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Finally, many SUV drivers accrue a simpler but equally important benefit from their burly automobiles: fun. Presiding over several tons of metal from a heated leather seat is great entertainment. "It's not like I'm living large, but I like when people take notice," says Brent Bormaster, 24, a Dallas executive recruiter who drives a 2002 GMC Yukon...
...Dyke Ball, costume is required and “creative black tie” is recommended. In practice, that means everything from lingerie to formalwear, leather to feathers, high femme to butch drag. This year, one Wellesley student wore a satin “vagina” on her chest and asked drag emcee Jay Franklin to touch it. (Franklin, perhaps too much of a gentleman, declined...
When Joey Ramone died of cancer in 2001, his band's place as the godfathers of punk appeared cemented for all time. One problem: the Ramones weren't really punk. Joey, Johnny, Tommy and Dee Dee (who died of a drug overdose in June) dressed in black leather and scowled like Bowery thugs, but they actually played some of the loopiest pop music ever made. Blitzkrieg Bop's famous "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" was an homage to the Bay City Rollers, while Joey--singer of the immortal line "I'm a Nazi schatze"--was the deadpan alter...
...Place St. Etienne. (Don't miss the unbelievably ornate Hôtel de Clary in the Rue de la Dalbade.) On Saturdays - when it doesn't rain - the square in front of the lopsided St. Etienne cathedral fills with stands of booksellers offering hand-tooled, gold-leafed and leather-bound volumes along with used paperbacks. The cathedral itself is a little wacky - built between the 11th and 17th centuries, it's the odd sum of some pretty disparate parts, but well worth a look. Behind it, in the Place Dupuy, a new Saturday marché créatif sprouted last...
Venu saunters in fifteen minutes later, sporting a tan leather jacket and a Euro-chic haircut. As it turns out, the two have met before. After all, as Venu asks rhetorically, “Can a date really be blind when you’re gay at Harvard?” They greet each other with affected relief, and a waitress guides the pair to an “intimate” table for two, under the gaze of a camera and reporters...