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...Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in attendance, the Dome was initially considered a failure. Sure, it lured 6.5 million visitors to its themed Millennium Experience attractions during its year-long run - many more than any other U.K. attraction - but the government had naively promised to draw 12 million. Moreover, Britons largely considered its publicly-funded $1.22 billion price tag a waste of lottery and public money. That it took another three years to finally unload it - at a cost of around $60 million more for upkeep - only hardened negative attitudes toward the Dome...
...club, Indigo, hosts less mainstream acts, such as funkster George Clinton and jazz great Al Jarreau. Prince also played at many of his aftershow parties into the wee hours. Its exhibition space opens next month, kicking off with a nine-month run of a King Tut exhibit expected to draw up to 2 million visitors. Also in the works: a British music hall of fame, another nightclub and a permanent Cirque de Soleil theater...
...salvaged to appeal to audiences in the era of roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds of the audience were under the age of 35, and the production netted $92,000 - modest by the standards of Covent Garden or La Scala, but equal...
...community complaints about a group of officers, known as the "Wolf Pack," who wore tattoos of the animal. "The uniform needs to reek of professionalism," says Larry Harmel, executive director of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association. Several departments in his state have already initiated bans. "People can draw negative conclusions by looking at big, bold tattoos...
...microfinance and Natalie Portman.” Doug Henry, who is in his second year at HBS and is one of the vice presidents of international development and microfinance for the Social Enterprise Club, which sponsored the event, said Portman’s fame helped draw attention to the subject. “I think it’s great that she’s using her celebrity to generate awareness for the issue,” he said...