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Shinola bikes for rent in downtown Birmingham
Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Townsend Hotel
, two brands cementing reputations of luxury, are pairing up to offer Shinola bikes to hotel guests and to Birmingham residents.
The Shinola bike rental program at The Townsend launched about a month ago as a new amenity that offers an easy and stylish way to see downtown Birmingham.
The bikes are for rent by the half hour for $15, an hour for $25 and for a day for $125. Bike helmets and locks are also available.
Operators at The Townsend, a Euro-styled hotel in Birmingham, and Shinola, which promotes American- and Detroit-made products and operates a factory and retail store in Detroit, say Shinola's Runwell and Bixby models are a great way to see how walkable -- or rideable -- Birmingham can be.
"We've only had a few rentals so far, but we have a sign at the concierge desk in the main lobby announcing the offering, and we've had many inquiries," says Lynette Zebrowski, The Townsend's chief concierge. "So we are expecting to see this pick up
Source: Hope Brown, principal PublicCity PR
, and Lynette Zebrowski, chief concierge, The Townsend Hotel
Writer: Kim North Shine
Shoe Tree women's shoe store to open in Grosse Pointe's Village
Thursday, August 21, 2014
The most-watched block in Grosse Pointe's Village business district is getting a new tenant, a shoe store that will sell moderately priced women's shoes and be owned by a local who believes she knows what Grosse Pointers want and are willing to pay.
Hilary Butcher will open the Shoe Tree, likely in late October, at 17121 Kercheval Avenue, next door to the Calico fabric store that opened in June.
The block once housed a Borders bookstore and Ace hardware store, and since they closed in 2011 and 2012 the block sat vacant until a few months ago.
The developer, Kercheval Company, has leased much of the space to St. John Hospital, which will have offices and retail space. Kercheval Dance has opened a dance studio next door and Calico at the opposite end from St. John, which is still renovating its space.
Butcher's store is an alternative to the pricey, designer shoe store, Capricious, which is located on Kercheval Avenue on The Hill in Grosse Pointe Farms.
Source: The Voice of the Village
Writer: Kim North Shine
Grosse Pointe trolley organizers want riders to heart GP
Thursday, August 14, 2014
A new trolley is criss-crossing the Grosse Pointes, taking customers to and from local businesses on weekends.
Last week, the first week of operation, showed interest was high with 115 riders hopping the train Friday night and 550 riding Saturday during its 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. service.
The Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce and two nonprofits, the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation and Paul and Carol Schaap's Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, are behind a trial run of the trolley that would go through the end of the year.
The old-fashioned trolley runs up and down Kercheval Avenue between Maryland and Moross. It stops in Grosse Pointe Park, where an old business district is seeing several new business openings, goes through the Village in the city of Grosse Pointe's downtown area, and up to The Hill business district in Grosse Pointe Farms. If the trolley is a success it could expand to much busier Mack Avenue.
The free service is part of the larger "I heart GP" initiative, says Grosse Pointe Chamber president Jennifer Boettcher.
"The philosophy behind the trolley service, K-Line, coincides with another chamber initiative called "I heart GP" that's encouraging residents to put their money where their hearts are - Grosse Pointe," she says.
Soon, she says, "I heart GP" banners will hang from light posts throughout the business communities and on Vernier and Lake Shore roads "as a reminder to the residents to think local first."
Promoting business isn't all the trolley service is about.
"The best part was the camaraderie," says Boettcher, who rode the trolley on its maiden voyage weekend. "Everyone was laughing and talking like one big family."
Source: Jennifer Boettcher, president Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce, executive director, Grosse Pointe Foundation
Writer: Kim North Shine
Outlet malls planned for Canton and Romulus
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Shopping-center developers from Massachusetts and Baltimore are eyeing Romulus and Canton as future locations for massive, upscale, affordable outlet shopping centers.
New England Development of Newton, Mass. is considering building the Outlets of Michigan, an open air shopping center, near Metro Airport. Paragon Properties of Baltimore, Md. wants to open a similar-styled outlet mall on Ford Road near I-75.
Both proposals call for openings in 2016.
Economic development directors in both cities say they would create hundreds of jobs, generate millions of dollars in investment and tax revenue, and also be a draw for out-of-town shoppers.
