Next I made the Rundle Mall run to the London Tavern, which is another shady restaurant-slash-nightclub deal in a basement on North Terrace.
And if there are illicit trainers on campuses, shady tutors with wraparound sunglasses and ties to basement labs in Italy, no one has exposed them.
Rather, Siqueiros painted the mural in the basement poker room of the mansion of a shady publishing tycoon who reigned in the political and cultural hothouse of 1930s Buenos Aires, as a kind of sinister amalgam of Citizen Kane and Jay Gatsby.
The book explores the shady areas of libido and guilt, of bars, boudoirs and basements, the fragile underbelly of the hip and sophisticated.
Most big ticket items are probably still not worth it thanks to shady liquidator tactics, but someone, somewhere hopefully scored something at a bargain basement price.
Trumbull $551,00032 Shady Laner 4 3 1 6 weeks 5-year-old wood colonial; 3-story en- try, fireplace, family room, decorative columns, basement, 2-car garage, 0.5-acre lot; taxes $12,590; listed at $569,900.
