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...site of the Miss America pageant for over 80 years, Atlantic City is a cartoon of America: schmaltzy and faux-luxurious on the Monopoly-famed boardwalk, brittle and struggling just steps away. One cab driver rattles off a list of housing projects just inside the city; she brags that her neighbors are all police officers, “but I can still go to my mailbox in the morning smoking a blunt...
When I was growing up, an editorial cartoon from the local newspaper hung in my family’s kitchen. Published around 1992, just after a minor storm had knocked out power to most of the area, it depicted a house submerged in a 100-foot snowbank, all of its wires out of commission. A plaintive voice rose from beneath the icy tomb: “Another ferocious blizzard! No power! No TV! No computer! We’re totally cut off from the information superhighway!” A second speaker replied, “Isn?...
...hands of underground-comic pioneer Spain Rodriguez, the 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel (later a 1947 movie) gets the cartoon treatment its subjects--hustling and degradation in a 1930s carnival--beg for. Magician Stanton Carlisle hatches a plan to pose as a spiritualist to con rich marks, in the process revealing the family history that destroyed his faith in God and man. Nightmare Alley (Fantagraphics; 129 pages) is an existential novel wrapped in a noir chiller, and Rodriguez's lurid drawings strike just the right balance of sheen and sleaze. Step right...
...years ago, Vasile's son Cristian started a U.S.-sales operation based in Pasadena, Calif. It was easier than trying to break into the Old World European market. Says Stroe: "Europe is very conservative, but the U.S. is open minded. We receive orders from there for violins painted with cartoon characters, butterflies or flowers. It's a great way to attract children to play, and we respect that." American customers also do more shopping online, where Gliga-USA now sells its own branded instruments...
...Nevertheless, Mihara may eschew the cartoon soles for his next Puma collection. Even though the concept is popular, the 31-year-old designer knows it may not last beyond one season. Japanese fashion's ephemeral nature will force him to come up with something new?yet again. Luckily, Mihara says his consumers seem ever willing to experiment, an easy assimilation that mirrors his homeland's historic ability to import technology and imbue it with a uniquely Japanese aesthetic. "Every day, we reinvent ourselves," says Mihara. "It's exciting to think about what we may become tomorrow...