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Although ostensibly a fictional account of legendary painter George Seurat’s attempts to create his classic large-canvas masterpiece “Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte,” composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer-prize winning musical, featuring a book written by James Lapine, is about a whole lot more, particularly love and how you get it. Act One takes place in the 1880s and Act Two takes place in the 1980s. Through May 8 $12 Regular, Students (2 per I.D.) $8, Seniors: $8, Groups of 10 or more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happenings | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

While most egg donors receive a few thousand dollars in compensation for the process (sperm donors only make a paltry hundred), Ivy League girls are the crème de la crème of the egg donation pool and routinely earn five-digit compensations...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Will You Be My Baby’s Mama? | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

...rockin’ baseball filters with wild animal skins on ’em.’ If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?”; and lastly, “Have you ever thought of exposing yourself à la Janet to sell records...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O Busta, Where Art Thou? | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

...example, could rise 10-30% and that an $11 haircut in the Czech Republic will cost $12.50 due to higher vat. Anticipating a hike, many consumers are returning to buying practices learned during earlier regimes. "It's a conditioned reflex going back to the communist times," says Adéla Seidlová, head of the Center for Public Opinion Research in Prague. "Everybody knows it's better to stock up than face uncertainty." And stocking up they are. Egged on by Russian television stations gleefully portraying imminent price increases as punishment for E.U. accession, Latvians stripped their store shelves bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Accession | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...INDICATORS Fashion A La Mode Luxury-goods group Gucci named ice-cream and frozen-food executive Robert Polet as its CEO. Polet, who has no professional fashion expertise, has spent his career at consumer-goods titan Unilever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Watch | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

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