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...more streets over, you'll find Grünerløkka, a gentrified ex-working-class district with trendy boutiques, gourmet delis and upscale bars. Munch spent much of his early life here, and downstairs from his old digs at Schouss plass 1 is Edvard's, a swank coffee bar typical of today's Grünerløkka. Save your appetite, though, and head back west to the Åpent Bakeri. Tucked away behind the Royal Palace, on an anonymous side street aptly called Inkognito Terrasse, the bakery is marked by the long line snaking out the door...
...victims whom we remember today to remind the media about the persistence of anti-transgender violence. Brandon from Boys Don’t Cry isn’t the only one we’ve lost, and anti-transgender violence didn’t disappear once Hilary Swank won her Academy Award...
...case of Winona Ryder, convicted last week of grand theft and vandalism for walking out of a Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Calif., with $5,560 of swank swag, there are plenty of easy answers. Just look at her screen roles, which range from the disturbed (Beetlejuice and Girl, Interrupted) to the homicidal (Heathers and The Crucible). Or consider her loopy childhood in a Northern California commune with parents who smoked a lot of pot and chose Timothy Leary to be her godfather...
During the 1930s, Shanghai - a.k.a. the Paris of the Orient - was both swank apex and sin sinkhole. At the Great World entertainment complex, the vices became more outlandish as you climbed up six floors, past acrobats, dwarves, singsong girls and stripteasers. This was the city immortalized in the movie Shanghai Express when Marlene Dietrich purred: "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." But after 1949, the communists brought their monochromatic palette to China and Shanghai was straitjacketed as punishment for its formerly outr? ways. Only now, after years of repression, has Shanghai finally erupted...
Meanwhile, across town at the swank Hyatt-Regency, Galluccio fought back tears and urged his supporters to stay hopeful...