"Dis place be a ghost town by Christmas, you know?" The helper girl who'd played with the puppy walked out through the door that opened onto a long concrete corridor full of shadowy metal-fenced cages.
We started with a brass door, and Mustafa declaring, "This is a brass door", but we soon scaled up to include the hidden passageways of the souk, the shadowy old metal-working quarter, the ancient leather market (much more interesting than it sounds) and, finally, the city's 16th-century madrassa, with its walls covered in delicate carvings from the Qur'an.
Having finally recovered from his investigation into the drunken student disco, Clive Martin heads to the dark side to investigate the shadowy world of the UK metal scene.
Nov. 25: San Francisco's Possessed was a pioneering force in the shadowy realms of thrash and death metal in the eighties.
As we walked away, the latch clicked and a cautious shadowy figure appeared behind a heavy metal screen door.
Deep in the shadowy buttholes of Richmond, Virginia, lies the metal band GWAR a group so fowl and demented it could only be led by a beast with a fish for a penis.
Metal lurks and gleams in the shadowy vitrine-lined hallway ahead: a cast-iron ornament from Louis Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott Building in Chicago, painted to resemble weathered bronze; the 19th-century American innovation of cast-iron garden furniture; the 20th-century German innovation (Marcel Breuer's, actually) of steel tubular furniture.
I bike 5km (3 miles) to work every day, weaving through Ming dynasty-era alleyways, gliding past shadowy government offices, darting among flatbed tricycles hauling mysterious metal tanks.
Here's the first installment of One Man Metal, our documentary that takes a look at a shadowy fringe of black metal that has never been documented... until now.
Here's the first installment of One Man Metal, our latest documentary that takes a square look at a shadowy fringe of Black Metal that has never been documented... until now.
In a shadowy space to the right of an entrance to the complex, rows of metal chairs are bolted to the ground in front of a large wall-mounted television.
