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...DIED. DANIEL TOSCAN DU PLANTIER, 61, French film producer and president of the film promotion group Unifrance, of a heart attack while attending the Berlin Film Festival; in Berlin. Known as a tireless ambassador for the French film industry, Toscan du Plantier once said: "France is the paradise of cinema; its only fault is that it's too small...
ZADIE SMITH AND CARYL PHILLIPS. Smith, whose 2000 debut novel White Teeth was a bestseller, and novelist/playwright Phillips will read from their works. The event is part of a series of events with black writers sponsored by the Du Bois Institute. Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. Free. Thompson Room, Barker Center...
...into the beyond. Old ways have hustled French furniture manufacturer Domeau & Peres into the vanguard of its field. Bruno Domeau is a trained saddlemaker who plied his trade in the luxury-automobile industry. Philippe Peres traveled France studying with master craftsmen as an apprentice upholsterer with the Compagnons du Devoir, a throwback to the craftsmen's guilds of the Middle Ages. Yet they have yoked their skills to the plowshare of contemporary design. "We're unusual because we're handcraftmen who've decided to work in the contemporary field," says Peres. "Producing contemporary design is usually left up to industrialists...
...good in the past three years. In the post-Internet-boom, post-9/11 world, consumer sensibilities have changed--permanently, some argue--and the economics have been dreadful. But for store designers, these are very good times indeed. Along the moneyed paths of Madison Avenue and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, in the Ginza and on the Via Condotti, stonemasons, carpenters, electricians and designers are assembling new sales wagons for Ferragamo, Tod's, Louis Vuitton, Comme des Garcons, Jil Sander, Prada and other luxe labels. They are exquisite spaces, and they are more luxury priced than ever, now that...
According to Fisk, the media are reluctant to discuss civilian casualties caused by Western intervention in the Middle East. He cited as an example an epidemic of cancer caused by Depleted Uranium (D.U.) in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, a story that was not printed in most papers. DU is a material contained in weapons used by the U.S. military...