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unusual facts about café-chantant


Café-chantant

In the Russian Empire, the term was taken wholesale into the Russian language as "kafe-shantan" (кафе-шантан); Odessa was the city best known for its numerous kafe-shantany.


A'Lelia Walker

She grew up in the neighborhood where Scott Joplin and other ragtime musicians gathered at Tom Turpin's Rosebud Cafe on St. Louis's Market Street.

Adolphe Dugléré

In 1866 he became the head chef of the Café Anglais which was the most famous Paris restaurant of the 19th century and where he is believed to have created the dish Pommes Anna.

Boxhead Ensemble

Boxhead Ensemble was formed Los Angeles, California, in 1991 when Michael Krassner was commissioned by Braden King and Larry Stuckey to record the music for their independent student documentary The Original Pantry Café.

British International School, Riyadh

As well as the expected educational facilities, the site houses a Starbucks café (a sixth form privilege).

Café A Brasileira

Jorge Melício hyperrealistic artist, contributed in the looks of the café with his painting

Cafe Colette

Cafe Colette is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen and Sally Gray.

Café liégeois

Contrary to appearance the café liégeois was not created in Liège.

However during World War I with the Battle of Liège in full swing and Vienna representing the enemy, Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert café liégeois in honour of Belgium's embattled forts.

Cohuna, Victoria

More recently, Australian artist Sarah Blasko used Cohuna landmarks such as a local cafe and hospital for her video "Planet New Year".

Coluche

Amongst the patrons of the Café de la Gare were to be found: Georges Moustaki, Raymond Devos, Jean Ferrat, Jacques Brel, Leni Escudero, Pierre Perret, Jean Yanne.

ComputerTown UK

An example of such a group was 'ComputerTown North East' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead) which met in the Tyne & Wear Science Museum cafe (and thus could claim to be the first ever cyber-cafe on Tyneside).

Damo Suzuki

When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki busking in Munich, Germany whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café, they invited him to join the group.

Emerging Capital Partners

Nairobi Java House, Kenya’s leading café and casual dining restaurant operator, marks the first private equity deal in the restaurant sector in East Africa.

Eugénie Fougère

While performing at the Salone Margherita a café-chantant in Naples (Italy) in 1902, she contacted Camorra boss Enrico Alfano to ask for help in returning some of her missing jewelry.

Foxwell

Lady Edith Foxwell (1918–1996) "The Queen of London Cafe Society" and wife of Ivan

Frankie Pierre

She moves to Albert Square — sharing a house with Huw Edwards and Lenny Wallace (Richard Elis and Des Coleman) — and gets a job as a waitress at the café, so she can be near Alan.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

The "Whistle Stop Cafe" is loosely based on the Irondale Cafe in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb near Flagg's birthplace.

George Braziller

I remember you’d go to the corner café, and there were artists like Max Ernst, Giacometti, Calder, and then the writers, poets, playwrights, dramatists like Camus, Michaux, Ionesco, Dürrenmatt....

Governor's Comedy Club

It has two sister clubs also on Long Island: The Brokerage Comedy Club & Vaudeville Cafe (opened in 1980) in Bellmore, and McGuire's in Bohemia.

Hall of the Mountain Grill

The album's title was a nod to Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and to a Portobello Road cafe called The Mountain Grill (now closed), frequented by the band in the early 1970s.

Hyde Harrier

Using donor engines from the Meriden Triumph Bonneville twin or Triumph Trident triple and a frame developed by Harris Performance, along with performance brakes by AP Lockhead and Dymag wheels, the Harrier was described in contemporary press road tests as "sleek road-legal 130 mph cafe racer”.

Ibrahim Eissa

When Dream TV was started in 2001, Eissa was called on to host the current affairs show, Aala Al Qahwa (At the Cafe).

Jean-Pierre Isaac

Jean-Pierre Isaac has written and/or produced music for many artists, notably the French Gilbert Montagné, Quebec’s Mitsou, Les BB, Celine Dion, Cindy Daniel, Marie Carmen, Mario Pelchat, Judith Berard, Scripture (his solo project featured on "Cafe del Mar", and released album No Word Needed), and many more.

Joe Langworth

In 2012, Langworth directed the cabaret performances of Broadway couple Jenny Powers and Matt Cavenaugh, as well as the cabaret debut of Laura Osnes at the Cafe Carlyle in New York City.

Johnstown, Dublin

Ulster Bank, newsagency, travel agency, cafe, florist and An Post sub-post office, auctioneers, hardware shop, boutique, EBS Building Society branch, Paddy Power bookmakers, Eurospar supermarket, pharmacist, Xtra-vision video rental store, The Graduate (Public house)

Longbranch Pennywhistle

Souther and Frey would continue to collaborate after Longbranch Pennywhistle on such Eagles classics as "Best of My Love", "New Kid in Town", "Victim of Love", "The Sad Café", and "Heartache Tonight".

