The place is very homey and unpretentious which I love.
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HM: I like that your content is unpretentious and direct.
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That's where Smokey, with his unpretentious, chummy demeanor, comes in.
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I love Richard Yates because his prose is brilliantly unpretentious.
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To say that the founders were unpretentious understates the matter.
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The service is warm and unpretentious, even down to earth.
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Most readers found these wines to be unpretentious and enjoyable.
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Today, Ms. Boone remains warm, unpretentious and deeply, raucously funny.
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They elicit empathy, make familiar the unknown, yet remain refreshingly unpretentious.
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Although it seems unpretentious and diverse, it's still unclear whether Superfine!
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Ambitious yet unpretentious, the exhibition features 46 artists across 5 venues.
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The book is straightforward, unpretentious and smart; compassionate, contemporary and useful.
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His language is clear, unpretentious, a little clunky, a little hammy.
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Tales of Interest is a refreshingly unpretentious slice of sloppy punk.
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He speaks slowly and calmly, articulating complicated ideas in unpretentious tones.
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She wants to show how cuddly and unpretentious she can be.
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Rough around the edges and unpretentious, Roberts is an ex-foreign service
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Even unpretentious clubs like Synergy pitch themselves as wellness and fitness facilities.
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She's very energetic and unpretentious, so it should be an easy one.
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Take Goldie's, an unpretentious beer-and-shot joint that opened in Greenpoint.
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The tea was unpretentious, but good in all the ways that matter.
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But at the same time, he's one of the most unpretentious people.
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Thornwood is an unpretentious place, small enough that neighbors know one another.
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" She described it as "so disarmingly genuine, unpretentious, and fun to read.
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There's a calm, unpretentious feeling in the house that matches their personalities.
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The choice before Democrats was laid out in plain and unpretentious style.
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And yet, there's also a longing for nature, an unpretentious way of life.
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Extroverts, by contrast, showed a preference for "unpretentious" music (uncomplicated, relaxing and acoustic).
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"The concept is so, like, silly that it's inviting and unpretentious," he said.
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They retained its original décor, including a handsome timber bar, and unpretentious feel.
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The neighborhood favorite has a seafood-leaning menu in an energetic, unpretentious atmosphere.
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Unpretentious, bluesy rock is Mr. Clark's specialty — what elevates it is the execution.
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His kind, unpretentious personality is perhaps what made his Bach encores so gripping.
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It's an unpretentious spot for a coffee and pastry, decorated in vintage finds.
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An Elizabeth Warren event is like the candidate herself: well-organized, precise, unpretentious.
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Mr. Gross, who later graduated from Fordham Law School, prefers unpretentious professional titles.
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And there's something appealingly unpretentious about Mr. Sanders's Brooklyn accent and disheveled appearance.
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He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada's reputation for sedate, unpretentious politics.
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People are still completely unpretentious, including the actors and how they do the work.
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It's an efficient, confident little film, ambitious but unpretentious, and it remains Affleck's best.
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He eats at unpretentious restaurants and is fond of the strong-smelling fruit durian.
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The place was very unpretentious; it would let you kind of do your thing.
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Cheap and genuinely cheerful, this is a mainstay of many an unpretentious Portuguese restaurant.
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I think in a lot of ways it's unpretentious yet insular, but deeply supportive.
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Which is as extravagant as it is unpretentious, and thus classic Dorie as well.
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Bill's quirky, unpretentious voice guides the reader through the postwar period of Manhattan glamour.
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It's very unpretentious, very clean, brightly lit ambience, very affordable way to de-stress.
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Egalitarian and sincere, Norway's version of New Nordic cooking is frisky, witty and unpretentious.
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Ms. Goldstein remembered him as an unpretentious man who loved working in the kitchen.
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It's the most charming arrival to any building; Unpretentious, gentle, poetic, and steeped in anticipation.
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Overall, the space is both decidedly unpretentious and filled with compelling work by local artists.
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"I first really liked Chris as a person because he is so unpretentious," said Slate.
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One of the things we love about green bean casserole is how unpretentious it is.
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This is the real Greece—beautiful scenery, unpretentious people, and a feast for the senses.
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It's unpretentious, has a lot of character, and guests are encouraged to enjoy the ambience.
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In this unpretentious beachside spot, the lobby at times seems more like a family room.
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Is the song, with its xylophone intro and unpretentious pop charm, actually a stealth treasure?
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Even his galloping rhythms had an unpretentious lightness, more like a pony than a Clydesdale.
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He has opened this casual cafe serving unpretentious American and Mediterranean fare using local ingredients.
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It seems typical of unpretentious Castle that he would happily ignore these kinds of labels.
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"Wonder Woman" demonstrated that the genre has plenty of potential for fun, unpretentious, even moving, films.
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Having previously worked in the art world, I love pins because of how unpretentious they are.
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Quick and incisive as his mind was, Justice Stevens remained a genuinely genial, unpretentious, modest man.
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Musk is not the most captivating public speaker, although his presentations can be charming and unpretentious.
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There's a sleek minimalism to the design of the Away that is elegant, sturdy, and unpretentious.
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Ms. Johnson makes unadorned, soundly structured, musically adept ballets for a lovely, unpretentious group of dancers.
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The videos show an unpretentious worship hall whose altar is little more than a carpeted stage.
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In unpretentious fashion, "After Everything" portrays the bittersweetness of a first love that blooms in crisis.
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At fifty-six, Moore is amiable and unpretentious, "a little bit scatterbrained," by his own description.
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This, too, was an unpretentious Beat-era hangout; Charles Bukowski, Ginsberg and many others dined here.
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The installments that I've been to feel unpretentious and fun—you're more likely to hear a t.A.T.u.
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Despite the sleek interior, this is an unpretentious taverna with some very good food at reasonable prices.
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Irish spots — with names like Kitty Kiernans and O'Sullivan's Bar and Grill — offer unpretentious and lively scenes.
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Like the Vice-President, they are good-looking, with chiselled features, and have an unpretentious, amiable manner.
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Or maybe it's a long tradition of immersive, unpretentious theatergoing involving cold beer and ornery nuns. Whatever.
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It's totally unpretentious, and totally unsentimental — there's this inevitability about it, without it being too direction-oriented.
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More and more gated properties from Minneapolis to Beverly Hills opened themselves to his unpretentious rental cars.
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" Maurice Rosenfeld in Antwerp, Belgium, called godello honest and unpretentious, "a pleasant vin d'été, or summer wine.
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On the surface, "Illusion Travels by Streetcar" is an unpretentious comedy about the pleasure of playing hooky.
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But unpretentious innocence is the core of the Madrids' appeal, and that kind of love triumphs here.
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The unpretentious storytelling about his origins, life experiences, and the systems that informed them left an indelible impression.
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Yet in preparing for her latest run at the Met, she discovered new power in its unpretentious optimism.
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The Kunstraum exhibition has the approachable, unpretentious feel of a community museum, which, in a way, it is.
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Still, the unpretentious Francis, who planned to travel through Krakow by tram, is a breath of fresh air.
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"She was unpretentious and extremely grounded — incredibly hardworking, but laughed at the drop of a dime," Kaufman recalled.
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The whole package is unobtrusive and unpretentious, and I've been surprised at how well the plastic resists fingerprints.
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Part of me finds an unpretentious interior to be appealing, and the Versa's doesn't come off as cheap.
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"Momentum," choreographed by Mr. Cornejo to music by Mr. Glass, is an unpretentious exploration of his clean virtuosity.
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It's not just drunk food, Cook Out is legitimately delicious, and a great introduction to unpretentious Southern food.
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His 2018 collection of the violin sonatas and partitas was revelatory in its unpretentious lightness and dancing energy.
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Not much connects them beyond my taste, but all of them feature unpretentious works that encourage close looking.
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Oliver was beloved by readers for her direct, unpretentious poetry, which glows with affection for the natural world.
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"It's clever, engaging, brisk and, crucially, unpretentious," Mike Hale wrote in his review in The Times in 2015.
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Despite his celebrity while still a detective, Mr. Grosso maintained his reputation for being loyal, generous and unpretentious.
