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...back did little to deaden the pangs of hunger in my stomach. Fresh off my flight from home, I had been promptly abandoned by my numbingly French host family and had bravely ventured out in search of my first French meal. Unfortunately, in this astronomically expensive and quite residential quartier, baguette sandwiches with camembert or jambon simply do not abound.After an inordinate number of blocks, I could sense the blisters begin to burgeon on my heels. There I was in the City of Lights, which I had always planned to eat my way through, without a boulangerie, patisserie, or march?...
...fashion school?Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walder van Beirendonck, Dirk van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, a.k.a. the Antwerp Six?who were forging a distinctive deconstructionist style, a world away from Belgium's moules-frites-and-cherry-beer reputation. But today it's Brussels?and its Quartier Dansaert?that's ? la mode. At 74 Rue Antoine Dansaert is Stijl?the shop that began the revolution, tel: (32-2) 512 0313. Until 10 years ago, cheap rents and the store's not-so-cheap Flemish clothes were probably the only reason to linger in this neglected part...
...today it's Brussels - and its Quartier Dansaert - that's à la mode. At 74 Rue Antoine Dansaert is Stijl - the shop that began the revolution, tel: (32-2) 512 0313. Until 10 years ago, cheap rents and the store's not-so-cheap Flemish clothes were probably the only reason to linger in this neglected part of town that stretches from the Bourse down to the canal district. Today Stijl has made room on its racks for the froufrou frocks and Art Nouveau fabrics of Brussels designers Sofie D'Hoore and Cathy Pill, while the shops next door have...
...month's fury to alert France to the unemployment, economic deprivation, racial segregation, and social exclusion felt in its banlieues, everyone in Blois seemed fully aware of the problem. "We have the second largest housing project population-per-total municipal population in France," comments Willy Spitz, president of the "Quartier Proximit?" association, whose 16 members pair off each night to patrol Blois's projects to defuse conflict situations. Roughly 18,000 of Blois's 51,000 total population reside in its 150 hectare "northern section" of projects, notes Spitz; internal tensions and feelings of injustice there have periodically boiled over...
...know why I built it. It was just something I had to do," says the aging artist, tel: (855-12) 686642, who has transformed his property in Siem Reap's Quartier Slokram into a kind of Khmer Field of Dreams. "My wife thinks I'm nuts, and so do the neighbors...