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Restaurant owner Ahmed H. Naguib predicted that the Kaftka Kabob will be a popular dish. According to the menu, it contains ground beef mixed with various spices, vegetables, and mint and tahini sauce...
...main reason for that improvement is simple. Thanks to soaring oil prices, there is plenty of money sloshing around. On a Saturday afternoon, I went to lunch at the gleaming kabob palace Nayeb, which is where you go in Tehran to see and be seen--while eating lots of grilled meat. The prices had tripled in my absence, and so had the line for a table. As we wait, I chat with a waiter named Vali Joodi, who tells me he wakes up at 5 a.m. each day to commute from the working-class suburb of Shahriar. Four years...
...best thing about U Street is that great jazz once again grooves there. Bo- hemian Caverns, at 11th Street and U, offers nightly shows, plus food named after musical legends--the Miles Davis is a lamb kabob--many of whom performed at the dark, moody venue built to look like a cave. For an artsier scene, check out U-topia, at 1418 U Street, which has live music every night and a full menu. HR-57, named after a congressional resolution to preserve jazz, puts on jam sessions and performances Wednesday through Saturday, at 1610 14th Street. The ambience...
...entertainment unfolding within. Boardwalk barkers persevered ("Arright, at the sound of the buzzer, you want to press both buttons on the gun") but competed with a bazaar offering stylish Islamic headwear and Koranic commentaries. Standard food concessions were shuttered in favor of ritually correct halal vendors like Shalimar and Kabob King. There was no opposite-sex canoodling, and halter tops and shorts were replaced by a vast array of hijab head scarves and ankle-length jilbabs and abayas...
...brothers were truly dead, even after the U.S. released grisly photos of Uday's and Qusay's bearded corpses as they were found, and then let reporters film the bodies cleaned up, retouched and shaved. "We have to see it with our own eyes," said Ahmed Ismail, a kabob-shop owner in Tikrit. He was among a minority who expressed hope that the brothers were still alive. Another merchant, Fadhil Awda, who had dropped by for lunch, also doubted that the sons were dead. "And if it is true," he said, "then we will be more proud because they resisted...