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Throughout it all, Stewart's company maintained it was only doing what any smart business would: trademarking a brand to provide better legal recourse should knockoffs pop up. After all, the lawyers said, no one protests Philadelphia cream cheese. But the people of Katonah, especially business owners, saw something sinister afoot in the attempt to trademark Katonah for dozens and dozens of product categories, from lamps to curtain rods to belt racks. After all, many of the village's shops, such as Katonah Yarn and Katonah Architectural Hardware, use the name. Could Stewart's company someday prevent a townsperson from...
...English winemakers aren't waiting for the French to pop their corks. Chapel Down, Nyetimber and RidgeView wineries are already making sparkling wines that rival champagne in quality and price. But what to call the stuff? Ridgeview founder Michael Roberts has dubbed his bubbly Merret, after Christopher Merret, an English doctor who, he says, described how to make fizzy wine decades before the French monk Dom Pérignon did. Expect an argument from the French...
...codes bump up against each other, throwing the other into relief. The same era that's given us Big Brother and a cybervideo of Paris Hilton in flagrante has also produced a striking rise of Western Muslims taking up the veil. The more of private life that Western pop culture reveals, the more that Muslim women decide to conceal. And the differences between the culture of exposure and the culture of propriety go far beyond sex and sartorial choices...
...This season, which runs from Nov. 25 to April 6, kicks off with folksinger Vusi Mahlasela, often described as South Africa's Bob Dylan. There follow 26 concerts from performers as varied as the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, pop chart-toppers Freshlyground and punk rockers Fokofpolisiekar, plus four nights of Christmas carols. Tickets are $6-$7 and go on sale two days before each concert...
Drew G. Faust might be known more as an academic light than a pop-culture icon. But she took a step toward becoming the latter this week as Glamour magazine named the Harvard president as one of its “Women of the Year.†The women’s magazine, which focuses on fashion and beauty, is releasing its annual list—featuring women from the fields of entertainment, business, and science—in its December issue. “When I said I’m not the ‘woman president...