Word: offbeaters
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...goer can't find the time to stand in a ticket line or the patience to brave the crowds. So what could be more sybaritic for the jet-setting art lover than to book into a hotel with its own museum-quality collection? Here are three of the more offbeat best - all with private owners passionate about amassing serious art to share with their guests...
...Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was balanced and embellished by her increasingly sophisticated flair for elaborate instrumental settings. Then, two years ago, she switched gears and released Pop Pop, a glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from Paradise, Jones gets personal again, delivering a set of original songs that evoke a familiar gallery of saintly sinners and handsome devils. Low-key and instrumentally sparse, the album has a hushed sound that highlights Jones' elastic vocals and free-wheeling lyrics...
...Similarly, Song says, using an offbeat typeface to obscure a dish's description may signal hidden value to an unsuspecting diner on unfamiliar ground. That may explain the implicit logic employed by restaurants offering exorbitant entrees described with elaborately scripted fonts in microscopic print...
...real love of pop culture and celebrity. He used to tell me, "I went to the movies to see people like Natalie Wood and Judy Garland." He was taken with that part of the business. But he was smart enough to know he could cover that with a more offbeat intellectual style. That was his great gift, his ability to connect the more commercial with the abstract. His track record shows that his instinct was always to go with stars and large films. And at one point I said, "Why don't we just get a handheld...
...movies to see people like Natalie Wood and Judy Garland." He was taken with that part of the business and I think he wanted to be part of that business, but he was smart enough to know that he could sort of cover that with a more offbeat intellectual style, and I think that was his great gift - to cover what could have been just sort of crass commercial filmmaking with a whole artistic [approach] that was more abstracted and was more hip and was more offbeat. So I think Sydney's ability to connect the more commercial strain with...