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...hottest nightclubs, including the Kitchen, frequented by supermodels and owned by U2 band mates Bono and the Edge, went straight out of business. What's not to love about a city that would rather share a pint and conversation with friends than rub elbows with the rich and gorgeous...
...film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life than a drama, Tian's gorgeous portrait of anxiety and anticipation gains power in part from its time and place (China a year before Mao's Revolution), in part from the director's own tiptoeing through a minefield of political metaphors. The film's own happy ending: it was shown publicly this summer in China...
...wait for the movie. Read The Crimson Petal and the White now, while it's still a living, laughing, sweating, coruscating mass of gorgeous words. Don't be put off by the setting--London, 1874--or the length, or that unfortunate, overlong stuffed shirt of a title. Don't worry about its author's ominously French-sounding name (Faber is actually a Scot by way of Holland and Australia). Ever since last fall readers have been watching for another knockdown, breakout book on the order of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. It's here...
...surf, Flores represents a gentle face of Indonesia. It's a perfect antidote for those bored with Bali and jittery about politically volatile Java. The friendly, predominantly Christian populace has remained free of the religious and tribal violence that has wracked the archipelago. Much of the island is postcard gorgeous. The mineral glitter of its beaches cedes to vertiginous mountains and the misty mysteries of half-hidden valleys. "Most visitors are surprised by the unspoiled beauty of Flores," says Koro. "And the people here have realized tourism is our only hope if we are to prosper. They are learning what...
...CHORDSTRUCK A site for fanciers of ikat, the gorgeous weaving for which Flores is famed. Each district has its own painstakingly handwoven designs featuring elaborate motifs from stingrays and whales to angels...