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Café Mami, a self-labeled Japanese bistro, is the most popular restaurant of the bunch. Lucky patrons sit on foldout chairs at communal tables, while a stereo behind the counter provides a hum of Japanese soft pop. The specialty here is the Tokyo Style Hamburg Set ($7), a meat patty served on rice with “Mami’s special homemade tomato sauce.” The best bargain is the Lunch Special, served Monday through Thursday until 3 p.m.—$4.76 for a bowl of miso soup, and beef or chicken curry served with...
...stars say yes, on the grounds that porn is more "mainstream" than ever. It's accessible on computers, in hotel rooms, on cable; dirty movies are a punch line on Friends; Pamela Anderson voices a pole dancer on Spike TV's cartoon Stripperella; porn chic is embraced by pop stars from Blink 182 to Kid Rock to Madonna...
What works best about Skin is that it doesn't let you accept or reject those rationalizations easily. This is a smart show with a lot of visual pop, and the Roam-Goldman, ego-id dichotomy is especially intriguing. (Roam represents how America votes at the ballot box; Goldman, how we vote with our wallets.) But the first two episodes are too dour and somber, especially when Silver is not onscreen. Perhaps because the producers want to avoid glamorizing porn with too light a tone, Skin is so high-mindedly determined to depict porn as a scourge...
Today record companies are trying to stave off the threat from downloading. But back in 1973, when TIME ran a cover story on POP RECORDS, the industry saw only platinum skies...
...Crime Too Small North Koreans have received life sentences for crimes as simple as singing a South Korean pop song or spilling ink on a photo of Kim Jong Il. Often, up to three generations of a prisoner's family are sentenced along with the culprit, on the theory of guilt by association...