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...film Old Boy - have settled in the 500,000-sq-m valley, 40 minutes north of Seoul. The community is still a work in progress (60 buildings have been completed and 20 are under construction), but tourists will find plenty to see, including cutting-edge architecture, cinemas, cafés, galleries and craft shops. More important, it's a blissful change from the heavy atmosphere that hangs over the military outposts lining the main highway. "We will invite North Korea to host simultaneous cultural events," says Heyri spokesman Yoon Sung Taek. "Celebrating the arts creates harmony...
...multitasker and enjoy the odd shot of java, then Copenhagen may be the place for you. In the Danish capital's rapidly gentrifying Nørrebro area - where the city's café culture has long flourished - a wave of young entrepreneurs has started a new trend by opening "fusion cafés." The term is not a reference to any cross-cultural cuisine on the menu. Instead, it designates a place where you can "fuse" your coffee drinking with some other activity, from shopping to getting your laundry done. Rubbing shoulders with the more traditional caf...
...wheelchair users from socializing. In Britain, the cerebral palsy charity Scope found that only 66% of 1,300 clubs, restaurants and other facilities had accessible toilets. When Miguel Angel Fernández goes out in Madrid, he sticks to familiar haunts. "You get used to going to the same cafés, bars and shops," says Fernández, 31, paralyzed from the waist down by a motorcycle accident 11 years ago. "Dozens of others are just impossible. Either the doors are too narrow, there are steps to get in and, in most of them, the toilets...
...Bronx, Spektor sports a rare combination of classical-piano training and hip friends (she opened for the Strokes' last tour). She also has a singing style that springs from an immigrant's fascination with her second language. On Poor Little Rich Boy she stretches words like girlfriend and café into epic solos, then crams long sentences into her mouth and spits them out in a few exuberant bars. Her music - from Tin Pan Alley to Carole King-style folk - is also a stylistic melting pot. Kathleen Edwards Back To Me Were Edwards not Canadian, her second album...
...epidemiology and public health at University College London. The government's alcohol policy probably won't cost Labour the next election, widely expected in May, but it has forced a rethink on policing and may cost votes. "If Tony Blair thinks the yobs are going to sit in cafés like on the Continent, he's got another thing coming," says Chris Gibson, who owns a classical music shop in Nottingham. "Europeans eat and drink. We don't. We booze...