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...that the Fab 5 of “Queer Eye” weren’t just meth-snorting drifters some casting agent stumbled across at a trashy disco in Chelsea. Each has attained an enviable degree of success within his respective field: Jai appeared on Broadway in Rent, Thom was named one of America’s top 100 designers by House Beautiful magazine, and the list goes on. So be honest, friend: it’s the “so-called stereotypical” behaviors that are leaving you and countless gays across the nation squirming. Maybe...
...tiny little stick figures with guitars are unable to reach beyond the footlights. But for the best bands, arenas are where they come into their own. On Friday night, the audience as a single body underwent a symbiotic connection to the band, rendering us one being. When Thom Yorke sang “We are accidents / Waiting to happen,” he was singing about all of us there, and we all knew it. When Yorke went ballistic, gyrating around in the stage in a demented head-shaking, knees-up hoedown, we all leapt with him. We the audience...
...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 it a "chofa" (bigger than a chair, smaller than a sofa). Now Domain plans to rename it too--and has seen sales double. In another show, the crew went to the flagship Ralph Lauren store...
Jazz festivals these days aren't as much about jazz as about quality music - FRITZ THOM...
...wealthier, and they like to own things," he says. "The demand for quality music is strong." In search of more than a niche market, some organizers have broadened out their offerings. "Jazz festivals these days aren't as much about jazz as they are about quality music," says Fritz Thom, whose Vienna Jazz Festival (June 23-July 13) first took root when pianist Keith Jarrett played the Staatsoper in 1991. "We're an urban festival, and we need a broad spectrum, from mainstream to avant garde," says Thom, whose offerings this year include pianist Chick Corea and New Orleans legend...