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...Local tavern-keepers disagree on how the ban would affect business, but the vast majority strongly oppose the ordinance, saying the proposed ban is an example of unnecessary government intervention and would mean a major logistical headache...
...DIED. HARIVANSHRAI BACHCHAN, 96, eminent Hindi poet and father of Bollywood film icon Amitabh Bachchan; in Bombay. The elder Bachchan is best remembered for Madhushala (Tavern), a 135-verse epic that celebrates the virtues of drinking. He was appointed a member of the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of Parliament, from 1966 to 1972 for his contribution to Hindi literature...
...began an education that lasted 10 years. While doing these odd jobs, I immersed myself in the incredible artistic renaissance that was the Village in the 1950s--the Abstract Expressionist painters, the Beat Generation, the avant-garde playwrights. At the Cedar Tavern we'd meet up with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. At the Carnegie Tavern we'd sit around with Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter and talk music. Seeing my first Beckett play, my first Genet play--they were revelatory. They showed me that theater didn't have to be what I had known thus far. They opened...
...that in its surviving form runs to a dozen thick volumes. Rumi's masterpiece, the Mathnawi, is a fantastical, oceanic mishmash of folktales, philosophical speculation and lyric ebullience in which the worldly and the otherworldly, the secular and the sacred, blend constantly. For Rumi, the universe is like a tavern where people, drunk with desire and longing, collect and carouse until they finally remember their true calling: return to an Islamic God whose all-encompassing love is the core of every earthly love from the most trifling to the deepest and most passionate. "Where did I come from, and what...
...that the restaurant associations that oppose smoking restrictions are often in the pay of Big Tobacco itself. A study conducted by University of California at San Francisco found that eight national and over 60 regional restaurant asso ciations had close links to Big Tobacco, including the New York Tavern and Restaurant Association, which received funding from the tobacco industry throughout the 1990s. Many of these associations advocated an “accommodation” policy, where restaurants would designate separate smoking and non-smoking areas. This type of partial regulation does not go far enough to give restaurant employees...