Source: New England Development, Paragon Properties and Kristin Thomas, economic development director, city of Canton
Writer: Kim North Shine
Royal Oak's Citizen Yoga expands to second location in Detroit
Thursday, June 05, 2014
Less than a year since opening a yoga practice in a meticulously renovated space in downtown Royal Oak, Citizen Yoga is opening a studio in downtown Detroit.
The Detroit location is part of a Dan Gilbert-backed boost of Detroit. The owner of Bedrock Real Estate, Quicken Loans, the Cleveland Cavs and an all-around doer for Detroit's revitalization is behind the Z, a retail space that opened in January. Citizen Yoga will open in a 2,300-square-foot space at 1234 Library Street, next to NoJo Kicks and 7 Greens. An anchor tenant of the Z, across the street, is 24,000-square-foot Punch Bowl Social.
The 535,000-square-foot Z building covers an area from the corner of Broadway and East Grand River to the corner of Gratiot and Library.
Citizen Yoga Detroit is scheduled to open in the fall.
The Detroit location fits with
Citizen Yoga
owner Kacee Must's desire to do good for the community. Being a part of a retail return to downtown Detroit fits with her philanthropic side. It was always a part of her plan since opening Citizen Yoga on Washington Ave. in downtown Royal Oak last August.
While the Detroit opening is exciting, Citizen Yoga has also aligned itself with Brian Lively, a local master of "customer cultivation," whose success at Moosejaw, J. Crew, Gap, and other big names has won him many admirers.
Citizen Yoga was opened in honor of Must's late sister, Miya, with the plan to share with her clients the knowledge she gained while traveling to India.
Her grand opening was a fundraiser for the charity, Born and Raised in Detroit, an organization committed to creating enriching and entertaining events for Detroiters.
She also hopes to use Citizen Yoga to spread the word of suicide prevention in honor of her sister.
Source: Kacee Must, Citizen Yoga
Writer: Kim North Shine
Giuseppe's International Oils & Vinegars opens Grosse Pointe store
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Stainless steel dispensers, ceramic decanters, and glass bottles make up much of the decor of
Giuseppe's International Oils & Vinegars
, but it's what's inside the containers and what will go inside them that is the lifeblood of the business that has opened a second location in metro Detroit.
The first store, at Partridge Creek Mall in Clinton Township, has found enough success selling olive oils, aged vinegars and accessories that the owners decided to open a store in Grosse Pointe this week.
The newest Giuseppe's is located in the Village business district at 16841 Kercheval Avenue, on the second floor of the Dawood Building. The second floor retail location is a rarity for the Village, but may become more common as rules on building uses ease up and become more welcoming to businesses.
Besides its olive oils in flavored, regional, organic and specialty varieties dispensed from stainless steel canisters, and its vinegars imported from Modena, Italy that come in dark and white balsamic and wine varieties, Giuseppe's sells herbs and spices, olive oil skin products, handmade ceramic decanters and dishes, and other home products.
Giuseppe's also works with chefs who visit the store to share food and recipes that use oils, vinegars and other spices, including many that focus on health benefits.
Writer: Kim North Shine
Source: Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce
Sea and lake creatures coming to Great Lakes Crossing Outlets
Thursday, March 20, 2014
A London-based entertainment company is bringing its expertise in aquariums to the
Great Lakes Crossing Outlets
in Auburn Hills, building an aquatic attraction inside the shopping and entertainment complex.
Sea Life
, which has more than 40 aquarium attractions around the world and six in the U.S., will be built in what used to be a GameWorks. Demolition on the space started about two weeks ago. The complicated project will take more than a year with an opening date expected by April or May 2015, says Scott Berlow, general manager of Great Lakes Crossing Outlets.
Sea Life Michigan will give visitors up-close looks at more than 30 displays that are centered around a tropical ocean tank with a walkthrough underwater tunnel.
United Kingdom-headquartered
Merlin Entertainments
, owners of Sea Life, also build Legolands and numerous other themed attractions in 12 countries and three continents.
Berlow says the company chose Auburn Hills and Great Lakes because of its draw for tourists, including Canadians and because of its connection to international and national auto suppliers who bring families to Michigan to live permanently or on extended stays. He says 21 percent of visitors to Great Lakes Crossing are tourists that have traveled from more than 50 miles away.
