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...will be teaching music to children in townships as well as making a documentary on his experience. “The arts are the fabric of society in many ways,” says Collins. “Without the arts you don’t really have a function of society. Culture is built on the arts. It’s all shown me that what I’m doing is important and necessary...
...tradition but rather their ability to meet student needs. Rising rental rates have led not to an oppressing commercial atmosphere, but rather to an insipid conformity. Today a total of four different banks occupy prime real-estate in the square—an entirely superfluous number considering their identical function. Property owners—Harvard amongst them—should consider not only the money that they rake in but also the community and atmosphere they hope to create in Harvard Square. That means considering which businesses will best serve the Cambridge community and the students right next door...
...Each prototype designed by Palleroni and a team of University of Texas students has both a practical and symbolic function. The cypress table, for example, pays homage to the Crescent City's fame as a foodie heaven. The pews evoke places of worship, nearly a thousand of which were destroyed in hurricanes Rita and Katrina. "After the storms, churches were the one part of society that really worked in New Orleans," says Palleroni. "The government collapsed. The police disappeared. But the churches were there for people...
...fabrics, even kitchen utensils. Of course, it's never easy to whittle down a list when there is so much talent in the global market. It's a matter of differentiating between good and great design. Morris had it right: great design is that magical confluence of beauty and function. But there's another almost intangible element, which is the emotion an object or a building or a teapot can evoke in an individual (in today's market that feeling, ideally, is desire). Think of the stylish plasticity of the iPod, or the silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous...
...nationwide furor began when Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appeared together at an AIDS-awareness function in New Delhi last Sunday. The event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference...