Fall 2008 Table of Contents
Published: September 1, 2008
 
Culture+Travel: The season's top cultural happenings
Culture+Travel: When In…New Orleans
Culture+Travel: Hooked on Speed
Culture+Travel: Skyline of the Imagination
Culture+Travel: Vasarely's Victory
Culture+Travel: North Stars
Culture+Travel: Keeping the Faith
Culture+Travel: Compass Paris
Culture+Travel: The New York Eye
FEATURES
The stunning new Oslo opera house (you can walk on its roof) and its equally gorgeous two-year old Copenhagen neighbor are just the latest chapters in the rich history of Nordic opera. By Fred Plotkin. Photographs by David Leventi
88 Compass:
The season's best productions in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm, and what to see this fall. Plus, the latest in Scandinavian design. 
Victor Vasarely's nearly forgotten Op-art utopia outside Aix-en-Provence is a charming window into the 1970s—with plenty of scandal thrown in. By Kolby Yarnell. Photographs by Leon Chew
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97 Compass: What to do in Aix while waiting for Picasso's château (and grave site) to finally open next year. 
The sixth generation of the Hermès clan prints art on scarves and believes it’s vanity to be expensive. Can impeccable craftsmanship save civilization as we know it? By Kate Sekules. Photographs by Estelle Hanania
107 Compass: Paris is fast becoming a design capital. Plus, a preview of the new Cité de la Mode et du Design. 
American design may be a bit moribund, but Gotham attracts the talent anyway—from everywhere else. Three kings of New York design point out the best in town and name the future stars. By Joe Dolce. Photographs by Mark Heithoff
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DEPARTMENTS
 
The season's top design exhibits, Droog hits Manhattan, outer space in oils, a Lamborghini for supper, and other arts and travel highlights from around the world.
Where to hear the coolest jazz, eat the best Cajun food, and drink a perfect Sazerac during the debut of the Prospect 1 biennial.
Down with the sleepy lecture. Pecha Kucha's edgy design and architecture gatherings can be found in 200 cities, and counting.
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The revival of Tangier's old art-house cinema is about more than just watching good movies. It's got history in its walls. By Gisela Williams
64 Compass: Where to rock the Casbah, rent the riad, and eat the best pastilla. 
A sweet trio of refurbished crack houses in Venice Beach isn't just Deco; it's eco. By Julie Besonen
69 Compass: Where to stop on your stroll down Abbot Kinney Boulevard. 
A novelist ponders journeys past while walking through Matteo Pericoli's epic mural at JFK's Terminal 8. By Colum McCann
Can you click it? If it's out there, Google Earth will show the way. Everyone's favorite graphic maps are changing how we travel.
By Graeme Wood
77 Compass: Gadgets to keep you on the grid next time you're heading off it. 
Twin-sister crocheters are trying to save the Great Barrier Reef one knot at a time. By Heather Smith MacIsaac
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