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LYDIA FAIR. Over 35 local artists, writers, songwriters and other performers have assembled to create a smorgasbord of talent and inspiration geared toward women. This creative two-act forum produced by local musician Eunice Sim explores women’s aspirations in the art world and beyond through drama, poetry, fiction, dance, singing and art. Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. Gallery opens an hour before each show time. All proceeds from ticket sales go to “Cradles to Crayons,” an organization which distributes clothing and toys...
...global--was a given for Hori, 37, who was born in Washington, grew up in Kobe and studied in London. Cybird already provides wireless content to users in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, and soon China. Cybird will also chart a new path with branded SIM cards. The brains of any phone on the GSM global mobile-phone standard, SIM cards carry a user's account data and can be swapped from phone to phone. Cybird turned them into moneymakers: a SIM card branded with Hong Kong's hot pop act Twins...
Experiencing The Sims Online is less like playing a game than taking part in an open-ended community theater production, where the dialogue is improvised, the theme is modern life and the star is you. As in the original game, players control the behavior of their characters by choosing from menus of actions and interactions. (Unlike in The Sims, they can also type messages to one another in real time.) The primary goal is similar to the original as well--you want your Sim to be happy--but there's a new emphasis on making friends and setting...
...shower in the bathroom (never mind that his wife is using the toilet), practice the piano for a while, then start making and selling pizzas out of your host's kitchen. In the trial beta version of the game, which currently has around 35,000 participants, Wright plays a Sim who is the proprietor of a lounge located in a submarine. It's called Das Love Boat (he describes it, not very helpfully, as "a German U-boat with a romantic-comedy theme...
...surreal chaos. To a greater extent than the original game, The Sims Online has built-in group activities to encourage people to get together and socialize. It's built right into the simulated psychology. Call it "simbiosis": your Sim won't be happy if it's not hanging out with other Sims. In The Sims Online, nice guys really do finish first. "We're giving the players a blank slate, a blank world," says Wright. "We want people to try to build a large, diverse world, so we're tailoring our reward structures to encourage the kind of world people...