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[moominmolly]

Interesting things I haven't talked about:

Restaurants:

David and I could not resist Pharaonic Restaurant Anubis Amsterdam, which actually had a "beer and bread" appetizer.

Kitsch: Amaaaazingly tasty food that made me want to grow up to be a restaurant critic. Plus, dark maroon fake alligator wallpaper, creepy-ass barbies nailed to the bathroom doors, and holes in the floor so you can watch the kitchen!

Zento sushi bar: They had already won me over with the sexy translucent business card, and the rotating sushi-o-matic lounge style was just too much.

Academie: a squat indie movie house with dinner some nights. Hoping to go tomorrow.

Misc:

Sadly, the Fenomeen sauna -- also in a fabulous art-collective squat house, down the street from the Academie -- is closed until mid-August, so I couldn't go to their women's night. Damn!

While I'm on the subject of squats, I stopped by occii, an ex-squat near Fenomeen. The music tonight looked a bit hardcore for me, but the place itself seemed really keen.

Drag King workshop at the unbearably cheesily-named Ladyfest this Friday.

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[dilletante.livejournal.com]

yes, i should have posted about the restaurant. i mean, anubis restaurant!

bread and beer is a traditional offering for the dead, and the menu used the hieroglyphs usually used in that part of funeral inscriptions to refer to it...

the place was run by a charming egyptian couple, too.

[dot_fennel]

From the bands playing (including Mirah!) my guess is that it's associated with the American and British series of "Ladyfests", which are named for the record label Mr. Lady.

Come to think of it, maybe Mr. Lady is a cheesy name itself, but the label's run by Kaia Wilson and her partner, and somehow Kaia's been around too long to do anything uncool.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

(including Mirah!)

Dammit! She's playing Sunday. Why does that always happen to me?

It is indeed associated with at least the European Ladyfests (http://www.ladyfesteurope.org/). But... oh, even if it stems from something cool and clearly is itself cool, I'm still having a hard time with the name. "Mr. Lady" less so, for whatever reason.