Word: neos
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Beijing's choicest cocktail crowd gathers on nearby Xingfu Cun Zhong Lu, at the Neo Lounge, which is minimalist, marble-topped and features a large Buddha stoically surrounded by champagne bottles. All your favorite Western poisons are available. Also on tap: the deafening cacophony of bright young things, local and foreign, that is part of the scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some...
America's culinary taste is going through its neo-neolithic phase: burned flesh is more popular than ever. The apron-and-tong brigade snapped up 15.4 million outdoor grills in 2000, up 32% from 1997, according to Barbecue Industry Association figures. And while most were gas fired, sales of wood chips and chunks are up almost 50% too. About 75% of American households own a barbecue, and more than half of them are used all year. The best-selling cookbook in America at the moment is How to Grill by Steven Raichlen, who has started a Barbecue Boot Camp after...
...This is the world of neo-psychedelica, Japanese style. Whether the kids realize it or not, their culture is flashing back to the era of free love, shaggy hair and peace, brother. Whereas speed was the drug of choice for legions of hardworking overachievers in the go-go '80s and early '90s, the current generation is increasingly opting to space out through 'shrooms rather than get wired and tuned in with shabu. With vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack...
...majority of Japan's neo-psychedelics are freeta, a ballooning demographic set that refers to young people who hop from one part-time job to another, their income cobbled from their parents' handouts and minimum-wage jobs. Employment for life? These kids don't think much past tonight's handful of mushrooms. These are the latest incarnation of the people Japanese mothers used to warn their kids about, the types known pejoratively as furyo, good-for-nothings, or asobi-nin, partyers, who would never get jobs in big companies and would never wear business suits. Their lifestyle, in short...
...recent Sunday-night rave in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park?a weekly event growing exponentially in size?revelers who partied until dawn left a mountain of water bottles and other trash scattered over the sidewalks and grass. And that pretty much sums up how the message sent by these neo-psychedelics differs from the one of their 1960s forebears. Instead of promising to save the earth, they want to enjoy it. Rather than peace, they're looking for parties...