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...Nearby, EI Zazzium on Roy Street is a small restaurant that serves up huge platters of guacamole and pitchers of fresh sangria. It is bedecked in layer upon layer of bizarre and flashy decor, including huge fish nets, colorful animal mobiles and lots of toilet paper. Weekends feature live Mexican singers. For dessert, head down to the elegant and relaxed O Gateau! on Ste. Catherine East in the Gay Village. Daily feasts consist of delectable cheesecakes, coffees and wines...

Author: By Judith Batalion, | Title: montreal | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...coming-of-age story, non-sequiturs are tailed up like circus elephants. T-Bird's mother shacks up with the Oakland chapter of Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes a job spraying concrete for a construction firm. Loses job. Is last seen swinging a sledge with his dad, breaking truck tires loose from rims. Gets word processor (we guess), writes all this stuff down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East Bay Grease | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...Mexican television stations broke into regular programming to report the news to a country seemingly grown numb to repeated waves of kidnappings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campos' Father Returned Safe | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...displaying his nine RATM T-shirts, poster-encrusted Greenough suite and collected discography, Thomas stakes his claim as the group's "biggest fanatic." The obsession began during his sophomore year of high school. It grew when he wrote a 20-page research paper on the 1994 Zapatista rebellion, a Mexican peasant uprising that RATM has discussed in its lyrics. "[The group] is historically accurate," Thomas said. "That got me more into their politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

ACAPULCO, Mexico--Men armed with rifles kidnapped the father of Mexican soccer star Jorge Campos on yesterday at a sports field named...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campos' Father Kidnapped | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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