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...importance of "proximity" to sustaining the arts economy of New York is one of the main premises of a recent book, The Warhol Economy, by Elizabeth Currid, a young social scientist. Currid spent months interviewing people in the creative professions, with a heavy emphasis on fashion, music and other pop-oriented fields. She concludes that "cultural producers rely heavily on their social lives to advance their careers, obtain jobs and generate value for their goods...
...tension during disagreements are more satisfied with their relationships than those who remain unruffled. For straight people, higher heart rates during squabbles were associated with lower relationship satisfaction. For gays and lesbians, it was just the opposite. Gays conduct their relationships as though they are acting out some cheesy pop song: You have to make my heart beat faster for me to love you. For gays, it is apathy that murders relationships, not tension. Straight people more often prefer a lento placidity...
...their favorite stories in hard copy, too, and its first books debuted in 2005. "Mobile novels are created and consumed by a generation of young people in Japan that demands to be heard," says John Possman, former head of Tokyo entertainment consultancy Dragonfly Revolution. "It is truly pop culture." It has also become big business. In major book wholesaler Tohan's 2007 best-seller list, five out of the top 10 books in the fiction category are keitai shosetsu, including the top three. The new genre is provoking fierce indignation among Japan's literati, many of whom think that keitai...
...mean, sure, I am a citizen of the United States of America, but until recently I was reluctant to identify myself too closely with Uncle Sam. During the first part of my study-abroad experience, when I spoke of America, it was often with embarrassment: embarrassment about our cheesy pop music, our high pollution rates, and our Republican president...
From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennsylvania to the Bay Area farmland of California, small mom-and-pop distilleries have begun making liquor out of all kinds of fruits and grains. They account for a drop in the bucket of the $58 billion spirits industry (a brand like Smirnoff outsells the combined annual production of these small distilleries in a single week), but their liquors often are distinctive in taste, are creatively bottled and fit the trend for locally produced foods. "The microdistilling industry is exactly where the microbrew industry was 20 years ago," says Bill Owens, a brewmaster...