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...children's wear. My problem is the store is so small. I would love to have many more people there. But the store is kind of nomadic too. We change the theme. One day it's children, one day it's Africa, sometimes it's furniture or it's art. Because it's so small we can celebrate many different thing. It's like a journey because it takes you away from the mundane idea of what is retail...
...their projects, the Blur Building, on a Swiss lake, was a "pavilion" that was mostly a fog of water vapor.) But over the past few years, they've proved that unconventional ideas can have solid, satisfying consequences. In 2006 they completed their first building, the ingenious Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Later this year, their highly original High Line Park will open along an abandoned elevated-railway line in lower Manhattan, a park that's a path...
...pain and bluff. Finger the scarf, then start to walk away, and its price floats silkily downward. When the mechanic calls to tell you that brakes and a timing belt and other services will run close to $2,000, it's time to break out the newly perfected art of the considered pause. You really don't even have to say anything pitiful before he'll offer to knock a few hundred dollars...
Even some high-end critics who cherish film as a visual art aren't sold on the format. "I did buy a Blu-ray," says Jim Emerson, whose cogent blog Scanners runs on rogerebert.com "and I feel like a sucker. To me, some DVDs look more like 35 mm than Blu-ray does. In another 10 years, who is going to need a plastic physical disc to store digitized information? I think Blu-ray is a transitional format that won't last long...
...Guests can choose from 13 configurations of rooms and suites, finished with Australian timber and handsome furnishings in contemporary earth tones, and accented by local art. Civilized touches - minuscule markups on the minibar, barista-worthy machines that brew complimentary coffee grounds - add to the welcome. The hotel's restaurant, Opus, is locally celebrated for chef Todd Cheavins' seasonal cuisine (the current menu features things such as vanilla-seared scallops with crab salad and grilled red emperor fish with tempura zucchini flowers). For working it off, the azure indoor lap pool is impossible to resist, and joggers will appreciate proximity...