Word: bordellos
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...insult a girl in the style of the French revolutionaries, calling her “a stained bordello bed sheet”—as stage prompter Simon does to one of his conquests—might do the trick. Memorable lines like this one hint at the sex and violence of “Danton’s Death,” the Georg Büchner drama which runs on the Loeb Mainstage through April 10. Set during the Reign of Terror, the play follows the downfall of Jacobin leader Georges Danton (Benjamin T. Clark...
...Like Godwin and Fuller, Rogers is a Zimbabwean journalist who moved to the U.S. only to discover that he'd left his biggest story at home. His tale recounts how, as Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe collapses around them, the author's parents turn their backpackers' lodge first into a bordello, then a diamond smugglers' dive, then a refuge for opposition activists - as all the while they farm marijuana. (See pictures of Robert Mugabe...
...host Bobby Chinn helped put the city on the culinary map with his eponymous French Quarter fusion restaurant. But when the rent was tripled to $45,000 a month last January, he packed up. The new digs, tel: (84-4) 3719 2460, are cramped, but fans will find the bordello red curtains, shisha-smoking rooms and irreverent menu essentially unchanged. Another French Quarter landmark forced to close was the perennially popular Emperor. The owners recently opened a fresh venture, the Mandarin, tel: (84-4) 3719 1168, on the banks of West Lake. Though the new venue lacks the imperial dining...
...Richard Mason's 1957 best-selling novel The World of Suzie Wong, a young English artist checks into the fictional Nam Kok Hotel in Hong Kong, not realizing it is also a bordello. He meets and eventually falls in love with Suzie Wong, an archetypal "hooker with a heart of gold," and the novel ends happily...
Hutz plans to direct himself next, in a movie titled either The History of American Silence or, he jokes, When the Spirits Get Pissed. He's been working on the script in Brazil where he now lives (as much as he lives anywhere). The film will feature Gogol Bordello. "I think that we're going to be a band that not only puts out an album every year and a half but also a film every year and a half," he says...