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...opened a parlor inside Selfridges department store on London 's Oxford Street . Ladies Who Lunch can now pop in for a quick butterfly or dolphin while looking for a new handbag or pair of shoes. But if you can't make it to the U.K. , check out these other slick studios: TORONTO: "Please don't call us a tattoo parlor," says manager Raven Rowanchilde of Urban Primitive Body Design, tel: (1-416) 966 9155. "We're an arts studio." Expect ethnic furnishings, incense and New Age music here, too. PARIS: With its fish tanks and trendy decor, Abraxas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinstripes And Needles | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...inside the swanky Selfridges department store on London's Oxford Street. Ladies Who Lunch can now pop in for a quick butterfly or dolphin in between looking for a new handbag or pair of shoes. But if you can't make it to the U.K., check out these other slick studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...album kicks off with the attention-grabbing single “Coma Girl” which sounds like vintage Clash, only more pop- and reggae-tinged than the Clash ever permitted themselves. Strummer’s voice is guttural and slovenly, the antithesis of all that is slick and shiny in contemporary music. The tinge of age in Strummer’s voice gives his lyrics a classiness and authority that can’t be bought or faked, particularly on folksy ballads like “Long Shadow.” Strummer even carries off a straight-up cover...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...slick fielder who won four Golden Gloves playing for the Lions, Kazuo Matsui batted .305 with 33 home runs and 13 stolen bases this year. Scouts liken the switch-hitter to a stronger Ichiro Suzuki, the All-Star Seattle Mariners' outfielder whose impact on the U.S. game turned Japanese players into must-haves for major-league rosters. Matsui's move will be lucrative. Several clubs have already expressed interest, including the free-spending Yankees, who are already paying $6 million a year to last year's Matsui. This year's Matsui is likely to demand a Godzilla-like salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Godzilla Goes West | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...pictures of garbage bags, air-conditioner boxes, cases of empty beer bottles," says Ike. "I came to think of the city as a character in the movie." Tokyo Godfathers' portrayal of the metropolis is so fresh and stark that it's hard to view the city in the same slick way again. Tokyo's bright-eyed homeless men, the occasional sashaying transvestite, and the teenage girls languishing in the shadows like lost children shift into the foreground, while the usual symbols of the capital suddenly seem irrelevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Grit | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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