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Zebrahead is one of the big up-and-comings. You've heard "Get Back" all over the radio. That's them. Around since summer of 1996, when Greg Bergdorf (guitar), Justin "Goldtoof" Maurello (vocals, guitar), Ben Osmundson (bass), Ed Udhus (drums) and Ali Tabatabaee (rapper) jammed so well together they decided to depart their other bands and become the best Orange Country band of the 1997 L.A. Music Awards, Zebrahead grew out of the O.C. punk scene into their own inspirational and unique white-light weldwork of angry vocals and freestyle rap. Through a string of charged, high-energy shows...
...part a response to the user-friendly Sephora, Bergdorf Goodman, the posh Manhattan department store, is nearly tripling the size of its cosmetics floor and adding a multitude of new services, including free makeovers and informal seminars on anti-aging treatments. The cosmetics floors at Bloomingdale's stores in Manhattan and Century City, Calif., have recently finished renovations to make their products more accessible to customers and the sales turf easier to navigate...
Were Halston alive today, he would probably sense a chilling deja vu in all this business uncertainty. His label's demise was precipitated by the launching of the Halston III line he created for J.C. Penney in 1983. Not only were sales disappointing, but upscale establishments like Bergdorf Goodman, spurning a line that was also available in middle-class department stores, pulled the whole label off their racks. After that debacle Halston's empire collapsed, and he eventually lost control of his name. The label remained dormant until three years ago, when Tropic Tex decided to start it up again...
...Linda and the new chief talent at Chloe, have become stars of the fashion world, with spring ready-to-wear lines aimed at women whose idea of time well spent extends beyond eating dinner at their desks. When the new Chloe collection arrived at New York City's Bergdorf Goodman this winter, it sold so quickly that the clothes had to be removed from the racks so there would be enough merchandise left when its designer came for a promotional event in February...
...intimidating). Of course, there's nothing new in the idea of the commercial and secular overpowering the sacred; a look at Manhattan shows us any number of churches dwarfed by skyscrapers, and even on Fifth Avenue, it's not clear that St. Patrick's Cathedral is any taller than Bergdorf Goodman. Well, this is America, a secular society with a capitalist economy, and commercial buildings should be taller than houses of worship. What you see is what...