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The art criticism on offer in "Flash" is like the best of Weegee's street photography: revealing and unpretentious.
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They are the sorts of wines I love to drink — pure and unpretentious but with character and depth.
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It's unpretentious, self-deprecating, and has been called the cooking show for people who don't like cooking shows.
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Speaking with Antti over Skype last week, I realized how level-headed, unpretentious, and "normal" Antti seemed to me.
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Once he had created the piece, which he calls "unpretentious" and "magical," Cern decided to experiment further with balloons.
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"It's often the unpretentious video showcasing a humorous moment that gets the most likes and goes viral," he says.
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The décor — silver farmhouse chairs, black-beamed ceiling, mismatched floral china — is as refined yet unpretentious as the food.
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Like the service and decor, the food had an honest, unpretentious charm that won my heart — and this comparison.
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How are the Brexotics to be reconciled to living in a quiet unpretentious country at peace with its neighbors?
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It's called "Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)" which, although it sounds like a translated Plaid Cymru slogan, is refreshingly unpretentious.
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Unpretentious but not unsophisticated, Barker's light, unslurred mezzo was admired by none other than fellow non-belter Billie Holiday.
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It is an unpretentious interview, which occurs only slightly more often than Halley's Comet appears in the night sky.
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As the name indicates, it is an unpretentious wine, just $17 and intended to be fresh, vibrant and uncomplicated.
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They did so by serving food that creatively blends Québécois and French tradition in small, fashionable, unpretentious neighborhood restaurants.
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The iOS app at least follows the principles of Craigslist's web offering, nicely replicating its clean and unpretentious functionality.
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The unpretentious beer hall, where some special varieties sell for up to €14 a liter, is bustling every night.
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So I was pleasantly surprised by this book's collective tone, which is strikingly gentle, amiable and above all unpretentious.
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"Patrick was charismatic, and his dresses were elegant, colorful, and unpretentious," said Françoise Chassagnac, Victoire's buyer and fashion director.
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Stick around long enough, and you acquire a certain gravitas, no matter how ragged and unpretentious you may be.
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Eating in New Orleans is as much a celebration of unpretentious cuisine as it is a hub of fancy food.
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The awards are meant to highlight whimsical, "possibly unpretentious" photography of wild animals doing funny things, according to their website.
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It's since become a five-star hotel and spa and destination in itself, though the atmosphere remains relaxed and unpretentious.
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There were no lines, ketchup was the only garnish, and the word "fresh" had no place on the unpretentious menu.
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He's described, by journalist and former classmate Frank Runyeon, as "earnest and awkward, goofy and unpretentious, gracious and sweet-spirited".
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It wasn't an absurd idea: Texas was full of small bars where unpretentious country bands could bash out a living.
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Last week, my friend Wen Shen recommended an affordable Vietnamese place called Yummy Yummy in the unpretentious Inner Sunset neighborhood.
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Crammed tightly but neatly into the small space, the show possesses a DIY quality that feels welcoming and deliberately unpretentious.
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Van Etten's voice is muscular, unpretentious, and rich, and she has never been quite so in control of it before.
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And in this glaringly posh town, it's an intimate and unpretentious affair that packs in locals and party-loving visitors.
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However, lowcountry meals are so much more than that: they're unpretentious, flavorful, and will make you feel right at home.
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Modernism's openness shaped her worldview; she has been drawn to unpretentious typefaces and aboveboard communication, among other forms of authenticity.
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At the 250-seat Westside, under the unpretentious direction of Hunter Foster, it has achieved a fitting size and shape.
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That generosity, coupled with the unpretentious precision of their craft, is always moving, though in this case not entirely convincing.
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We fancy ourselves a more egalitarian, unpretentious people than our European counterparts, but we're prigs these days about matters gastronomic.
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Or maybe it's the feeling you get from all this lovely food prepared with unpretentious enthusiasm and home-town pride.
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Its magic, perhaps, lies in an alchemy of old and new, genteel and unpretentious, city glamour and nature at your fingertips.
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But I started to relax a little when I entered the lovely space and met Nguyen, who was unpretentious and kind.
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Unpretentious, dimly lit, and home to a meticulously curated selection of beers and drinking music, Pharmacy is a true bartender's bar.
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Both are unpretentious, intimate venues with both ground and rooftop floors where up-and-coming labels get to flex their aesthetics.
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Vinnie's has steadily become =a neighborhood institution thanks to its unpretentious approach to pizza and uniquely hilarious specials created by Berthiaume.
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The multimedia works of Das Institut—the duo of German artists Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder—is bewildering, unsettling, and unpretentious.
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Unpretentious, unspectacular and participatory in the least superficial of ways, Ms. Harrison's "Perth Amboy" is just what MoMA needs right now.
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Los Angeles, at the time, was a surf rock mecca that had a beautiful and unpretentious side reflected in the music.
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"If A.K.K. succeeds Merkel, it would be her masterpiece — another woman, confident, unpretentious, who continues her liberal course," Mr. Knaus said.
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Opened last fall, Four Eight is an unpretentious yet eccentric space that's putting a fresh spin on the state's wine experience.
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Join the families and couples who fill the tables at the unpretentious Sabor Salvadoreño for a late breakfast or early lunch.
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An average order is six to eight bars, though some customers buy as many as 30 decidedly unpretentious bars a year.
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The Sweetons had requested something to fit their "unpretentious lifestyle," according to a letter from J. A. Sweeton to Mr. Wright.
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His work is accessible, unpretentious and occasionally glib, and it has proved irritating to some of his more theoretically inclined contemporaries.
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Recipe: Easiest Lentil Soup Earthy, comforting lentil soup calls for a wine of similar character, easygoing yet well-grounded and unpretentious.
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Respite from the sun can be found at Grain de Sel, an unpretentious beachside cafe a few minutes away by foot.
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But in private he was a friendly, fun, brilliant, and yet unpretentious man, full of anecdotes from the innermost circles of power.
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The DJ-soundtracked boozy temple of fried delights was wonderfully unpretentious when it first opened back in 2010 and still is today.
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Slowly, painstakingly, Tarkington had taught himself to write reliable prose and construct appealing fictions; he was unpretentious—always literate but never showy.
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Cracker Barrel, the Lebanon, Tennessee-based restaurant chain, has always been about good ol' boy, down-home hospitality and unpretentious Southern cooking.
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The new Verb has Wi-Fi and accepts credit cards but has some of the same employees and a similar unpretentious vibe.
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The menu proposes that nothing has happened in the culinary world in 30 years, but its nostalgic, unpretentious food is generally satisfying.
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The main appeal is unpretentious women's clothing and accessories, including breezy dresses, faux suede jackets, dangling earrings and roomy Matt & Nat handbags.
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For me, it was so refreshing to just jump around to something that was fun, unpretentious and didnt take itself too seriously.
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At the Olive Branch, a cozy, unpretentious room, Hendry Olivier, the chef, explained how he slow-cooked the lamb for four hours.
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It's a book born out of appetite and conviviality, an unpretentious delight in food and conversation — in being and thinking with others.
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The poet, 89, has been so unpretentious and durable in his genius that a reader might overlook his lucid, dreamy, prescient wisdoms.
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Aloft Housed in an airy, light-filled atrium overlooking one of Hobart's piers, Aloft's sophisticated but unpretentious fare highlights the island's produce.
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But that was until generously buttered spaghetti came my way on a tasting menu in Oslo at an unpretentious restaurant called Arakataka.
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Maintaining a rigorously local farm-to-table ethos, it serves unpretentious dishes like house-made liver pâtés and crispy fried buttermilk chicken.
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Amid these miscellaneous worthies, resting beneath a noble but unpretentious obelisk, is the composer Antonio Salieri, Kapellmeister to the emperor of Austria.
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But probably the one thing that, outside of musically, sticks out for STRFKR is that they're the most unpretentious group of guys.
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Slowly, painstakingly, Tarkington had taught himself to write reliable prose and construct appealing fictions; he was unpretentious — always literate but never showy.
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Unlike Frances, however, the book refuses to be awed by charm; it instead offers a moving defense of the plain and unpretentious.
