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Chicago Correspondent Roberto Suro took advantage of his own Hispanic background. Entering a ramshackle tavern in the city's largest Mexican neighborhood, he was at first rebuffed by a bartender. Says Suro: "When I told him my name and began to speak Spanish, he warmed up and even encouraged his customers to tell me about their experiences...
Schneider Tavern Opening: Come to the Pub for beer, wine, munchies and entertainment. Silent flicks. Schneider Center...
...actually been six slayings. The other two, which police at first did not think fit the pattern, took place in February, when Vincent Moretti, 52, a Mob fence and loan collector, and a friend, Donald Renno, 31, were found stabbed to death in a car parked behind a tavern in suburban Stickney. Almost all of Moretti's ribs had been broken. According to police, Moretti was killed because he had not told Mob bosses when the gang asked him to fence the loot. On the day of his death, Moretti had discovered that his car's power steering had been...
...life is tough, you think as you look out over the platform at the surrounding landscape, eyeing the bums lounging in the late-morning sun in front of the local rip-off tavern--the one that raises its prices twice a month, on the days when the welfare checks arrive in the mail--and watching with a sort of morbid curiosity as a crew of teenagers begins harassing a crippled wino as he staggers his way into the local pawn shop to barter away his past for a pint of skull-buster. How the other half lives, and all that...
...Japan and Europe. Yet by one of the odd coincidences of history, art began to move in a similar direction in both places at the same moment: there was a slow shift from high religious subjects toward the themes of everyday life. As Caravaggio painted his gamblers, gypsies and tavern scenes, so dozens of Japanese artists began to set down the details of street festivals and bathhouses on the largest "official" scale known to Japanese art -the byōbu, or folding screens, closely detailed and richly ornamented with gold leaf, which decorated the houses of the rich in Kyoto...