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Executive chef Ahmad Alikhani, previously of the Cellar Cafe in Lakeview Towers and the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, is opening a new restaurant just off Memorial Road between May and Pennsylvania avenues. Avanti, which opened New Year’s Eve, is an upscale casual, family friendly restaurant, Alikhani said. And although it’s attached to a Courtyard Marriot, he stressed Avanti is more than a place for hotel-goers to dine.

Standing Ape Count

Q: What’s behind the name? A: Anthony Hill singer: Well, it’s a play on words referring to the boxing term "standing 8 count" which gives a downed fighter a chance to recuperate from his opponents beat-down. But it actually has nothing to do with that. It’s more like we’re counting down the dwindling number of unevolved apes while the world evolves despite them.

Cheryl Tiegs

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Pretty is as pretty does” is an old adage one rarely hears these days. But supermodel Cheryl Tiegs still believes it. And she lives it. Though Tiegs has been a top model since she was 16, she never quite forgot her roots. “I don't know how the business saw it but I personally thought it made a difference what kind of person you were,” she says over broiled trout in an Italian restaurant here.

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