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And much like the blues, Montreal-style smoked meat is a completely unpretentious tradition, but one which is very difficult to master.
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Suzan Pitt's Joy Street is strikingly unpretentious and emotionally frank — refreshing in an art world that is often emotionally detached and intellectually cool.
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Showtime: A low-ceilinged, boxy dive located in Bloomingdale that's cheap and unpretentious, with a grandma-fronted house band and a phenomenal jukebox.
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Moreover, the Monster, a longstanding gay bar in Greenwich Village, has a dance floor, as does Icon, an unpretentious club in Astoria, Queens.
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Suggest to Mr. Kaliebe that a balanced fund exhibits the unpretentious common sense that Midwesterners are known for and he's quick to agree.
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But to get that chance, he will first have to win the unpretentious middle jewel of the series, the Preakness Stakes, in Baltimore.
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Fluttering from a flagpole at the west end of the stadium's upper deck, beneath an American flag, is a small, unpretentious white pennant.
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The name also reflects the unpretentious nature of the programming, as shaped by the freewheeling tastes of the festival's longtime curator, Nicky Paraiso.
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Are there moments when you ask yourself whether Ms. Gallace's unpretentious landscapes really differ that much from the daubings of a Sunday painter?
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Darren Tristano, Technomic's president, attributed the chain's success to its relatively small selection of highly "craveable" offerings and its unpretentious diner-style layout.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Graham's "kindly manner and unpretentious nature" is what made him a trusted confidant to American leaders.
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That day after work, a few dozen Red Cross staffers went to happy hour at the Black Rooster Pub, an unpretentious place nearby.
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He is well-liked and respected and seen as unpretentious despite his distinguished military service, according to people who have worked with him.
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Ms. Morris was something of a trendsetter herself — she wore patterned stockings before they were fashionable — but she typically favored practical, unpretentious sportswear.
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And yet, in a city that offers everything from sashimi to foraged degustations, chefs are starting to revisit this sort of unpretentious home cooking.
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The sheets are all 8 ½ x11 inches, standard copy paper size, but the fragility of the medium struck me as stubborn, poignant, utterly unpretentious.
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Curiosity diverted Tony Conrad into the underground worlds of experimental music and filmmaking, and to an unpretentious understanding of himself as a conceptual artist.
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Back then, at Condé's old, rather unpretentious digs on Madison Avenue, one could make a game of guessing who'd get off on which floor.
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Vibing somewhere between a bar, a club, and a dim sum restaurant (which it actually used to be), the setting is modern and unpretentious.
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The Zagat-approved cheeseburger at Fountain Porter, in East Passyunk, is outstanding, and the unpretentious pub also offers discounted drafts during daily happy hours.
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Mr. Bronfman played the breathless solo part, which was written for him, with unpretentious wisdom and mastery, like a noble march to the grave.
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This friendly, unpretentious atmosphere is the brainchild of Gavin Brown, 53, a prominent New York gallery owner, and the influential artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, 56.
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Her yen for unpretentious chaos, she says, was sparked by reading about the Dada movement following World War I, when senselessness made perfect sense.
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She brings her technical skills to a menu of unpretentious Mediterranean dishes, like roasted cauliflower with smoked yogurt and sumac and, after 11 p.m.
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Trumbull, a fellow New Englander, presents the second president as warm, smart, unpretentious, a listener: a democratic ideal and someone you'd like to know.
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Colorful, illustrative, and strikingly unpretentious, the work on display more readily conjures memories of Saturday morning cartoons or the Rainforest Cafe than most contemporary art.
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It is an elegant space, but as the name ("countryside" in Italian) suggests, it has an unpretentious air, with bare wood tables and minimal décor.
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The concept is unpretentious: Customers select a dress, rent it for four days and then return it to the company in a prepaid carrying case.
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This book spoke to me in particular because it highlighted the beauty of using simple technique and premiere ingredients to create wholly satisfying, unpretentious meals.
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Fortune, of course, favors the bold, and upon arriving patrons will find a warm, unpretentious atmosphere and food that even Dido might have thought comforting.
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But Sam Sato's was perhaps my favorite meal experience — a fantastically unpretentious Japanese hole-in-the-wall in Wailuku that took me completely by surprise.
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As an advisor to clients, I distinguish myself professionally because although I am results-oriented I am also observant, unpretentious, tactful, interpersonally agile and patient.
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All that could be salvaged were stones from the walls, but after careful rebuilding the house looked about the way it always had, pleasantly unpretentious.
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" Evan Kleiman, the host of the public-radio show "Good Food," told me, "I think it's the most unpretentious tasting-menu experience one can have.
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The straightforward book guides readers through Sethi's four pillars of personal finance — banking, saving, budgeting and investing — while delivering advice that is unpretentious and actionable.
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I've contributed a platform for queer POC DJs and artists like myself to perform in spaces where they could be themselves in an unpretentious environment.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. Nickname: The Eagles Concise Summary: Unpretentious, suburban club in Croydon with actual, physical eagle as a mascot.
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His artistic persona, evident in his stage manner as well as his songs, suggested a distillation of folk wisdom in a knowing but unpretentious package.
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It came from an unpretentious source — a single, wide speaker sitting on a riser about a foot off the floor, hidden behind a serving table.
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It's the President Moon Jae-in watch, an unpretentious timepiece with a gold-colored case and beige sheepskin strap, named for the South Korean leader.
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But it is a reminder that sharing a delicious, unpretentious meal with friends and strangers has a unique power in the life of a city.
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Everything is fresh — I was told the restaurant runs on a no-freezer policy — and its unpretentious, cozy interior belies the sophistication of the dishes.
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Alexa Weibel, Senior Staff Editor by Mark Bittman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Second Edition, 2008) A no-nonsense, unpretentious and easy guide with lots of options.
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We've had a diverse collection of guests on Dear Sugars: writers, musicians, doctors, even a presidential candidate; but all offered wisdom in an unpretentious way.
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Even Frank Lloyd Wright was attracted to this concept, designing his unpretentious Usonian homes (one of which went on the market recently in New Hampshire).
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Choice Tables There is an excitement around restaurants in the Norwegian capital, where the take on New Nordic cooking is frisky, unpretentious and (relatively) affordable.
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Mr. Gilliam's abstract images tap into many kinds of experience, including the unpretentious pleasures of tie-dye fabrics and spin paintings and glowing summer sunsets.
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It's a perfectly unpretentious, familiar-looking specimen: yellow goo melting between buttery slices of white bread, branded by the griddle and sliced on the diagonal.
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Obama cultivated an unpretentious image by dispensing hugs rather than handshakes and kicking off her shoes to dance with local children on official trips abroad.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2002, praised them as "durable, resourceful, hard-working, likable and unpretentious."
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There's a lot of good music being made here, a lot of great art, and unpretentious vibe here that I really appreciate, feels like a family.
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The town boasted great local restaurants and the cutest main street you have ever seen, and everyone we met seemed to be so real and unpretentious.
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Rachel Comey's cult-like womenswear brand has unwittingly become the new face of real, unpretentious American fashion; one that's personal, artistic, and most importantly, self-made.
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After more than a decade of hard-fought efforts in music, Navarro's motivations, unlike those espoused by her more overtly materialistic peers, seem unpretentious and honest.
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The burger in his mind was fuss-free and unpretentious, with none of the truffle and gourmet buns you find on every burger menu these days.
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Museum directors and curators say that one of the keys to Art Reoriented's success is the partners' unpretentious way of looking at art and curatorial practice.
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Mark Zuckerberg, no longer lionized as the Facebook wunderkind in an unpretentious hoodie, has been hauled before Congress for televised floggings over privacy and advertising standards.
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While it seems like an incredible web of characters and narrative held together by deft, thematic-yet-somehow-believable-and-unpretentious screenwriting, it's actually really simple.
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Margot Henderson made a career out of conceiving simple, unpretentious dishes that pack a serious punch in the flavor department, and this pasta is no exception.
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When French duo Justice first broke out with their brain-scathing take on unpretentious club music, a clear reference point for their aesthetic was heavy metal.
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Dining | Westchester Tucked away in a corner of New Rochelle, Agostino's, an unpretentious neighborhood restaurant, has been serving fine Italian food for more than a decade.
