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warning: the incredible blog makes free use of anglo-saxon words, often considered crude and coarse since the invasion of England by the Normans. You’ll recognize these words because they mostly have four letters. I am also fairly free in criticizing whatever I want, so if you think you’re in here and you’re going to be bothered by what i say, then stop right here. Thanks for reading.
12 July 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The Rebirth of ANDAZ at Rotture
12 July 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
For those who haven’t heard the news, ANDAZ moved from the Fez Ballroom after seven and a half years, and is now at Rotture on the East Side. We will be celebrating our eight-year anniversary on Saturday, July 17th, 2010. At the Fez we celebrated our anniversaries in November, since that was the month that [...]
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The end of Andaz at Fez Ballroom
11 April 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The only constant is change. After seven and a half years of packed dance parties it is time to say goodbye to Fez Ballroom. Not something Anjali or I ever wanted to happen, but the club will be changing its format on all its Saturday nights. We were the longest-running night in the club’s history. [...]
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Anu Malik still has it!?!?!?!?
25 July 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Before Anjali started DJing with me in 2000, I had only been exposed to vintage Bollywood; I didn’t know the contemporary scene at all. I was only buying and listening to vinyl at the time, and Bollywood hadn’t put a record out in a decade by that point. Anjali bought me a Hum Dil De [...]
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Mumbai
27 February 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Our next and final destination in India was “Mumbai.” Every Indian I talked to called it Bombay, and in conversation with them I felt like I would be considered benighted if I said Mumbai. Traditionally the name of the city is Mumbai in Marathi and Gujarati, Bombay in English and Bambai in Hindi, Persian, and [...]
Chennai
10 February 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I am going to attempt to relate the rest of our trip in Chennai, Mumbai and Amsterdam before too much time passes, and memories fade and wither, or distort into things beautiful or horrible, that never occurred.
Here is the installment about our visit to Chennai.
WARNING : SELECT USE OF ANGLO-SAXON WORDS TO FOLLOW
The [...]
Andaz returns 1/31/09
2 February 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Thank you to everyone who came down to celebrate our return to the Fez Ballroom on Saturday night. We had our largest attendance ever, with 556 people paid by the end of the night. The Fez capacity is only 349, so my apologies to those of you who had to wait a while in the [...]
A little bit of France in India
17 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hello all,
Anjali and I decided to blow straight through Chennai, which we
figure we will return to, and on to Pondicherry. The city was
officially renamed Puducherry, but even the official tourism guides
say “Pondicherry” in their bus tours. Pondicherry is the largest city
in what was formerly the French colony also named Pondicherry. It is
on the coast [...]
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Culture Shock to the Extreme
8 January 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hello all,
Yesterday Anjali and I experienced the most intense culture shock of our trip. We arrived in the village of Hampi in Karnataka yesterday morning, which was the heart of the sixteenth century Vijayanagar empire which dominated Southern India. Now it is a town surrounded by ruins set amidst an evocative boulder-strewn landscape of rice paddies, banana plantations, and coconut palms. [...]
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Report from the center of India
27 December 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hello all,
Anjali and I have been spending our last couple days in the dead center of India: Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. This is where Anjali’s maternal grandmother and uncles live, and a place that doesn’t receive many foreign visitors, unless they are on their way to the Kanha National Park wilderness preserve to see the tigers. [...]