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...single for Speed of Sound at the Brit Awards in London last week). But the digital tide has hit - not only in the form of Apple Computer's iPod, but also through mobile-phone features, including ringtones, ringtunes (the actual songs) and ringbacks. Everyone from mobile-phone operators to supermarket chains like Tesco to coffee purveyors like Starbucks is offering online music services. In a recent report titled Digital Rocks!, Bryan, Garnier & Co. analyst Alexander Ivanovitch wrote: "We believe this amounts to a second digital revolution for the music industry, akin to the 1980s transition to CD." Such optimism...
...restore your sense of wonder as soon as the lights come down the babies who are aware of the film are hypnotized by it, or they fall asleep. Every now and then there's an odd scream, but nobody gets upset." Inspired by a mothers' support group, the Swiss supermarket chain Coop now sponsors infant-friendly screenings in Geneva and Lausanne. And in the U.S., Loew's Cineplex is offering Reel Moms sessions in 20 cities. So moms and dads, rejoice-your cinemagoing is far from cinema gone...
...from the raised stone pulpit in the church, preferring instead to speak from a lectern that's at the same height as the congregation. But "there's a tension between what I will and will not do," Christie says. "We are not a religious version of Tesco," the British supermarket chain. That means Whitney Houston songs at funerals are acceptable, but New Age drumming groups in the church hall or Buddhist marriage vows are not. "We're out there competing with everyone else for trust and respect," Christie says, "and that's a good thing on balance." Respect...
...dacquoise cake to be precise - for €17. The dish cost €60 at his old place. Senderens is only the latest top chef to drop out of the star system. Jöel Robuchon cashed in his Michelin status in 1996 to colonize Las Vegas and Tokyo and supermarket refrigerators with gourmet fast food. Many talented chefs refuse to join the ratings rat race altogether, opting to run more casual bistros. Some latter-day sansculottes can't wait for the extinction of la cuisine snob. But since when does democracy mean a dictatorship of taste? If haute cuisine disappears...
...keep up with the choices?trivial and profound?that confront us at every turn: picking a cell-phone plan or an on-demand movie, selecting the best mix of investments in a 401(k) or the right health plan or just knowing which eggs to buy at the supermarket. (Cage free? Organic? Omega-3 enriched?) Surely there has never been a greater need to stay alert and informed, to act shrewdly and remain focused...