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Try before you buy - Financial Times

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:28:00 GMT

Christian Egan, a 34-year-old banker originally from Brazil, has long coveted a new apartment in New York. But the ?resilience of the city property market, even in the current downturn, has prevented him from buying. ?I?ve been very close in the ...

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The Coaster: Jubilee pool, Penzance - Times Online

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:22:00 GMT

For Ned Merrill, the hero of John Cheever?s 1964 short story, The Swimmer , immersion in water was ?less a pleasure . . . than a resumption of a natural condition?. Cheever?s protagonist finds himself at a cocktail party in an affluent suburb ...

Dan Klein: writer and authority on the decorative arts - Times Online

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Dan Klein, who began his career as an opera singer, became a leading authority ? and commercial force ? in the field of 20th-century decorative arts. Several of the record prices he achieved as an auctioneer during the 1990s remain unbeaten ...

Philadelphia Museum Exhibits Skyscraper - HULIQ.com

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:23:00 GMT

This summer the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Skyscrapers: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of the Early Twentieth Century, an exhibition that traces the rise of the American skyscraper as an iconic image. The exhibition will feature more than ...

Events diary: Whats happening in and around town - Witness

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT

???The Alzheimer?s support group meets today at 10 am at Riverside Old Age Home, 450 Bulwer Street, Pietermaritzburg. Inquiries: Lorna at 033?396?6607 or Jane at 033?386?4477 or 082?940?0225. ??BirdLife KZN Midlands ...

For a Lullaby, the Bip-Bop-Bip of Tennis Balls - New York Times

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:00 GMT

IT was 1959 when I said goodbye to bikes, firecrackers and playing doctor behind the garage ? my mother moved us to New York. I was 9 years old and fresh from Greenway Terrace, a little storybook street in Kansas City. The tenants? garden is ...

World-renowned steam train to chug through Midwest - Battle Creek Enquirer

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:27:00 GMT

For the first time in twenty-five years train lovers across the nation will see Daylight?the train that is. On July 3 Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive no. 4449, also known as the Daylight, will begin its expedition to Owosso, Mich. for ...

Radisson Hotels & Resorts Announces Addition of the Radisson Our ... - Earthtimes

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:51:00 GMT

The Radisson Our Lucaya Resort, Grand Bahama Island is owned by Hutchison Lucaya Limited, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited, based in Hong Kong . The resort is managed by Harbour Plaza Hotel Management Limited. To celebrate the new ...

Thirties time capsule - Bangkok Post

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:59:00 GMT

Strolling through the hushed streets of central Napier, a port town of 60,000 souls on New Zealand's North Island, one is transported back to the 1930s. With its own southern hemisphere version of art deco, Napier?s low-rise town centre has the ...

Movie review: 'Public Enemies' is a white-hot crime drama - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:55:00 GMT

In "Public Enemies," two threats to law and order loom over Depression-era America. One is John Dillinger, a gallant bank robber, and his gang. The other is a new national police force being assembled by an ambitious administrator named J. Edgar ...

Backus, Hunger Coalition receive Bremer grants, By LAUREL BEAGER ... - Daily Journal

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:34:00 GMT

Citizens for Backus and the Falls Hunger Coalition were among 66 recipients of grants authorized at a recent meeting of the Otto Bremer Foundation board. Citizens for Backus AB was awarded $50,000 cash, which it received just a week ago, to be used ...

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts - MetroMix

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:16:00 GMT

The complex features a 330-seat mainstage theater, a 143-seat studio theater and two cabaret rooms for live music and comedy called Sevens. Two Art Deco-style lobbies have full bars and occasional piano music. The facility also offers meeting ...

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts - MetroMix

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:16:00 GMT

Stockholm Fashion Week. Punk vs. Lady. - Local

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:12:00 GMT

Scandinavian designers present their spring/summer 2010 collections at Berns Salonger in Stockholm this week and so far I see two obvious trends. The punk and the lady look. On the one hand, there are the collections of Cheap Monday and The Local ...

All fired up over Panama Pottery

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:59:39 GMT

A classic Panama Pottery piece - sponge decorated oil jar - owned by June Sakata stands among the old tools at the Panama Pottery factory in Sacramento.

Armed and luxurious

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:45:45 GMT

Made in the 1930s, this large armchair is an overtly art deco-style spin on the traditional leather club armchair.

Negative equity capital of Britain seeks a boost

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:00 GMT

On a scorchingly hot day last week, an office worker was sucking on a cigarette in the shade of a derelict shoe shop in Northampton town centre.

Philadelphia Museum Exhibits Skyscraper

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:33:17 GMT

At the turn of the 20th century when they first began to appear, skyscrapers were seen as symbols of modernity and testaments to human achievement.

Arts guide: exhibits in Italy

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:40 GMT

Casa delle Esposizioni: Art inspired by Biblical Apocrypha including Caravaggio's Rest During the Flight into Egypt, loaned by Rome's Doria Pamphili Gallery, Guercino, Durer, Andrea Pozzo, Byzantine and Russian icons; over 80 works, until October 4. MILAN - Palazzo Reale: 250 paintings from influential 19th-century Scapigliatura movement; until ...

Harvest of houses from fields of stone

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:13:00 GMT

Rebecca MacCormick was watching carefully as builders got to work in the old Mt Wellington quarry.

The End of Kodachrome and the Death of Kodak Heights

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:17:01 GMT

Last week's announcement by Kodak that they were discontinuing their iconic Kodachrome slide film made me wonder what's become of the Kodak lands where their Canadian factory stood for 80 years.

Green light given to demolish 'unremarkable' Odeon building

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:35:06 GMT

THE former Odeon cinema is to be demolished after councillors gave the green light for bulldozers to flatten the historic building.

Classic prop shop is being shelved

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:55:14 GMT

The rattan sofa from The Golden Girls awaits its next role from a shelf deep inside the 20th Century Props warehouse.

Do believe the hype

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:45:34 GMT

In "Public Enemies," two threats to law and order loom over Depression-era America.

Where to get a glass of wine and a bite near MoMA

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:44:21 GMT

We know, we know. We know all about the Danny Meyer restaurants in the brand-new MoMA .

'Two Lovers' is a testament to Phoenix's talent

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:14:26 GMT

Here's hoping Joaquin Phoenix isn't serious about retiring from acting because he's mesmerizing in his latest collaboration with writer/director James Gray The actor plays a suicidal screw-up who moves back home with his folks after being dumped by a girlfriend.

Perennials Book Reviews

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:01:48 GMT

Perennials are among the most versatile plants. They can even be used in container gardens.

Ruling allows Back Bay demolition

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:19:34 GMT

Massachusetts Land Court Judge Karyn Scheier dismissed the residents' challenge of the Boston Landmarks Commission's vote in November to not accept a petition seeking special protection for the building.

Steam engine on display in Havre

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

A magnificent steam locomotive - which took its last regular run in 1955 and has been on display in Portland - will pull into Havre on Sunday afternoon.