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...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder center's entrance we found the Riad Fes Baraka, an oasis of tranquillity. Each of the five individually designed rooms - with carved oak furniture, velvet curtains, patterned silk bedspreads and Berber carpets - manages to be grand and yet surprisingly cozy. Our bathroom in the Arabesque suite featured a cool concrete tub and locally produced natural soaps and moisturizers. A splendidly...
...Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”—but with a twist—it’s all all about digital copies, so the cultural operating system is whatever you feel like downloading. The rest is like Amiri Baraka said so long ago—all about the “changing same.” The Beats of the 20th century—William S. Burroughs “cut-up” technique, Jack Kerouac’s “school of disembodied poetics,” Amiri Baraka?...
...Area, where out-of-work dotcommers are seeking to reconcile their gourmet habits with shrinking budgets. Diners can sample rabbit-sausage flatbread for $12 at A Cote in Oakland, or they can snack on stuffed dates with chorizo and blue cheese for $8 at the Spanish-Moroccan Baraka in San Francisco. The Russian Hill restaurant Pesce last year shifted away from traditional full-service Italian food to small plates in the Venetian cicchetti style, like swordfish rolls or octopus-and-potato salad...
...quagmire, doing a group project with her is like spending six months in the Hanoi Hilton. “So she was going to be in charge of research, and I’d write it up and present in section,” recalls a shellshocked Fred T. Baraka ’05. “Only Erica did research on ‘tribidism,’ which it turns out is the scientific name for dry-humping. Our assignment was on Jane Austen’s Emma. What a freak! I’d say anything...
...easy enough to point out the White House’s shortsightedness, but harder to see how these prejudices pervade our own community. At Yale two weeks ago, the controversial reading by Amiri Baraka revived many of the same debates and arguments familiar to us during the Paulin debacle: one side clamored for free speech, the other for responsible speech. Yet at the root of the controversy in both instances is a more fundamental disagreement about the role and responsibility of art—its political capital apart from its aesthetic value. Many of the students who supported the right...