"We know Sea Life draws from more than 100 miles," Berlow says. "This is going to be a great attraction. Certainly for a number of miles, there really is nothing that exists like this….They really ID'd the area for a variety of reasons. It's always location, location, location. The access to I-75 was important too."
Berlow says Sea Life builds on the "entertainment" in the Great Lakes motto: Shopping, Dining and Entertainment. Sea Life will be located across from Rainforest Cafe.
"You'd think they'd have a problem with that, but actually they're thrilled." Sea Life complements Rainforest Cafe as well as the Bass Pro Shop, which is also a draw for metro Detroiters and tourists alike. Field trips will be a regular part of Sea Life Michigan, which has a classroom and field-trip educators on staff and places an emphasis on conservation.
The aquarium at Great Lakes Crossing Outlets will, like the others, will be an immersive and educational experience that puts visitors up close to ocean life. But aquarium visitors will also learn about lake species. Sea Life is also involved in rescue operations.
The plans for Sea Life Michigan call for more than 30 displays of shrimp, sharks, sea rays, sea horses and starfish. The unique Great Lakes element will feature creatures most associated with the Great Lakes region.
"The naysayers would say we've got a foreign company coming into the area…This creates jobs. This is good for business…It's all positive."
Source: Scott Berlow, general manager, Great Lakes Crossing Outlets
Writer: Kim North Shine
Teenage fashionista opens Faded Raven Boutique in downtown Clawson
Thursday, February 27, 2014
A 16-year-old's new clothing boutique is one of several new businesses that have opened in recent weeks in downtown Clawson.
Faded Raven Boutique
, which sells from the store and online, is owned by Ines Soulliere, a 16-year-old enterprising lover of fashion.
"We're very excited for her," says Joan Horton, executive director of the Clawson Downtown Development Authority. "We're really working hard to support our entrepreneurs."
The Faded Raven, which is located at 38 E. 14 Mile Road and sells trendy, unique and affordable clothes and accessories, is one of several businesses that will be celebrated with a group grand opening in the next few weeks, she says.
Others include Spark, which sells decorative glass and gifts; Clawson Antiques; and R.J.'s Diner.
Source: Joan Horton, executive director, Clawson DDA
Writer: Kim North Shine
Buy Michigan Now readies for annual market in Northville
Thursday, February 06, 2014
A festival that comes to Northville each August may look like any summertime fair, but behind the temporary town of tents, banners, bands and children's play areas is a successful effort to build up fledgling Michigan-made businesses.
For five years the
Buy Michigan Now festival
has shut down Main & Center streets and opened 2 1/2 blocks of downtown to small- and medium-sized Michigan businesses looking for exposure for their goods and services. Dozens and dozens of times over the years, says Buy Michigan Now founder Lisa Diggs, the vendor-customer connection made at the fair propels entrepreneurial ideas into commercial reality.
"We've had businesses that grew out of the event in a great way, where they've gone on to get on store shelves. Others have opened their own shops or offices. We're sort of a little breeding ground for that kind of success," says Diggs.
This year, as in past years, about 100 vendors will bring all sorts of products, such as foods, patio furniture, smartphone repair services, to the festival. Small businesses in downtown Northville are also part of the event, which draws large crowds with its carefully-screened vendors, a beer and wine garden where Michigan crafters sell their liquid handiwork, live entertainment and a kids' play area spread across the festival area.
The 2014 festival is Aug. 1, 2 and 3, and applications for vendors are now being taken online
"It's a campaign and a festival with a cause," says Diggs, an entrepreneur herself. Through
Buy Michigan Now
and her consulting work as owner of The Catalyst Co., she promotes businesses in a number of ways throughout the year, including providing publicity and media exposure that is normally too costly for a start-up.
The first year of the Buy Michigan Now campaign was in 2007 and came with heavy involvement from the state of Michigan and Gov. Jennifer Granholm. It was a weeklong event with numerous celebrations and promotion. It formed at a time when Michigan's economy was tanking and when the mindset of buying local was taking shape.
"We're literally about getting more people to sit up and take notice of where their product or service comes from. The idea when we started was to have a day for people to think about how to buy only Michigan products, make a meal only from Michigan. Then we realized we needed much more than a day."
