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...European polyglot poppers Stereo Total seem to always summon the same images in American minds: trendy coffee bars, tightly-dressed Euro hipsters, neon lights against shadowy backgrounds. It’s certainly the style their album covers more or less convey, especially prominent on their new Sub Pop debut Do The Bambi, on whose cover a green deer logo and the album’s title illuminate the faces of the band from above...
...Adjacent to the Vietnamese capital's historic train station, Hanoi's hippest new hangout is a replica of an old frontier watering hole in the American West. A five-meter-tall cowboy stands outside, twirling a neon lasso over the saloon. Inside, the split-rail walls are decorated with cowboy memorabilia?from cowboy boots to a mounted cowskin?and since it opened in October, trendy young Vietnamese have been packing through the Seventeen Saloon's swinging doors and whooping it up with whiskey and tequila served by waitresses in cowboy hats and jeans...
DIED. ED PASCHKE, 65, provocative Chicago painter whose clashing neon colors and freakish-looking subjects invigorated Pop Art; of heart failure; in Chicago. Basing much of his work on photographs and TV images, he created layered portraits of strippers, professional wrestlers and other, less easily categorized specimens, and later painted simulated electronic images of Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln. Jeff Koons, one of his students, likened Paschke's paintings to drugs, saying, "They affect you neurologically...
...newsroom is a factory. The desks and walls are industrial gray, the bulletin boards on its walls lined with frayed red construction paper. The long neon bulbs that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...
Bring up Mather House, and the usual response probably isn’t “fluorescent wonderland”—neon pink and bright orange do not predominate in its bare, concrete-covered hallways and common areas...