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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040428
Author:Reidy, Darren

LIQUID CITY

DUMBO bar bucks trends; Baudrillard, Aristophanes approve

PEDRO'S

73 Jay Street, Brooklyn

718.625.0031

The painful luck of the aging hipster wannabe is his craving for cool-co-opted, pre-masticated, and served on some crazy-ass Lucite plate that's also an art project. But as DUMBO chins out for a Baudrillardian hook, Pedro's remains oddly, pleasantly real. Outside, it splits the difference between a frontier watering hole and a south Florida shanty. Inside, it's low-ceilinged, decorated with inverted sombreros, haphazard photos, and a print by Colombian humanist Fernando Botero. ...

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