[Tikievents] Beachbum Berry in Las Vegas, SFO exhibit extended

[Otto <otto@tikinews.com>]

> Cocktail Dinner
> With Jeff Berry
> Hosted by The Musuem of the American Cocktail and Commander's Palace Las Vegas
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> In the 1960s, during the Golden Age of the Tiki bar, Las Vegas was home to several luxe Polynesian restaurants. The biggest and most glamorous of these were The Aku-Aku in the Stardust Hotel, and Don The Beachcomber's in the Sahara. Both featured fabulous tropical drinks created by Donn Beach, a.k.a. Don The Beachcomber himself, back when he started in Hollywood after Prohibition ended in 1934. Our evening will resurrect the best of these recently unearthed "lost" recipes, which we will pair with complementary dishes from Chef Carlos Guia of Commander's Palace
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> Thursday, December 7th at 7pm
> Commanders Palace, Las Vegas
> Desert Passage in the Aladdin Hotel, South Strip
> $100 pp Call 702.892.8272 for reservations.
>
> Jeff "Beachbum" Berry is the author of Beachbum Berry's Grog Log, which has been called "the best bar guide for tropical drinks ever published" (National Review) and "the island bar bible" ( U.S. News & World Report). The Bum's next two books, Intoxica! and Taboo Table, have made him the toast of the global tiki bar revival; his original cocktail creations are now being served at the Tabou Tiki Room in Berlin, the Lucky Tiki in Los Angeles, and the Tiki Room in Stockholm. Vintage "lost" tropical drinks discovered by the Bum are also popping up in buzzworthy bars around the world, from New York City's Pegu Club to London's Trailer Happiness. In 2005, the Museum Of The American Cocktail elected the Bum to its Advisory Board.
info@MuseumOfTheAmericanCocktail.org 

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The SFO Tiki history exhibit has been extended til November 30, 2006

If you are flying out of SFO be sure to allow a little extra time to traipse over to the International Terminal main lobby 

Reflections of Paradise: Tiki Culture on the Mainland, is a brief examination of the history of Tiki culture in the United States.
Several periods of Pacific Island influence on mainland American pop-culture are documented through record albums, sheet music, restaurant menus, bar decor, and of course, Tiki mugs. From the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that introduced many visitors to Hawaiian music and art, to the regular revival of tropical-themed bars and restaurants, this exhibition charts the ebbs and flows of a cultural influence that continues to offer fantasy and escapism to mainlanders everywhere. The show focuses on the Bay Area with an emphasis on Northern California King of Tiki Trader Vic including over thirty artifacts from the Trader Vic's Restaurant collection.

(Note: artifacts in the exhibit that are credited to anonymous are from the collection of the curators, not some mysterious Tiki benefactor as was surmised by one viewer)

http://www.sfoarts.org/

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Photos of Baby Doe and Otto in their home bar
http://www.lafterhall.com/otto_von_stroheim.html


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Otto von Stroheim
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