Source: Lisa Diggs, founder Buy Michigan Now
Writer: Kim North Shine
Plymouth's Mattress 4 U brings organic to the bedroom
Thursday, December 19, 2013
In the 1980s,
Mattress 4 U
was into the waterbed craze and since then it's followed trends in sleeping, the latest being organic mattresses and a desire by consumers to know what's inside their mattress and what chemicals have been used to treat it.
The store started in Greenville in western Michigan and expanded to Plymouth in the summer of 2013, opening a store at 44717 5 Mile Road. It serves mostly Northville and Plymouth and calls itself Michigan's only certified organic mattress retailers.
Shoppers can find mattresses made from 100-percent organic cotton, natural rubber latex, renewable products, cruelty-free Eco Wool and with no chemicals.
It's a growing business, and unlike waterbeds of the 1980s, may be here to stay, says owner Billy Pennington.
Source: Billy Pennington, owner, Mattress 4U
Writer: Kim North Shine
Lark & Co. revives the old general store in new Birmingham spot
Thursday, October 24, 2013
The vision for Michael Collins and David Zawicki's new
Lark & Co.
in downtown Birmingham is modern day general store.
The pair who previously ran Oliver's Trendz, a women's accessories store, in the same storefront at 138 N. Maple. After shutting down for renovations, they reopened nearly two weeks ago and have stocked the 1,100-square-foot space with products inspired by a 1940s general store.
Variety is the name of the game: handmade candy, furniture, foodstuffs, lighting, purses, speciality soaps, rugs, books.
Collins and Zawicki have lived in Birmingham 17 years and see a general store as a way to round out downtown Birmingham's retail offerings, a way to keep locals from leaving town to shop.
Next door to Lark & Co. is Suhm-thing, a gift store that is also owned and operated by Collins and Zawicki and has a a selection of Michigan goods and unusual items from artists and designers around the world.
Part of the their business plan is also to convey how much good supporting a local merchant can do for the economy and to set them themselves apart by providing a level of service that's harder to find at chains, malls and big box stores, Collins says.
Source: Ed Nakfoor, Birmingham PSD, and Michael Collins, owner, Lark&Co.
Writer: Kim North Shine
Dearborn gift shop adds second location in Detroit
Thursday, February 14, 2013
After five years in the making as a favorite gift shop and little girls' party spot in west Dearborn,
Sophia's Giftique
has opened a second location, this one in Detroit.
The New Center store inside the office building on West Grand Boulevard and Woodward will offer a similar mix of personal and home accessories, gifts and holiday items as well as its speciality products, Simply Victoria, a handmade greeting card line designed by the mother of one owner, and B3 (Bath, Body, Beauty) which was created by the sister of that store owner.
The store offers free gift wrapping and host private princess parties, tea parties and is frequently the site of charity events.
Sophia's owners see the shop becoming a stop in a series of retail and eating establishments that line the walkways through the New Center that's connected to The Fisher, Cadillac Place and St. Regis Hotel.
Writer: Kim North Shine
Source: Sophia's Giftique and West Dearborn Downtown Development Authority
Pet & Paw caters to pet owners with organic, locally made products
Thursday, January 17, 2013
What started as a home-based pet walking and pet sitting business in 2010 has matured into its own office and boutique in downtown Ferndale.
Pet Care AuPair
and its newest venture,
the Pet & Paw
boutique in Ferndale, really go hand and hand, something owner Kristen Schmitt and her team figured out as they got to know their clients -- the four-footed, two-footed and no-footed.
"More and more clients started asking about pet nutrition. Their pets were getting sick and the more we talked the common denominator was China, foods made and processed there.
She answered by researching and finding more pure, Made In USA foods and treats, many targeted to address very specific problems for all kinds of animals. Her pet care service counts dogs, cats, birds, lizards, snakes, rodents, fish, horses in Oxford and two pot-bellied pigs among the clients.
"There are seriously so many great products out there," she says. "I've aligned myself with these manufacturers because i really believe in their products."
It's those products that Schmitt stocks at Pet & Paw, the boutique in front of the store she opened at 23233 Woodward Avenue about four blocks from 9 Mile. Behind the shop, she runs the pet care service that's grown enough in just two years to require a team of five independent contractors, and one full-time and one part-time employee. Among them is a veterinary technician and an animal behaviorist.
