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...arrives in September from Drawn & Quarterly, followed by Fantagraphic's "Blab #12" in October. "D&Q" includes classic reprints like early "Gasoline Alley" strips by Frank King, along with European and American artists. The "Blab" franchise leans on the less-comix, more graphic-arts side, with a greater avant-garde quotient. Frankly they both can feel overblown, but hi-end showcases like these need to exist...
Businesses are quicker than ever to cut off fired employees' access to computer systems and more willing than ever to go to court. This year Silicon Valley celebrated a landmark prosecution in which, after four years, Avant Corp. and seven of its current and former executives were forced to pay $220 million in fines and restitution for stealing secrets from a rival tech firm. Avant got information by paying off an engineer from the targeted firm...
...serve lattes and answer questions. "Is it pronounced I-N-G or Ing?" a first timer asks. (The former.) With a hip sound track and stacks of ING Direct clothes for sale, the cafe feels more like Banana Republic than a bank. "It's not supposed to be avant-garde," says CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann. "We're basically saying banking should be as uncomplicated as a cup of coffee...
...Complains Lusuardi: "The goal of the school is to train them to work only with their own name." Most of the graduates do just that, and a surprising number of them choose to do it not in Paris or Milan, but in Antwerp. Of the original Antwerp Six, the avant-garde talents who first put the school and this city of 452,000 people on the fashion map in the early 1980s, four of them - Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter van Beirendonck and Dirk van Saene - remain based in Antwerp. A fifth, Dirk Bikkembergs, left just last year...
...warming, drug addiction, famine, Bryant Gumbel), canned music does not cry out to heaven for vengeance. But small evils---the evils of banality--- also need attention, especially when they become universal. Canned music is what you expect to hear when you die and go to hell. "De la musique, avant toute chose," advised the symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. I'll give you de la musique: In one ear, in the other...