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...appeal to their new clientele, some halls are smoke and alcohol free; others have special rooms for G-rated playing or set aside afternoon hours for families. In New York City, for example, Amsterdam Billiards is host to birthday parties for the younger set about once a week. At Reno's in Webster, Texas, only sanitized versions of pop songs are allowed on the popular karaoke machine before 10 p.m. At Slate Street Billiards in Vernon Hills, Ill., minors sport T shirts featuring a beer stein with a red circle and slash, indicating that alcohol is off-limits...
Golden is presently immersed in writing his second novel, which tells the story of a man in Amsterdam in the 1840s who comes to the U.S. in the 1860s and becomes a successful meat packer in Chicago...
...screeched the Daily Mail. But the tabs' time might be better spent exploring the cozy relationship between the Turner Prize judges and the nominees. Andrew Wilson, who short-listed Perry, was paid to pen a catalog essay on him for an exhibition of Perry's work in Amsterdam this year. Tate, the Tate Modern's magazine, which promotes the museum's activities - including the Turner Prize - reports that in 12 of the last 20 years, Turner Prize jurors came from galleries that had hosted exhibitions for nominated artists. Three 1989 nominees had exhibited in Bristol's Arnolfini Gallery - whose director...
...series entitled New China, New Year. Jiang and Duan's films will also show at this month's Hong Kong International Film Festival. While making The Secret of My Success, a hilariously honest account of a corrupt village election and a winner of the Silver Wolf award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Duan kept a CCTV decal stuck on the front of his camera. "It opens doors," he explains...
...Dutch are floating a different strategy. Why not live, work, shop - even drive - on the water? Builders in the Netherlands aren't thinking houseboats, but wood-and-aluminum constructions that float atop huge pieces of polystyrene encased in concrete. Six prototype homes have been towed to Ijburg, near Amsterdam. Imported from Canada, the concept dates to the 1930s, when lumberjacks built shacks on floating timber they couldn't sell, say developers Ooms Avenhorn. Another 250 houses - to sell for at least 3220,000 - are in the pipeline, as are 12 to 16 more developments. Even more ambitious are plans...