"We always say we're your pet care advocate. If we don't know answers we'll get them. And we never stand in as a substitute for a veterinarian."
It's just that they get to know their animals well -- so much so that employees mourn if pets pass on -- and they have learned through experience how to help with simple problems, namely nutrition-related, and what specific breeds do and don't respond to.
"This has just sort of metamorphosed into a great thing, and we have a really good team in place..I felt confident that we were ready for an office and retail," she says. "And it's been really good so far."
Writer: Kim North Shine
Source: Kristen Schmitt, founder Pet Care AuPair and Pet & Paw
FUN STUFF in Birmingham goes from retail lark to local business
Thursday, November 29, 2012
You could say that Denise Kulak and her new Birmingham business were raised in a barn.
And it wouldn't be an insult.
FUN STUFF, a small, eclectic boutique that sells affordable jewelry, art, locally-made treats and more, was started, funnily enough, on a lark Up North one recent summer as her husband, sculptor Gary Kulak, set up his business for the summer.
"He was doing his sign for Gary Kulak Sculpture, I said, 'What about me?' He said, 'What do you want to be?' I said, 'I want to be …and other fun stuff.' Thats how it all started…
The business, if it could be called that at the time, was set up "in my pole barn up north, just to do if for the summer,"
"I literally just threw out a sandwich board sign that said FUN STUFF. I still use it here at the store in Birmingham."
She used her connections from a 25-plus year career in retail to buy the goods she would sell.
"It just worked," she says.
She decided to try it closer to their year-round home in Birmingham. FUN STUFF, which keeps prices low but sells "quality things that I would be proud to give as a gift," opened Oct. 11 in the Adams Square Shopping Center. It's a short walk from the Kulak's home, the sort of commute Kulak has dreamed of for years.
"It's going really well. I've got a lot of traffic. I've seen a lot of people from the neighborhood. I wanted to be community-based and be near my home. I wanted to re-create the whole experience from Up North and do it in my neighborhood" says Kulak, who also sells her husband's signature chair sculptures. His work can be seen throughout Michigan and in other states.
Oddly enough the 200-square-foot store in the Adams Square Shopping Center is even smaller than the 500-square foot pole barn where FUN STUFF was born.
Kulak, who's been laid off from high-level retail jobs three times in 10 years and is a fourth generation retailer, is excited about getting back to what she loves - selling goods - but she's more driven to make the shop a place for socializing and getting to know locals.
Kulak is a master's degree candidate from Walsh College and is also a beneficiary of a business start-up program offered by the Walsh College Wayne State University Blackstone Launchpad, which is funded by the Blackstone Charitable Trust Foundation and is a partnership with the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan, Automation Alley and the University of Miami.
Launchpad gave Kulak - and other entrepreneurs enrolled at Walsh and Wayne State - advice and assistance in starting the business, including feasibility studies, business plans and more.
Kulak is grateful, but again, this is a business she wants based on relationships, friendships with some salesemanship thrown in.
"I want this to be a place where every product has a story and every customer shares one…It's not just about selling stuff….It's about the woman who comes in here 2,3 times a week, tells a joke, a story or shares something important to her."
Writer: Kim North Shine
Source: Denise Kulak, owner, FUN STUFF
lululemon opening store in downtown Birmingham
Thursday, August 09, 2012
A prominent downtown Birmingham location will be filled by international retailer
before the winter holidays, the second metro Detroit store and fourth Michigan store of the popular yoga and running outfitter.
John Heiney, executive director of the
Principal Shopping District
in Birmingham, says the Canadian athletic retailer will take the majority of space at 101 South Old Woodward, a space vacated by Ann Taylor Loft in January.
He says a second national retailer is finalizing plans to move into the remaining square footage in the prominent storefront, and the name can be disclosed within days.
A store such as lululemon, he says, fits Birmingham, and is the latest example of the city's decision to hire a national retail recruiter.
"This lifestyle brand aligns well with Birmingham customer and they will draw from a large segment of the market," he says.
Source: John Heiney, executive director, Birmingham Principal Shopping District
Writer: Kim North Shine
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On Sun., Sept. 18, more than 400 people came from throughout the Tri- State area to the Science of Spirituality Meditation Center in Amityville, to celebrate the birth anniversaries of two spiritual luminaries, Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj and Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj.
