The Agenda Culturel is a bi-weekly French journal that serves as the Village Voice of Beirut except that it's sleek, square, and concise. The last publication was on June 10th or so, and it featured a piece on the theatre artist Jawad al Asadi and Babel, his new theatre in Hamra. The second to last page of the journal was dedicated to ANNULATIONS, or cancellations. A full page of cancellations. In the same design template as the performance/music/art/etc listings.
And this was before the Aido bombing on June 13th.
Since my arrival in Beirut, I'd been pumped to go to the Fete de la Musique on the solstice. A couple clubs and one giant convention center had been reserved for back-to-back free concerts by local and international musicians all night long. A couple days after the Aido bombing, the festival was canceled.
Nonetheless...
A couple folks banded together and threw an evening of free performances at BASEMENT, a space in Gemayzeh that is at once crypt and club. I went with Lana, and it was packed. While The Scrambled Eggs reved up the crowd, we had a couple doodoos (vodka, lemon juice, tabasco + one olive) to celebrate.
Afterwards, we went outside to the HotdogMobile. A one-person truck so yellow, tiny, and convenient it put the Roomba Burrito Cart on York to shame. The menu read as follows:
HOTDOG 2500 LL
CHEESE +1000 LL
BACON +1000 LL
BEANS & MEAT +500 LL
BOMB (in a few minutes)
Scrambled Eggs rang in the basement while the HotDogMobile--with tongue in cheek--served the night away.
Only in Beirut.
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