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...19th arrondisement. Just when we were wondering if there were any non-whites in Paris, Oliver Schmitz provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic few years in a few moments: a job lost, a guitar stolen, a knife in the gut, all given meaning by one sweet brief encounter in a parking garage...
After absinthe, sake-tinis and soy-based vodkas, what's the next big thing in spirits going to be? Quite possibly tequila - but not the paint-stripping firewater that gave you no end of college hangovers. Instead, look for upmarket tequilas better suited to sophisticated, postprandial sipping rather [an error occurred while processing this directive] than dilution with margarita mix. There's certainly a renewed consumer interest in premium brands of the spirit. According to the Distilled Spirits Council in the U.S., sales by volume of premium tequila jumped by a total of over...
...from their Pintupi, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Luritja homelands, the Papunya mob were caught in "the agony of exile," Perkins has written. Driving his VW into town in 1971, Sydney art teacher Geoffrey Bardon wasn't thinking of starting a revolution. But by encouraging the town's senior men to paint their ceremonial sand designs onto the local school wall, an artistic one was unleashed. In a series of concentric circles and squiggles, their Honey Ant Meeting Place ("Papunya Tula" in Pintupi) was conjured up, and one of the most extraordinary art movements of the 20th century had begun...
...only did the movement's founding fathers summon up their far-flung homelands in paint, but they would return to them by decade's end, setting up outstations at places like Kintore and Kiwirrkura near the Western Australian border. Their signature dotted style not only dazzled the art market but also kept their sacred stories screened, in the process producing "masterpieces of ambiguity, equivocation and disguise," cultural theorist Paul Carter has written. By the mid-'90s, as the senior men began to pass away, their wives and daughters took up the brush, releasing a second wave of artists. Nearing...
...hallmark of the Bel-Air is that each room and suite is unique, and nearly 500 fabrics and 100 paint colors were used to give each space a different feel. Even the desk lamps vary from room to room. Lopes also tailor-made several suites for the guests who use them most often. These personal touches include a a hand-painted ceiling design, built-in bookshelves and hardwood flooring. The initial revamp so impressed the Mobil judges that they restored the five-star rating in 2003. Since then, the final touches, such as a semi-enclosed treetop terrace for tastings...