Italy has given us legendary works of art, from the evocative paintings of Caravaggio and da Vinci to the miniature meat sculptures of Boyardee. Admire edible Italian masterpieces with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of Italian cuisine and drinks at Voce Del Mare in La Jolla.
Plying 16 different pasta dishes doused in house-made sauces, the chefs at Voce Del Mare foster gustatory glee with Italian cuisine during dinner. Inside the warmly lit dining room, servers dot white tablecloths with appetizers such as the caprese, a trio of mozzarella, tomato, and basil ($8.50). The chef's specialty lasagna napoletana ($17) bunk-beds ingredients one on top of the next, and the spaghetti paradiso's noodles ($19.50) entangle house-made pesto, scallops, and shrimp. Pancetta cloaks sautéed spinach and pan-seared diver scallops culled from Davy Jones’s kitchen cabinet in the scallops 081 ($26.50). Palates find sweet respite with the cannolo siciliano ($7), which pairs perfectly with tipples from an extensive wine list. The gentle tinkling of ebony and ivory fills Voce Del Mare Thursday–Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Delicate wrought-iron ferns creep up the white bar, giving way to slate-gray tiles and a smiling, solar-powered bartender. In the dining room, simple chandeliers illuminate dark wood furnishings, potted plants, and the latticework of wine-bottle holders.
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The Groupon Guide to: America’s Most Haunted Stadiums
To save space, most of America's landmarks were built atop ancient burial grounds, but the unintended side effect was that many of our most famous buildings are now haunted. Here's a look at some of the ghostiest sportsplexes in the country:
Old Yankee Stadium: Before the team moved to a new field, some said you could still see Babe Ruth's ghostly specter jogging the bases and licking peanut shells off the ground under the bleachers.
Fenway Park: Thousands of terrified children have witnessed former Red Sox great Wade Boggs materialize out of nowhere and shout curse words in their faces, though this may not technically be a haunting since Boggs is still alive.
Rose Bowl Stadium: All of the mirrors leak blood.
Ford's Theatre: This "stadium of the arts" is haunted by its failure to abide by Theatrical Rule #1: the show must go on when a president is murdered.
Lake Placid Olympic Stadium: Like all of Montana, this majestic temple of sporting triumph is now just a thick lime-green mist that turns skin into clay.
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