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Living in An unpretentious place with a vibrant downtown and miles of coastline, the village is also surprisingly diverse, thanks to a wide range of housing.
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"'Captain America,' like its unapologetically corny hero, is propelled by unpretentious and plucky ingenuity," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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The Red Cat, an unpretentious neighborhood restaurant in Chelsea that became a destination, will close at the end of December after nearly 20 years in business.
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Bush was regarded as unpretentious, a woman who could wear fake pearls, enjoy takeout tacos, walk the dog in her bathrobe and make fun of herself.
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But where Red Dead 2 was weighed-down by its ambitions and technological bombast, Birdspotting looks as unpretentious and liberating a nice walk in the country.
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Grocery-based bars are unpretentious; even in a Whole Foods bar featuring 16 craft beer taps, you're not likely to find Edison bulbs buzzing over patrons.
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That's the magic of the place — you may never have the same thing twice, as everything is driven by the season, in the most unpretentious way.
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It observes the casual conversations between Arrianna, a Black woman who's a regular at Fancy Nail, an unpretentious neighborhood business, and her Chinese nail technician Judy.
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A Friday afternoon, pre-Super Bowl concert in Miami is fully in keeping with the series' optics: unpretentious, laid-back, multi-lingual, and very self-congratulatory.
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Lines like "You wouldn't have a putter-inner by any chance?" or "Good luck with your homicide!" mark her as cheery and unpretentious at a minimum.
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But as dining habits at large seem to be trending away from formality and toward the celebration of unpretentious traditions, the bar menu feels newly relevant.
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Grocery-based bars are unpretentious; even in a Whole Foods bar featuring 16 craft beer taps, it's unlikely you'd also find Edison bulbs buzzing over patrons.
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Equal parts glamorous (have you seen Olivia Pope's amazing wine glasses?!) and unpretentious, it's the dinner or snack of a fabulous, morally ambiguous gladiator-on-the-go.
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There was a moment when you couldn't walk a block in New York without seeing one of her bags, which were just like her; colorful and unpretentious.
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It starts with a simple, unpretentious concept, and the result is a nuanced and judgment-free look at how life works for kids in the digital age.
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But what's most distinctive about Montreal's food scene is creative but unpretentious cooking that artfully melds and builds upon classic European traditions in order to transcend them.
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At an unpretentious nail salon in a strip mall in the Valley, Demi Lovato lounges deep into her chair, apologizing to the manicurist for her persistent cough.
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I'm wholly different and original and also affable and friendly when I'm with genuine unpretentious folk such as the old guys I play golf with every week.
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Like white or ruby port, other easygoing port styles, the Fine Tawny was light and frisky, sweet and unpretentious, with flavors of herbs, nuts and dried fruit.
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The festival offers a totally unpretentious environment, but is also not afraid to indulge totally extravagant-sounding stuff—Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's perfoming in a Planetarium, for example.
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The housing stock largely dates to the mid-7.753th century, with lots of unpretentious Capes and ranches and an ample inventory of two-families and rental apartments.
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The move is a bold step for an unpretentious company, made all the more noteworthy because it is taking place in one of Manhattan's pricier neighborhoods: TriBeCa.
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The Guest House is a calm, unpretentious space: a large Victorian home with six beds in five bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, slightly shabby furniture and warm, Oriental rugs.
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And his unpretentious reverence, his willingness to have a spiritual experience at a Waffle House, is what many people loved and will continue to love about Bourdain.
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Dorfman's portrait photos, brightly lit and taken against a white backdrop in her Cambridge studio, appear cheerfully matter-of-fact and unpretentious, much like the artist herself.
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Here was an ideal refuge in gaudy times, and a book tailor-made for rescue from oblivion: unassuming, unobtrusive, unrhetorical, uncoercive, unpretentious, an austere record of austere values.
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That double charge is emphasized via an unpretentious mode of display: Paintings (sometimes nothing more than a few stains on untreated canvas) are hung far below eye level.
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Sign o' the Times presented the same romantic hero backed by his trusty purple funk-rock style performing what initially appear to be honorably straightforward, unpretentious pop tunes.
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The Times's chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, puts Ms. Spade's legacy into context and explains how the designer reinvented luxury in the 1990s as fun, unpretentious and attainable.
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Those are valuable, but none are as rewarding as when the camera returns to Ms. Fornés, whose every utterance sounds poetic yet unpretentious, even as her disease progresses.
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It's jarring to hear for the first time, but Mr. Esfahani's unpretentious approach has a kind of grandeur as it unfolds over the course of Bach's 30 variations.
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The unpretentious and engaging dialogues between passionate artists — the bewitching writer in whose novels music plays a prominent part and the indefatigable, amiable conductor — make the pages fly.
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But instead of turning them into formal showcases, the Cohens made them havens of comfortable yet refined taste, inviting and unpretentious, with room for their children and grandchildren.
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Aesthetically somewhere between country's self-proclaimed outsiders and its stadium-filling stars, Cam is stuck with an unenviable task: finding an audience for her timeless, unpretentious country-pop.
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He traveled everywhere, partied with Sinatra and Dean Martin and J.F.K. His home, although unpretentious by the standards of stardom, was seeded with reminders of an extraordinary life.
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FANS COULD praise his charm, wits and warmth (unlike most French politicians, he enjoyed hobnobbing with the votes, preferably over a beer in an unpretentious zinc-clad bar).
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Her friendships with Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her marriage to fellow filmmaker Jacques Demy, and her skeptical, energetic, unpretentious style linked her permanently to that movement.
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He is expected to be re-elected easily against Representative Jim Renacci, the Republican nominee, leaning on a down-home reputation as the state's unpretentious emissary to Washington.
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While Mr. Weiss's résumé includes positions at prestige Swiss brands, including Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin, his unpretentious workshop is in an austere industrial complex in Torrance, Calif.
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For Vanna Venturi, although she gave her son six years to get the plans right, the end result was to be an unpretentious home in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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"Brothers" is poetic yet unpretentious throughout its 80 minutes; it's no surprise to learn that as a student Mr. McCraney worked with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson.
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It's an unpretentious, truth-dealing, summer-weight novel — bought by Knopf in an attention-grabbing six-figure deal — that reads like a letter home from a self-deprecating friend.
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Some of the most effective trade association CEOs are unpretentious, focusing on the needs of members and the betterment of the organization rather than on personal gain or recognition.
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Since it opened five years ago, on East 59th Street between First Avenue and Sutton Place, the polished but unpretentious Italian restaurant has become part of the neighborhood's fabric.
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Changes to the building's interior and exterior, using raw materials of contemporary sculpture, helped revamp its image as an unpretentious noncollecting museum focused on fostering emerging and undervalued artists.
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The Palace will serve classic cocktails and "unpretentious, blue-collar" food like homemade corned beef and collard green melts, said Mr. Padilla, who also owns the Greenpoint restaurant Alameda.
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"This piece very much brings all those together in a rather organic, unpretentious way — natural but with a real feeling for pulling all these different branches of culture together."
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It was an ideal fit for Bourdain: an unpretentious brasserie with its own butcher, who worked next to the bar, behind a counter stacked with steak, veal, and sausages.
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It's masterly and unpretentious, full of original compositions driven by powerful rhythm rather than by structural complexity, and always propelled along by the springy locomotion of this expert drummer.
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The restaurant, now on Clay Street, is still unpretentious, but the food (eggs with shrimp and duck jook, which is a kind of porridge) was fresh and very good.
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Composed with the detailed shading of colored pencils, Arosio's drawings are an easy mood-lifter, full of unpretentious joy and lightheartedness, but they also smack of an impish charm.
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And every person who's ever found comfort or joy from a vintage film owes Robert Osborne a debt for his unpretentious, eminently informative company, night after night, year after year.
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"Johannesburg" finds the producer evoking a sense of unpretentious, awestruck clarity, tapping out a melange of minimalist pattering via synths and drum machine and letting it jam in extended duration.
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I had expected someone stern and formal, but Hollberg was, in fact, relaxed and unpretentious and congenial, with a sly humor that rushed into all the gaps in our conversation.
