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Candid to a Fault I was absolutely baffled by the remarks of former First Lady Barbara Bush after she toured the Astrodome complex in Houston, where evacuees from Hurricane Katrina were sheltered [Sept. 19]. She said, "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas... And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." Is she scared because poor and black people might want to stay in Texas? I encourage her to live in the Astrodome...
...this time of year, the city's cultural season is in full force. Renzo Piano's new complex, Parco della Musica, houses the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia as well as the city's most important musical events in three separate halls. In December the Rome Opera House will have Lo Schiaccianoci, otherwise known as The Nutcracker. After years of being closed for a contentious restoration, the Ara Pacis, the Emperor Augustus' monument to peace, dedicated in 9 B.C., is finally open (Piazza Augusto Imperatore). It is to be the centerpiece of a new museum that is being designed...
...stunning view for turning a great meal into a grand one. The room, pictured right, is one of several private suites at the ?ber-chic Italian-Japanese restaurant, tel: (852) 3427 2288, that capitalize on its magnificent perch atop One Peking Road?a showy new fashion-cum-dining complex with panoramic views of the Hong Kong skyline. With its dramatic corner location, tatami room 1 may be the most spectacular of all, so book well ahead. Been there and done that? Then check out these other sky-high tables...
...deal in my rural town and other not-so-publicized rural parts of the country. When the public thinks of extreme poverty in America, images of the ailing inner city come to mind. Due to the extensive concentration of poverty in these heavily populated areas, the complex problems of these segments of society are markedly more visible. Even in these places, where problems are evident, solutions have been sadly lacking...
...epiphany led to a yearlong project in which Garcetti photographed workers joining and welding steel beams to assemble the curvy, complex framework of Frank Gehry's architecture. Stepping gingerly around the dangerously suspended girders with a 35-mm Nikon but no tether, Garcetti was literally and emotionally unharnessed...