Word: raves
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Hong Kong is old hat, Shanghai is oversold and even Lhasa is getting pass?. But Beijing? This formerly stodgy, sprawling, communist capital is the new thing. There is a rave on the Great Wall every summer, and Starbucks opened in the Forbidden City last October. But how do you separate the merely new from the truly hip? Here's our guide...
...benign, mainly because of their easy availability and image as a "natural" drug. "It feels just like drinking alcohol," says a 27-year-old 'shroomer, a TV cameraman who declines to give his name. The psychedelic mindset has also gotten a boost from the burgeoning popularity of drug-induced rave parties and trance music?a global phenomenon that has struck Japan with a vengeance over the past few years...
...sidewalk dragging, patchwork skirts under military jackets, or blood red, cropped kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like lips. The kids don't know it, but many of their looks are '60s People's Park through a rave-culture hula hoop. The army jackets, the boots, the far out polka-dots, it all represents more than sartorial preference. This is the fashion statement of a certain neurological perspective?even if they aren't 'shrooming themselves, they are channeling the subculture. The lucky ones might have their pictures snapped...
...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...
Federal prosecutors went after BBQ, a New Orleans dance-promotion company, because partyers who attended its legendary Big Easy raves often ended up in the emergency room with drug-related symptoms. The idea was to challenge BBQ under the Crack House Statute, a 1986 federal law making it illegal to maintain a property for the purpose of drug use; the law had never been used against rave or nightclub promoters. But a bizarre plea deal reached in the case last week will probably satisfy no one. The feds admitted they have no evidence that the company's managers were distributing...