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...this seminar that he holds fortnightly. You reserve in advance, and your session, which costs $48, includes five cocktails (for the champagne-based cocktail evening, it costs $60). In the dim light, some people smoke cigars, and '30s swing music plays softly in the background in this intimate, '70s-style lounge. Weber's lesson will focus on cocktails with a brandy base, so the syllabus includes the brandy alexander, sidecar, brandy stinger, pisco sour and brandy flip. History is an essential part of the syllabus. As Weber mixes a brandy alexander - a smooth drink made of brandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocktail College | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...vote when he was elected first time. Now, this time, he?s likely to get a small percent of the white vote, but a large percent of the black vote." Mitch Landrieu, whose dad, the legendary Moon Landrieu, opened up city government and public facilities to blacks in the 70s, is also, however, counting on the African-American vote. Forman, not to be outdone, is working the same crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ray Nagin Win Redemption in New Orleans? | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...thinking behind the 10 songs on Roberts' latest release, Chemical City, out on Tuesday, is urban decay. If that sounds heavy, fear not: the CD features much of the cool, '70s-style guitar work fans will remember from Roberts' last album and the smash single of 2002, Brother Down. Chemical City is great summer music: catchy, energetic, never abrasive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the City of the Mind | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...mania or an unavoidable result of public schools' being starved for funding. But more conservative reform advocates, like Marcus Winters, a senior research associate at the Manhattan Institute, disagree. "Spending more money just has not worked," he says. "We've doubled the amount we spend per pupil since the '70s, and the problem hasn't budged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropout Nation | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...scallop but rather his understanding of how to use his image. Batali constantly projects a sense of capering, slightly naughty joy: at a cooking demo, he rolls up stuffed-eggplant slices and then pretends to lick them like the wrapper around a joint. "Just like we did in the '70s," he says, and the audience cheers. Sometimes he takes the act too far. In Heat Buford quotes a liquored Batali asking one of his waitresses to "take off your blouse" for his table. Batali says everyone understood that he was joking. "It's never anything as sinister as it sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Mario! | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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