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...40th birthday recently, Chinese pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli languished in a Chinese prison. That same day, his wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina Fu, and their two young children, Aaron and Anita, spent over an hour outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade a faceless security guard—through locked doors, closed curtains and a small speaker—to accept a hand-drawn birthday card to deliver to him in prison. Their quest ended in vain. For the Yang family, this experience was a sad illustration of the opaque approach that the Chinese authorities...
...kids' birthday party at New York City's American Girl Place costs $30 a head. Ditto for a ticket to the doll retailer's in-store musicals. Twenty smackers will cover a new hairdo for your doll at the store's salon. But if you want to buy a doll, you'll have to shell out four times that. Despite such hefty prices, the three-story doll emporium that opened in midtown Manhattan last month is mobbed. So too is Chicago's five-year-old American Girl Place, which ranks as the Magnificent Mile's top-grossing store. Many...
...business model with other brands it owns, relying more on direct-to-consumer marketing to avoid the retail price-slashing wars that have rocked the industry, says Oppenheimer analyst Linda Bolton Weiser. Mattel's Fisher-Price division is already sending out its own catalog. Can Hot Wheels bumper-car birthday parties be far behind...
...Fella first bounced into Dash's mind when, at age 19, he went to a birthday party for rapper Heavy D at a cousin's Manhattan nightclub. The money and beautiful women hooked him. Two years later, a local DJ introduced Dash to Brooklyn rapper Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter. They teamed up, and Dash took Jay-Z on the road, but record labels weren't interested. Frustrated, Dash kept hustling Jay-Z at clubs in order to raise the money to start his own label, named in homage to the oil barons. He eventually persuaded Priority Records to distribute...
...birthday bash for the head of Intelligent Records Shilo McDonald, the show will feature four acts on that label. The Modifiers is a trio that plays punk that you can hum along to and pop that demands attention, and they have played venues as diverse as Lollapalooza and CBGB’s in New York. The Jumblies, a quintet formed four years ago, have generated some buzz in the Boston music scene with their two EPs. They cite influences as diverse as The Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Lou Reed and dub reggae. Slater and JMC also perform, with JMC contributing...