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...Harlem-office decision in some ways certifies that connection. Ever since it became a prominent black area, around 1910, Harlem has been two contradictory neighborhoods-- both the Zebra Room and the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Rudolf Fisher, another Renaissance author, described the place in his novel The Walls of Jericho: It "remains for six nights a carnival, bright with the lights of theaters and night clubs...Then comes Sunday, and for a few hours Seventh Avenue...reflects that air of quiet, satisfied self-righteousness peculiar to chronic churchgoers...
...steak. Wooloomooloo, an Australian restaurant in Berlin, has cleared beef off its menu and now features kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile. For the truly adventurous, the Springbok Café in Chiswick, west London, has been doing what owner Peter Gottgens calls a "roaring trade" in blesbok, impala, kudu, warthog and zebra. Since wild game roams freely and eats natural vegetation, Gottgens calls it "the ultimate organic meat-real organic, not man-made organic...
Hung on the wall in her room is a zebra-pattern death mask that she brought back with her from the country. For her birthday, Lee gave her a harvest mask from Ghana...
...million to protect Revolutionary War boats at the bottom of Lake Champlain from invading zebra mussels...
...late David ("Junior") Kimbrough, both giants of hill-country boogie. On the walls, a gallery of American icons--Betty Page, Casey Jones, Father Flanagan, Mississippi John Hurt--keep watch as Cody, a skinny 24-year-old with Prince Valiant hair and a powerful chest, works a zebra-striped drum kit. With his mouth open, head cocked and eyes scrunched in an expression of mind-bending wonder, he sets up a martial beat taken from the fife-and-drum bands that have been playing in these hills since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents...