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...through your head after the 80s dance? Are you really meant to be a child of the 80s? Time warp back to your favorite childhood era by having an old-fashioned arcade experience at the Salem Willows Arcade. Play those noisy obsolete video games and win useless prizes. 173 Fort Avenue, Salem, (781) 745-0251; Bring quarters, lots of them...
...ability to take extra time off are attractive lures in the current economy. Sometimes they give employees the chance to develop the idealistic side that earlier generations felt constrained to repress when they put on a business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek to a 24-hr. workweek...
...School of the Americas, allegedly a factory for right-wing assassins, is the recipient of the 22nd Annual Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Award. The Rev. Nick Cardell, recently released from a six month sentence for protesting the school at Fort Bennings, Georgia, will be receiving the award on behalf of the school. 11 a.m., Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Copley Square...
...mayor has resolved to ban what he calls the "Day-Glo colors--the wild reds, oranges and purples." If he is successful, the mainly Latino city of 93,000 will be joining a nationwide movement, in which exclusive residential communities from Denver to Fort Worth, Texas, increasingly mandate color, fencing and even what you can park in your driveway. That freedom from choice shows up in commerce. Benjamin Moore paints reports from its New Jersey headquarters that neutrals are in and sales of Briarwood (taupe) and Richmond Bisque (beige) are up across the country...
...meant to be, but Wynn has already nailed a few things that the Getty, with its comparably huge buying budget, ought not to have missed. He has also taken on some sound advisers, led by Edmund Pillsbury, for many years the director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. And anyone who looks down his nose at the whole enterprise as a piece of splashy Vegas promotion ought to remember the origins of American museums in the late 19th century, built up from nothing by self-taught meat packers and railroad kings who got good advice, took deep...