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Though perhaps somewhat overpriced for its genre, the thoroughly unsophisticated Johnny's Luncheonette provides a welcome alternative to the) (also overpriced and even greasier) Greenhouse Cafe and Mr. Bartley's. If you're going to create mundane fare you might as well do it well. Johnny's does. JOHNNY'S LUNCHEONETTE...
...just a juice, but a way of life," boasts the peachy promotional pamphlet of Loker's newest cafe. But, what or who is Gaia? The pamphlet points to the Gaia Hypothesis surmised by a hippy British chemist named Dr. Lovelock. Lovelock posits the planet, Gaia, as a large harmonious being, of which all organisms are an integrated part. The fruit juice connection? "It's your earth freshly squeezed," goes the slogan. In exchange for a gift of $3.25, the earth is "yours" to consume. What would the original Gaia think of the trade...
Meanwhile, the three other buildings thatcompose the Perelman Quad will also host a varietyof other services, including a 24-hour studyatrium, 12 music practice rooms, a cafe, a recitalroom and two student activity suites...
Toole's insouciant, larger-than-life "suspicious character," Ignatius J. Reilly, memorialized in bronze, loiters in perpetuity outside the former D.H. Holmes department store, now the Chateau Sonesta Hotel. The nearby Palace Cafe, once Werlein's for Music, where Reilly bought his lute string, is a good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...
...only real objection I can foresee is the obvious one: Students will sneak coffee out of the cafe and soil the books. This problem is easily overcome. Install a checker at the door-if you inspect people's bags and jackets, hardly any food or drink will escape into the stacks. Besides, people are sneaking food and drink into the library as it is. A wet book is not a dead duck, but an undercaffeinated student is a miserable thing...