Like the trendy London club of the same name, and of which it is an offshoot, it is supposed to be for "creative" types; but it has been inundated with Wall Street bankers in well-cut suits and Brooks Brothers shirts.
The leading French fair Fiac (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain) will set up an LA offshoot; it plans to bring in the same museum groups and collectors it already hosts for its massive Parisian event.
Beyond online services like Tmall for brands and its Taobao marketplace, it can also leverage Alipay — its mobile payment service with over 500 million users — and Cainiao, the logistics offshoot it recently took full control of.
Despite the arrests of dozens of suspected members of Anonymous and its offshoots worldwide, it is far from diminished.
I believe that, in order to bring meaningful social change and greater economic justice, the #Occupy Movement, and/or offshoots which it inspires, can't solely remain in alternative communities which it creates in occupied public spaces, but must engage in the rough and tumble of politics.
But the problem with these technologically sophisticated green homes is that in the short term they are very expensive: organisations like Global Green and its offshoot, Make It Right, have been able to subsidise those homes built with private money.
Break dancing had an enormous influence on modern dance styles, and offshoots of it were performed in many music and especially rap videos as well as in live concerts by popular artists such as Britney Spears.
The original CPI-ML has not operated as a legal political party (though several offshoots of it have), and the more recent Communist Party of India-Maoist (formed in 2004 by the merger of the MCC and the PWG) has been outlawed.
Long shunned in favor of its smoother, sweeter offshoot, tequila, it was known as the cheap stuff with the worm in the bottle (actually a moth larvae that lives on the agave plant) you'd find in Mexican restaurants.
Serialism and its offshoots have taken it on the chin lately, as young composers have re-embraced tonality mixed with elements of popular music and as audiences and critics have celebrated this development, stopping long enough only to blame the Serialists -- not entirely without reason -- for scaring away listeners over the last 50 years.
