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ONE Friday night last month, I stood watching a North African band called Daxar perform at the Satellit Cafe world music club in Paris and was considering having a beer. By the time the band had finished its Magrebian take on the Rolling Stones' ''Paint It Black'' (''Do you know this one?'' the band leader asked coyly. ''It's not ours.''), I had decided against it. Such luxury could cost me the Louvre on Sunday, or wine with lunch Saturday. I was trying to make it on $100 over a weekend in Paris, and that meant forgoing the beer -- and the Louvre and wine with lunch as well, it turns out. But who needs beer when you've got a cool band to listen to? Who needs the Louvre when you've got the free and fascinating Musee Carnavalet? And who needs wine when you've got a luscious duck confit on your plate? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the arts in the South Bronx, New York. Various venues for performing arts; Reputation of the South Bronx as a rough neighborhood; Efforts to improve the city and reduce crime; Description of Thursday night activities at the G-Bar, which offers live jazz; Caribbean poetry readings; Suggestion of some that the area be renamed the "Downtown Bronx"; Art showings in the home of José Ortiz and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz.

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