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When weather permits, Via Matta opens its outdoor patio, a small urban oasis shielded from the street by a ring of trees. The restaurant attracts a varied crowd from the downtown and South End area, according to manager Chrystyna Kassaraba. “Everyone from Boston VIPs to owners of club to just people who were in the area,” she says...
...exurbia, as more cities extend their reach into what were once rural areas. The company has more than 500 stores in 34 states yet plans to open 62 new stores this year and 75 in 2006 in such places as Enfield, Conn., and Dundee, Mich., that have proximity to urban areas. Although there's risk in that rapid expansion, CEO Jim Wright says the store growth is a reflection of greater numbers of do-it-yourselfers who want to get back to nature yet still commute to an office. "We are positioned in the path of that growth," he says...
They used to call it Black Broadway: the stretch of U Street in northwest Washington where the likes of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed nightly. Then, in the 1960s, the neighborhood fell victim to urban blight as riots burned down much of the commercial district and affluent blacks moved to the suburbs. But these days efforts by local families to revive the area are taking hold. The result is a lively mix of recharged African-American culture and hip new shops and restaurants--less than 10 minutes from the National Mall...
...going to challenge XM, the market leader. XM's chipsets and audio technology, developed in-house, are a generation ahead of Sirius' hardware. Last fall, XM was first to market an iPod-like portable-radio device. The company in 2004 began serving up traffic data in major urban markets, fed directly to a car's navigation system, a feature that Sirius has announced but hasn't launched. Another edge: XM's reported subscriber-acquisition costs of $62, vs. $177 for Sirius in 2004 (Sirius expects the cost to drop to less than $145 for 2005). XM chief Hugh Panero says...
Some proceeds from the show will go to the Center for Teen Empowerment, a Boston-based program that fosters relationships between students and adults to mobilize change in urban communities, according to Tessa C. Petrich ’07, one of the show’s executive producers...