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...MADEIRA: Reid's Palace, tel: (351-291) 71 71 71, opened its doors in 1891 to accommodate passengers of the great ocean liners, but its Layers of Luxury ($155) spa treatment is for jet-age guests. Your body is polished with a green olive stone and "sea silk" scrub, and then lathered with luxurious lashings of hydrating gel, nourishing oil and moisturizing cream. Book the double suite and you and your partner will also enjoy a terrace and private plunge pool...
...crime, but many members joined primarily for the sake of the fringe benefits - access to the forbidden pleasures of drink, drugs and sex. And then, as ever since, young toughs also had an eye to fashion. For example, the Parisian hoodlums of that era - known as Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from London's East End - the look was edgier. A youth worker in the 1890s noted...
...ness." Walk Shanghai's alleyways at night and inhale the smell of braised pork wafting out of a communal kitchen, hear the slap of a shuttlecock struck by a pajama-clad girl, catch a glimpse of a chandelier in a threadbare bedroom-once part of a ballroom in some silk merchant's mansion, now subdivided to house a dozen families. Yet I know this Shanghai-my Shanghai, Girard's Shanghai-is vanishing. All that will be left are these phantom images, a visual elegy to a city that is lost...
Usually made of silk or cotton, the type of head scarf favored by strict Muslim women in Turkey typically measures just 1 m square. Yet that small quadrangle of cloth may bring down the nation's government and push its democratic institutions and secular traditions to crisis. On April 29, nearly a million Turkish citizens flooded Istanbul's trendiest downtown district in one of the largest demonstrations the ancient capital has ever seen. The cause of their ire: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a politician with an Islamist past...
...involved, and gets the audience involved. He’s a compelling performer – it’s really overwhelming to watch him. He’s also a really nice person, and he’s done very important things for classical music, like the Silk Road Project.” After graduation, Jackiw plans to move to New York City and continue his career as a professional violinist. Although it will be a change of location for the Boston native, Jackiw looks forward to being able to focus solely on his violin...