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What do you get when you layer the soulful vocals of Destiny's Child over the grunge riffs of Nirvana? Or blend the energetic hip-hop of Salt-N-Pepa's Push It with the garage-rock ferocity of the Stooges' No Fun? The answer in both cases is a gold-plated, bona fide hit record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mix and Mash-Up | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...inspiring trendsetters to take up the needle. Sales of needlepoint purse kits are up in some craft shops, and fashionable boutiques are selling needlepoint bracelets. British artist Sonja Todd has even created postage-stamp-size stitched canvases that re-create the art from classic record-album covers such as Nirvana's Nevermind and Michael Jackson's Thriller. --L.McL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stylish Stitches | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...NIRVANA ON A PLATE While food on the Annapurna trail is pretty good, it's hard to beat a crisp-crusted pizza oozing with mozzarella and tangy tomato sauce straight out of an authentic wood-fired oven. Serving up some of the best Italian bistro fare this side of Sicily, Fire and Ice on Tridevi Marg, just outside Thamel, dishes up a delectable selection of pizzas, pastas and salads from its bustling open kitchen. While the terrace is perfect for watching the world go by, the restaurant also delivers to hotel rooms should post-trek patrons be too sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

Mowry’s favorite piece in the show is a 14th century Korean scroll painting of a bodhisattva (an enlightened being who has chosen to help others attain enlightenment rather than reach nirvana himself), cloaked by thin veils of diaphanous silk. “The work is extraordinarily well painted and well preserved,” he said...

Author: By Christopher W. Platts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...Mingwu is knee-deep in Nirvana. He is buried in Bjork, awash in Aerosmith and mired in Moby. Li (not his real name) supplies cut-rate music CDs to storefront retailers in his home city of Guangzhou in southern China and is on one of his periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zombie Discs | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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