Its churches and palaces are mostly interspersed with tacky gift shops aimed at the thousands of cruise-ship visitors who descend every year but, never fear, there's lots of authentic Puerto Rican life close by.
Be there when Little Italy's Piazza della Famiglia transforms into a Tuscan-inspired, family-style dinner featuring endless Italian courses, lots of authentic libations and plenty of engaging, table-side entertainment.
"When you think about it, there are not a lot of authentic American spirits: there's Bourbon and there's moonshine," he said.
"Sense8" is not subtle — this is sci-fi T.V. — but their scene together is simple, direct, and moving: there's a lot of authentic emotion to go with all the artifice.
Part of the reason that the contours of Mr. Gore's unusual upbringing are not better known, however, is that he himself has worked so hard to discredit a lot of authentic stories about his childhood -- the very stories, in fact, that would probably do him the most good politically.
There are not a lot of authentic women of this age portrayed on screen, with the exception of HBO's Girls, which is great.
Without recourse to the clichés of Spacehoppers and flares, he provides lots of horribly authentic detail: "he was carrying his books and his PE kit in the same bulky sports bag, from which the handle of his squash racket protruded like a permanently erect penis".
IN this, the Internet era, when "instant" is too slow for some people, millions of Americans still want to go fast the old-fashioned way -- with lots of chrome, authentic hubcaps and engines that evoke a mechanical age, not a technological one.
It has lots of great authentic Puerto Rican recipes, including the yellow Spanish rice with beans.
There are a lot of very authentic reasons that might seem as if he is "ignoring" you but actually have nothing to do with you.
"They love irony, but they also love the authentic, probably because they don't have a lot of authenticity themselves," he said.
