SPEAKEASIES AS SIMULACRA
'21' was one of the quintessential speaks of the time, chronicled in Al Hirschfeld's "Speakeasies of 1932," Arnold Shaw's "52nd Street: The Street of Jazz" and Peter Kriendler's "21: Every Day was New Year's Eve." Today, it attempts to strike a balance between it's past identity while maintaining a level of currency that makes it, if only ostensibly, more visible to the public beyond it's traditional clientele of the rich and famous.
(Contemporary Speakeasies)by Kwame Opam, at Dec. 20, 2010, 3:04 p.m.
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Text: '21' was one of the quintessential speaks of the time, chronicled in Al Hirschfeld's "Speakeasies of 1932," Arnold Shaw's "52nd Street: The Street of Jazz" and Peter Kriendler's "21: Every Day was New Year's Eve." Today, it attempts to strike a balance between it's past identity while maintaining a level of currency that makes it, if only ostensibly, more visible to the public beyond it's traditional clientele of the rich and famous.
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