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...dresses for night, many trimmed with a fur collar or hem. In January 2004, he showed his first ready-to-wear collection in New York City. The show drew raves and marked the successful repositioning of the brand from one with a prestigious if slightly fusty reputation for swaddling Park Avenue matrons to one prized by celebrities who like to make an entrance. Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Simpson have been spotted in J. Mendel dresses; Teri Hatcher and Kyra Sedgwick wore them to the Emmys. J. Mendel has also become a staple of the young New York social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Real | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...lines, advance reservations and jaw-dropping dinner bills. Some upscale restaurateurs have set up shop in more humble locations such as, uh, the sidewalk. Danny Meyer (of Blue Smoke, the Modern and Tabla fame) last year unveiled a ?roadside? food stand in New York City's Madison Square Park. The Shake Shack serves up affordable fare like cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries, hot dogs, frozen custard, beer and even breakfast?you can eat your warm heirloom apple fritter and Shack-a-ccino (total: $5.31) on a folding plastic chair under the shade of a tree. In nearby Bryant Park stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A to Z | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...SELLER? No, the only thing a cover can do is entice you to pick a book up. But there are many ways to do that. Whether it's a naked doll [for David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim] or a dinosaur on [Michael Crichton's] Jurassic Park, it has to have a visceral appeal and in its own way be appropriate to the title. There are many factors?chiefly, whether it's a good book. I designed the cover for my own novel [The Cheese Monkeys; 2001], and it didn't become a huge best seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Chip Kidd | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

Tiny travelers need to stick to routines, so adults must be flexible, says Laine Romero-Alston, 34, of Harrington Park, N.J. She, her husband Domenico, 31, and their daughter Lucia, 2, plan to go to Maine to visit Laine's parents for Christmas, then to Mexico City and Cancún to see Domenico's mother and brother, as they did last year. Rather than a late dinner, Laine suggests eating early so the baby can be put down close to the normal bedtime. "Think about activities that might be fun for babies, or at least accommodating," she suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Grandmother's House We Go! | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...done." Some in remote areas have a more optimistic view of the dingo's future. Although he says there's no local data on population change or genetic purity, Brad Rushforth, wildlife district officer for the Department of Conservation & Land Man-agement in W.A.'s Kimberley region, believes national park populations there show no sign of mixing: "We're quite remote so the dingoes keep pure." There's no baiting in the parks, and feral cats and weeds are far more pressing problems. "We really don't worry about the dingo - we quite like them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dingo, Going, Gone? | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

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