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...Beijing has other eating joints that celebrate the Cultural Revolution by serving up the hearty peasant fare that Beijingers remember from their enforced exile in the countryside. Brahm's approach is far tonier. His Red Capital Club boasts Zhongnanhai cuisine?the preferred dishes of the Party ?lite who lived in Beijing's government enclave. Mao's favorite meal, red roast pork with bitter melon, is on the menu, as is Deng's family recipe for chicken. (That dish comes garnished with black- and white-cat sculptures?carved out of beets and turnips?in honor of Deng's famous economic axiom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cashing in on Mao-stalgia | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...dodgy to argue theology with an actor-director who seemingly sees a fusion of the movie characters he has played and Christ: feisty, persecuted, able to take whatever punishment the bad guys can dish out. Gibson is determined to walk his own lonely path. But it hardly seems unreasonable that there can be a contemporary film about a Christian hero when there are so many about, say, serial killers. So Gibson pursues his passion to make The Passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passion of Mel Gibson | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...agencies), is not kind about the Bush Administration's intentions. "They are just lying when they say they have a housing program," he says. And of the additional $35 million pledged to end chronic homelessness, Frank says, "it's not only peanuts; it's taking the peanuts from one dish and putting them in another." In fact, in October the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that, if it becomes law, will cut $938 million from the President's budget for rental vouchers, one of the government's main methods of paying to house the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Face Of Homelessness | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...satellite radio systems, which pick up hundreds of better-than-FM-quality stations, wowed the crowds last year. This year satellite radio has stepped out of the car. XM released a "Sky-Fi" boom box with a tiny receiving dish for $229. The receiver is detachable, so you can swap it in and out of your car. Rival Sirius has gone for the home hi-fi approach; $299 satellite-radio components should be available this July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...people - some of them chancers, most of them economic migrants - left Britain's shores while a reverse wave of immigrants in the last 50 years in turn changed the home country forever. They and their descendants need to hear that story, but deserve a more wholesome and less saccharine dish than this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sweet Taste of Empire | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

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