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Legacy was started by two Dallas businessmen: Ray Washburne, a real estate and Tex-Mex-restaurant baron, and George Seay III, founder of the Seay Stewardship & Investment Co. and grandson of former Texas Governor Bill Clements. Its members are mostly young--in their 30s and 40s--and wealthy, through entrepreneurship, inheritance or both. They are Christians concerned with social justice, in the mold of Rick Warren of Purpose Driven Life fame, and practice their faith without, as a Broadmoor attendee put it, "quoting Leviticus"--a reference to the harder-edged rhetoric at other gatherings of social conservatives...
When Paul Baron first moved to Tokyo from London, he found it hard to keep up with the Japanese capital's prolific art scene. Language barriers and a lack of timely information meant that the recent art-school graduate was always hearing about exhibitions he wanted to see the day after they closed. So Baron teamed up with a couple of friends two years ago and launched tokyoartbeat.com - a bilingual website listing shows at over 500 Tokyo galleries and museums...
...site's most useful features is a Google Map "mashup" overlaid with gallery locations, making it easy for visitors to plot an afternoon's art hopping. Users can also bookmark their favorite shows and venues, and request e-mail reminders of exhibitions. These user-friendly enhancements are born of Baron's own experience as a gallery buff. "We are our best users," he says. "We don't pretend to know anything about art. We just enjoy going to shows." Baron extends his beat to the Kansai region later this year, with an edition of the site dedicated to art happenings...
When Paul Baron first moved to Tokyo from London, he found it hard to keep up with the Japanese capital's prolific art scene. Language barriers and a lack[an error occurred while processing this directive] of timely information meant that the recent art-school graduate was always hearing about exhibitions he wanted to see the day after they closed. So Baron teamed up with a couple of friends two years ago and launched tokyoartbeat.com - a bilingual website listing shows at over 500 Tokyo galleries and museums...
...site's most useful features is the Google Map mashup overlaid with gallery locations, making it easy for visitors to plot an afternoon's art hopping. Users can also bookmark their favorite shows and venues, and request e-mail reminders of exhibitions. These user-friendly enhancements are born of Baron's own experience as a gallery buff. "We are our best users," he says. "We don't pretend to know anything about art. We just enjoy going to shows." Baron extends his beat to the Kansai region later this year, with an edition of the site dedicated to art happenings...