Word: cantina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sadly, the empty tables at Baja Mexican Cantina do not testify to the fact that it succeeds where Harvard Square's Border Cafe fails. Perhaps this is in reality another nod in Baja's favor. Located in the increasingly yuppified South End, Baja benefits from decor that is unabrasively funky. The windows and the bar are framed by red plastic chile lights, sombreros grace the walls and bright green cactus sculptures are sunk into cavities in the walls. Triangular flags pushing tequila brands are a tribute to kitsch, but the gestalt works well, set off under a trendy corrugated...
...necessary prerequisite for any Tex-Mex restaurant, Baja offers a wild assortment of margaritas, both standard and bastardized with the likes of Chambord and Grand Marnier. A timely cantina, the bar also offers two martini specials: Fuzzy Grape Chinaco Martini (Chinaco, Peach Schnapps, grape juice and sour mix) and Tarantula Martini (Tarantula Azul, Cointreau, and Chambord). The mere descriptions sent my insulin levels through the roof and the floor at once...
...swelled the ranks of the fearful and credulous. On the Internet, cults multiply in service to Ashtar and Sananda, deities with names you could find at a perfume counter, or to extraterrestrials--the Zeta Reticuli, the Draconian Reptoids--who sound like softball teams at the Star Wars cantina. Carl Raschke, a cult specialist at the University of Denver, predicts "an explosion of bizarre and dangerous" cults. "Millennial fever will be on a lot of minds...
...with a little prodding he even criticizes himself for the scene played for laughs in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones drops his bullwhip and casually guns down an Arab swordsman. In fact, one of the changes to Star Wars modifies a gratuitously violent encounter in the cantina scene during which Han Solo shoots one of his creditors, a green anteater-like thing named Greedo. In the new version it's made clear, thanks to an added blaster shot that ricochets around the room, that Greedo fired first and that Han killed him in self-defense--perhaps...
...years since the original recording by the London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams' musical masterpiece has permeated popular culture and become one of the most recognized movie soundtracks of all time. No one will ever forget the triumphant cry of the title credit prologue or the jazzy quirkiness of the Cantina Band jam. By combining his unparalleled dimension of sound with the already brilliant development of characters and scenes, Williams forged a musical imprint into the minds of moviegoers everywhere. Star Wars: A New Hope reinstills what the original soundtrack embodied and gives a whole new generation the opportunity to discover...