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Now, he was playing with such softness and unpretentious delicacy that I could barely hear him over the wind rustling through the trees — and I mean this as a compliment.
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The Japanese highball tastes like whiskey champagne — not a bad thing — and the cold-fashioned is an unpretentious rum and bourbon drink with complex undertones served in a highball glass.
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The fact that you guys had this very unpretentious but kind of humourous blue-collar aesthetic really stuck with me, because you guys were actually doing factory jobs in Hamilton.
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This was the most amusing and thought-provoking version of "The Music Man" I had seen in ages, often unpretentious despite its pretensions, cleverly costumed and full of new ideas.
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Credit...Jan Buchczik Contributing Opinion Writer Chapel Hill, N.C. — One Saturday morning this fall, I walked into Chapel Hill Bible Church, an unpretentious complex of brick buildings near the highway.
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This was, on the whole, a clean and unpretentious "Apollo," and an especially musical one — making clear, as isn't always the case, how each famous moment connects to the score.
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Not in the cheesy way, but always with a cool unpretentious vibe and the right samples, a soft bass drum, raw cut percussion loops, nice chords and harmony-filled sections.
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But it was an unpretentious and quiet thing, at least for a while, guitarist Lauri Raus said in an email interview (he clarifies that the whole band contributed to his answers).
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The Place is one of those unpretentious neighborhood refuges, tucked away on a quiet little street, but there, like everywhere else in New York, you never know what you may find.
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The fleet-fingered California producer draws through lines between footwork, hardstyle, and trap, with the unpretentious approach of someone who grew up on the web, and has every sound within reach.
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She is clear about her admiration for Mitchell's writing, and his patient, unpretentious prose appears to have had an influence on her, as it has on so many New Yorker writers.
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He also runs a fashion and art direction consultancy called Shvpe, and designed the zine's gritty, unpretentious look to reflect some of the same values that bubble through in his music.
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But an unpretentious movie like Life argues that studios have also moved away from respectable genre pictures—movies that were never considered art, but at least rattled your cage with precision.
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The set finds the pair embracing unpretentious fun right from the get go, leading with lush disco before leaning into the groove a bit more with relentless house and techno selections.
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Living In 12 Photos View Slide Show ' For Meaghan Hannan Davant, Capitol Hill is not the throbbing, recently convulsed heart of political power in Washington, D.C., but an unpretentious small town.
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" His own favorite artists are "the ones that come off as profound yet simple and unpretentious at the same time: Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Bill Callahan.
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Tyler, who is as unpretentious as most of her characters, insists that she did not set out to be a writer and is still a little surprised that she became one.
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So many of the best pieces in "The Scandal of the Century," however, are essays, unpretentious and witty meditations on topics like barbers and air travel and literary translation and movies.
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The fare — order the mussels "façon Hortense" and grilled turbot with French fries — is as unpretentious as the setting: Diners eat at rickety wooden tables on a terrace overlooking Arcachon Bay.
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FANS PRAISED his wit and tactile warmth (unlike most French politicians, he enjoyed hobnobbing with the voters, preferably over a beer or slice of saucisson in an unpretentious zinc-clad bar).
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Once you get past its gray surface, "The Witcher" turns out to be delightfully unpretentious, reveling in its pulpiness and occasionally poking fun at its stoic hero with preposterously large muscles.
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The seventh-largest city in the country by population, San Antonio sprawls across 465 square miles of craggy terrain of mesquite trees and cactuses, giving it an unpretentious, small-town feel.
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Inspired by the work of other video artists like Thomas Blanchard, Lurie sets out to make extraordinary visual experiences with his work, a barebones and certainly unpretentious approach to art production.
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At these prices, you could just close your eyes and pick something, which is lucky because the servers, though charming and truly unpretentious, haven't fully internalized the list's ins and outs.
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Thundercat, whose birth name is Stephen Bruner, has been improving his vocal chops recently; his singing still has an unpretentious, conversational allure, but now there's more body and breath behind it.
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The Earl / 529The unpretentious Earl and 529 is where you're most likely to see Atlanta's rotating cast of local punk and rock 'n' roll veterans, like GG King, the Coathangers, and Barreracudas.
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Faris' words are uplifting and unpretentious, anchored by a genuine appreciation for the couple's dedication to each other that, as of now, take on new poignancy within the context of their breakup.
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From aged cachaças to the clear spirit most commonly used for caipirinhas, the drink remains inexpensive and as unpretentious as its beginnings, with a bottle of Milagre de Minas costing around$12.
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In Koleda, a folk-dance collective that was almost a commune, the teenage Morris, already making up dances, found acceptance and an aesthetic ideal: rhythmically challenging, musically strict, yet unpretentious and fun.
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Several dozen people, many of them casually dressed in jeans and T-shirts, sat in the caramel brown pews of its unpretentious worship hall; its altar little more than a carpeted stage.
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Wending my way home, I'll pick up a bottle from the interesting and unpretentious selection at Columbia Wine Co., 4038 Broadway, and flowers from the cheerfully straightforward Merry Flowers at No. 203.
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He is widely viewed as gracious, unpretentious, dutiful with fans to shake hands and sign autographs, even if his availability to the news media can be as elusive as his playing time.
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" He lacked legal erudition, but he brought feuding justices together with "qualities more valuable in his new leadership role: an open, unpretentious manner, a quiet dignity and a palpable sense of fairness.
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"Ladder of Years" is my favorite of hers, and it perfectly describes what it is like to be a Baltimorean; unpretentious, impervious to the outside world and layered in eccentric family traditions.
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"It's all great fun, and quite rousing as well — a large-scale genre movie that is at once unpretentious and unafraid to bring home a message," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times.
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Portal feels refreshingly unpretentious amid its Soho surroundings, but in a city filled with white-walled art galleries and art fairs of every stripe, it could stand to do something more unique.
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"It's all great fun, and quite rousing as well — a large-scale genre movie that is at once unpretentious and unafraid to bring home a message," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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She good-humoredly took me to a small place near the Kyodo train station in her neighborhood, about a 20-minute ride from Shinjuku: Midori Sushi, an unpretentious restaurant next to a KFC.
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" Very traditionally un-fashion industry (read: unpretentious) of them, but it's apparent that the users are most important to the team at Grailed, making total sense of the squad's motto, "Fire for all.
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Even supporters are unlikely to cite his policy feats as the main attraction, preferring to dwell on his unpretentious bearing, his grace through personal tragedies and his time in the Obama White House.
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Much like how the aloof skyscraper is expressly tempered by the unpretentious housing block, the building's glazed, crystalline exterior is softened by a lobby accented with textured brick walls and light wood finishes.
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He brought an affable, unpretentious style to the job, consistent with his own down-to-earth personality and his sense that museums needed to lose some of their stuffiness to attract new audiences.
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Jane Ormsby Gore is a Virginia Woolf kind of person, as much as a Bruce Chatwin woman: She breathes the air she happens to make, and her commitment to nature is spirited and unpretentious.
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That might be somewhere casual and unpretentious like Wildair, or it might be somewhere buttoned-up and Michelin-starred, like Le Bernardin (to name a couple favorites on their New York to-do list).
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Approachable, warm and unpretentious, Ms. Gangitano creates a kind of a human framework for taking in the art she shows, which can be obscure, confrontational or challenging, as are some of the artists themselves.
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Joe Santos, a sturdily built, unpretentious character actor who had a memorable role as the overworked detective Dennis Becker on the popular 19763s drama "The Rockford Files," died on Friday in Santa Monica, Calif.
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The painting of Naphtali, for instance, half-dressed in a rough brown cloak and toting a shovel over his shoulder, has an unpretentious beauty that recalls Jean-François Millet's later ennoblements of French peasants.
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As he stood at the bar at Industry, an unpretentious Midtown Manhattan gay bar that draws an international crowd, he noticed a man still wearing his winter coat and silently admired his elegant profile.
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Mr. Mullen's mother had also owned a bookstore, in Stony Brook, N.Y. Mr. Mullen, 68, said they have always tried to foster an unpretentious environment, equally open to discussing popular fiction or the classics.
