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...Arab pop culture icons) featured the singer, some malaise on his face, fiddling with a digital camera in the back seat of a slick black car, driving through the desert on his way to a gig in a hopping and vaguely Arab dance club with his collaborator, Cheb Mami. This said it all: we were globalized, technological, well-funded and figuring out what to do with the rest of the world...
...Café Mami, a self-labeled Japanese bistro, is the most popular restaurant of the bunch. Lucky patrons sit on foldout chairs at communal tables, while a stereo behind the counter provides a hum of Japanese soft pop. The specialty here is the Tokyo Style Hamburg Set ($7), a meat patty served on rice with “Mami’s special homemade tomato sauce.” The best bargain is the Lunch Special, served Monday through Thursday until 3 p.m.—$4.76 for a bowl of miso soup, and beef or chicken curry served with...
...expanded its choices to include Japanese mainstays from edamame ($2.49) to Donburi (rice bowls $5.99-8.49). Be prepared, as in all Porter Exchange restaurants, to drink your miso from the bowl. The food at Ittyo is unoffensive but unremarkable—come here as a fallback if the busier Mami is too full...
...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
...South Side of Chicago in a neighborhood that was multiculti way before being multiculti was the thing. Every weekend when I was a child, all six of us in my family would shuttle from our spacious, airy apartment in Hyde Park to the overcrowded, bustling barrio of Pilsen, where Mami would buy carnitas, chicharron and, of course, fresh corn tortillas carefully wrapped in paper, all soft and steaming...