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...month, patrons can also take mini-lessons and buy hip scarves of their own from one of the vendors. To get into the mood, patrons often order Middle Eastern coffees, but for those who don’t take caffeine that late, the club has an extraordinarily well-stocked bar??and a very strict ID policy...
Still, the last decades’ technological shifts haven’t quite produced a harmonious global village. The ancient Greeks branded as “barbarians” those whose languages sounded to them like “bar bar bar?? gibberish, and to many Westerners, foreign scripts still seem to conceal nasty secrets, and spoken gutturals and trills provoke suspicion. In this environment of information whose instant availability is not matched by intelligibility, translators have become some of the most powerful people in our societies, seeming to carry news of secrets being told behind our backs...
...stomachs satisfied, we move on to our last stop—the Langham Hotel (formerly Le Meridian, and before that a Federal Reserve Bank). By this time, I could very well go home happy and full, but the promise of the Chocolate Bar??and, of course, journalistic thoroughness—prevents me from doing so. Traveling on Sunday, we miss the famed Chocolate Bar??an unlimited smorgasbord of chocolate desserts offered every Saturday for $23 a pop. Instead, we choose from the still-extensive dessert bar of the Sunday Jazz Brunch: fresh-made ice cream, chocolate...
...pick up the tab for the open bar is a recipe for one phenomenal 21st birthday party. Coincidentally, that’s also a recipe for great gossip. Toward the end of Sunday’s festivities, Mr. Anderson, who apparently forgot that “open bar?? doesn’t mean quite the same thing if you’re the one paying for it, offered a birthday toast that included many memorable lines, not least of all:“When Daphne went to college, we were afraid she wouldn?...
Carried away by the spirit of the evening, McGeary suddenly decided to take over as interviewer and ask a few probing questions of his own. When “Rock Your Body” started playing on the bar??s speakers, he leapt up from his wooden chair, hand raised with finger pointing to the bar??s low ceiling, reminiscent of Patrick Henry at the Constitutional Convention, and exclaimed, “Time for a straw poll! Justin Timberlake, up or down?” The table was soon abuzz, with comments ranging from the quality...