Word: santino
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...they are being increasingly threatened and assaulted by smaller groups on the streets on a daily basis. "It's getting dangerous for us to go out now. We get shouted at and spat on. We get things thing thrown at us. There is so much hate out there," said Santino Bautista, a 16-year-old emo high school student sitting in a Mexico City plaza alongside other teenagers in tight black jeans and dark makeup...
...totally shocked" to be crowned "the next great American designer" by Bravo's fashion reality show Project Runway. Dao, who runs her own boutique in Houston and who wowed the judges with a line of soft, tailored evening wear, beat presumed favorite Daniel Vosovic and unofficial runway villain Santino Rice to win $100,000 for her line and a fashion spread in Elle. "I can't wait to go back in my garage and start cutting," says Dao, who has already heard from Bergdorf Goodman. As Runway host Heidi Klum would say, "Wunderbar...
...some kids and adults have found a way to seize the holiday and make it their own by giving it new definition: They are turning Oct. 31 into July 4. "We are saying that to celebrate Halloween is a patriotic act," says Santino. Fire-fighter and police uniforms are jumping off store shelves as the implements of Halloween make a 180[degree] turn from fangs to flags, ghouls to Rudy Giuliani, orange and black to red, white and blue...
...blame a mom for getting frazzled? A night that is designed to unleash a kind of controlled anarchy comes this year at a time of national neurosis. Is it possible to reconcile the two? At Halloween, says Jack Santino, a professor of popular culture at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, "we acknowledge the random evil in the world and give it a central place. And it's O.K., because it is playful. It is a safe time to deal with the unsafe." But, Santino says, the eruptions of Sept. 11 make it hard to feel playful...