http://www.saltshaker.net/20060121/the-far-east-steak Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060121/the-far-east-steak#comment-404 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » If I Ran Away to Join the Circus… Thu, 11 May 2006 13:27:13 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060121/the-far-east-steak#comment-404 [...] Last night we set out on this adventure, and it was a bit of one. First, we realized yesterday afternoon that we had no clear idea where the show was being held. The tickets didn’t specify. Neither did Ticketek’s website. Neither did Cirque du Soleil’s. They all just said Costanera Sur. Well that’s a long stretch… it refers to the entire riverbank from the downtown district all the way to La Boca. It includes a promenade, parks, the ecological reserve, hotels along one side, a casino or two. We decided to trust in fate and figured that given that the show was into its second week, most cabbies here would either know where it was being held, or be able to call in to their dispatcher to find out. Wrong. Our cabbie didn’t have a clue. He remembered seeing ads for Cirque, but that’s about it. Ditto his dispatcher. Ditto every cabbie he hailed out the window. But we gamely headed for the Costanera Sur, figuring it was highly unlikely that it was along the promenade stretch, there being no where to put the show, we started at the western park end of it. Soon enough, we saw a small sign mounted on a lightpole with an arrow, and started down a winding road, and lo and behold, there were circus tents! Turned out, had we gotten off on the promenade, it was walkable in a matter of five minutes, but coming by car required a bit of wandering around. Also given that we were early, we didn’t have the long stretch of vehicles headed that way that began to show up 20 minutes later. [...] [...] Last night we set out on this adventure, and it was a bit of one. First, we realized yesterday afternoon that we had no clear idea where the show was being held. The tickets didn’t specify. Neither did Ticketek’s website. Neither did Cirque du Soleil’s. They all just said Costanera Sur. Well that’s a long stretch… it refers to the entire riverbank from the downtown district all the way to La Boca. It includes a promenade, parks, the ecological reserve, hotels along one side, a casino or two. We decided to trust in fate and figured that given that the show was into its second week, most cabbies here would either know where it was being held, or be able to call in to their dispatcher to find out. Wrong. Our cabbie didn’t have a clue. He remembered seeing ads for Cirque, but that’s about it. Ditto his dispatcher. Ditto every cabbie he hailed out the window. But we gamely headed for the Costanera Sur, figuring it was highly unlikely that it was along the promenade stretch, there being no where to put the show, we started at the western park end of it. Soon enough, we saw a small sign mounted on a lightpole with an arrow, and started down a winding road, and lo and behold, there were circus tents! Turned out, had we gotten off on the promenade, it was walkable in a matter of five minutes, but coming by car required a bit of wandering around. Also given that we were early, we didn’t have the long stretch of vehicles headed that way that began to show up 20 minutes later. [...]

]]> http://www.saltshaker.net/20060121/the-far-east-steak#comment-156 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Care to come up and see my etchings? Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:34:00 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060121/the-far-east-steak#comment-156 [...] Buenos Aires - I had reservations yesterday. Not the sort that garners me a table at some local dive, but of two very different sort. The first involved random happenstance, after leaving Güerrin, I continued my way down Corrientes headed for the Costanera Sur, or South Promenade. You may remember my brief dip in that direction when we wandered last week along the Calle de Canal. But before I got there, I came across the offices of the Sindicatura General de la Nación, some sort of bureaucratic hive that houses on its first floor a public art space called espaciomultiarte. Currently, the space, which is really just a large office building lobby with good track lighting, is showcasing an exhibit entitled Grabados, meaning engravings, in this case, two artists using the technique of woodcut engravings, or as known here, xilografia. The technique is where their similarity ends, giving both artists a very bold, solid line style, but with very different results. Enrique Pérsico, a 77 year old artist from north of the city, seems focused on the world of tango and couples. Virtually every work on display consisted of a man and a woman, the woman invariably in the nude, the man not necessarily so, many of them engaged in various tango or other dance steps. There was also a wall of female nudes off to one side. All of his work was in straightforward black and white. The second artist, Roberto Scadutto, a 70 year old native of Buenos Aires, seems enamored of the world of music. I think that every work, at least the ones on display, had a person playing some sort of musical instrument. None of them were nude. He uses both black and a very vivid blue to give an interesting depth to his work. The exposition only goes through the 31st of January, after that, on to something new. [...] [...] Buenos Aires - I had reservations yesterday. Not the sort that garners me a table at some local dive, but of two very different sort. The first involved random happenstance, after leaving Güerrin, I continued my way down Corrientes headed for the Costanera Sur, or South Promenade. You may remember my brief dip in that direction when we wandered last week along the Calle de Canal. But before I got there, I came across the offices of the Sindicatura General de la Nación, some sort of bureaucratic hive that houses on its first floor a public art space called espaciomultiarte. Currently, the space, which is really just a large office building lobby with good track lighting, is showcasing an exhibit entitled Grabados, meaning engravings, in this case, two artists using the technique of woodcut engravings, or as known here, xilografia. The technique is where their similarity ends, giving both artists a very bold, solid line style, but with very different results. Enrique Pérsico, a 77 year old artist from north of the city, seems focused on the world of tango and couples. Virtually every work on display consisted of a man and a woman, the woman invariably in the nude, the man not necessarily so, many of them engaged in various tango or other dance steps. There was also a wall of female nudes off to one side. All of his work was in straightforward black and white. The second artist, Roberto Scadutto, a 70 year old native of Buenos Aires, seems enamored of the world of music. I think that every work, at least the ones on display, had a person playing some sort of musical instrument. None of them were nude. He uses both black and a very vivid blue to give an interesting depth to his work. The exposition only goes through the 31st of January, after that, on to something new. [...]

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