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Delicately entrancing songs for string quartet, flute, and electronics — led by Joachim's powerful and unpretentious voice — alternate with recorded spoken interludes as well as the singing of a girls choir from Joachim's family's village.
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TODAY, PAPIER-MÂCHÉ is enjoying a new life with artists and craftspeople, an acknowledgment that such unpretentious materials as thread, lace, yarn and paper have their own inherent power in an age of excess.
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"It's all great fun, and quite rousing as well — a large-scale genre movie that is at once unpretentious and unafraid to bring home a message," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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For those seeking a similar dose of sentimental nosh—or simply seeking nourishing, unpretentious eats, allow me to introduce you to the true stand-outs of the Ashkenazi kitchen that your deli probably doesn't deliver.
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He arrives here every morning between 20123 and 9 from a modest two-bedroom apartment in a grad-student-type building in an unpretentious Washington neighborhood around the corner from his favorite post-collegiate bar.
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While that would be more than enough to make a cult hero of even the most ineffective striker, there is far more to Kuyt's cult of personality than his sense of occasion and unpretentious finishing.
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He has spent over two decades stubbornly committed to his own vision as a musician and community leader, but he's never been fully accepted as a marquee bandleader, perhaps because of his proudly unpretentious persona.
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Studios can be as state-of-the-art as David Gunnarsson's converted barn in Smaland, Sweden, with an exhibition hall and a lounge, or as unpretentious as the garage in the Montreal suburb of Ste.
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Down the road, enjoy a pre-dinner drink at Perditempo, a scruffy, beloved local bar and an unpretentious literary cafe hosting occasional book readings, but more frequently blasting reggae music into the crowd gathered streetside.
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Mr. Christenberry's direct-address photographs of buildings in Hale County, a series that he began in 1958 with an image shot with a Kodak Brownie camera, bear the unmistakable imprint of Evans's stark, unpretentious aesthetic.
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This summer in particular, no studio should be ashamed to release an unpretentious, well-paced bit of entertainment like Crawl — and audiences shouldn't feel ashamed to leave the comfort of their homes to check it out.
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Still, "Ocean's 8" brings a refreshingly unpretentious quality to this all-female, numerically scaled-down heist tale, yielding a movie that's pleasant, mildly fun and the gender switch notwithstanding, a bit of an old-fashioned throwback.
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This uncommon gallery, founded in 1980, deals both in Buddhist and pre-Columbian antiquities and in contemporary photography from Latin America, all of it shown in an unpretentious space where classical music tinkles in the background.
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A rare find in Whistler, where restaurants tend to be either white-tablecloth affairs or variations on pub fare, Hunter Gather is unpretentious (you order at the counter) and fastidiously local (even the ketchup is artisanal).
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Like her cooking, Aunt Sammy was unpretentious and ever practical (she was also heard across the nation: The bureaus sent scripts to nearly 200 radio stations for local Aunt Sammy portrayers to read on the air).
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" But in 1949 Variety called the show "an unpretentious and amusing series of domestic comedies," adding that "Miss Kay makes a pert, pixyish wife while Stearns, who also scripts, contributes a dry style of comedy thesping.
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Buckwheat Zydeco (Sunday) This singer and accordionist from Louisiana (whose real name is Stanley Dural Jr.) is a master craftsman of zydeco, an ebullient strain of Cajun folk, and an unpretentious showman with musical flair for miles.
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The Varnish: An unpretentious speakeasy in the heart of downtown LA. You have to walk through Cole's restaurant to get to this old-timey cocktail haven, so grab a French Dip on your way in or out.
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While Fulham fans obviously want the club to be as successful as possible, there is also considerable fondness for the camaraderie of Championship football; for away days to Huddersfield, Wolves and Ipswich in all their unpretentious glory.
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There's a playful menu of unpretentious pan-Asian small plates, like a Szechuan chili dog, and cocktails named after Wong Kar-wai movies: In the Mood for Love (sake, ginger, cranberry juice), Chungking Express (soju, Calpico, nigori).
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We wanted to provide a restaurant where line cooks, sous chefs, and waiters would appreciate the quality, integrity, backstory, and philosophy of the ingredients, as well as the sophistication of the food in an unpretentious, relaxed way.
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One of Renégat's major assets is his own Forty Ounce Wines, a collection of good, inexpensive French wines packaged in unpretentious screw-cap bottles reminiscent of old, bottom-shelf-of-the-liquor-store 153-ounce malt liquors.
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For what is now called "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," Philip Stead has come up with a text that, in an unpretentious way, is almost postmodern, nearly Calvinoish in its self-consciousness about its own entangled origins.
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The unpretentious butcher-to-plate restaurants around the market, like Epirus, provide the freshest option to brave a taste of patsa, tripe stew, or magiritsa, the lamb offal soup reserved for the early hours of Easter elsewhere.
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What unifies each of these destinations is the unpretentious collection of bons vivants who descend on them annually, many of them from Milan, who embrace traditions and a family-centered way of life that still predominates here.
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A multimillionaire who one acquaintance affectionately likened to a "beat-up Toyota Camry" for his unpretentious demeanor, Egerman earned his money as a health care technology entrepreneur, co-founding one company that eventually sold for $1.2 billion.
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Though the common bus tour can seem quaint in the age of "super PACs" and the Twitter supremacy of Donald J. Trump, it remains an unpretentious equalizer across states that have long insisted on greeting their candidates personally.
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I read all of them voraciously, and this was my favorite of the bunch: Mahoney is hilarious, and his unpretentious, conversational writing style was a breath of fresh air in the normally ponderous genre of family-building memoir.
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Conrad was a kind of impish mad scientist, whose curiosity diverted him from his Harvard Mathematics degree into the underground worlds of experimental music and filmmaking, and, ultimately, to an unpretentious understanding of himself as a conceptual artist.
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In the Los Angeles Times, Mark Chalon Smith writes that Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands "should be seen as liberating, an unpretentious and uncomplicated slant on desire," and that it represented a step forward in Brazilian filmmaking.
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This informal, unpretentious sparkling wine, which can be made from an untold number of grapes in styles ranging from hazy, unfiltered and full of sediment to clean-as-a-whistle, has caught on all over the winemaking world.
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The fortunes of the Bucks and Brewers are followed in unpretentious taverns that wouldn't feel out of place on a rural crossroads, and traditional meat-and-potato eateries are as patronized as the latest farm-to-table restaurant.
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Nowadays, its deep blue harbor and mellow beaches (Beares, Moorhead) are popular with travelers, who gather alongside locals at this unpretentious Italian restaurant on the edge of the marina to eat wild-caught organic oysters from Wapengo Lake.
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So we will look at thirst quenchers, or, as the French say, vins de soif, which essentially means unpretentious wines that are measured not by their complexity, length or ageability but by the joy and refreshment they provide.
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Fisher, an unpretentious Philadelphian whose younger daughter, Amy (Emma Orelove), is inexplicably besotted with Aubrey (Ian Gould) — believing his lie that he is a bigwig at the Pennsylvania Railroad, rather than a mere clerk making $32.50 a week.
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I decide to trust him, because we met at a dinner once and had a brief but meaningful conversation; when I ran into him again at an open studios event, he struck me as unpretentious, genuine, and emotionally open.
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Sometimes weird clothing can just look dumb, especially to people outside the fashion industry, but this emerging era of designers has an unpretentious approach, demonstrating how clothing functions as both a mask and place of revelation for personal identity.
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"Keeping On Keeping On" comprises a decade of diary entries, from 2005 to 2015, all originally published in The London Review of Books, each one a burst of intellectual fire and feeling — but unpretentious and unsentimental to the core.
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The tables are bustling again and the smell of Chinese food fills the air at Seaport Buffet, an unpretentious restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where Asian and European immigrants gather to eat, sometimes bringing their own bottles of liquor.
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Glamorous but unpretentious, they became the first couple of country music, appearing together at awards shows, and, in cap-to-boots camouflage, on the Sportsman Channel, whose cameras captured Shelton's proud reaction when Lambert shot her first wild turkey.
