| Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin
With the weather so frightfully cold—at least when it's not oddly warm—now might be time to inject a bit of summer cheer into the dreary season. Summer is also a peak time for CD new releases, and here are a few that somehow got lost beneath the pile. Out of the ashes of the Boston cult act The Stairs comes Hallelujah the Hills, a fluctuating line-up featuring cello, trumpet, melodica and plenty of guitars. The band's debut, Collective Psychosis Begone, slipped under the radar in June but is well worth discovering this holiday season. Dreamy and psychedelic one minute, intricate and intense the next, the dozen tracks actually live up to titles like "Raise the Flag of Your Sibling's Favorite Daydream" and "It's All Been Downhill Since the Talkies Started to Sing." Members play off one another like a new version of the Band, updated of course with the appropriately modern choice of mind-altering substances.
Vuitton ads venture onto television
These will include news channels like CNN and BBC World, which many business travelers watch in their hotel rooms, as well as outlets like the Golf Channel, Beccari said. "We will not use television in the way Nutella is using it," he said, referring to the chocolate-hazelnut spread. Beccari declined to say how much Vuitton would spend on the campaign. "We will not be on TF1," the television channel with the biggest audience in France. Even without television advertising, sales of Louis Vuitton products have been rising. The brand, including clothing, recorded a double-digit sales increase in the first nine months of last year, Vuitton said, with particularly rapid growth in China. Like impulse buyers in a Vuitton boutique, Beccari and Yves Carcelle, the chief executive of Louis Vuitton, made the decision to advertise on television when they saw a proposal put together by the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather, part of WPP Group, Beccari said.
Mac McLendon, 86, known for tenacity
At first, attorney Mac McLendon wasn't sure how to help his fellow military veterans. He only knew he had to do something. In 1998, after he'd retired from a long legal career and grown bored with gardening and traveling, Mr. McLendon appeared at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, ready to volunteer. .
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