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...Looks like bathroom tile from the 1970s," one astute commenter wrote on nj.com, a website that covers New Jersey news. "I expect to see David Cassidy every time I drive by that thing because it looks like the Partridge Family bus!" wrote another. Are the construction workers wearing bell-bottoms? The commenter continued, "My ex-husband flew in from Florida and said, 'That mall can be seen from space.' " (See pictures of the Mall of America...
...rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands - the polluted northern-New Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago - like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing? It's a mishmash of big-box structures covered in aqua, blue and white tiles, with a little mustard yellow and brown thrown in to finish off the 1970s-nightmare look. Part of the complex, still under construction, is shaped like a ski jump, because what says industrial metropolitan America quite like a Nordic sport...
...that thing is a mall called Xanadu, located in East Rutherford. The name is a nod to the heavenly summer home immortalized by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree." It's also the name of a ridiculous 1980 Olivia Newton-John movie involving roller-skating muses and disco. Slated to open in August, Xanadu, a wannabe shopping paradise, will be a 2.4 million-sq.-ft. retail and entertainment complex located 3½ miles from the Empire State Building, across the Hudson River at the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike...
...only thing shining this weekend. The Harvard women’s lacrosse team (2-1) radiated Saturday afternoon on Cumnock Turf, defeating Quinnipiac, 15-10. Seven different Crimson players contributed to the scoreboard, with five of them recording multiple point efforts.Harvard tallied a 13-10 win over the Bobcats (1-1) last season, and the Crimson now leads the series 5-1 against Quinnipiac.“We were really happy with the win,” tri-captain Shannon Flynn said. “We still have a ways to go but it was a really big step...
...companies looking to make cuts in the grips of recession, the appetizer, entree, and dessert may be the first things to go. The company holiday party, once an obligatory, lavish celebration, has become “gauche” in a time of pink slips and downsized bonuses, said desserterie Finale co-Founder and President Paul D. Consorti. And Cambridge’s high-end eateries are feeling the pinch. “We had a company, that will remain nameless, cancel their annual holiday party because the week before they had laid off a bunch of employees...