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...play with his toes or dance around stage and didn’t even have a bottle of beer next to him throughout the show. Instead he played his music with passion and intensity, joked with the crowd, and left people feeling as though he had somehow been performing for them...
...Probably the best entrée of the night was shared at the end of the table and consisted of a big piece of meat. Carne Asada, a typical dish all over Latin America, is transformed into a culinary wonder in Inman Square. A thin, flat piece of beef somehow becomes infused with spices and tender love, only to be consumed at a great rate along with the surrounding black beans and rice. Another favorite among the FM set is the Tacos al Carbón, a taco dish that has a row of soft tortillas filled with chunks...
...more defiant for its squareness. But there was also something strangely appropriate about MTV's playing Kid Rock's American Badass in honor of rescue workers on a special episode of the video-request show TRL: the video's star-spangled obscenity, its bikers and bikinis, was somehow a perfect riposte to an act of cultural-conservative terror ordered from within a land where TV is illegal...
Since the sheiks struck oil in 1966, they have driven Dubai toward the future with a high-octane fury somehow appropriate in a country sitting on one of the world's fuel tanks. In just over a generation, the area has grown from barren desert to lurid long-haul stopover to modern metropolis. Dubai used to be famous only for funneling bleary-eyed passengers through endless duty-free malls, a drab modern-day souk experience only slightly enlivened by some sensational bargains. But now, offering beaches with year-round sunshine, million-dollar horse races (see Detour) and the world...
...having carried-on more bags than the limit specified and, as the plane prepared for take-off, I began to pour through the glossy new pages of the September issue of Glamour magazine. Now, nearly a month later, I can hardly recall that recent scene without its seeming strange, somehow disjointed from my present reality. The recent terrorist attack has made familiar parts of my life—from flying across the country to flipping excitedly through the pages of a fashion magazine—appear foreign to my mind’s eye. The general skepticism with air travel...