Word: archly
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...Greece and Albania … there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood.” Tallahassee’s concept grows tired at times—one wonders in just how many ways this relationship can be described, but the arch to the album is successfully completed with the blithe closer “Alpha Rats’ Nest,” a hopeful plea for a happy perpetuation of this love/hate relationship...
...with their art credentials well and truly established, and a gallery show for the album in the offing (seriously), what does the music sound like? Susman’s deadpan delivery and the occasionally cerebral music are a little arch at times. On “Oh Sombra,” Susman’s voice appears deliberately quavery, overpowered by the gathering waves of chiming guitars and snowballing drums. Yet the album never abandons the ideal of pop music, taking some surprising and ambitious turns in order to keep the pretensions light-footed. The garage strut...
...location, in the chic Normandie Apartments Building, is a sequestered gem. The block is Shanghai's only "flatiron" edifice, erected in 1924 on a thoroughfare through the leafy old French Concession, and has now been designated by the authorities as a preserved building. Arch is nestled on the ground floor and forms a swanky hideaway that is the antithesis of the spit-and-sawdust watering holes on down and dirty Maoming Lu or the contrived, yuppie hangouts of Xintiandi...
Shanghai's bankers have their favorite bars, so does the city's media corps. Now architects, designers and other style aficionados, both local and expatriate, have hit upon their rendezvous of choice at Arch, tel: (86-21) 6466 0807. It's described as a designer's designer bar and caf?, and since opening its fashionable doors last August has lured plenty of custom with its understated elegance, sharp cocktails and program of hip events...
...location, in the chic Normandie Apartments Building, is a sequestered gem. The block is Shanghai's only "flatiron" edifice, erected in 1924 on a thoroughfare through the leafy old French Concession, and has now been designated by the authorities as a preserved building. Arch is nestled on the ground floor and forms a swanky hideaway that is the antithesis of the spit-and-sawdust watering holes on down and dirty Maoming Lu or the contrived, yuppie hangouts of Xintiandi...