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...showplace for excess but also a village: many grim Stalin-era buildings encircle cozy courtyards where children play on swings and pensioners walk their dogs. One of the delights of today's Moscow is that its food spans the same wild spectrum: from world class to high kitsch to the products of its wonderful farmers' markets...
...hate Bon Jovi. Don’t get me wrong—I’m a fan of retro kitsch. I’ve been to the Leverett ’80s dance. Twice. I’ve had those brunch discussions about “Saved by the Bell” and “Small Wonder.” But his name alone is reason to despise him. Jon Bon Jovi, a man whose career highlights in recent years consist of performing “Living on a Prayer” in front of middle-aged tourists...
...town's delicious seafood. Maxim's, at Jalan Bahagia 45-47, offers a feast of prawns, fish and frog legs for $3-$5 per plate. Cirebon's other treasures can be found in a pair of palaces built centuries ago by its Sultans. These are heaped with kitsch: French chandeliers, Javanese spears and a bizarre chariot comprising the body of an elephant, the head of a dragon, flapping wings and radial tires. The dusty exhibits can be comical, but in little-visited Cirebon, the tourist must be alert to art all around. Even at the palaces, there are hidden treasures...
...take it with you? Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America (Gibbs Smith; 157 pages), by Bryan Burkhart, Phil Noyes and Allison Arieff, is a celebration of the American fascination with mobile homes. Most of the photos here are promotional shots, but that simply cranks up the kitsch an extra notch: '50s-era nuclear children and busty, bouffant models--often in full evening wear--grin manically from the plush interiors of futuristic, tear-drop-shaped Kozy Coaches and Karriall Kampers, many of which look as if they were designed by Buck Rogers on acid. The authors admire their subject...
...name baffles shopkeepers and historians alike. After all, it was salt mined from the flats that put Phetchaburi on the map. But it was King Rama IV who ensured Phetchaburi's enduring legacy back in 1860?at least to fans of grand kitsch. On a hilltop west of town, the King constructed a dazzling summer estate: palaces and stables, with enough guesthouses to shelter the entire royal court. The design was meant to blend the best of East and West, but the result was an eclectic hodgepodge of Greek columns, Thai teak, Chinese tile roofs and a rounded Italian observatory...