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Species has everything to do with it because like I said, morality isn't actually universal, and condemning a race by standards they can't meet isn't exactly fair. I understand that this is bordering on hyperbole but I just don't see how else to put it.
If you had a child, let's say they are five years old, do they really know right from wrong? Would most kindergartners understand that killing something is morally wrong? Maybe, but it's not the same kind of knowing or understanding that an adult has.
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The Kaldori and their lust for Magic led to the Sundering. All of those events led to countless deaths, innocent deaths as well. From their perspective, and the perspective of their apologists, they weren't doing anything morally wrong, just reckless. The outcome however was bloody horrible. Wrong thing (tampering with magic), right reason (power and knowledge).
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At the age of 20, while the "flower children" were making history in a nearby place called Woodstock, she was already a wife, mother and registered nurse. She also worked part-time at a preschool.
After over a decade in nursing, including seven years in cardiovascular care, she decided to take her career to the next level. She made several efforts to become a physician, but things never seemed to come together.
A nun, who was the director of a nurse's association, gave her some unorthodox advice – get into law.
A Natural Transition
At the age of 30 Kelleman made the transition from nursing into law. She received a law degree from Western New England University School of Law, and an advanced degree from Emory University's school of law.
A trial attorney by training, elder law was something she fell into early on. She opened her own practice, Kelleman Law Firm, P.C., in Snellville in 1993, and she has been there ever since. She was already comfortable working with seniors as a nurse, and so it was a natural progression.
Elder abuse, according to Kelleman, is a common occurrence, and something that she takes on regularly. She is also in the beginning stages of forming a nonprofit called Trust Associates Inc., which would supply an executor, administrator or power of attorney for elders who may not have one.
Kelleman regularly teaches classes and gives lectures in the community on many different topics. One popular class is called "Aging is Risky Business: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You."
She is working on a book by the same name.
Another class is called "We Wish You Long Life: How Do You Plan to Pay for it?" The classes are available to the public and professional caregivers.
Her concern and respect for elders came from a life-changing experience as a child: a couple in their 50s raised her as their foster child. They taught her how to plant a garden, drive a tractor and many other life skills that she would not have otherwise had.
A New Lease on Life
Life has brought her many blessings, but also a fair share of challenges. In 2007 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is currently in remission.
Then, in 2008, she was struck by a car as she was on her way to a lawyer's meeting.
"The car came around the corner and plowed into me," she said.
Her right leg was broken in five places; it was five months before she could walk again. She was not fully healed until nine months later.
Her faith got her through those very difficult circumstances, and she believes that she has more to accomplish while she is still on earth.
The list of things she has already accomplished is lengthy. She is the former editor of ElderCare Matters, a publication of Georgia ElderCare Network, and sits on many boards in Gwinnett County. She often serves as pro bono attorney in the metro Atlanta area and is a member of ElderCare Matters, the Elder Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, the Gwinnett County Bar Association, the Gwinnett Senior Provider's Network and the National Elder Law Academy, among others.
She is also a guest lecturer at Emory University's lifelong learning division.
The demands of marriage, her two children, Lili and Christopher, and her clients have been demanding at times throughout her life, but Kelleman doesn't live to work, she "works to live."
"As important as work is," she said, "that has to be this life that we're given."
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WSVN -- It's out with the old and in with the new: New World Symphony.
After 23 years, the NWS is leaving its old spot on Lincoln Road and moving into its new mega home on 17th Street in Miami Beach.
Stacey Glassman, Friends of the New World Symphony: "I call this a major upgrade."
That's for sure. The New World Symphony Center is two and a half times the size of the old Lincoln Theater.
The whole idea behind this new place is to make audiences feel a part of the music, and the new concert hall does just that.
Howard Herring, President, New World Symphony: "This is really a 21st century laboratory. There are four satellite platforms for small ensembles, so you can play full orchestra and move to a soloist with only a change of light."
Some of the seating can be folded up too, so there's space to dance. Yes, they now encourage dancing at some of their concerts and will even turn the hall into an adult music lounge called "Pulse."
