American impresario Varun Kataria, whose Xanadu Roller Arts skating rink debuted this summer in Bushwick, Brooklyn, argues: 'You need to have taste to create kitsch.' The venue's name alone betrays an obvious debt of inspiration to that loopy 1980 disco movie musical Xanadu, starring the late Olivia Newton-John. But painted pink walls, LED mood lighting and the glass-block circular windows are all right out of a Tarantino film. Plastic laminate and a galaxy of Milky Way star-printed casino broadloom carpet only heighten the winking Americana.
