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...tours can be grueling. In Chiapas, Lipoff and his 13 companions spent hours in dense briefings on indigenous-rights negotiations, Mexican elections, globalization, fair trade and biodiversity. Their $11-a-night hotel in San Cristobal de las Casas was spartan; little time was left for escapes to the colorful artisan markets and baroque churches of the 16th century city. On an overnight visit to Nuevo Yibeljoj, an impoverished community of displaced Zapatista sympathizers, the visitors lay their sleeping bags on bare planks, fought off mosquitoes and fleas and urinated behind bushes rather than face a stinking outhouse...
...assistants in the past, but one left to open his own workshop and another to become a gondolier, which has become a very lucrative business. The official price for a ride is $60 for 50 minutes, but usually ends up closer to $75 for half an hour. "An artisan like myself gets paid with the satisfaction of doing something he likes, and doing it also in the way he likes," Pastor notes philosophically. "But at least in Italy, this comes at a heavy price...
...cell phones of Realtors chirp away during lunch with calls from buyers willing to dole out $3 million to $4 million for hardscrabble land with little productive value. "Cost is not an object," marvels appraiser Billy Snow, cutting into his chicken-fried steak. Architectural firms such as Kerrville's Artisan Group are busy building homes as big as country clubs with private jetports. "People have built castles, actual castles," says Kerr County's chief appraiser, Fourth Coates. "They even change the direction of streams." Take the Stelmachs, for example. Rhonda, a decorator, and her husband Leigh, an executive with Dollar...
...Artisan Entertainment
LICENSED TO THRILL A core group of familiar characters is skipping from one entertainment platform to another--TV, video and the big screen. Here Comes Clifford (Artisan Entertainment), featuring the big red dog, is great for kids starting to appreciate narrative. Arthur Goes to Hollywood (Sony Wonder), which skewers celebrity, is a wonderful re-creation of the way kids speak and interact...