Just across another boulevard from the Dar Salaam is a row of shadowy bars and hotels that face the southern side of the train station.
In Memphis they're sitting in shadowy bars listening to the soulful plucking of a six string guitar.
It seemed that the rest of America had stayed home, or at the very least, were avoiding the shadowy bars and clubs where I'd been spending all my time.
Evenings out should be book-ended by aperitifs or nightcaps at the shadowy cocktail bar, Loa, which serves up craft cocktails in the glowing candlelight.
Now in the shadowy, red-leather bar, crowded with happy-hour patrons, Piasecki ordered a Scotch.
When he gave interviews to Western media it was often in dark alleys or deserted bars, face shadowy and close to the camera, or on some red-dirt road out of town, while he kept nervously walking.Fighting talkThe second way of being gay, however, was to be out and proud.
Like the Irish Haven bar in Bay Ridge, shadowy and lit with beams of green neon, little corners of conspiratorial-looking old Irishmen speaking in nods and winces.
In the video the gravel-voiced Compton rapper leans forward in a chair, placed dead centre of a smoky, shadowy classroom, to bark doomy bars into the sanguine face of Hollywood superstar Michelle Pfeiffer.
Some nights you might cross paths with Steffi Peichal, a German-Iraqi graffiti artist who painted the shadowy human silhouettes that form the bar's wall mural.
It's an enormous space, all shadowy brick walls and lighting beneath the bar, the seating area dominated by a curvy, high-banked leather banquette.
