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...duet for two voices. One belongs to Jonathan Safran Foer (or his fictional alter ego of the same name), who relates the history of Trachimbrod, the East European village where his ancestors lived. Trachimbrod is a lyrical, fairy-tale creation, a Yiddish idyll of the Fiddler on the Roof variety, inhabited by randy, gossipy villagers like Bitzl Bitzl the gefilte-fish monger, and the melancholy maiden Brod, the narrator's great-to-the-fifth grandmother, who precociously enumerates 613 varieties of sadness by the time she's 12 years...
...Arafat, gunmen in the church thought Arafat's freedom would lead to their own release and started firing their rifles into the air in glee, sources inside the church tell Time. Israeli soldiers outside thought the shooting was directed at them and launched flares, which set fire to the roof of the church compound and damaged rooms in its Franciscan and Dominican areas but left the Byzantine basilica itself intact...
Located in the heart of Central Square, the aptly named restaurant, Centro (pronounced Tchentro as the Italians do) is both a foodies’ delight and the perfect spot for a date. Nestled under the same roof and run by the same management as the Good Life, Centro exists as a sort of a parallel universe to the adjacent red-hued martini lounge...
...desert, unplugging you at last from the freeway grid. Past the turnoff, the six-mile drive into town, with its surreal juxtaposition of ancient mountains and shiny new energy-producing windmills, seems to further separate you from the everyday. And then the big, welcoming surprise: the sharply angled roof of the Tramway Gas Station looming over a low wall at the entrance to the desert resort, like a jet poised for takeoff. Tramway Gas, designed by Albert Frey and Robson C. Chambers in 1965, is iconically modern. Balancing restraint and exuberance, it promises an infinitely perfectible future. And it opens...
...bats started making their home under the red roof during Khmer Rouge rule, when the museum was vacant. By the early 1990s, curators were desperate to evict them as droppings?up to a ton a month?coated the artifacts below and threatened to collapse the second-floor ceiling. A putrid stench distracted gallery patrons, and on one memorable occasion, bat lice in the air elicited an allergic reaction from a visiting Thai princess...