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...other evening, three guys ran across Candlestick Park brandishing a bed- sheet sign that read PLEASE DON'T GO! Stung by the announced sale of the San Francisco Giants to a consortium representing St. Petersburg, Florida, these three were exercising the birthright of any sports devotee: impotent pleading. This was the charge of the night brigade. But the trio might as well have been riding into the Valley of Death instead of invading the blustery pasture of America's crankiest ball park. The people who buy the tickets, whose taxes pay for the stadiums, who fantasize and fret over their...
...officials will go further. They will follow the advice given Kevin Costner in the hit movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." St. Petersburg built a field on nothing but dreams -- and $138 million, mostly from revenue bonds the voters never got to vote on. Next year, if the baseball owners approve, the San Francisco Giants will be the St. Petersburg Giants...
...good thing Valery Gergiev is a sturdy optimist. Gergiev is artistic director and principal conductor of St. Petersburg's Kirov Opera. His is the finest company in Russia, and it is now on its first ever U.S. visit, playing New York City's Metropolitan Opera House...
...spends half his time on the road, but his heart is in St. Petersburg. His mission is to bring "part of our city's soul" to the rest of the world. Among his idols is Peter the Great, whose wild equestrian statue he passes every day he is at home. "It is the symbol of the city, of enormous power. Peter wanted to learn, not just to command. With great symbols and images like that, you can't feel hopeless or helpless." Gergiev may need every bit of the emperor's strength -- along with those Kirov vitamins...
...throne, from the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh, were also deemed too fragile to travel. When the Spanish authorities refused to lend one of the spectacular amphora-type "Alhambra vases," with its luster glazes and formalized handles like angels' wings, another was lent by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But even in its truncated form, "Al-Andalus" is not an exhibition to miss...