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...Moganshan Road Shanghai's answer to Beijing's 798 is 50 Moganshan Road, or simply M50 - one of the main cooking pots of the city's art. This rabbit's warren of former factories and warehouses is situated on the banks of Suzhou Creek, and was first used as studio space in 2000. Now it's teeming with artists, curators, collectors and hip young students, as well as curious foreigners. It also houses the local branch of the Beijing Art Now Gallery, www.artnow.cn, which opened at the beginning of the year and like its parent is tasked with identifying...
While stretching may tighten tired faces, dermatologists warn that good form is key. "If someone were doing a bizarre contortion, they could spasm. They might actually cause permanent damage," says Dr. Min-Wei Christine Lee, director of the East Bay Laser and Skincare Center in Walnut Creek, Calif. "But [facial yoga] could help train muscles not to go into those worry lines...
...south, just north of the Mexican town of Tecate, the fire by Tuesday night had charred 70,000 acres, destroyed 200 homes, killed one man and injured 25, including five firefighters. To the north, the Witch Creek Fire burned 164,000 acres in the towns and communities of Poway, Ramona, Lakeside, San Marcos, Valley Center, Rincon, Wildcat Canyon and Rancho Santa Fe. By Tuesday, it had destroyed 500 homes and injured seven firefighters and two civilians. Other fires - in Rice Canyon, Poomacha, McCoy and Coronado Hills - destroyed homes and burned thousands of acres throughout the county, keeping firefighters scrambling...
...Seattle Seahawks, and one of the developers of the first private spacecraft, has never lacked for ways to stay busy, but in 2001 he joined with the University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to install a set of 42 dish antennas in Hat Creek, Calif. The so-called Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which was scheduled to go live on Oct. 11, does what conventional radio telescopes do. That is to say, it listens to the faint whisper of radio signals from celestial objects like quasars, which make up the collective voice of the universe...
...changed in the world of Sam Beam, the bearded Floridian who goes by the moniker Iron & Wine: Where once was a hushed grandeur, a well-oiled beast has let out a hollow howl. Beam’s previous solo LPs (2002’s “The Creek Drank the Cradle” and 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days”) glowed with disarming, whispered proximity. While these full-lengths and a few interspersed EPs have found his homespun aesthetic—all tape hum and endearing errors—buried beneath ever...