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Thursday, April 21. Neil Gershenfeld discusses “Fab: Personal Fabrication, Fablabs, and the Factors in Your Computer.” 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church. Free...
Even frat boys can use a little Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The lifestyle-makeover show recently descended on the Sigma Chi house at the University of North Texas in Denton. While the rest of the Fab Five spruced and styled, interior-design expert Thom Filicia took a study break to talk to TIME's Jeffrey Ressner about dorm dcor. "People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age," says Filicia, who spent his college years at Syracuse University. "The idea is to create a space that represents who you are and also something that's in your...
...with sample-sale survival skills, tips on befriending shopkeepers and the ABCs of Kabbalah. Sartorially challenged men can pick up Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them (Dutton; 168 pages) by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. The Fab Fiver has a take on everything from basic questions like boxers or briefs to weightier dilemmas like the blurry line between metrosexual and gay (hint: manicures, metro; French manicures, gay). --By Kate Novack
Forget boxes on wheels and tacky subdivisions. Prefab is now just plain fab. Once the poor stepchild of residential construction, so-called systems-built housing is now the province of topflight architects, who are reinventing the genre with innovative designs, new building components and environmentally friendly approaches. In September, Lindal (2003 sales: $50 million) begins offering two versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders...
...course, any aging boomer could spend days playing at matching the Fab Four to his favorite political horses. But only Stills and a few other elite rockers can back up the Starr-Sharpton connection with a quick disclaimer: “I know Ringo very, very well, and they’re a lot alike,” he added...