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...city's burgeoning art scene. Two new museums have recently opened: the Sculpture Garden, adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in the city's warehouse district. From downtown, spend $1.25 for a 25-minute trip north on the new Canal Street cable car to the bucolic Sculpture Garden. More than 50 bronze and stainless steel pieces--including Venus Victorious, by French impressionist Pierre Renoir--adorn the garden's lagoons and pine groves...
...allegiances. "We're in the thick of the battle for the survival of wine as an expression of individual complexity, up against the complex forces of homogenization," he says over a 2003 Fleurie and a hearty meal at Le Verre Volé, an artisanal wine bar near Paris' Canal St. Martin. He claims there are no villains in his piece, but audiences might come to a different conclusion after watching Nossiter's interviews with figures representing those very forces of homogenization. High-end vintners from France to California hire Michel Rolland, a supremely confident consultant from Pomerol in the Bordeaux...
During the Ross’s transit through the Suez Canal, he writes in an e-mail, “the threat of RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] attacks or sniper fire is all too imminent... The canal is at points so narrow that standing on one of the banks, Johnny Damon could toss a baseball right through the Pilot house and out the other side. As well guarded as the canal is, it is still one of the most hair-raising events of the deployment because of the ever-looming possibilities...
...Stone and their marionettes also have fun at their own expense, detailing things puppets can't do (shoot pool, dance, plausibly engage in martial arts). The real kick, however, is in the grandeur and detail of the production design, by Jim Dultz and David Rockwell. Paris, Cairo, the Panama Canal, the inside of Mount Rushmore and a terrorist hideout (modeled on the Star Wars cantina) look fabulous redreamed in miniature...
...degradation of these tribes was completed during the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein, after quelling a rebellion of the Ma’dan (who are Shia Muslims), ordered the construction of a large canal and several dams that in effect were forced to abandon their homes and their culture...