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...side effect of fragmenting vacations is that many of Europe's big cities are no longer summer deserts. Madrid and Barcelona, for instance, only a decade ago looked neutron-bombed in August. Everything shut, everyone off to la playa or el pueblo. Today, many Madrileños and Barceloneses are rediscovering their cities in summer - and loving them. Noise levels plummet, there are parking spaces to pick from rather than pull knives over, many restaurants and shops stay open to cater to locals and people avoid the worst part of travel - the traveling itself. In Paris, they've gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Escape | 7/27/2003 | See Source »

Describe yourself in three words: Seductive ATL-ien Playa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoped! | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...Boogie-Down Bronx and Illidelphia, or from across the wheated plains in the West Coast’s LBC, Compton and El Barrio, these poets raged with urban fury against “the man,” “the money,” “playa hatas” and “baby mamas.” The martyred poet Biggie Smalls, a victim of the rap game himself, once wrote, “If I wasn’t in the rap game/ I’d probably have a key, knee deep...

Author: By A. I. Greenbaum and J. M., CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Norton Anthology of Urban Poetry (Da Norton Book of Dope-ass Rhymes) | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...industrialization of dairies, a national phenomenon, mirrors changes in the poultry and pig industries. In the Panhandle, the problem is pig poop, with exactly the same results, except there they are mad at the Japanese, who own many of the corporate farms. The pig poop gets into the playa lakes, round depressions in the high plains, and is starting to affect the Ogallala Aquifer. In East Texas it's chicken factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home, Home On The Latrine | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...those of you who might have missed it, Shaggy is the quadruple-platinum-selling Ricky Martin of reggae. He is also a technological prophet, as those who have seen the music video to his obscenely catchy single, It Wasn't Me, would know. The song is about a wannabe playa whose lady catches him, ahem, hangin' with the girl next door. Its name comes from the oaf's absurd, shameless alibi, and to hear the lyrics, you'd think this lady was just another Oprah-watching female American victim. But on screen, she's craftier than Lara Croft. She spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somebody's Watching Me | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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