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...company's happy customers is Alex von Bidder, 52. He has a wardrobe packed with $2,500 suits in which he hobnobs with guests at the Four Seasons, his famed New York City restaurant. "I'm used to the finest things in life," Von Bidder says. "Best wine, best food. Still, I never thought I'd get custom-made jeans." His $54 pair from Lands' End is "the best-fitting thing I've ever owned," swears Von Bidder, who has since ordered custom-fit chinos and shirts...
China is known for antiquities, not for modern art. But cultural pursuits on the mainland are blossoming, and works by some of the region's finest?and strangest?artists are getting exposure in China following decades of repression. This month, travelers have a choice of major art exhibitions now taking place on the mainland. Here are reports from Guangzhou's Triennial modern arts festival (the southern city's first big go at the arts scene) and the more established Shanghai Biennale...
...worth every buttery cent. Mortadella, the region's famed processed pork meat, is believed to have arrived from Celtic conquerors who were used to eating their meat in paté form. Though now considered a poor-man's sandwich filler, mortadella used to be made from the finest cut of the livestock, before production was increased and popularized after World War I. Tamburini is convinced that the region's trademark tortellini must have arrived from China. "The form is too perfect, too precise for us to have invented," he says. Motioning toward some of the 90 different cheeses...
...Oscar-winning Spanish director; a clutch of top prizes at the 2002 European Film Awards, including best European director and screenwriter, for his provocative drama Talk to Her; in Rome. Revolving around two women rendered comatose and the men who love them, the movie is considered Almodovar's finest work, though it failed to make Spain's foreign language entry for the last Academy Awards...
After demolishing No. 5 New Hampshire 7-1 in its finest performance of the year on Friday, the Harvard women’s hockey team looked to have an easy victory against unranked Maine. The Black Bears played tough and dirty but were still overmatched in a 6-0 defeat...