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...city's best silk manufacturers, 22 rue du Boef; the Villa Florentine, in a former convent, 25 Montée StBarthélémy. is an appealing jumble of small shops and restaurants tucked into Italianate pink and ocher buildings that bear witness to Lyons' 15th and 16th century wealth. The first stock market in France opened here in 1506, and with royal patronage the city became the silk-weaving capital of Europe. The cobbled streets of Vieux Lyons are connected by closed alleys called traboules. Originally just shortcuts up and down the hill, traboules were also used...
...Justin Timberlake is still more than a week away. Tuesday's paparazzi-style performance was for Picabo Street, the American skier who took 16th place in the women?s downhill skiing event...
...That's right, 16th...
...hills - 15 of them faster than Street - appeared lost on Julie. Street, however, acknowledged Montillet's achievement as a "wonderful day for Carole, a great day for France." Even though the downhill was her final competitive race before retirement, Street said she wasn't at all disappointed in her 16th placing. "In my eyes and in my heart, qualifying for the Olympics felt like winning a gold medal," she said. And the country acted as though...
...price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper and stuck to untreated concrete pillars with gaffer tape. Using public money and private contributions from sponsors like Pioneer and Bloomberg, Bourriaud and Sans recreated the atmosphere of a seedy Berlin squat in the heart of Paris' opulent 16th arrondissement. But what does all this nouveau squalor have to do with contemporary art? The curators don't explain. Nor do they say why they didn't simply move into one of the many dilapidated industrial sites around Paris. Presumably, their intended audience prefers chic imitation to the real thing...