The week ahead for January 20-26: Iranian deals; regional food and wine; Netflix results
A look at what’s coming up on the East Coast and around the world. This week, that includes a spacecraft’s awakening, an IMF visit to Romania and two East Coast food events.
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- Martin Luther King Junior Day: Holiday events include a Baltimore parade, along with celebrations at the American Visionary Art Museum and the Lewis Museum. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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- Baltimore County’s Winter Restaurant Week: Herb & Soul Executive Chef David Thomas prepares his dish for Baltimore County’s Winter Restaurant Week Kick-Off event at Liquid Lib’s in Timonium, MD on Thursday. Restaurant Week runs through Jan. 26. (Jen Rynda/Baltimore Sun Media Group)
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- Rosetta wakes up: A file handout picture released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows an artist’s impression of the ESA probe Rosetta with Mars in the background. The three-tonne probe blasted off aboard an an Ariane V rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on March 2, 2004, beginning a decade-long quest to hunt a comet in the depths of the Solar System and shadow it around the Sun in a bid to tease out secrets of how life began on Earth. Rosetta, one of the most ambitious missions in the history of space, goes into high-risk mode on January 20, 2014 when Europe rouses the comet-chasing probe from years of hibernation. Launched almost a decade ago, Rosetta is a billion-dollar bet to prise open the secrets of comets, believed to be remnants from the very birth of our star system. (ESA PHOTO BY C.CARREAU VIA AFP/Getty Images)
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- Berlin exhibit: A drawing by German artist Thomas Zipp, made when he was 12 year old, is on display at the “Paperworlds” exhibition at the ME Collectors Room gallery in Berlin on January 16, 2014. The exhibition, which takes place from January 21 to April 6 2014, features some 60 childhood drawings from contemporary artists. (JOHN MACDOUGALL, AFP/Getty Images)
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- Talks in Switzerland: A view of a police car parked outside the Montreux-Palace, the hotel that will host the so-called Geneva II peace talks, as seen through a fence, in Montreux, on January 16, 2014. As the so-called Geneva II conference is set to open on January 22, 2014, Moscow wants to convince Washington to accept Tehran’s presence at the peace talks in order to bolster its efforts to keep Assad in power and curb the future influence of his foes. After 34 months of fighting the Syrian conflict has killed around 130,000 people and displaced millions more. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
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- … and a nuclear deal for Iran: A picture taken on January 27, 2011 shows an Iranian worker riding a bicycle through the Nouri Petrochemical facilities of the South Pars gas field in the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh. Unblocking billions of dollars in funds to Iran under a landmark six-month nuclear deal with the West, that will take effect from January 20, 2014 will have a significant economic and psychological impact on the Islamic republic, experts said on January 13. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Algerian anniversary: Statoil’s project manager, Norway’s Kolbjoern Kirkeboe (second from right) poses with two of his compatriots and fellow hostages next to a memorial for the In Amenas hostage crisis, on August 23, 2013 in In Amenas, as they return to the site for the first time since they were taken hostages along with some 800 people. At least 39 foreign hostages were killed on January 20, 2013 during a raid by the Algerian special forces in an effort to free the hostages, four days after the start of the crisis. (Getty Images)
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- Wine fest in Virginia: The Hampton Roads area hosts its Coastal Virginia Wine fest Jan. 25-26 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. More than 30 Virginia wineries offering tastings will be among the 90 vendors on site. (PHOTO BY THOMAS GRAVES/SPECIAL TO THE SUN)
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- IMF in Romania: A group representing the International Monetary Fund will visit Romania from January 21 to February 5, according to national press agency Agerpres. The visit comes after President Traian Basescu (pictured) signed a new budget in December. (LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images}
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- Shoppable hangout: This picture shows part of a Google data center on December 11, 2013. Google plans to debut a new “shoppable hangout” in India January 20, according to India TV. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
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- UAE tobacco restrictions: Several restrictions on the tobacco industry are set to go into effect this week in the United Arab Emirates. The Tuesday changes will include restrictions on use in autos, along with a ban on certain types of advertising, according to The National. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
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- Netflix results: Netflix is set to post quarterly results Wednesday, according to Benzinga. A second season of the company’s Baltimore-shot “House of Cards” series, shown here, comes out February 14. (Photo credit: Melinda Sue Gordon for Netflix.)
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