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...International Monster Museum” and “The Experiment” and showcasing the magic of Gifford and Roy, Spooky World is certainly not, as its website proudly proclaims, “nothing more than monsters jumping out.” Take the red line to UMass/JFK. Expo Center is at 200 Mount Vernon St. If you can’t find the time or the transportation to venture out of Cambridge in search of Halloween fun before the big day, don’t despair. Sometimes a weekend at Harvard can be the most ghoulish experience...
Shanghai's government has a new class enemy: jaywalkers. As part of a long-term campaign designed to rid the city of shameful behavior before it hosts the 2010 World Expo, as many as 112,000 renegade pedestrians have been fined up to $6 each since May. That's not all. Offenders have had their salaries cut after pictures of them crossing against traffic were broadcast on the news. One woman spent 10 days in jail for contesting her fine and was eventually pressured to resign from her job. "If someone is caught jaywalking in front of strangers, they...
...recent Book Expo America, before the breakfasting majority of America's booksellers and editors, John Updike prophesied the digitization of all books into an online "universal library." He was prophesying by proxy, as the original prophet was Kevin Kelly, one of the founding editors of Wired magazine. But while Updike conveyed Kelly's premise with conviction, he had no intention of celebrating it: rather digitization, he told the audience, was a "grisly" scenario, one that would lead to readers treating books like music, downloading and cutting them into playlist-like "snippets." The word "snippets" was delivered with an East Coast...
...stays there is a master class in marketing: there are Paris Hilton--branded perfumes, jewelry, books and dance clubs (on deck: Paris Hilton's debut CD). So why not, then, a new cell-phone-based video game, which the hotel heiress introduced at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles? "Sorry, I'm late," Hilton told the crush of ardent fans and photographers who had been waiting more than an hour for her. "I'm really excited to have my new video game Diamond Quest." Er, what? Promotional materials at the E3 booth called it Paris Hilton...
Debuting this spring, Tearrow's tea-infused gum comes in eight flavors, including oolong, lemon and green tea. Imported from China, the sugarless gum uses actual tea solids, not imitation flavoring, and was a surprise hit at March's World Tea Expo in Las Vegas...