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...visiting artist-curator Tim Barber’s online art gallery tinyvices.com, a mixed-media motley of art and artistically-inclined product, one might feel inclined to agree with Sontag. Perhaps because Barber himself is a gifted photographer, the site is photo-heavy and characterized by the now-standard downtown blend of the High and the Low. Life’s outtakes are elevated to the level of art, and art, with greater intention, is made accessible to the modern viewer. Tinyvices is written in “Seinfeld”-era HTML, with simple hyperlinks assigning each work...
...concert hall around Beijing, joining the capacity crowds jamming into decidedly Chinese venues to hear some decidedly un-Chinese music: Puccini in the Forbidden City; Dido & Aeneas at the Beijing Concert Hall; Handl's Messiah at the Wang Fu Jing Church; Wagner's Tannhäuser at the downtown Poly Theater. People who order their tickets in advance get in; the rest get introduced to another Western tradition - scalpers, who buy in bulk and sell out fast. It's been that way every year since Long first launched the annual Beijing Music Festival (BMF) in 1998. And that, most people...
...celebrations are going on all over the country, though they are likely not as big as Chicago's. A standing-room crowd went wild and wilder in the ballroom of a Hilton hotel in downtown Cleveland as the number 270 got closer and closer. Meanwhile, about 45 excited students packed into a dormitory lounge on the Drake University campus in Iowa to watch election results roll in on CNN, nibbling on red, white and blue food (red salsa, graham crackers with white frosting and blue - O.K., technically purple - grapes) and drank red and blue Hawaiian punch. "It's just...
...sort of holiday. Businesses are closing mid-afternoon, if they're bothering to open at all. Classes are canceled. German tourists are marching down Chicago's most prominent boulevard, Michigan Avenue, wearing tee-shirts bearing Obama's face.The authorities estimate some 1 million people will assemble in downtown Chicago for what they believe will be celebration tonight in Grant Park, overlooking Lake Michigan. Never mind that there are barely 70,000 official tickets to the official Obama-Biden party...
...improvise. "I was ashamed that my side, 'the good guys', would rip off his sign," Sadun told TIME in an email. "So I decided to replace it, partly as penance and partly to show him, and the neighborhood, that we really are the good guys." Sadun headed to the downtown GOP office, a quiet, low key operation, and asked for a sign for his neighbor. "I want to put in a good word for the workers at the GOP office, who were extremely friendly, even after I explained that I was a Democratic precinct chair. They understand that Democrats...