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...more than 300 churches in and around the city - about one for every 600 people. One must-see church is the Sé cathedral; a 12th century masterpiece that started out as Romanesque but was added to by every Bishop of Braga, making it a living architectural lesson, with Gothic arches alongside Baroque windows. Don't miss the cathedral's museum, which contains everything from a Hispano-Arab casket in silver from the 10th century to a pair of platform shoes belonging to a vertically challenged bishop. The area's biggest attraction is the Bom Jesus Sanctuary, 3 km east...
...novelist, and a very fine one, Patrick McGrath has specialized in the modern Gothic, books in which madmen of one kind or another work their wiles. But his superb and unwholesome new novel, Port Mungo (Knopf; 242 pages), is not about anything so simple as abnormal psychology. It's about the brutal impulses available to anyone, especially artists, who would let slip the loose restraints of civilization...
...black institutions, from elementary schools to East Topeka High, have been closed up or torn down, and their students dispersed throughout the district. Behind the Gothic facade of Topeka High, the city's largest high school, a racially diverse blend of students (at 61% white, 20% black, 14% Latino and 5% other, it approximates the district's ethnic breakdown) intermingles on the football field, in the cafeteria and on the broad plaza outside the school. This year, it so happens, all four class presidents are Latino. Small victories like these have led black and white Topekans to declare the integration...
...says Merritt. "I go to cafes and bars and nightclubs and sit in the corner and write songs. It is unthinkable for me to go more than a few days without writing a song." He has had to start three other bands--the 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and the Gothic Archies--just to handle the compositional overflow...
...Rotterdam - for the first time since 1932. (Two of the cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above the angel's head, a monkey dancing on Mary's lectern, a vase on the floor holding foxglove, belladonna and basil - all three sorcerers' plants...