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...have mostly expanded beyond our initial categories. There are plenty of people who like Phish just because the music is good, and whose collections also include Miles Davis and the Go-Go's (well, maybe not the Go-Go's). The day I walked into my town's music store and bought both the new Indigo Girls album and the Beastie Boys' "Ill Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking out the Beastie Boys...
Digital-video (DV) camera prices are plummeting south toward the $1,000 border. Cheap DV-ready PCs, bundled with professional-editing software, are zooming off store shelves. And a host of popular production websites have sprung up to showcase amateur movie shorts. All of which has led experts to believe we're in for a DV Christmas. "There's a demand for video editing among consumers if it can be done easily and elegantly," says Kevin Hause, an analyst at International Data Corp. "When you look at what that takes in terms of computer speed and power, we're there...
...years ago, somebody robbed the store with a gun," he said. "My brother and I were working at the time, and he didn't really speak English, so he couldn't understand what was going on. I had to tell him in Chinese, 'We're being robbed...
After another incident on Halloween, when a group of kids descended on the store looking for beer, Chen was left with a black...
Reported robberies are down 18 percent--and down 50 percent in the neighborhood around the store, according to the CPD report...