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...store in its heyday, either: it had outlets on three continents and annual revenue of about $40 million. But right from its 1984 launch in a Sydney motel, Mambo in spirit was always the quirky interloper contending with surfwear's super-heavyweights, the all - Down Under trio of Billabong, Quik?silver and Rip Curl...
...homageto the important figures of pre-hip-hop.The 21 tracks on “Ego Trippin’” are agenerous helping of Snoop, which is botha good and bad thing. There are a numberof good songs, such as “Press Play,” onwhich DJ Quik samples funk legends TheIsley Brothers. The brass and backgroundvocals mesh well with the dependably laconicSnoop Dogg drawl that we all knowand love. There’s also “Neva Have 2 Worry,”a surprisingly deep and mature pieceabout everywhere Snoop Dogg has beenin the game...
...lowly shipping container, globalization's pack mule, is doing far more than transport duty these days. The mundane module has inspired a whole school of construction, pioneered by, among others, American artist-architect Adam Kalkin. Since he first created a dwelling with one in 1999, he has developed Quik House, a three-bedroom kit house fabricated from recycled containers, and most recently the Push Button House, a single container that opens in 90 seconds at the touch of a button. Italian coffee company Illy uses some as mobile outdoor cafés in Chicago, California and South America...
...better). Widener Library: Punk the stacks, let’s have some snacks! Venture into the basement and you will discover something far more exciting than you’ll find in any book: a refrigerated vending machine stocked with Hot Pockets, yogurt, Cup o’ Noodles, Strawberry Quik (settle down), and a very suspicious-looking fried chicken sandwich (as our research assistant Trevor J. Walsh ’06 pointed out, “It looks like sand”). There is also a fridge for storing food if you accidentally “over order...
...versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders for his 2,000-sq.-ft. Quik House kit made from steel and shipping containers and priced as low as $76,000, not including land. And Frank Gehry protege Michelle Kaufmann recently debuted Glidehouse, a moderately priced modular home (averaging 1,350 sq. ft.), so named for a series of sliding panels that hide storage spaces and regulate...