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...Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey in 280 A.D., Nick was sainted for anonymous gift giving to needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which...
Many think apparel manufacturers are zeroing in on this market because of the success of Chico's, a specialty retailer based in Fort Myers, Fla., that started in 1983 as a folk-art shop. Chico's operates more than 500 stores in the U.S. in addition to a catalog business. The company's profits have grown for nine consecutive years, and sales surged 34.6% in the second quarter of this year, to $343 million. "Because of that growth, every company and their mother is trying to get into selling a line of clothing to women in their...
...anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, the protests against the 34-nation Summit of the Americas taking place in this coastal city have a decidedly leftist feel from another era. That much was clear from the Che Guevara banners flying at the "counter summit" rally Friday. Folk singers crooned in Spanish, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave an hours-long speech of Castro-style invective against the United States and George W. Bush. Fidel Castro may not have been invited to the summit, but protestors carried his image on banners all over the place. All of this...
...Eclectic Collective mix up rap, hip-hop, and jazz. Will present sets by DJ Special Blend. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. 18+. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $23 in advance, $25 at the door. (ABW)Okkervil River. The folk-indie band from Austin is performing at midnight along with Drew O’Doherty (9 p.m.), Charles Bissell of the Wrens (10 p.m.), and The Minus Story (11 p.m.). The New York Times praised Okkervil River’s newest album, Black Sheep Boy, as “marvelous?...
...cultures—both old and new—will converge upon the Harvard stage in the production, “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations.” The program’s dance performance pieces not only typify traditional Indian dance styles—dancers will perform lively Kuchuppudi folk dances and classic Bharathnatyam dance narratives about Hindu gods—but are also accented with bits of modern flair...