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...wasted, especially not as far as the country's newest little Kellys are concerned. In the moment it took to announce Kelly Clarkson's name on Thursday night's finale, thousands of pre-adolescent dreams of fame were born, and parents everywhere grimaced as their children launched into glass-shattering renditions of "It's Raining...
...steeple..." Well, here is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the immense new Roman Catholic church for the city of Los Angeles. So where's the steeple? And where is the central doorway you expect from a great sacred space? And what happened to the stained-glass windows and the crowds of ecclesiastical statuary that a Catholic church has always brought to mind? There have been many modern churches before this one. Even so, the L.A. cathedral, the first to be built in the U.S. in 25 years, is a signal event: a sign that the cleansing operation...
...least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very spare modern churches. The sole foray into church design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great founding master of modernism, was a nondenominational chapel in brick, steel and glass built in 1952 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. To put it mildly, it's a parsimonious expression of faith. The man who said, "God is in the details," did not provide many here for God to be in. From the outside it looks something like...
...debates that approach The O'Reilly Factor in feistiness. In a skit between songs, a homegirl who ascribes Eve's Grammy win to luck is accused of wearing a rusty nipple ring. On the track Double R What, Eve dismisses a musical competitor with "I'm like a glass; you just a coaster, bitch...
...steam in the middle of the afternoon, head into a designer store such as Chanel, Prada or Yves Saint Laurent, sit down, and ask for a glass of water. "They'll happily oblige," says Tabak...