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...MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...
Then Prada blew the lid off the corporate image with Koolhaas' radical design for its $40 million boite in Manhattan's SoHo. The SoHo store jarred retailers, making some rethink the whole concept of what a store has to deliver. The Koolhaas touch includes a stadium-stepped, two-story arc display for shoes that integrates the shopper into the merchandise; technology is melded to the fitting rooms. Strictly speaking, it's not all that practical, but Koolhaas' design made the store a tourist stop. And that's part of the mission. "This spate of very cool, high-design boutiques...
...Enter Archie B's. Tucked in the city's trendy Soho district, the restaurant, tel: (852) 2522 1262, has become a one-stop shop for familiar comfort foods that used to only exist Stateside. Think pastrami sandwiches and chunky potato salads. Rice Krispie treats and black-and-white cookies (good luck finding those anywhere else in Hong Kong outside of Seinfeld reruns). There's cheesesteaks for transplanted Philadelphians, and subs stuffed with roast turkey and cranberry sauce. "People would like to assume Americans go into McDonald's and go, 'Ah, home!' But it's not like that," Levin says...
...attempts to legitimize his business dealings, Vic loses touch with his roots. He moves to SoHo, adopts a different style of speaking, and avoids his old friends; he essentially becomes white. The most damning evidence of this is Carmen’s complaint that he now refuses to eat Spanish food. Of course, by turning his back on his culture, he incurs numerous repercussions and he ultimately has to fight to earn his Latino-ness back...
...that Britain had lost the dynamism for which it once was famous. I begged to differ, and implored the Prince to consider the new, entrepreneurial, street-cred economy being created at that very moment in the clubs and streets, the fashion houses and TV studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden. I remember to this day the look of utter incomprehension on the Prince's face as I made my case. Only later did a colleague point out the obvious; that with the exception of visits to the Royal Opera House, it was highly unlikely that the Prince...