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...arrived in town a few hours earlier than my boyfriend, so I ducked into a divey-looking bar in the heart of the French Quarter called the Copper Monkey (725 Conti Street; 504-527-0868) for a beer and an awesome burger. The toothless gentleman to my right regaled me with tales of the chef training he received in Angola (the state penitentiary, not the country). When I tried to buy him a drink, he waved me off, saying, "Women don't pay for beer down here," and sent one my way. I was really starting to like this town...
Booze is a huge part of French Quarter life; I hesitate to call it "culture," because the sheer number of dead-drunk people gets depressing quickly. In fact, if you want to turn yourself off liquor for good, take a slow walk down Bourbon Street on a Saturday night. You'll see everyone from stumbling frat boys to gassed grannies slurping and burping the ubiquitous hurricane - the fruity rum concoction supposedly invented in New Orleans during World War II. But if you're going to drink, I'd recommend the chocolatey, dangerously drinkable local brew called Abita Turbodog. Turbodog...
...Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz as they present a rare dining experience, serving an elaborate 20-course dinner (with the elaborate price of $1,500) at Per Se in New York City on Nov. 11 (212-823-9450). Similar suppers will follow at Achatz's Alinea and Keller's French Laundry...
Spain's most wanted terrorist was arrested early Monday morning in southern France. French police raided an apartment in the Pyrenees town of Cauterets and captured Garikoitz Aspiazu, the military leader of the Basque separatist terror group ETA, who goes by the nom-de-guerre 'Txeroki.' The arrest comes, evocatively, at a time when rumors are running high of a breach between hardliners and moderates within ETA's political sphere...
...park at Madrid's Barajas airport, which killed two people and put a definite end to the ceasefire the group had declared earlier that year. Other ETA members now in police custody have testified that he personally pulled the trigger on two Spanish Civil Guards assassinated in the French Atlantic seaboard village of Capbreton in January...