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Better to concentrate on the LACMA campus, a place Govan envisions as the city's town square. "If you're going to rethink the encyclopedic museum for the 21st century, Los Angeles is the place to do so," says Govan. "This is a city that speaks a hundred languages and which everybody says lacks a center. The encyclopedic museum holds something for everyone, no matter where you come from...
...Annenberg Foundation has given the museum funding to study engineering and begin design of Koons' dangling Train, according to Govan, who is already calling the artwork his town square's campanile. "What a metaphor," says LACMA trustee Lynda Resnick, "for the way the West is chugging forth into the new millennium...
Alexandria, Va. Behind an Old Town fish-and-chips restaurant displaying a pirate flag is an unmarked door with a blue light denoting the entrance to PX. After you ring the bell, a host's eyes appear in a peephole, and a voice beckons you upstairs?or denies your entry because the place holds only 30 people. Inside, the bar is decked out with mirrored walls and glass chandeliers. Just like in the 1920s (the bar's era of inspiration), bartenders hand-make cocktail mixers, including the tonic water, bitters and fresh-squeezed juice. eamonnsdublinchipper.com...
...same year I arrived at Harvard, Boston was transformed into a blessed city. The concept was, in some ways, challenging for a town so used to thinking of itself as cursed, but it happened nonetheless. First, the Red Sox won the World Series, the single most meaningful sports moment Boston will ever experience. A few months later, the Patriots claimed their third Super Bowl in four years, a victory that was so satisfying because it was so very meaningless after two prior championships. With these twin triumphs, a city steeped in a tradition of losing found itself immersed, uncomfortably...
When John McCain speaks at a town hall, he makes a point of telling the audience that he's going to keep his opening remarks short. At an event in the packed town hall of New London, New Hampshire on Sunday, he explained he would be brief because he'd rather hear what voters have to say, "because that's the point of a town hall, not for me to stand up and talk and maybe answer a few planted questions...