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...Chinese girl, Mei-Li (Lea Salonga, who starred in Miss Saigon), gets off the boat and arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown--but Hwang has taken all the pieces apart and put them back together in a new configuration. The tradition-bound patriarch (Randall Duk Kim) is now the owner of a Chinatown theater, where he stages Chinese opera to sparse crowds, while his son (Jose Llana) tries to modernize the place with glitzy American-style shows. Some of Hwang's rewrite is too clever by half: midway through the evening the old man gets the show...
Georgian restaurants abound. Try Tiflis, just off Ostozhenka Street. Hors d'oeuvres, including eggplant stuffed with walnut, are excellent, though the main courses are variable (try the chicken Tabaka). Very good wine from the owner's vineyard costs just a little more than tea at Uley...
...began in 1810 as the wedding reception of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and has evolved into an annual celebration of lager and lederhosen observed worldwide. Each year more Oktoberfests, as the beers in the classic Marzen style are known, become available in the States. And according to RICHARD SCHOLZ, owner of Bierkraft, a beer specialty store, U.S. brewers are making truer, more traditional Oktoberfests than their Teutonic counterparts. Scholz, New York City bartenders M.J. KEANE and RORY FARRELLY, and amateur microbrew aficionado MEGAN CLARK tasted 12 currently available brews and chose their favorites for TIME...
...retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change the way consumers develop film forever." He says he's averaging about one 8 by 10 enlargement per roll of film developed in the machine, vs. a typical ratio...
...first three quarters of this year. As the Internet weaves its way into more devices, so does encryption technology. Sony's PlayStation 2 consoles include encryption software that allows gamers to communicate securely with their online playmates. TiVo television-recording systems receive encrypted software updates without the owner's even realizing...