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...buying. Red meat used to make up 60% of his business, he says, but since the first case of "mad cow" disease was discovered in Italy last month, "no one even asks for it. Shoppers are terrorized." Meanwhile, at a bustling organic meat and vegetable market on Paris' Boulevard Raspail, greengrocer Gérard Courvaisier is all smiles. "Business is up 30% here. People suddenly see us as a refuge. The mad cow crisis has been a real shot in the arm for organic producers...
...just across the way from the original Disneyland, the state's name is spelled out in 11 1/2-ft.-high letters, widely spaced to spread across the entrance. Beyond the logo you see a clever mix of shimmering images: the Golden Gate Bridge (it carries the park monorail) above Hollywood Boulevard and, at the far horizon, a flawless Pacific sunset...
...Nicole Kidman had parted ways, I waited for the denial. Cruise's formidable publicist, Pat Kingsley, will be all over this one, I thought. She'll run down those rumors like a redneck in a pickup truck, hitch 'em dead to the back and drag them down Sunset Boulevard. And then came the shocking report over the Associated Press wire, with Kingsley confirming the awful truth...
...corner of Stevie Wonder Street and Hip-Hop Avenue, just a few short blocks from Billie Holiday Boulevard, stands the music of singer-songwriter Erykah Badu. She's not in a real place, of course, but in a bit of musical territory she has imagined into being. With a towering headwrap that's both vaguely African and vaguely Dr. Seussian, her slender form decked out in earth-goddess colors, she looks like nobody else in popular music. Her voice cutting like a subtle blade, her beats pumping like block parties, she mixes myriad influences in her work, but winds...
...struck UMass this spring, when vandalism, community conflict and miscommunication between the college and neighborhood groups halted further installation. The Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association, a residents' group in Dorchester, specifically opposed plans to place a grand Sol LeWitt sculpture on the entrance road to the school, off Morrissey Boulevard. LeWitt's piece, entitled "100 Columns," is site-specific for the entrance median and consists of 8200 concrete blocks ranging from four to 30' in height. Reminiscent of skyscrapers or a series of musical notes, the sculpture would pay homage to the Boston skyline while greeting visitors with an illusion...