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Until now, the city's best-known treasure has been the classic blues of Beale Street, its proudest artifacts the bejeweled jumpsuits displayed in a shrine to its patron saint, Elvis. But these days such attractions are being upstaged by a succession of museum-quality jewels, porcelains, gilded carriages and statuary. Yes, in Memphis. The city has managed to put itself on the international circuit of blockbuster art shows. Its current offering: Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, an opulent array of 274 possessions of the militarily ruthless yet artistically keen Turks who ruled a wedge of Europe and Asia...
...church, which rents facilities rather than erecting its own buildings, sponsors rallies in hotels and arenas such as the Boston Garden and the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. One congregation is formed per city. As each expands, it is broken down into "sectors," which supervise "zones," which in turn run the neighborhood Bible-study groups that are the church's main recruiting units...
Ferragamo's mixture of prettiness and practicality is sumptuously on view in "The Art of the Shoe," a 30-year retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition, which will run through June 7, is a shrine to Ferragamo's shoes, with dramatic spotlights illuminating the glass cases containing his handiwork. The 199 shoes in those cases were chosen from among 10,000 in storage at Ferragamo headquarters in Florence. The Los Angeles setting is appropriate: Ferragamo got his start as a custom shoemaker while living in California between 1914 and 1927. It was Hollywood that first...
...sacred earth upon which the Santuario de Chimayo sits. Many of the pilgrims carry crosses on their journey, but this year they may feel inclined to brandish signs that say TOURISTS GO HOME! The source of their ire: New Mexico's tourism department, which is hyping the local shrine as the "Lourdes of America" in full-page ads in a dozen slick magazines, including Travel & Leisure, Holiday and Southern Living...
Thinking of a summer trip to the new shrine, I began to research the stadium. And while Giamatti's statement is widely regarded as an endorsement, I like to think he, too, may have secretly known the truth: Camden is part of a conspiracy to conquer the Western world first by seducing it with manufactured history and then by numbing it with high-tech convenience...