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Today’s Deal: $50 for $100 Worth of Moroccan Cuisine and Drinks at Imperial Fez
  

The Fine Print
• Expires 11/23/2010
• Limit 1 per table, 2 per table of 4 or more. Dine-in only. Not valid on Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, Mothers Day, specials or with other offers. Tax & gratuity not included.
• Read the Deal FAQ for the basics.
  

Highlights
• Authentic Moroccan fare
• Belly dancing nightly
• Sit on pillows, eat with hands
• Exotic interiors
  

The cuisine of Morocco is far more enticing than the cuisine of maracas, which teases diners with delicious dried beans stuck inside an impenetrable, yet percussive, coconut shell. Get access to exotic eats without a hammer with today’s Groupon: for $50, you get $100 worth of Moroccan food and drink from Imperial Fez. Born and raised in Morocco, Imperial Fez executive chef Rafih Benjelloun has been serving authentic Moroccan cuisine to Atlantans since 1991.
  

Sample freshly made fare from the land of Casablanca with Imperial Fez’s five-course dinner ($45). Each dinner begins with traditional Moroccan lentil soup, harrira, and Moroccan bread, followed by a salad with garden-fresh vegetables and a side of housemade, eyelash-incinerating harissa sauce. After an appetizer of the Moroccan pastry b’stella comes the main entree—choose from several favorites, including a roasted lamb shank bedecked in herbs and spices, sautéed shrimp with fresh vegetable sidekicks, or a Cornish hen stew simmered in a succulent spa of saffron, lemons, and olives. End the meal with a dessert, accompanied by hot mint tea. A variety of drinks are also available for alcoholic intake. In a reflection of authentic
http://www.groupon.com/deals/imperial-fez-and-ibiza Moroccan eating traditions, Imperial Fez’s edibles are meant to be eaten sans silverware, allowing diners to test out their newly attached cyborg fingers before this summer’s rock, paper, cyborg-fingers tournament.
  

Reviews
In addition to being named Best Off-the-Wall Date Spot in Atlanta in 2008, Imperial Fez received a nearly perfect 4.5 stars from Citysearchers. TripAdvisors give it 3.5 stars, and Gayot gives it 13/20:
• The fire dance is fantastic!! The food is great. We had a great time, and I’m definitely coming back again with some more friends. – Citysearch
  

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I have been contacted on numerous occasions about rooms for the National Bikers Roundup in Columbia, Missouri. Well I have some great news that I have located available rooms, however the location is about 50 miles out. The rate is well worth it and the rooms are held through my corporate account rate of $38.28 a night from August 3rd through August 8th.
  

This is one reason I’ve informed everyone before to setup an account with CheckINN Direct to save on rooms where ever you may travel. The location is Super 8 Motel and I have a block of rooms, 60 to be exact. So if you are in need of rooms I need you to contact me via email at goldie@goldie1779blackbikers.com.
  

The key code “BlackBikers” has been reactivated with CheckINN Direct so you can setup your account. I encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity. As you see it does work to have it because this is how I am able to help you.
  

I will know by next week if I will have more rooms available at a new Motel that’s only 24 minutes from the Roundup Location; much closer in Kingdom City. They will have 60 rooms and I have reserved all of the rooms to help everyone who doesn’t have rooms yet. The rate for the rooms will be comparable to the rate at Super 8 Motel; around $35.00 to $55.00 per night. It is imperative that you continue to check my website to see when rooms are available and I will give you the code to reserve your rooms.
  

Let me be very clear the rooms will be paid by you on your credit card. Each person will be responsible for your own amenities and room rate. All I am doing is making it convenient for those who couldn’t find rooms available for the event. My other website is Goldie’s Black Bikers Experience.
  

  

I was told that one of the best places to eat in Kingdom City, MO is Panhead Billy’s. They are very reasonable and they’re looking forward to us coming and celebrating with us. They are biker friendly and you can tell by the name Panhead.

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SNCC photographer Clifford Vaughs is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland, May 2, 1964. Photo by Danny Lyon ©Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos

  

  

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It is almost impossible to be concurrently a chopper rider and be a success in Entertainment Business world. These two scenes just don’t recognize or respect one another.It is almost impossible to be concurrently a chopper rider and be a success in Entertainment Business world.

  

But in California today there are three men – Frank Reynolds, Gut and Cliff Vaughs who have not only made it successfully in business but also have been able to maintain active memberships in two of the state’s most publicized clubs.

  

Freewheelin’ Frank has written an astonishing best seller about his experiences for Grove Press called simply “Freewheelin Frank” and already has a second volume of poetry in the works.

  

Gut is the colorful manager of one of California’s heaviest rock groups, the Blue Cheer, which has already released a hit single and smash album on Mercury.

  

But it is Vaughs who is the interesting because not only is he a chopper rider but a successful film maker, producer, civil rights leader and black. Vaughs rides with a predominantly black cycle club out of the ghetto area of Los Angeles. (The Chosen Few MC)

  

Vaughs is college educated, BA from Boston University and formally began his film career as a maker of documentaries. His “What Will The Harvest Be” a story of the thrust of black power in the south was shown several years ago on ABC-TV. This film featured such civil rights leaders as the late Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Julian Bond according to Cliff. It was later suppressed, I guess, because they showed it here twice in California and in Chicago. But it wasn’t pushed. I think this was done because this was the first public expression of black power.

