4B -The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 28, 2006 Sink in your teeth: Nosferatu style returns for fall If you're still going to NYPD, you should eat at Silvio's instead I 4 By Jeffrey Bloomer, Kimberly Chou and Donn M. Fresard Daily Arts Writers By Kimberly Chou Associate Arts Editor If you happen to see fiendishly well-dressed bands of young men lurking around the University student ghetto, don't be alarmed - the vampire look is the hip new thing. Or so we hear. Prowling campus as a noctur- nal, disaffected Kiefer Suther- land or Jason Patric circa 1987 has been elevated from a Hal- loween novelty to one of the season's most fascinating, if not most prominent (at least not in Ann Arbor) trends in men's fashion. But it's not so much the biker undead look of "The Lost Boys" that men are going for, nor the stiff cape and widow's peak of Bela Lugosi. The look empha- sizes slim-cut pants, contrasting jacket linings (preferably blood red), suits and overcoats with peaked lapels and rich textures like velvet. But why vampires? Stars of staple stories in the Halloween/ late-autumn canon, vampires hold some heady, romanticized mystery that Frankenstein or the Headless Horseman just can't touch. Not only can Bram Stok- er's dark count transform into a bat, the whole blood-sucking fetish is pretty hot. Today's vampire man is eternally classy yet decidedly rock'n'roll, demonstrated by Nosferatu fans in the fashion spread "Vamping" in The New York Times Style Magazine. In the feature, the camera captures young, modern-day Lestats in mid-stride, apparently walk- ing with some echolocation-led alacrity toward their equally attractive prey. The models sport various hipster haircuts; most look like a mix between Kate Moss and Ashton Kutcher with killer cheekbones, kohl-heavy eyes and hair impossible to style without an actual reflection. Lack of mirror-image and campy things of similar nature make up the cheeky introduction to the piece, consisting of a list of advantages ("Chiropterosexual," can mate with bats and humans) and disadvantages ("Must avoid chicken Joanna in garlic sauce at Mr. Chow," "Dentists charge Jeffrey Bloomer: Looking for a place to eat in the State Street area is depressing. The area is littered with God-forsak- en chains: Buffalo Wild Wings, Cosi, Jimmy John's. Lame. Pseudo-chains like Amer's are no less of a disappointment. So finding Silvio's here was a pleasant surprise, like slog- ging through a pointless movie redeemed by a Peter Sarsgaard performance. Donn M. Fresard: I had no idea this place existed - it's in the same building as Sushi. come, a pretty dismal sushi joint, and I held that against it - until my housemate played an acoustic set here a couple weeks ago. They gave us a free eggplant pizza, which was a lot more satisfying than you'd think. Silvio's is run by an Ital- courtesyofUniversa ian guy who spent 25 years "I told you I'd be back." making pizza in his father's bakery in the Abruzzi region, so extra for whitening fangs") to their pizza is probably the most being one of the sought-after authentic in town. Plus, they undead. use a lot of unusual ingredients, The Times has also devoted and most of them are organic, if space to the trend in its Thurs- dayStyles section, with a Sept.' 21 story titled "What I Like ~ About Dracula." Essentially, it's an extension of fashion's recent move toward a more tailored" look (again, the slimmer suits, clean lines, etc.) And then there's the hair. The long-in-the-front, short- on-the-sides cut - less 1980s = Prince than a Crispin Glover/ Beckham mohawk amalgam: - has been gaining popularity, it seems, with young, metropoli- tan professionals who want to rock a near 'hawk at MisShapes during the weekend but clean it up for I-banking during the 9-to- 5. The sharp side-part and long front fringe may be new to them, but Londoners as well as select East Quad kids have been sport- ing the "CEO-hawk" for several seasons now. Call it Transylvanian chic, Dracula smart or Nosferatu what-have-you, but the fall trend of dressing vampiresque is very much alive. you're into that sort of thing. Kimberly Chou: OK. Guys. Can I just say something? This place has a pizza with fennel on it. DMF: Yeah. Kim, you're an organic snob. How many times do I have to tell you that organic eggs and bananas taste the same as the regular kind? KC: Donn, don't be a dick. JB: (Interrupts.) Anyway. We were going to order the "fantasy pizza" - asparagus, artichoke, ham and two kinds of cheeses - but I don't eat meat, so we asked Silvio if we could substi- tute something for ham. He sort of stood there and thought about it for a while, and I thought he was mulling over the logistics, but it turned out he was trying to figure out which ingredients would best complement the rest of the pizza. That was cool. DMF: Yeah, I thought so. My impression of Silvio was that he took a lot of pride in his pizzas and really wanted us to enjoy them. And we did. The truffle oil pizza with shiitake mush- rooms was one of the best I've had. The crust, in particular, really stood out - light, crispy and flavorful. JB: I liked how clean the Silvio's Organic Pizza Italian Restaurant Cheap ModerE ; rf. Specialties: gatic nizes Located at: 715 N. University Ave. Near Sushi.come ' The fantasy pizza. pizza was. Not greasy at all. And the menu is the best I've seen. There are a lot of really creative combinations that I want to try. Also, Silvio brought us free pas- tries after we finished our pizza, which was amazing. KC: You know this place is open until 3 a.m. on weekends, right? So why doesn't it get mobbed by drunks after the bars close and the house parties get rolled, as in Big Ten, NYPD and Bell's? It's even on the way back to the Hill dorms. DMF: My guess is that nobody knows it's open late, and Markley kids aren't big on organic. Still, it's been here less than a year. I think it'll eventu- ally work its way into the under- graduate zeitgeist. It certainly STEVEN TAI/Daily deserves to. JB: So. Complaints? KC: The decor - seriously. The cheesy faux-wood panel- ing, yellow stucco walls and splashes of gaudy red Formica give the impression that the last tenant was a low-grade insur- ance office. The pictures of West Virginia mountain ranges randomly scattered around are barely a notch above motiva- tional-slogan posters, and the series of drawings on the back wall can only be described as pedestrian. DMF: Kimberly. Those are coloring-book pages. It's a "young artist's wall." KC: They could at least try staying inside the lines. JB: (Rolls eyes.) 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