Lucy's Cafe

Lucy's Cafe was an Italian restaurant located in Hershey, Pennsylvania that was family owned and operated for more than 75 years.

Manner

Manner wafers could also be seen on the glass counter in the Central Perk café during season six of the TV sitcom Friends.

Mercedes-Benz World

The adjacent Brooklands Museum has a large collection of early motorcars, motorbikes and aeroplanes associated with Brooklands, including a Concorde, as well as a cafe, a restaurant and a kids' area.

Metacafe

Metacafe has also teamed up with notable TV producers like Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law) with a series called Cafe Confidential, a 44 webisode series consisting of teens and twenty-somethings sharing semi-autobiographical stories.

Motek

Television series produced include over 400 episodes of Cafe de Wereld, an animated satire program for IDTV and VARA.

Olympia Cafe

During the 1970s, there was a real-life Olympia Cafe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan which was very similar to the diner in the sketch.

Pirates' House

Lee H. Adams is the founder of The Mystery Café located in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis.

Rebetiko

Instruments characteristic of the Ottoman café style included accordion, politiki (Constantinopolitan) lyra, clarinet, kanonaki, oud, santouri, tsimbalo, or cimbalom, violin, violoncello and finger-cymbals.

Royal Rooters

There is a fairly large contingent in New York City, and their base has been the Riviera Café (known as "The Riv") in the West Village.

Sachertorte

Hotel Sacher's "Original Sacher Torte" is sold at the Vienna and Salzburg locations of the Hotel Sacher, at Cafe Sacher branches in Innsbruck and Graz, at the Sacher Shop in Bolzano, in the Duty Free area of Vienna airport and via the Hotel Sacher's online shop.

Sea*a

The four girls were picked by Anisong Diva May'n's manager from Moe Moe Kyun Maid Cafe at the annual Anime Festival Asia (AFA) held in Singapore.

Seyoum Mesfin

According to Aregawi Berhe, he was one of seven students who met on 14 September 1974 at an inconspicuous cafe in the Piazza district to create the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front.

Slam Nuba

The team has performed in many places outside of poetry slam including an event hosted by Democracy Now, sharing a stage with Amy Goodman, opening for recording artists Les Nubians, sharing a stage with the hip-hop group Dead Prez, and at such local events as Denver's Black Arts Festival, The Poet As Muse, Club Reign, and Café Cultura.

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol

It is now a Climbing Centre run by Undercover Rock, where it houses a balcony cafe, rock walls and surrounding grounds

Steven Karidoyanes

:"Café Neon owes its form and existence to the 20th century Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály. When I first conducted Kodály's Galánta Dances I was immediately taken by the music's passion and color and wished there was a Greek equivalent which would gratify my Hellenic heritage. Café Neon now fills that personal void."

Sundance Cinemas

The first cinema, Sundance 608, opened May 11, 2007 at the Hilldale Shopping Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and contains six stadium-seated auditoriums, along with a cafe, bistro, bar, rooftop bar, and Gallery 608, which sells local and Sundance-related arts and merchandise.

Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2009

Two suicide bombers with explosive vests carried out the attack at a cafe in Sinjar, a town west of Mosul.

The Graaf Sisters

The two became immensely popular and were featured in Slitz, Café, and Moore Magazine.

The Serapion Brethren

After about two years of gatherings at Hoffmann’s home or the Café Manderlee on the famous boulevard Unter den Linden, the circle gradually dissolved, partly, it is thought, because of the departure of one of its members, Adelbert von Chamisso, for a sailing trip around the world with the Russian Rurik Expedition, which had been organized to find a Northwest Passage (Kremer, 1999, 165).

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

2004: The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River; Nancy Coyne, chief executive of the theater advertising agency Serino Coyne; restaurateurs Frances and Harry Edelstein of Cafe Edison and Vincent Sardi, Jr. of Sardi's; photographer Martha Swope.

Totterdown, Bristol

This dates from the 1980s when the cafe was previously named Glasnost.

Valeri Bure

Following his retirement, Bure's wife, Candace, announced on her website that the couple would be opening a restaurant, "The Milk and Honey Café", in Pembroke Pines, Florida in April 2007; the restaurant later closed.

Zazou

The two most important meeting places of the Zazous were the terrace of the Pam Pam cafe on the Champs-Élysées and the Boul’Mich (the Boulevard Saint-Michel near the Sorbonne).

Zunfthaus zur Meisen

In 19th century, Gottfried Keller and Ferdinand Hodler were among the most famous guests of the former «Café zur Meisen», in the 20th century Gustaf V of Sweden, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Jimmy Carter.


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Enrico Alfano

In 1902, the famous French vaudeville singer and dancer and vedette of the Folies Bergère, Eugénie Fougère, who was performing at the Salone Margherita a café-chantant in Naples, contacted Alfano to get back he stolen jewelry.