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48 Hours in Downtown LA Drink Me Mag
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48 Hours in Downtown L.A.

 “Uno Poblano Escobar,” I said, close the bartender’s ear, not because I was ordering something illegal, but rather because the music, loud chatter, and laughter drowned out everything else at Las Perlas. You read that right, Poblano Escobar, not to be confused with Pablo Escobar—Colombian narcoterrorist-cum-politician. The fresh and sweet …

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48 Hours in Tijuana Drink Me Mag
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48 Hours in Tijuana, Mexico

There are few cities in the world as vibrantly alive as Tijuana. From the second the I-5 enters Mexico and drops you in the center of the border metropolis of more than a million people, you can’t help but become infused with the nonstop energy the city embodies. Though many …

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48 Hours in Berlin Drink Me Mag
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48 Hours in Berlin

Everyone knows that Berlin is cool. But the particular essence of that “cool” is something a bit more complex and a lot less self-conscious than other cities with such reputations. Berlin isn’t striving for the title, it just likes what it likes and is still enthusiastically whirling and expanding out …

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48 Hours in San Juan, Puerto Rico

“It’s going to be two hours.” The hostess looked up from her post, the ledge of a cement porch she was melting over like a clock in a Dali painting. It was nine at night in a working-class section of Santurce, the most densely populated barrio in San Juan, Puerto …

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48 Hours in Okinawa, Japan

By Spencer Spellman “Habushu,” I say to the bartender, in my thick southern drawl as I point at a large jug towering over all the other liquor bottles. “Habushu?” the bartender responds disconcertedly. “You want habushu? The snake wine?” I nod, “Yes, a glass of snake wine. Straight up.” The …

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