Sat, March 20, 2010

Tune In, Tokyo

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago

I was stooped over the bar in a one-lightbulb Tokyo dive, two fingers into a three-finger pour of Jack Daniels, when I saw Sho being ushered toward the door. It was a subtle move–a bit surprising, but hardly cause for alarm. Not at first anyway. As the black-teethed, ponytailed, 56-year-old…

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Dark Man at the Airport

Posted 4 months ago

It was my great misfortune to be traveling from New York City to Paris just two months after 9/11.

For while my passport is American and clearly states that I was born in New York, there is no getting around the fact that the name printed beside the photo of a dark-haired, dark-eyed, and…

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Sandland Seduction: The New Palm Springs Weekend, Two Ways

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

In 1963, the Beach Party film dried up. Well, not literally. But for all of its faults, Palm Springs Weekend, a dopey ensemble flick about a bunch of L.A. rich kids indulging their “primitive, instinctual urges” to spend Easter Break in the SoCal desert, was a paean to the sandland escape…

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