Stacey Glassman: "It's a fluid, choreographed evening of music, dance, video and art. Guests will arrive at 10, the lights will be down and video art will be up. There will be bars set up in the hall."
There's a stunning rooftop garden with views of the ocean and city to mix and mingle in before and after shows.
Howard Herring: "We have turned the building inside out."
For all us regular folks, the most exciting part is the public park in front of the building called "Sound Scape." Out there, musical programs can be projected on the side of the building and on screens in the park.
Howard Herring: "Everything that happens in this performance hall can also go into the park, so for free, on any old Saturday night, you can come to this park and hear the symphony play."
Even if you think you can't afford, or even like, classical music, that's where the new world attitude comes in.
Stacey Glassman: "New World Symphony wants to be accessible and inclusive. We are offering $2.50 concerts. I think that's good for anyone's budget. And they are 30-minute concerts."
Chances are, you will hear something you'll really love.
Howard Herring: "We play standard repertoire, but we play a great deal of new and experimental music. You can come and hear something as avant-garde as you might hear at a rock 'n' roll concert, and you can turn around the next night and hear Mozart."
Who knew classical music could be so cool.
Belkys Nerey: "The grand opening is next Tuesday, Jan. 25."
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Click above for high-res gallery of Colin McRae's tribute
Oh, those Brits. When they're not faking making corn circles they're writing a rally legend's names using 1,086 Subaru Imprezas as pixels. This, of course, was the finale to the weekend long celebration of Colin McRae's life, which saw over 1,100 Scoobys converge on Prodrive's test track in Warwickshire. Precisely how many cars took part in the ensuing 30-mile convoy is unknown, but if you don't have anything better to do right now, you can have a go at counting them in the video after the jump (and look out for the near miss at 6:42).
The half-mile-long sign you see above broke the Guiness World Record for, err, writing signs with cars by a cool 800, but more importantly Colin's fans raised over $80,000 for the McRae family's chosen charities.
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Spring Cleaning: How to Pamper Your Skin
Experts take a look at skin tips in part 4 of our Spring Makeover Series, "4 weeks, 4 Simple Steps."
"If you use a mild natural ingredient like brown sugar to gently, and I repeat, gently rub your body several days before having a waxing or chemical hair removal, you'll loosen and remove dead skin cells, which will not only make your hair removal easier but also safer," says Spagnolo, director of the DeFranco Spagnolo Salon and Spa in Great Neck, N.Y.
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"Scrubs that contain walnut shells or apricot pits, for example, can cause microscopic tears in the skin that can ultimately make dry winter skin look and feel much worse, especially on your face," says Waldorf. Even the brown sugar scrub, she says, can be too harsh for some skin.
Instead, she suggests a cleanser or moisturizer (or both!) containing an alpha-hydroxy or beta-hydroxy acid -- a far safer way, says Waldorf, to rid your skin of those dull, dead cells. If you feel you must try some "mechanical" form of exfoliation, Waldorf suggests gentle cleansing cloths like the type made by Dove or Oil of Olay.
"This is as harsh as you should get with the skin on your face, and even the skin on your body, particularly when coming out of the winter season," she says.
Citron agrees and adds a caution concerning the use of home acid peels to recondition skin for spring.
"While some of the milder commercial preparations may be OK, don't try to buy a professional-grade acid peel, like the kind sold over the Internet, and use it on your own -- you have to be very careful and you have to know what you are using, or you could end up with some serious problems," says Citron. This includes a condition known as "hyperpigmentation" -- blotchy, uneven, chemically damaged skin that happens most frequently in darker complexions.
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Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus
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God's Provision for the Weary Pilgrim
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hackingbear writes "Harvard sociologist Gary King has just completed two studies that peer into the Chinese censorship machine — including a field experiment within China that was conducted with extraordinary secrecy. Together, the studies refute popular intuitions about what Chinese censors are after. He found that the censors actually permit 'vitriolic criticism' of China's leaders and governmental policies but the censors crack down heavily on any move to get people physically mobilized to act on such criticism. In a related development, China's top court issued a ruling on Monday to threaten a 3-year sentence for people posting online rumors viewed by 5,000 internet users or reposted more than 500 times. Though, in the same ruling, the court also clarified that a person reposting false rumor should not be punished if he or she does not clearly know the information is false, even if real harm is done. "