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...restaurant-cum-mini-gallery, the Banpo Village Caf?, doubles as a salon for Nanjing's creative population. Painters and performance artists crowd every table, cracking sunflower seeds and chatting till the wee hours. While discussions often center on the struggle to bring modern art to the general public in a tradition-bound country with a skittish government, the crowd also dedicates plenty of time to laughing, drinking tea and making the most of the anti-9-to-5 lifestyle. And visitors, even nonartists, are readily welcomed. In one evening, I was invited to four artists' studios as well...
...native of North Carolina, Graham received his bachelors degree, summa cum laude, in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Real New Yorkers are like Jonathan Brady, a Citibank exec-cum-off broadway playwright and producer. Brady’s play “Heroes,” which I saw a few weeks ago, exposes the New York spirit—a spirit he shares. The two twenty-something protagonists shed their mundane workaday lives to fight crime as real life superheroes, eventually capturing the “SoHo strangler.” They, like Brady and all real New Yorkers, seek to live extraordinarily; they want something more; they need to be unique...
...break from boxing tradition, his opponent, Lennox Lewis, had been weighed in three hours earlier in a separate event. Boxing promoters may like the hype, but even they are not taking chances before the opening bell. They learned their lesson at the fracas-cum-pre-fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved...
Days after receiving her cum laude degree from the College, Haley S. Surti ’01 died June 12 in a bus crash in Peru...