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The Great Walls of Chinatown
With the exception of the electric rice cookers, this Bowery tenement could have come straight from the Nineteenth Century.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Houston Press
Getting Off
DUI attorney Tyler Flood wins 80 percent of his trials--even if his clients were 100 percent drunk.
By Mike Giglio
Miami New Times
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From the homeless parking mafia to the meter fairy, finding a spot in Miami has taken a turn toward the surreal.
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Swedest Thing
Peter Bjorn and John
By DAVE SEGAL
Published on January 10, 2008
Swedish pop groups that have snuck their way onto Americans' radars typically instill a comforting sense of pristine tidiness and earnest all-rightness. Even as it emulates Anglo-American rock elements, a large percentage of that country's popular music runs on an even keel, rarely exhibiting extreme emotion or outrageous sonic attributes. (Those Scandinavian character-trait clichés? All true.) Peter Bjorn and John follow in this grand, bland tradition. Their most recent album, Writer's Block, consists of pleasantly pretty, hummable tunes, but-admit it-you'd be content with a 45-minute version of their buoyantly glum hit "Young Folks"-followed by an encore of "Young Folks." To which you will whistle along. Bet your life's savings on it.
Thu., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., 2008
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