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...meantime, an appealing new boutique hotel has opened close to the Spanish Steps. Aleph (Via di San Basilio) is conveniently located near the city's chic shops. Among them: Merola, Europe's oldest glove store (Via del Corso 143), where gloves are made as they were a century ago, entirely by hand. Elsewhere, some of Rome's best shopping is found in its sleek design stores. Ilaria Miani caters to an élite clientele (Via Monserrato 35), with everything from sugar bowls to bookcases. Spazio Sette (Via dei Barbieri 7) is three floors of cutting-edge design from...
Saturday, Oct. 29. Copland, Stravinsky, Concerto Competition. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the country, kicks off its 2005-2006 season with several blockbuster pieces, including Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $12-16; students $8-12. Tickets available online, at the Harvard Box Office, or by subscription...
...makers of “Venom” also resort to the oldest scare tricks in the book, making most of the movie predictable. The ever-present blanket of fog, the constant rustling of wind in the trees, and the malfunctioning, blinking halogen lights are in no way innovative elements in horror films...
...experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course by one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled to Yale to play a match of club tennis, taken the oldest public transportation system in the United States to see a symphony and shop on Newbury street, and partied at million dollar mansions that masquerade as clubs for 20-year-olds. Harvard may have shattered your dreams of attending colleges like those in Animal House, Old School, and Girls Gone Wild...
...happening on both sides of the Tasman. On the western slopes of Albert Park next to the Auckland Art Gallery, the ancient pohutukawa trees are readying their Christmas blooms. As well they might, since the trees helped inspire a four-year, $63 million redevelopment of the country's oldest gallery, announced in July. "We want to open the building up to the park," says director Chris Saines, "and that's going to give a whole new burst of engagement with the city." In Brisbane, Australia, Saines' former boss at the Queensland Art Gallery, Doug Hall, is keenly watching what...