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...bathroom, luxury has found its way to the laundry room. Once relegated to gloomy basements and cramped alcoves, the appliances and accessories that wash, dry and care for clothes are now in showcase spaces. Architects and home builders across the country report a surge in demand for spacious, centrally located, multipurpose laundry rooms. The equipment in them is getting a makeover too. The latest generation of washing and drying machines boasts high-tech innovations--with high price tags to match. Home stores and catalogs brim with $120 hampers and $20-a-bottle cleaning products that have scents like pink grapefruit...
Gigante's strategy is to provide the same goods as the best bodegas but in spacious, sparkling showrooms that rival high-end Anglo supermarkets such as Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. "The big chains gave Gigante the opportunity to come in here," says Steven Soto, head of the L.A.-based Mexican-American Grocers Association, a trade group that represents some 18,000 Latino store managers and owners. "The chains didn't understand how to market to our community. But Gigante has done a lot to open their eyes...
...recent cruise we were among only 28 passengers and had the run of the spacious, five-deck ship, built to carry as many as 85 passengers. A&K nonetheless kept a full staff of 60 on board, and the service and food were outstanding. The Sun Boat transported us peacefully upriver to docks from which we could travel easily to ancient monuments, including the majestic columns and obelisks of Karnak and the richly painted tombs of kings and queens burrowed into the desert. While waiting for the next monument to show up, we stretched out on the Sun Boat...
...began this annual tradition last year, conducting a semi-formal affair in his spacious Eliot suite, complete with television stream of the Derby, mint julep and one Kentuckian. The Derby was “the focal point” of the party, but the sweet bourbon drink was vital for the affair’s authenticity. It is the official drink of the Kentucky Derby and, adds Pacelli with aplomb, “all Kentucky Colonels.” Pacelli himself appeared at the party in full uniform...
...Names have been changed in order to protect the speakers.) "The day will come when we say 'Enough is enough.'" We thought we were liberated, but we were not," Mapfumo says, two days after the Mutare show, over a stew-and-rice dinner in the living room of his spacious Harare home. (Even stars can't always get maize for sadza, the staple porridge.) Mapfumo, 57, whose waist-length dreadlocks seem designed to defy his receding hairline, realized in the late 1980s that he might have to go back to battle. "Corruption was rampant," he says. "Mugabe has taken...