the eXile - bar-dak

Issue #21/102, Oct 26 - Nov 9, 2000

b a r - d a k

Things That Do and Don't Suck - The Bar Guide

Phi Delt 4 Life
This week, I was planning a little covert action. You know, Phi Delt undercover shit. None of this announcing that I am the great Higgins and demanding service shit. No fucking way. This was covert, I wanted to experience what the common folk feel. Not like I’m embarrassed about the Phi Delts, man. Don’t even think about it. Naw, its just that I don’t want it all to go to my head. Gotta keep down to earth, see things the way most of my pledge brothers do. Be one of the crowd. So, I decided on doing the frosh thing and checking out some cheap dives in town. I mean, fuck, these face control fucks wouldn’t let me in without my eXile ID anyway. So why not check out some places where beer only costs a buck and there is no DJ playing some crappy techno. Or so I thought. More Phi Delts...

Eat Your Heart Out - The Food Guide

CRACK MALLS
It is now fair to say that the cocaine derivative crack has proved to be not so commercially viable in the long term as it was originally hoped in the heady early-80s when the drug first “came on the scene and spread like wildfire,” as noted in the Mario Van Peebles classic New Jack City. If it had, however, you can be fairly certain that there would have been a one-stop, all-purpose “Crack Mall” shopping center located in every cozily sterilized suburb in America. Moscow, of course, more or less missed out on the whole crack boom back in the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev era, but at long last the Russian capital finally has an establishment aptly named to become the city’s quintessential “Crack Mall,” should the necessity for one arise—KRAKHMAL. More Lionel...

Events

Nick Rock-n-Roll and Alexander Sklyar; Ray Charles; Phantom of the Opera; Halloween Party; Soul Kitchen. Complete Listings...

Unseparated at Birth?

Envoy of rarely-visited Pyongyang Kim Jong II...	...and carrier of rarely-visited poon-tang Madeline Albright?