the brain against cholesterol.

So many conflicting stories on the potential benefits of caffeine. This may just reinforce my own view that caffeine is indeed …

36 Hours in Mont Tremblant, Quebec

Right now, I am doing http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/travel/24hours.html">this. Tons of snow, great weather, I had to drive up for the weekend! And yes, I brought my own stash (tea, that is!)....and thank god the fairmont accepts dogs....

Btw--There are soo many people from Mexico city here! Very cool.

Remixing the Remix

Attention Remixers! A great friend to Ateava is running a super cool project for this thesis called " The Remix Project". the Goal?

"Explore the outcome of taking a small number of tracks and remixing them into a very large number of tracks"

Oh , did I …

Spa life

A couple of Ateavans scrubbed ourselves to smithereens at the Korean Spa in New Jersey after work today. I love their Ginger tea!

Soo cleeeaan.

Rainstorm heading our way (NYC).