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Trading on South Beach, Miami's precinct of risqué indulgence, Hyatt's historic Hotel Victor on Ocean Drive aims to make its mark as a haven for vintage hedonism. Later this summer, the newly renovated septuagenarian property plans to sell a package of amenities that features Prohibition-era liquor and Cuban cigars dating to 1937 that are available nowhere else in the region, says Carlos Sarmiento, the Victor's general manager. "We wanted to do something that would distinguish us," he says...
...meantime, he sometimes gets his host to drive him out to Venice Beach, where if you're lucky you can see one of the greatest technical jugglers in history performing on a street corner. "It's kind of an entry-level juggling job, I guess," he says. He's even working up a little patter to go with his act. "I mean, I don't make up a story," says Vova. "Most people who perform, they usually make up stories." Then again, most people don't have a story like the Galchenkos...
...sexual tide had rushed in, and Ginzburg had gone to jail for the crime of having once stood on the beach with dry feet and dreams of an ocean spray. Like Lenny Bruce - whom we'll get to in a few weeks, on the 40th anniversary of his death - Ginzburg was a pioneer in, and a victim of, the art of the permissable. He was not a martyr,, exactly; he didn't die for our sins. But he did time so that we could legally enjoy those sins of the flesh. And he helped us realize that they weren...
...these critics, I haven’t much to offer—again, Carraba’s lyrics are often incomprehensible, the music that accompanies his shrieks isn’t ground-breaking, and the album art shows Dashboard members gazing in odd directions on a windswept beach...
Harvard students may not have been assigned summer books yet, but for bored beach bums or over-anxious first-years desperate for fresh reading material, the Registrar’s Office recently released a 1,000-plus page course guide for the 2006-2007 school year. Many are old favorites (or perennially-dreaded prerequisites), but the 15 courses here were eye-catching enough for their slightly wacky names, notable professors, or significant curricular changes to make them most worthy of your shopping basket next year...