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...create communities, but not all resort to such high-minded justifications. "We're part of the biggest group of losers in London," said a 21-year-old office administrator, sitting in a pub on Tottenham Court Road last week, before he and a friend made their way to a sofa store to join the city's very first flash mob. Along with 200 other Londoners, they gathered in the shop for 10 minutes and then left, to the befuddlement of the manager. No one knows how many flash mobs have taken place so far. But their popularity may already have...
Style-challenged heterosexuals aren't the only beneficiaries of Bravo's hit makeover show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Plenty of New York City merchants are reaping the benefits too. Desiron, a downtown home-furnishings store, at right, provided a $900 coffee table and a $2,600 sofa to help spruce up Tom Kaden's living room. In the month after the show aired, sales of the items nearly quadrupled, according to the store. Visiting the housewares emporium Domain, Queer Eye's interior designer, Thom Filicia, got excited about the store's red Victoria settee ($3,099) and dubbed...
...group of losers in London," said a 21-year-old office administrator sitting in the Rising Sun pub on Tottenham Court Road in London. At precisely 6:27 p.m., after picking up a sheet of instructions, he and his friend left the bar, and made their way to the Sofas-UK showroom around the corner. At 6:30 p.m. Derrick Robinson, the manager of Sofas-UK, looked out the window of another pub and saw 200 people gathered outside his locked store. He quickly opened up. Robinson didn't know it yet, but he'd achieved the dubious distinction...
...King quit his job and hopped on a bus to Miami, where he slept on his uncle’s sofa...
...verdict: if you can't get to a sofa, this type of gadget makes for a fine substitute. But nothing beats the big screen. Even Hitchcock doesn't survive scaling down all that well. --By Wilson Rothman