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Unlike, say, Brad Pitt, who was into architecture, Renner was handy, thrifty, and deeply unpretentious, to the point that he was still living in one of the homes he and Winters were remodeling during the Hurt Locker Oscars campaign.
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While you can find fine restaurants in Rio, what sets the city apart and brings its residents, known as "Cariocas," together is the unpretentious food they eat in crowded bars and on busy street corners after a day at the beach.
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The Goon Sax: We're Not Talking (Wichita Recordings) Although Louis Forster takes fewer leads on this young threesomes's smoother and trickier follow-up, their unpretentious affect, plain guitar, and flat groove still recall the early years of his dad's Go-Betweens.
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Mostly though, Mr. Kaine cultivated an unpretentious image during the campaign, introducing late-night comedy viewers to his assemblage of harmonicas, which remain in his briefcase, and urging voters to choose a "you're hired" president instead of a "you're fired" president.
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The hulking bakery is a landmark in the unpretentious Bergen County borough, but for the Estersohns, a more familiar landmark is the Dutch Colonial revival-style Radburn train station, a quick walk from the four-bedroom house they bought for $430,000.
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The combination of plain-spoken, honest lyrics and unpretentious rock that distinguished the record — Ms. Phair's debut — has recently resurfaced in pop music through a new generation of female bandleaders, including Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, this show's opening act.bowerypresents.
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Head to the annual Red Hook Jazz Festival, now in its 10th year, which delivers music in an unmediated and unpretentious environment: the small neighborhood park known as Urban Meadow, where grass sometimes grows tall and there's really no stage.
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Though revered by his supporters as an unpretentious man of the people, some Russians disliked him, associating him with the 1990s, an era of political turmoil and painful reforms, when he served in the government of then-President Boris Yeltsin.
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A grapefruit-and-tequila cobbler in a highball glass (refreshing with a bright red float of Angostura bitters) and a rummy Brooklynite ("A very cocktaily cocktail," noted its drinker, referencing the bracing but pleasant bite) were precisely made yet unpretentious.
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These are generally bottles produced in the millions, like La Vieille Ferme, a straightforward, unpretentious blend available in red, white or rosé from the southern Rhône Valley that costs less than $8 a bottle and can be found just about anywhere.
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Thing is, back home in Denmark, Lukas Graham is selling out 10,000 capacity venues and in a world of one too many statement sneakers, comical drop crotches, and only-shoot-me-from-this-angle divas, his stance is refreshingly unpretentious.
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"I like the idea that they're not about sitting in a museum and sketching," says Michael Bierut, a partner at design studio Pentagram who has filled—and kept—112 of the unpretentious black and white notebooks in the course of his career.
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What began as a musician-founded Coachella side party has since ascended to one of the country's most championed boutique festivals—a distinctly Southern Californian, surrealist affair celebrated for its artists' artists curation, unpretentious vibe, and haven of psychedelic art and culture.
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I think the thing for me about the music from the series and movies that resonates so much is that it's a seamless combination of being very, very frightening at times, very, very funny at times, incredibly simple, incredibly romantic, but also unpretentious.
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" - Televangelist and "megachurch" pastor Joel Osteen on Twitter "His kindly manner and unpretentious nature made him a trusted confidant to twelve U.S. presidents, reassuring generations of Americans that their leaders could count on this humble man of God for counsel and support.
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Wayne was experimental in an unpretentious way, and he was even more popular than Kanye, and I have to imagine that made a bigger impression on the artists like Future and Young Thug who have ultimately carried this Auto-Tuned sound forward.
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But if you know where to look, there are plenty of fun, unpretentious places to eat and drink, which we suspect will soon be packed with a bunch of people decompressing from the all-out dumpster fire that was this election year.
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In September, he and his partner at Rahi, Roni Mazumdar, opened Adda, a "canteen" that serves the kind of unpretentious, homey food that "Indian people actually eat," Mazumdar said, as he and Pandya made rounds in the dining room one recent afternoon.
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But if a lot of the plotting (and some of the dialogue) is colossally stupid, it's presented in a cheerful, old-fashioned, thoroughly unpretentious way, built on the simple premise that scaring people with sharks in summertime is a tried-and-true convention.
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Easily navigable and unpretentious, Castelbuono is also an art town, with 15th-century frescoes in the crypt of the church Matrice Vecchia; in the castle is a chapel encrusted with the giddily over-the-top Baroque decorations of the sculptor Giacomo Serpotta.
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The process is straightforward and unpretentious: just upload your song on the website and wait for your own alien hieroglyph to arrive, one that only you know what it means—way less cheesy than your regular wedding or vacation photo on the wall.
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There are layers upon layers of sound that recall black metal, pop, indie, hardcore, shoe-gaze, you-name-it; yet as I listen, I am aware of none of this - it has been presented so artfully and with such earnest and unpretentious conviction.
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Nicholson Baker drew his bunny for me at Skylight Books in L.A. It's amazing how shy, kind and unpretentious it looks, since the description pretty much sums up the author, both in his writing and how he seemed to be in real life.
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Fortunately, budget travelers can turn to tascas: small, unpretentious restaurants that, back in the early part of the 20th century, catered mostly to the working class, and sold wine and petiscos, or shared plates, along with what was once their main product: coal.
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Adele, who has sold over 50 million records and last month won the Ivor Novello award for songwriter of the year, presented herself as a down-to-earth, unpretentious Londoner, often exclaiming "oh my God" and telling the crowd she was nervous.
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While waiting for the next English-speaking tour, I wandered around Fragonard's unpretentious perfume museum and was reminded that although the origins of perfume stretch back to ancient civilization, France transformed its humble use into a luxury industry in the 2979th century.
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The welcoming, unpretentious tone is set by the pictorial guide to produce, kitchenware and more: These aren't stylized, hard-to-follow tableaus but snapshots of the items in the wild (in other words, at H-Mart), accompanied by their Korean names and characters.
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Indeed, his stories about patrolling the left full-back position for Arsene Wenger's side in 2004 are delivered with an unpretentious modesty; for the most part, they take a back seat to the fond memories he still holds of friendships made in north London.
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A simple combination of hash browns, cream of chicken soup, shredded cheese, onion, cornflakes, and melted butter, it's decadent as all hell, but its unpretentious deliciousness might just be the one thing you and your crazy uncle can agree on at the Thanksgiving table.
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It doesn't hurt that the drinks are unpretentious and cheap (a Manhattan with a maraschino cherry is $252; bottles of Miller Hi-Life are $3.25), the antique jukebox is loaded with Big Band 45s, and the cheeseburger ($5.50) is regularly voted best in town.
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"It is at once artful and unpretentious, sophisticated and completely accessible, sure of its own authority and generous toward characters and audience alike — a movie whose intended public is the human race," A. O. Scott wrote when reviewing the film in 2212-56013-25601, filmforum.
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She plays the part of a glamorous starlet with ease, but there's a fundamental distrust of fame's machinery — a sense that she wants us to know that she knows that Hollywood is kind of silly — informing her unpretentious public persona as well as her performances.
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He is so unpretentious that during a nine-hole practice round at Muirfield Village last month, he wore his Tour-issued season credential dangling from his neck, as if worried the volunteer marshals might otherwise mistake him for a fan trying to steal Dustin's bag.
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There are a number of characteristics shared amongst pubs that have become neighborhood favorites: Rustic interiors preferably dating back to centuries ago, a name that alludes to an animal part or a historical royal, and a generally warm and unpretentious vibe (no fancy craft beers needed).
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The writing and the acting stick to an unpretentious, almost just-noodling-along naturalism while slowly, quietly charting out moral and emotional dilemmas — chiefly about responsibility, chiefly within the framework of a troubled family — so dense they would burst the spine of a proper literary American novel.
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Mostly, this effects-heavy film from director Brad Peyton (who previously directed Johnson in "San Andreas" and "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island") has the unpretentious feel of a 1950s monster movie, with a rogue science project unleashing a trio of genetically edited beasts bent on destruction.
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Through the connections he had developed as a sommelier, Mr. Cappiello looked for small family producers in Europe and the United States who were environmentally conscious and — despite his experience with the most coveted wines of the world — reflected his own unpretentious, wine-for-the-people spirit.
