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| May 2007 |
Vol. 3, Issue 22 |
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BIO-DIESEL
Diesel's west coast flagship retail store opens this week on Los Angeles' Melrose Place—promising an experience entirely customized for its local clientele. The 3,500-square-foot space will house 90 percent of the brand's catwalk looks, the entire accessory range, and the relaunched Diesel Collection footwear line (which makes its first retail outing in the store). Departing from previous store models, the flagship pushes eco-friendly design and build, utilizing the existing fixtures and beams from the gutted building it inhabits. Don't miss the new Diesel Denim Gallery collection, also available first in the L.A. store.
Diesel, 8401 Melrose Place, Los Angeles. Go to www.diesel.com |
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 CURVE, BALL
Is the BlackBerry massage soon to be a thing of the past? With the introduction of the BlackBerry Curve, RIM has taken a leaf out of its Pearl success, ditching the thumb wheel for a more ergonomically righteous trackball. The smallest, lightest QWERTY BlackBerry to date, the Curve is also feature-packed, sporting a built-in camera, media player, and map software. Cingular AT&T customers can sign up from May 31, for around $199. Go to www.blackberrycurve.com and www.cingular.com |
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MAN OF STEEL
The last time we saw Richard Serra in New York, he was throwing melted Vaseline off the top floor of the Guggenheim in Mathew Barney’s Cremaster 3. Little did we know that the notoriously prickly sculptor had more than piss and vinegar—and lube—left in him, as evidenced this Sunday with the opening of Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years at New York’s MoMA. Along with selections of his earlier work, the exhibit features three new sculptures, each resembling a 14-foot-high Möbius strip crafted from weatherproof steel. Light entertainment it is not—with each of the new works weighing in at upwards of 100 tons, you’d have to look pretty hard to find another exhibit of this gravity. Go to www.moma.org
Above: Richard Serra,
Band. 2006
Weatherproof steel
Overall: 12' 9" x 36' 5" x 71' 9 1/2" (3.9 x 11.1 x 21.9 m), plate: 2" (5.1 cm) thick
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gift of Eli and Edythe Broad
© 2007 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photo: Lorenz Kienzle |
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| Longtime CITY contributor Greg Lindsay is spending the next six months on the road reporting for his forthcoming book, Aerotropolis (John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his new exclusive CITY Magazine blog, IN TRANSIT, he's filing dispatches along the way, covering the best hotels, restaurants, gear, and airlines the world's "airport cities" have to offer. Check out his latest entries at www.city-magazine.com/intransit |
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