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- Disney to serve alcohol at the Magic Kingdom Park
- Beautiful benches. Tokyo's amazing public art
- Which country has the best reputation?
- The Creators Project returns to Seoul with more bleeding-edge art and music
- 7 of the coolest libraries in the world
| Disney to serve alcohol at the Magic Kingdom Park Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:53 AM PDT by Zoe Li
Fewer teeth will nash during the looped recording of "it's a small world" when Disney starts serving alcohol at the Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando, Florida. Beer and wine will be served at the new Be Our Guest restaurant this November. Among the Disney establishments, alcohol is so far only served at Disneyland Paris and at the private club Club 33, at Disneyland Park in California, as well as Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. The French-themed Be Our Guest restaurant, inspired by Disney's 1991 film "Beauty and the Beast," will serve alcohol to complete the guests' French experience. read more     |
| Beautiful benches. Tokyo's amazing public art Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:29 AM PDT by Jessica Kozuka Here's a question: what do Albert Einstein, table-tennis Olympian Ai Fukuhara, manga superhero Kamen Rider and the singing, dancing cross-dressers of the Takarazuka Revue have in common? If you answered that their images can all be found in one form or another in Akihabara's geekier stores you're probably not wrong, but we're actually referring to the fact that all four are currently featured in a public art exhibition in downtown Tokyo's Marunouchi district.
That's where you'll find 20 benches accompanied by life-size statues of famous figures along the kilometer-long Naka Dori shopping street between Yurakucho and Otemachi. Art as lifeThe curator of the project, Goro Yamada, chose the celebrities to reflect the theme that art should be a part of daily life. read more    |
| Which country has the best reputation? Posted: 20 Sep 2012 08:19 PM PDT by Hiufu Wong For the second year in a row, Canada is the country with the world's best reputation, according to the latest research by Reputation Institute, a reputation management consultancy. Iraq has the worst reputation of the 50 countries listed, and Australians love themselves the most. The survey, titled "2012 Country RepTrak," asked 36,000 consumers in the world's G8 -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- to rate the reputation of 50 countries worldwide. Canada still rules but Europe dominates the top 10With a global reputation score of 77.77, Canada remained the most respected country. It's the country that people find the most attractive to visit, to live in, to work in and to study in, according to the survey. The Country RepTrak measured perceptions of countries based on 16 characteristics in three categories: advanced economy, appealing environment and effective government. read more    |
| The Creators Project returns to Seoul with more bleeding-edge art and music Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:05 PM PDT by CNNGo staff Anyone who has heard of The Creators Project will have a vague idea that it has something to do with art and music and cool stuff in general; but not a lot of people seem to know exactly what it entails. The official website calls the three-year-old project "a global celebration of art and technology," that has supported 150 artists around the world. A collaboration between Vice Magazine and Intel, the project features a series of traveling events showcasing "large-scale audiovisual installations" and musical performances. So, yeah, like we said, art and music and cool stuff in general. The first showcase for 2012 was held in San Francisco. Seoul is one of the other four host cities, namely Beijing, Paris, São Paulo and New York City. This year's Creators Project Seoul takes place September 21-23 at the new Dongdaemun Design Plaza designed by Anglo-Iraqi architect Dame Zaha Hadid. While the actual stadium is still under construction, the project is taking over the event space and the public park. read more    |
| 7 of the coolest libraries in the world Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:50 AM PDT How cool can libraries be in an era of iPads and Kindles? More than you think. Only if you know where to go. 1. Central Library: Seattle, Washington, United States
In its first year, more than 2 million tourists visited the library, which was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and American designer Joshua Ramus. Tours began in 2006, two years after its opening. read more    |
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Again with the tongue-out pose, Bertie?Installation project "Bench Art in Marunouchi 2012" marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Marunouchi Building and the current revitalization of the area around Tokyo Station.
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