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River Cafe, Chez Bruce to Open Pop-Up Eateries for Haiti Relief: Food Buzz The River Cafe, Chez Bruce and other leading London restaurants are planning to create a series of one-day, pop-up eateries next month to raise money for Haiti. The chef Rick Stein is also planning to take part.

BA Business-Only Airline Adds Paris-Washington Route, Sees Profit by 2013 British Airways Plc’s business-class- only subsidiary OpenSkies will add flights to Washington and target profitability by 2013 after its parent company turned down five offers for the Paris-based carrier, Managing Director Dale Moss said in an interview.

Billionaire Koch Expects More Fake-Wine Lawsuits in 2010: Elin McCoy I think of the past 10 years as the counterfeit-wine decade.

BMW Jerks, Porsche Flashers -- What Your Car Shows About You Thundering down a highway in a smoking-hot BMW M6, I flick on my blinker and slide into the left lane to pass slower vehicles. Immediately a minivan swings in front of me, throws on his brakes and sticks there at a steady 50 miles per hour, boxing me in.

Volkswagen’s GTI Is Porsche Fan’s Starter Car: Jason H. Harper What’s so special about the Volkswagen GTI? A gussied-up Golf with a special grill on its pug nose, this squat squirt certainly is no Maserati.

Sony Catches Kindle, Trails iPad With Reader: Rich Jaroslovsky The annals of consumer technology are full of woulda, coulda, shoulda: companies that were ahead of their time, then missed the wave they themselves helped spawn.

Apple IPad Will Need Content as Cool as It Is: Rich Jaroslovsky With all due respect to Steve Jobs, he chose the wrong name for Apple Inc.’s new iPad.

Rick Stein, River Cafe Join Pop-Up Series for Haiti (Update1) The River Cafe, Chez Bruce and other leading London restaurants are planning to create a series of one-day, pop-up eateries next month to raise money for Haiti. The chef Rick Stein is also planning to take part.

Best of British Food Being Served Up by a Finn: Richard Vines The Avenue has been around for years, surviving in business without becoming a destination, except for drinkers in search of a bar in St. James where you can enjoy decent wines without paying indecent prices.

Billionaire Koch Expects More Fake-Wine Lawsuits in 2010 I think of the past 10 years as the counterfeit-wine decade.

California Wine Shipments Fall First Time in 16 Years (Update1) California wine shipments fell in 2009 for the first time in 16 years as purchases in the U.K., the biggest export market, plunged during the global recession, according to researcher Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates.

Huppert Rants, Screams, Vomits in Derailed Paris ‘Streetcar’ Tennessee Williams might have trouble recognizing “A Streetcar Named Desire” in the latest Paris staging of his play.

Polyester Flares, Platinum Records Abound in ABBA Exhibit Plato described a pure realm of essential forms outside the material world. For many, the Platonic form of pop music would no doubt look like ABBA.