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...style theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same time. Reporters love the Newseum, of course, but so do the schoolkids who come by the busload. This is more than just a tourist trap; it is a $50 million testament to the terrifying insecurity that lurks at the heart of American journalism...
...money trouble, and having failed to sell an interview to any British or South African news outlets (asking price: almost $800,000), she's cashing in on the cachet of the humble house in Soweto that she shared with Mandela in the 1950s. But now that Soweto is a tourist destination, the garage has become a curio shop where you can pick up a small bottle of soil from the garden ("Heroes' Acre," as the label calls it). Each bottle comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by Mrs. Mandela, but at about $11 a bottle, it's a slow...
...years, I've watched summer after summer of college age kids flock in masses to the Cape, and rent a house, party and work as ice cream-truck drivers, lifeguards, waitresses and cooks. When one lives in an area as tourist-driven as the Cape, he or she can't help but end up having a summer job during college in a the tourist economy...
...calling card for its unwholesome diversions. If all goes according to plan, their place will be taken by, among many other things, the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (a new megatheater for musicals combining two of the street's original stages), vast multiplex movie theaters and more tourist lures like Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...
...block as a whole--which begs the question of whose memories you take as your signpost. Rudolph Giuliani's? Those of the kids who used to watch kung-fu movies in the old New Amsterdam? John Barrymore's? With the mix of live and canned entertainment, shopping, restaurants and tourist attractions, and with the hoped-for blend of high, middle and low brow, 42nd Street's caretakers are aiming to re-create the traditional ambiance and uses of 42nd Street in a late-'90s context. Since 42nd Street's traditional ambiance is chaotic, the city and state...