Life

Entertainment success depends on elitism and uniqueness

Restaurants, pubs, fitness centers, KTV With the growing number of entertainment options, a smattering of private, concept clubs is finding that success in the new China relies on exclusivity and uniqueness.

Feeling excluded? Join the club

"Just tell them 'I'm sorry, this is a private club'."

Who's in

Kennedy Center pays homage to cultural super stars

Life

What's new

Shanghai screen buzz

Once upon a time

No less than 1,001 farmers, laid-off workers, street vendors, minority people, students, rock singers, and white collar workers will travel free to the tiny German town of Kassel. The group is about to take part in one of the most important contemporary art events in the world.

Life

Clogging up the footpath

HAMBURG: Plastic shoes and summer heat is not a combination that suggests itself. Nevertheless, this summer brightly colored foam plastic clogs are expected to be a trendy accessory.

Rise and fall of a designer genius

NEW YORK: Behind every great man, there is a great woman. That is perhaps one of the most significant points made by Poiret: King of Fashion, the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Beyond the importance of Denise Poiret during Paul Poiret's creative peak in the 1910s, the show highlights a largely neglected aspect of the designer's creations: the modernity of his garments and their construction.

Life

Reach for the stars

Leroy Chiao has sky-high ambitions. He is one of the few people lucky enough to have seen the Earth from outer space. And since he's made four journeys into the velvety black vacuum of the cosmos, the Chinese-American veteran astronaut now finds that few trivial earthly affairs concern him since he saw "so many magnificent views" from extraterrestrial vantage points.