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What's special about "Cat Person," and the rest of the stories in "You Know You Want This," is the author's expert control of language, character, story — her ability to write stories that feel told, and yet so unpretentious and accessible that we think they must be true.
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Many young philosophers of mind look like artists (skinny jeans, T-shirts, asymmetrical hair), but Dennett carries a homemade wooden walking stick and dresses like a Maine fisherman, in beat-up boat shoes and a pocketed vest—a costume that gives him an air of unpretentious competence.
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Those who knew her remembered her as both a larger-than-life presence and a woman who was delightfully unpretentious, a tireless performer who would ignore doctor's orders to go onstage and a tireless promoter of her shows, even in front of a crowd of Brownie scouts.
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The 2020 presidential race won't be the first in which candidates twist themselves into questionable and sometimes mortifying knots to demonstrate how real, relatable, unpretentious or hip they can ostensibly be, but, Holy Mother of Oversharing, it promises to chart whole new frontiers in that regard.
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A little slice — far too little, some argue — of the likely deluge in post-World Cup transfer fees will also trickle down to football&aposs grassroots, to unpretentious, volunteer-run clubs like Torcy where kids take first steps toward their big dreams of making a career in football.
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The 29 Palms Inn is improbable in many ways — in the variety of its buildings, the comforting, unpretentious food, the small houseboat drifting in the oasis, the sturdy garden where vegetables are coaxed from the soil, and the mix of hard-core desert rats and clean-cut Marines.
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French Girl Organics, which is sold at Anthropologie and Williamsburg jewelry mecca Catbird, is neither the work of a Parisian It girl nor a clever marketing team, but rather a 60-something Seattle resident named Kristeen Griffin-Grimes who has a warm, ready laugh and an unpretentious demeanor.
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Though the menu can be uneven—the burger with hot peppers and provolone was a bit dry one night, and beware the cacio-e-pepe ravioli, which sounds too good to be true for a reason—it's generally imbued with a sense of curiosity and excitement about unpretentious Italian cooking.
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Despite all the attention Ms. Wang gets for pyrotechnic virtuosity and, I have to say, bold fashion, she is a remarkably unpretentious partner when she plays with peers like the violinist Leonidas Kavakos (they will share a Carnegie recital in February) and, in the case of Friday, the percussionist Martin Grubinger.
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A small neighborhood bistro near the Bourse, it has been run by women for three generations and retains its unpretentious 1930s décor of copper pots, amateur still lifes, hydrangeas stuffed into ceramic jugs and, on the zinc bar, a mascot in the form of an owl-shaped metal ice bucket.
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At the time, Mr. Cinader told The New York Times in 1990, he and his fellow executives at Popular Merchandise were closely following the success of other catalog businesses like Lands' End and L. L. Bean and believed they could capitalize on elegant but unpretentious women's clothing by creating a subsidiary company.
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In a 22009s building near the central Arco della Pace, the home — which she shares with her partner, Andrea Lazzerini, who works in finance, and their 210-year-old daughter, Ada — is an unpretentious, streamlined showcase for emerging and midcareer Italian artists, many of whom have been overlooked by the New York-centric gallery world.
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In sharp contrast to flashier bars near the center of town where local hard ciders retail for $16 a bottle, there are other options like Charlie's Pub, a lively, unpretentious watering hole where smoking indoors is allowed and retired miners share memories of growing up nearby, drinking from frozen-over pails in the winter.
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Barnes is adept at stripping away artifice and creating a safe and unpretentious space for non-dancers to move, as she did with her company's collaboration with Ira Glass ("Three Acts, Two Dances, One Radio Host") and in "The Museum Workout," which led spectators on a physical tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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If the Pure Garage compilation series did one thing better than any other, it was showcase a genre that felt fun and unpretentious from top to bottom—a Todd Edwards remix of Hakan Lidbo felt as accessible as some banger from Mis-Teeq—bringing this particular brand of dance music to the masses and making people really happy.
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Shareholders will gather on December 11th in Round Rock, Texas, at Dell's unpretentious headquarters, to vote on a complex proposal that would allow the firm to pull off something resembling a reverse merger (the acquisition of a listed firm by a privately held one that is keen to go public without the hassle of a conventional initial public offering).
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Injury Reserve: Floss (Las Fuegas) Two rappers from, well, suburban Phoenix—native Arizonan Ritchie With the T, a year short of a B.A. with his dad dead and his mom fighting cancer, and Oakland immigrant Steppa J. Groggs, pushing 30 with drug, alcohol, and weight problems and a new daughter—generate the most unpretentious hip-hop you ever heard.
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In fact there are many variations on the theme of mole that one can try around Oaxaca, where large numbers of talented chefs, inspired by the region's culinary heritage, have dedicated themselves to reinventing traditional dishes, and to preparing elegant yet unpretentious food served in surroundings ranging from funky and cool to luxurious, stylish and ultramodern.
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It's a bit of a trek to get to Belleville, the working-class neighborhood on the northeastern edge of Paris where Édith Piaf was born, but food-loving locals and visitors have been heading to this gentrifying, but still earthy and unpretentious neighborhood for years to eat at Le Baratin, one of the best bistros in Paris.
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" An interest in "unpretentious structure" and simple, expressive form, the artist observed, has long run through his thinking and art-making, "whether it has appeared in the farm tools I learned to make in Italy; natural forms, such as plants, crystals or radiolaria [single-cell aquatic animals]; or in the purposeful language of African art or European art up until the Renaissance.
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He could be described, not in hierarchical order, as a passionate lover of art, an eager collector, a published poet, a committed supporter of the underprivileged, a defender of social justice, a lover of trees, an ecologist, a fruit farmer, a maker of excellent preserves, and a plain-spoken, unpretentious man of ineffable, self-deprecating charm – among many other things.
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Australian painter Helen Johnson, showing in Statements with the Scottish gallery Mary Mary, creates a different face for contemporary figurative painting with canvases that hang freely and without frames, telling critically a story of colonialism in Australia through subtle metaphors, while Angolan artist Yonamine has an unpretentious display at Christina Guerra that engages in a conversation with street art from the last decades.
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Satellite Art Fair When: December 6–9 / Thursday: 6pm–11pm; Friday–Saturday: 3pm–11pm; Sunday: 303pm–7pm Where: 18 NW 14th Street, Miami Always an unpretentious delight, Satellite is now located right next door to NADA, with 40 exhibitors — including solo artists (like Miami's Sleeper), projects (The Femocrats, Brooklyn), programs (SVA's Fine Arts MFA program), and immersive spaces (Flatsitter, from Buffalo).
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The hoteliers have described the décor as chic yet unpretentious, which, in this case, means they have stripped out the island-style chintz and shabby-chic often found in Vineyard bed-and-breakfasts, added a high gloss dark stain to the wood floors, pulled in cool blue and white geometric rugs and wallpapers, and maintained a crisp teal blue, cream and gray color palate throughout the hotel.
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One of the few widely recognizable names on the roster of New York Fashion Week: Men's — whose fourth installment will kick off Monday night with Mr. Abboud's runway show — the designer shared his views of men's fashion over a cup of English breakfast tea and an English muffin at Hamburger Heaven, an old-school Midtown coffee shop that is a landmark purveyor of unpretentious, quality fare, not unlike the designer himself.
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Their plainspoken titles: Turiya Sings (1982), Divine Songs (1987), Infinite Chants (1990), Glorious Chants (1995), and unpretentious word-processed artwork barely hinting at the extraordinary music they contained—traditional Hindu devotional chants, swirled through the vortex of Coltrane's musical incarnations, from the lush harp glissandos and Indian percussion she'd brought to spiritual jazz, to her earlier classical music studies and the Detroit gospel blues she'd grown up singing in church.
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Free Throw From their early days of crafting scrappy songs named for Pokémon references, to their huge emotional leap with heartbroken and angsty 2014 full-length debut Those Days Are Gone, to the more personal and introspective music set to make up their forthcoming album for new label home Triple Crown Records, Free Throw's unpretentious callback to the emo and screamo they grew up on, along with their affinity for pop culture, has helped broaden their reach well beyond the confines of Nashville.
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