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...WINDS OF CHANGE -- AND MONEY -- SEEMED CERtain to lift the San Francisco Giants baseball team out of their drafty, weather-beaten stadium and carry them to a new air-conditioned dome and a $115 million buyout offer in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then the wind shifted. Baseball team owners voted 9 to 4 to keep the Giants put, opting for a $100 million counteroffer and a pledge for a new stadium. "It's a game of tradition," trumpeted Chicago Cubs owner Stanton Cook in explaining the vote...
...roots of the great Russian efflorescence go much further back than either Lenin or the 1917 Revolution. They lie in the liberal, high-bourgeois culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a culture that pullulated with avant- garde splinter groups and wild chiliastic claims, exquisitely attuned not only to Russian traditions of religious mysticism but also to Cubism, Futurism, Symbolism and other currents in Paris, Rome, Vienna. To imagine that the work of spiritually obsessed artists like Kandinsky or Malevich had any filial relationship to Marxism is to miss its meaning. Malevich, an egomaniacal genius who called himself "the president...
...beat that prevails in Russia too, and the beat that unites. "Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you feel the energy," says Ivan Salmaxov, 22, who organizes "rave parties" in Moscow, where rappers from as far away as Minsk and St. Petersburg can dance, check out homegrown talent like MC Pavlov and listen to such heated songs as Bad Balance's Children of Satan, about growing street violence. Says Bad Balance lead singer Chill Will: "People like rap because they can dance and listen to new information at the same time...
...museum world -- could have produced this show. Its essential component, never seen in such depth outside Russia before, is the paintings bought from Matisse's studio 80 years ago by those two inspired and obsessed collectors, Ivan Morosov and Sergei Shchukin, now divided between the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow...
...When St. Petersburg built the Suncoast Dome in 1987, it aimed to be the first Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion...