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...serves generous pitchers of original microbrews concocted by Bavarian brewmaster Mr. Joken. Besides the rivers of lager, Tawandaeng intoxicates its nightly crowd of Thai professionals with its energetic house band Fong Nam, who play a mix of traditional Thai songs and sugary Western pop. Legendary Thai folk icon Ad Carabao gave a series of concerts at Tawandaeng's music hall last September. Film star Steven Seagal even joined him on stage for a blues jam. I can't believe I missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brews for Beer Snobs | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

Bangkok bash. Thailand's top rock band, the Carabao, headlines the "We Love the Forest" concert on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: EARTH DAY A GLOBAL FESTIVAL | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...During his campaign for mayor of Concepcion, I was very shy. When I felt that people were looking at me, I just wanted to hide. So my husband really forced me to come out in public. I would have done anything but that. I had to ride in a carabao ((water buffalo)) cart so that people could say, "Look, Ninoy's wife may have studied in New York and she may come from a wealthy family, but she can ride in a carabao cart." This was not my idea. We walked in the rice fields, and once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year: Cory Aquino, A Christmas Conversation | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...more bizarre finale. Coppola, while creating progressively weirder war scenes, runs dry before he reaches his crucial imaginative leap: Kurtz's fastidiously designed compound looks as tame as a set in an oldtime jungle horror movie. His murder, which is archly intercut with the ritual slaughter of a carabao, is the film's only poorly shot death scene. Apocalypse Now's much talked-about discarded ending - another air raid - would not have illuminated this murk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...miles more are needed to give the nation a minimal service network. Telephones are rare?and even more rarely do they work. Travel is sheer adventure, and the only vehicle that can negotiate the muddy tracks of the bundoks (the Tagalog origin of the American boondocks) is the groaning carabao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A New Voice in Asia | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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