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People who haunt New York City rock clubs love to cheer for bands from places they scorn. There's always the chance of being the first to discover the next Ohio (Devo, the Dead Boys) or Georgia (the B-52's, REM). Now they're at it again. At one of two sold-out concerts last month by Omaha band the Faint, young urbanites were chanting "Ne-bras-ka! Ne-bras-ka!" like mascots at the Cornhuskers' stadium--and only half kidding...
...these anxiety dreams are problem-solving strategies of the subconscious. “My take is that these students—or their brains—are searching for ways to solve emotionally charged problems,” he says. “If they’re in REM sleep, their brains are in a physiological and neurochemical state where they preferentially consider very unlikely solutions...
...PRADA EPICENTER STORE, NEW YORK CITY Rem Koolhaas had never done a store before Miuccia Prada approached him, but he had researched shopping while teaching at Harvard. His first foray into retail is a brainy roller coaster of a store with a precipitous dip, moving carriages of clothes and magic mirrors that let you see front and back at the same time. The dressing rooms alone, with glass doors that frost over at the touch of a button and a closet that transmits information about your chosen garment onto a screen, will make this a must-stop shop...
...Prada Epicenter Store, New York City Rem Koolhaas had never done a store before Miuccia Prada approached him, but he had researched shopping while teaching at Harvard. His first foray into retail is a brainy roller coaster of a store with a precipitous dip, moving carriages of clothes and magic mirrors that let you see front and back at the same time. The dressing rooms alone, with glass doors that frost over at the touch of a button and a closet that transmits information about your chosen garment onto a screen, will make this a must-stop shop...
...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) had hoped to bring a major band—Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band and REM were mentioned as possibilities—to campus in the spring. To draw such a popular band, HCC’s proposal called for a venue capable of accommodating about 37,000 people, and Harvard Stadium is, of course, the only space on campus that could host such an event. The next biggest venue is the Bright Hockey Arena, with a capacity of less than...