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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...landscape and how city-dwellers shape, inhabit, neglect or enhance it. The group formed in 1990 and has built 12 major projects in the area from the Muddy River, to Government Center Plaza to Somerville’s Mystic River shoreline. “It’s a playground for artists to make statements without worrying about selling pieces. It’s about ideas and how to bring them to a large scale,” says RA member and Boston sculptor Leslie Wilcox...

Author: By Jessica S. Zdeb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holyoke Center’s Giant Bird’s Nest | 10/11/2001 | See Source »

Back in the roaring twenties, Shanghai doubled as Asia's commercial center and a playground for swashbuckling entrepreneurs from around the globe. Nightclubs like the Art Deco Ciro's and elegant hotels like the Cathay earned the city its nickname: the Paris of the Orient. And today, after decades in eclipse, Shanghai is once again red hot and swinging. As CEOs and heads of state gather there in October for conferences prior to the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, they will find plenty to do in their leisure time. Crumbling colonial villas have been converted into funky bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Travel: Shanghai Surprise | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...would our government want to make the world unsafe for American tourists? Maybe the U.S. government does not truly desire to make the world a perilous place, but rather that it likes the world as its playground, and tourists just get in its way. The terrorist attack of Sept. 11, and America’s “coming together” in its aftermath, may well sound the death knell of open and free travel in the Middle East. Unfortunately, the traveling public will readily put up with affronts on personal liberty in the interest of national security...

Author: By Luke Smith, | Title: Still Safe to Travel | 10/2/2001 | See Source »

...contrast to Tricky’s swerve back into the mainstream, Björk has taken a subtle left turn up her own secret street and found yet another playground, with its own female choir and Zeena Parkins on harp. With computer mix duo Matmos assisting with the intricately layered gurgles and rattles that serve Björk where others are reduced to hitting skins with sticks, Björk wraps her voice around you and seduces you entirely. Where Tricky mixes himself into the background in favor of his collaborators, Björk knows that it is only...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Divergent Evolution: 'Blowback' and 'Vespertine' | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

China’s newly constructed Minsk Park, a big-boy playground named after the Russian aircraft carrier that serves as the center attraction, is delectable fodder for those in the media who are on a quest to prove that China is the natural enemy of the United States. With rides and games whose objective is to destroy the US Navy, it is almost too easy for the American media to play up Chinese anti-American sentiment. However, I would be more inclined to believe that in the case of Minsk Park, there is more testosterone involved than anti-American...

Author: By Emma R.F. Nothmann, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Understanding Asia | 9/11/2001 | See Source »

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