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Issue #10/91, May 25 - June 8, 2000  smlogo.gif

b a r - d a k

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Things That Do and Don't Suck - The Bar Guide
Vijay Maheshwari - When Cool Meets Nirvana
The recent mad masked raid on Media-MOST made me muse: who shut down the once-promising club Gramophone, which last summer had spearheaded Moscow’s intrepid return to local nightlife? Was it more of Putin’s putative men-in-black? Or the meandering market forces, so unpredictable that they could even unsettle a Pinochet (or a Put-nochet!)? . More Vijay...

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Eat Your Heart Out - The Food Guide
Lionel Tannenbaum - DON’T DIS THIS DACHA
The setting: a pre-Revolutionary nobleman’s dacha located just outside today’s city center, fully renovated and transformed into an upscale modern restaurant. If you had to guess the style of food they serve, you’d probably assume that New-Old Russian thing that’s so common nowadays and rarely done with any imagination, right? Well, in the case of GRAF ORLOFF, you’d be dead wrong. Try instead an audacious pan-Asian menu (with decor to match), all prepared by a veteran chef from Los Angeles (this setup has indentured-servant chef written all over it). The prices are far from cheap, but a recent eXile mini-banquet in honor of the late Jonas Bernstein’s final (so he claims) Moscow farewell provided the perfect opportunity to give the place a really good sampling. More...

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Events
  • The eXile’s “Miss Monica-Russia 2000”. Saturday, June 3rd. Sirius. 22.00
  • Joe Cocker. Tuesday, June 6th. Kremlin Palace (19.00), Shan-gri-la (00.00). (Shan-gri-la located on Pushkin Square beneath the Pushkinsky Cinema Theater)
  • Ne Zhdali. Thursday, May 25th. Sixteen Tons. 23.00
  • Crossroads (X-Roads). Saturday, May 27th. DK Gorbunova. 19.00
  • Cabana 3rd Anniversary Party. Sunday, June 4th. 19.00
  • Blues Summit Festival. Friday thru Sunday, June 2nd - 4th. Hermitage Garden (see “Parizhskaya Zhizn’” for address details). 19.00


Straight Outta Grozny
      Get fuckin' down with this mp3 (3.9Mb) of "Straight Outta Grozny" by the bitch-slappin' pimp ass Chechenz.

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