Guess who wrote this: While there are no Starbucks or Crate and Barrels in Baku, the city’s 2-million-plus residents experience a life radically more American than Saudi. Soviet aesthetics and mannerisms still dominate, yet materialism rears its Bulgari-ed head. “Tropic Thunder” and “Hellboy II” play in the local multiplex down the promenade from Cafe Mozart, [...]
