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...role better defines Robert De Niro than unofficial mayor of New York City's Tribeca district. By investing in everything from its dining scene (Nobu) to its arts industry (the Tribeca Film Festival), De Niro has helped establish the 'hood as one of Manhattan's hippest. And his latest debut could be his most ambitious yet: the eight-floor, 88-room Greenwich Hotel...
...music videos, which feature psychedelic graphics and monks striding to fashionable breakbeats. Or maybe it's her songs, which incorporate Buddhist mantras, traditional Chinese instruments and electronica. At any rate, the U.K.'s Sunday Times has anointed her "the Asian Björk." The Guardian gave her debut album, Alive, four stars upon its U.K. release last October, adding, "Sa Dingding deserves to be the first Chinese singer-songwriter to become a celebrity in the West." In April, she flew to London to receive a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. And in late July, Alive...
What brought it from a simple character to the global icon it is today? -Andy Walderman in Rockford, Illinois I used to be told that Americans would never wear black. However, I think that the Americans have changed since Anna Sui featured black in her debut collection in NYC and received the plaudits for it. Anna Sui loves Hello Kitty and we have a similar taste. So I thought that if she were accepted in the U.S., so would be Kitty. Later, coincidentally Hello Kitty black handbags, rather than purple and pink, started to sell well in the States...
America's pastime, baseball, and its sister sport, softball, will be banished from the Olympic program after Beijing. But flag-waving Americans shouldn't be dismayed. For on Aug. 20, a new event will debut at the Olympics, a quintessential U.S endeavor that will make all the red-white-and-blue-blooded citizens proud. America, introduce yourself to BMX cycling. Or more simply, dudes on dirt bikes...
...fascination with family history was also at the heart of Hutz's film debut Everything is Illuminated, in which a young American Jew travels through Ukraine in search of clues about his grandfather's life during the Holocaust. Hutz plays Alex, a local driver and translator. In a charmingly subtle performance, he restrains his energy levels and, in mangled English, delivers the film's best lines. One highlight: "Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer...