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WHAT'S THE QUIRKIEST ECONOMIC INDICATOR YOU LOOK...
...prize for the quirkiest hostelry in town goes to Xaviera Hollander's Bed & Breakfast, tel: (31-20) 673 3934. You won't find much art here, but you will find artists and creative types aplenty, drawn by the frequent presence of celebrity owner Xaviera Hollander, author of the best-selling 1971 memoir The Happy Hooker. The former New York City-based sex columnist trades in matters of the soul these days rather than the flesh, organizing house parties and bringing home arty waifs in the manner of an old-style salonière. Her grand old house in Amsterdam...
Author John Putzier has a bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another. In his new book, Weirdos in the Workplace, Putzier argues that even the quirkiest employees--from crazy Annie, who talks to her pets on the phone once a day, to annoying Lester, who pesters you to buy his daughter's Girl Scout cookies--have their merit. The book contains humorous real-life case studies that exemplify the growing phenomenon of "doing your own thing." After all, we live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor...
...like Martin Margiela, but Armani huge, household-name huge, dresser-of-stars-who-are-very-very-red-carpet huge. "We have this ambition to reach the top," says Horsting, 34. "We are very ambitious and very impatient," says Snoeren, 33. If they get there, it will be on the quirkiest of paths. Viktor & Rolf launched their design career not on runways but in art galleries. And their early work - such as Viktor & Rolf Le Parfum, from 1996, a limited-edition bottle of tap water complete with sexy ad campaign - was more a comment on the world of commerce than...
...first “flash mob” in New England gathered in Harvard Square yesterday, bringing one of the newest and quirkiest Internet fads—and the portent of a new sort of sociological phenomenon, some say—to Cambridge...