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...fantasize about massive pristine convenience. Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Channel No. 5 and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll. But under the circumstances I’ll settle for anywhere...
...emerges. Or the streets hawkers and immigrants who sometimes clog the rugged roads to Votanikos, the thriving trend-setting part of Athens. Within minutes, you'll be stunned by the sight of Athinais, an architectural oasis designed by one of Richard Branson's favorite visionaries, Tom Gazetas. Formerly a silk factory sandwiched between a cluster of auto-repair shops, the 6,500-sq-m stone Athinais in now home to the first museum of ancient Cypriot art in Greece, with one of the rarest collections of its kind in the world...
...comes from California's Red Ink Press. Like the East Coast's Highwater Books, with which it has an affiliation, Red Ink amounts to one guy, Jordan Crane, who has discovered the gospel of high-end, handcrafted comicbooks. This issue's silk-screened cover wraps completely around and under the nearly two-inch thick contents. When completely unfolded it turns into a 30-inch long pink and yellow panorama. Underneath the cover sits a thick book with a simple, geometrical patterned cover. Pick it up and you discover underneath, nestled in a cutout hollow of thick cardboard, a smaller book...
...fact, those early reports that Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi got hammered at a bar and then haggled over the bill in the days before the attack turn out to be the exception, not the rule. (Atta was also given to long-sleeved silk shirts, whereas most of the other hijackers dressed conservatively--or, in the words of a former neighbor, "foreign preppy.") For the most part, they had learned American ways well after being here for so long: one of them, Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon, lived...
...album, “North and South” released four singles which all made it to the top 30. During his two-year stint as the keyboardist and back-up vocalist of “North and South,” he had “maroon silk pantaloons” thrown at him and crazed female fans camped outside his window. He even made the infamous British gossip columns, in one instance for a rumor he jokingly started himself. While Tom certainly doesn’t regret the two years of public recognition and exhilarating European tours that...