  

From documentaries Vaughs went into film production, and it is significant to note that this is the first time in the Hollywood film industry, aside from Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby that an unknown black man has been able to break into production.

  

Chopper Magazine talked to Cliff Vaughs about his feelings toward the Hollywood manufactured cycle image, the integration of white outlaw clubs, Peter Fonda as a plastic hero and the emergence of the chopper rider as the final romantic American hero.

  

WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD OF CYCLING?

  

“In terms of my own relation with my own motorcycle, it’s the final romantic expression that is left in this country. Obviously the frontier is gone. The cycle is the one thing that you can build from nothing—just a basket, and make something very, very beautiful and really put yourself into it. This goes from a simple question of chrome, to developing new designs, sissy bars, new ways of riding and things like that.”

  

HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME INVOLVED WITH A CHOPPER?

  

“Certainly bikes attract a great deal of people who have basically been frustrated in their life. I haven’t been frustrated but I do view my bike as another way of relieving a lot of tension from myself. I have been riding since 1962. I even missed the March on Washington because I was building a chopper. I like my bike and I like Choppers and I’m very concerned about the restrictive legislation that is coming out from most states against the rider. Laws that are trying to keep Choppers off the road, and I think that a Chopper is a typically American expression.”

  

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE CHOPPER IN YOUR NEW FILM?

  

“In “Easy Riders” the cycle is just a vehicle to get around on. It’s like the horse from the old days. What we are basically doing is psychological western. We have two guys who have problems and are into their own bag. They are good friends, they’ve made one big score and are off to Miami to retire. Now in the course of the film a number of things happen to them on their trip. These are things that could happen to a guy if he were driving a car, flying in an airplane or riding on a train—except for the fact that being on a bike—they are more vulnerable to what’s going on.” Chopper asked Vaughs if the movie was going to say the same thing its predecessors from American International have said again and again.

  

“This is not what we are into. I think we can change the image of the cyclist, and make a significant contribution to changing the development of the cycle image. I don’t feel that Hollywood today is producing anything of much significance. And I think that this is the time to make the change, because the western has been the major success in this country. If we can change the vehicle from a horse to a cycle—and still develop good stories and good concepts then I think we have made a significant and artistic contribution to bikes and films.”

  

We asked Vaughs if any fulltime chopper rider could be trained by Hollywood into a Fonda role.
“No Peter and Dennis are very heavy into a lot of cultural things. They are in a position to be very, very socially aware of what’s going on. A lot of bikers just don’t know what’s going on because the whole weight of having to deal with everyday situations or hustling to live precludes any awareness of other problems. I mean, theirs is a hunting and gathering culture. You must remember that most bikers are not in a medium where they can project anything. Even if an average rider went on ”Meet the Press,” he would give the same rap about oppressed bike riders, patriotism, etc.”

  

He stated that before the film was started he indicated that one of the main things “Easy Riders” should do was break down the whole idea of black and white motorcycle clubs. “Because my investigation showed that white clubs had restrictive clauses and it’s only the blacks that are integrating. The Chosen Few has been integrated for a long period of time.”

  

“In this film said Vaughs we have a situation where the two main characters are riding across country. Their bikes break down and they run into about 50 black cyclists. They are very, very up-tight, scared and shaken up. But, it works out very well because the black cats just say, “Can we help you get some gas?” Everything is very groovy. And that to me seems a real situation.”

  

“I maintain if that situation can happen and it does in real life there is still some hope. There are many, many people that maintain that it can happen. “But I’ve seen it happen this way.”

  

Does Vaughs feel this situation is only confined to the cycle world? Naturally he answers in the negative.

  

“The cities are still going to burn despite the fact that these black cats stopped to help these white cyclists on the road.” That baby is reality.

  

CLIFF’S BIKE REFLECTS TRADITIONAL DESIGN. THE 68 ENGINE NESTLES NEATLY IN THE EARL RIGID FRAME. THE REAR SEAT HAS BEEN UPHOLSTERED ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SISSY BAR, AND THE FRONT FORKS RAKED AND TENDED. THE EARLY BRAKE ROD HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A DC CHAIN, AND THE TANK HAS BEEN FANCIFULLY DECORATED WITH MULTICOLOR FLOWERS.

  

THE FRAME ON CLIFF’S BIKE IS A 57 HARLEY STRAIGHTBAR. HE EXTENDED THE ORIGINAL GLIDEFORKS 8 INCHES AND RAKED OUT THE FRAME 7 DEGREES.

  

THE MOTORCYCLE IS THE LAST ROMANTIC EXPRESSION LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY. THE FRONTIER GONE AND THE MOTORCYCLE IS THE ONE THING THAT YOU CAN STILL BUILD YOURSELF FROM A BASKET CASE.
Written in Chopper Magazine around 1968.

  

Below is a photo of Cliff Vaughs today.

  

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