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Whether you're going to New Orleans as a novice antiques shopper or an accomplished collector, keep in mind that the ultimate goal is to enjoy what you buy. "Pick out what you really love and what you think is gorgeous," Riddle says. "That's the beauty of antiquing." Then you can celebrate with a creole dinner and a night of jazz on Bourbon Street...
Katagiri is a 40-year-old loan collector who gets no respect. Until a human-size frog, over green tea in Katagiri's Tokyo apartment, exhorts him to engage in mortal combat with a gigantic, destructive worm kilometers beneath the city center. Katagiri doesn't think he has it in him. The frog persuades him otherwise...
DIED. ALAN LOMAX, 87, folk-music collector who helped discover Woodie Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and others; in Sarasota, Fla. Described as "a missionary" by Bob Dylan, Lomax brought American folk music to the rest of the world, influencing the British skiffle craze of the 1950s, which gave rise to the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon...
...invested in process rather than results. Listen to his music casually, and you wonder: What does DJ Shadow have to say for himself? But focus on the voices he chooses to speak for him on The Private Press: there's the woman dictating a letter home, the giddy record collector discussing his tape collection, a kid asking to be told a story, the egoist who declares, "And now...eternity!" as somber keys take him away to some sad netherworld. Not everyone will have the time or patience, but those who give Davis close attention will discover his secret: he turns...
While in Texas, Mancusi-Ungaro was called on for assistance by Dominique De Menil, a wealthy art collector who was starting a museum—the Menil Collection—in Texas...