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...What you might get:] The chance to win Coleman as your "personal shopping elf...
...Lizard Lounge has a devoted, dreadlocked Cantabridgian following, but few Harvard types are cool enough to know about this avant-garde nest of musical experimentation. The lounge is 1920s Paris underground jumpstarted by a few decades, air-conditioned and in English. "Club d'Elf" performs mind-expanding electronica on Thursdays while Sundays see one of the best poetry jams in town, accompanied by the smooth Jeff Robinson Trio. Anyone can have a go: the atmosphere is hip yet forgiving...
Instead, Everquest thrives on the relationships that develop among players, who talk via chat windows in one of the languages spoken by the game's 12 races (elf, gnome, human, etc.). Players attend concerts, auctions and weddings; bicker over everything from wolf meat to scimitars; and pool talents and resources to quest for distant treasures. "Stuff like that," says McQuaid, "is more binding than shooting your friend with a rocket launcher...
Fairies, as Stella Beddoe makes clear in a beguiling catalog essay, are so much a fixture of English literature that it's no surprise they infiltrated English painting as well. In the 14th century Chaucer, via the Wife of Bath, was already pointing out that the elf queen and her company had retreated from human contact "manye hundred yeres ago," but their popular life continued to be irrepressible. Shakespeare is full of them--A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton...
...ELF doesn't have a press office (or headquarters or even a website), so it was hard to know exactly what to make of the self-proclaimed terrorists. The fires fit the front's m.o., and allies of the group didn't deny it was involved. Said Katie Fedor, spokeswoman for a sympathetic organization called the Animal Liberation Front: "Economic sabotage is justified when we have large corporations whose interests are protected because of their money...