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...Answering that question was a motive behind an ambitious exhibition "Masters of American Comics." The show began in 2005 at both the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and ended this week in another dual venue, at the Jewish Museum in New York City and across the Hudson at the Newark Museum. That final leg was a severely reduced and somewhat censored version of the L.A. spectacle, which showcased some 900 works assembled by John Carlin, a MOCA curator, with the help of Brian Walker, founder of another MOCA, the Museum of Cartoon...
...approach to wake-up calls, for example, is laissez-faire--but more amenities are popping up, including high-end hotels like Arena di Serdica, built around the ruins of a Roman amphitheater, and Grand Hotel Sofia, which overlooks the Sofia City Garden, the former Royal Palace (now an ethnographical museum) and the National Theater. The nicest rooms top $300 a night, after converting from the euros that most hotel rates are listed in, alongside the price in Bulgarian leva...
...Like exhausted mining towns the world over, Yubari faced extinction, but during the 1980s and '90s, city officials tried to arrest its economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars - with generous help from the central government - to build massive tourist facilities such as the melon museum, the robot museum and the ski resort. The plan worked for a while, and the city even became known for a winter film festival that attracted stars like Quentin Tarantino (who named a character in Kill Bill after the town). But tourism never paid off, and debts piled up. The city...
...municipal government, and half of its 300 workers will soon be leaving or facing salary cuts of up to 70%. The film festival has been cancelled, and the city-run tourism facilities have closed until they can be purchased by private companies that would consider a coal history museum in a depressed and snowbound mountain town to be a winning investment. (Interested parties can contact Keiji Hosokawa, who runs tourism promotion for Yubari - at least until his department is eliminated in March.) Even as it raises taxes, the city is closing schools, libraries and nursing homes in a desperate effort...
...space of a two-and-a-half minute trailer for his 2006 film “Night in the Museum,” actor Ben Stiller contends with an agitated T-Rex skeleton, a belching sea beast, a flaming projectile launched from a diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns. But will he be able to deal with the barbs offered up by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals? The world will soon find out. Stiller will receive the Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year (MOY) award for 2007, the group announced Monday...