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...years after his death, Poiret's estate sold roughly 500 pieces to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The result is "Poiret: King of Fashion," which runs at the Met's Costume Institute until Aug. 5. Fifty ensembles showcase Poiret's eclectic exoticism. Harem pants worn by his wife, Denise, at his legendary Arabian-themed Thousand and Second Night party in 1911 are displayed with the Hellenic evening gown worn by dancer Isadora Duncan to his Bacchus party in 1912. Denise, whose lithe body was perfect for his creations, was his muse. The couple divorced...
...BANGKOK: The spa menu of the COMO Shambhala Urban Escape at the Metropolitan Bangkok, tel: (66-2) 625 3333, offers Jet Lag Therapy ($120), with a strong emphasis on normalizing your circulation in order to alleviate the effects of being cooped up in an aircraft cabin. A combination of penetrating reflexology and a stimulating head, shoulder and back massage gives you a top-to-toe boost and assists the body's natural recovery process...
...There are some promising signs. The state could provide funding for another 20 psych beds this summer, says Jerome Gibbs, executive director of the Metropolitan Human Services District, which oversees state-run mental health programs in the New Orleans area. University Hospital plans to have a mobile crisis unit operating on a site adjacent to the hospital by June, and is in negotiations with a closed mental health center uptown, where the hospital hopes to lease enough space to open 33 psychiatric beds. But staffing is still a huge challenge, Fontenot says. There are fewer resources available to follow patients...
...Online review activity has become so popular that several new sites have appeared that center around the consumer-empowered voice. Yelp.com, a new social network, joins user reviews with the ability to network, rate and share critiques. Still in its growth phase, Yelp reviews are becoming popular in major metropolitan areas. Visits to the site have grown over 340% in the last year. Based on the search terms sending visitors to Yelp, reviews are sought on topics ranging from restaurants and bars to furniture stores, doctors, dentists and even reviews on "piercing parlors" and "bay area pot clubs...
...Crimson executive editor.Birnbaum started her journey toward this mastery of the stage as a child growing up in Connecticut, just an hour away from the theaters of New York City. She saw her first opera when she was three. By the age of ten, she was singing in the Metropolitan Opera House every night as part of the Metropolitan Children’s Chorus. As a senior in high school, she and her classmates were invited to do a month-long run of the “Laramie Project” in London.Even with such a background, Birnbaum credits Harvard?...