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...would think it was Christmas in August. But instead of at the North Pole, Santa's workshop is tucked away in a suburban Omaha, Neb., office park where a red-bearded elf named Chip Davis is getting ready for the big day. Creator of the phenomenally successful New Age band Mannheim Steamroller, he is arranging a 12-city Yuletide concert tour and the fall release of his new Celebration CD, a compendium of what has become the best-selling Christmas music in America...
...with its eclectic collection that ranges from solid-gold Byzantine-style necklaces to thoroughly modern earrings with the jagged contours of a Frank Gehry building. Be sure to stop by Elena Votsi's store on 7 Xanthou Street, tel: (30-210) 360 0936, where the former Gucci designer (and creator of the 2004 Olympic medals) shows her latest wares, including a series of oversized, wafer-thin 18-carat rings. The tiny Petaei-Petaei shop, on 30 Skoufa Street, tel: (30-210) 362 4315, showcases Greece 's newest talents, including Vali Kondidi, whose work with semiprecious stones is breathtaking yet affordable...
Graphic novels used to be viewed as comic books--only bigger and more pretentious. Now that sales are booming, the medium is being embraced by artists as a hip way to tell challenging stories. The just released Birth of a Nation (Crown; 140 pages) by Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love...
...family of performing professionals. I was as close to the entertainment industry as my section of the Corliss clan got, And as a critic, of course, I?m basically a paid member of the audience - a voyeur, not an exhibitionist; a destroyer, not a creator. Yet the showbiz bug keeps infiltrating successive generations, keeps bringing them to New York. Derek is here now, waiting tables and taking courses as he and a friend hone their improv comedy act. His father, after a full career in the airline business, is now the executive director of a Denver-area symphony orchestra...
...debut, Garden State (which opens July 28). The film is a love song to suburban New Jersey that is so smart and touching, Bruce Springsteen might be able to retire soon. "I kind of wanted it to suck. I wanted it to be a big, noble failure," says Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence, who will have Braff, 29, direct some episodes this season. "I was extremely jealous. I might have to put myself on the show as an actor to even the playing field...