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“People who came by were absolutely fascinated,” said Cotten Alston, the Pounds’ real estate agent, “but they could never magine themselves living in it. Or they just saw it as a teardown site for a starter mansion.”
The Pounds, though, were smitten by its style, forest view and skylighted atrium. They signed a contract within three months, paying $1.15 million for the four-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot house and nearly four acres of land, knowing they’d be spending plenty more in the months to come.
Then, a few days later, they received a three-page handwritten letter from a stranger: Cecil Alexander, the house’s original architect and occupant. He was writing to express his delight that they were not going to tear the house down and to offer his help with the restoration, including the loan of original blueprints. The Pounds invited him over, and throughout the restoration — which was completed in May of 2006 and cost nearly as much as the house — Mr. Alexander regaled them with tales of the house’s engineering quirks, famous visitors and midcentury celebrity.
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It's early on a hot morning in May 2006, and Frank Phillips is already cursing. Standing inside a nearly gutted house in Arlington, Va., sweat darkening his long hair and white T-shirt, he casts a weary glance at the wall frames and ceiling panels yet to be dismantled. For three weeks, Phillips and his colleagues from Capstone Properties, a local construction firm, have been systematically disassembling the structure so it can be stored and reassembled later. I'm there as a board member of the Arlington Heritage Alliance (AHA), a volunteer group, to document the day's progress in a logbook. AHA had placed the house and a half-dozen others like it on its annual most-endangered list two years running, and we had supported the disassembly as part of a long effort to save the dwelling from demolition.
It hasn't been easy. The crew had taken the manual used to erect the house in 1949 and worked backward, but it didn't account for such unexpected issues as rust and asbestos. Looping a facemask over my ears, I step carefully around the piles of fiberglass insulation and loose screws on the floor to join Phillips in what was once the living room. Pointing toward the roof, he notes that it has taken multiple cans of WD-40 to loosen the dozens of rusty screws and wing nuts holding the cement board asbestos panels in place. "This [bleep] fights you every step of the way," he says. "These houses were definitely overconstructed. They were built to be tornado proof."
The object of this determined toil was a Lustron. Called "the house America's been waiting for," Lustrons were prefabricated, porcelain-enameled steel residences manufactured after World War II to house returning veterans, government workers, and middle-class families. For a brief shining moment, the weather-resistant, vermin-proof, virtually maintenance-free houses caused a national sensation that captivated booming families and reached all the way to Capitol Hill. Lustrons were built in at least 32 states and the District of Columbia. Yet the company that produced them erected fewer than 3,000 before declaring bankruptcy in 1950. Today, the small two- and three-bedroom houses have become teardown targets, and only 1,200 to 1,500 are thought to remain, in various states of preservation. In Arlington, Lustrons have been demolished with astonishing rapidity. Just this April, a developer leveled a blue-and-yellow model, allowing no time for anyone to rescue it. Only four of the county's original 11 Lustrons remain intact.
No crowds are lined up for hot dogs at Nathan's Famous, no music wafts from Ruby's bar on the boardwalk. No screams come from the Cyclone roller coaster, whose nearly 60-degree opening drop, legend has it, once cured a coal miner who was born mute. (His first words before fainting: "I feel sick.") In early March, Coney Island's amusement district slumbers. Visitors are greeted here, on the Atlantic Ocean at the far reaches of Brooklyn, by a biting wind and an empty expanse of beach.
There are few signs that Coney Island, after years of neglect, is about to embark on a ride as gripping as any from its storied past. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials created the not-for-profit Coney Island Development Corporation (CIDC) in 2003 and so far have appropriated more than $85 million for the area's revitalization. The initial optimism about Coney Island's future, however, has largely been overshadowed by controversy. In recent years, Thor Equities, a New York City real estate company, has bought nearly three-quarters of the land in the heart of the amusement district and plans to build not only amusements-recent drawings showed a glitzy, futuristic collection of rides and attractions-but also condos, even though the area is not zoned for residential use. Depending on one's stance, condos are either an economic engine necessary to fuel Coney's revival or a significant threat to its survival as an amusement district.
Twice a day and three times on Saturday, eager groups of visitors find their way to 30 Blake Street in Charleston, S.C. A simple metal shed stands there, behind two modest houses. The shed resembles an old garage, with tables, chairs, and pieces of iron scattered outside. But from this humble structure has come some of the most beautiful ironwork in Charleston.
The shed is the workshop of Philip Simmons, an African American blacksmith who has been living in Charleston since 1919 and working there since the mid-1920s. This month, as Simmons celebrates his 95th birthday, the National Trust named his workshop and home, which must be stabilized to protect it from hurricanes, one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
Since he began specializing in ornamental iron in 1938, Simmons has fashioned more than five hundred of the ornate iron gates, fences, balconies, and window grills that now grace the city of Charleston. "We speak of Charleston as a museum of his work," says Rossie M. Colter, project administrator for the Philip Simmons Foundation, established in 1991.
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Working together, ArtAsiaPacific and People's Architecture have invited leading Asian and Pacific architects to create original architectural models from custom kits of white LEGO ® bricks with the intent that the models should be exhibited and auctioned to raise awareness about architectural preservation in Asia. Additionally, conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, also an architect, is contributing a special model that will reflect both aspects of his creative practice. The project engages concepts of creativity through play and issues of urbanism, new design and heritage awareness that affect architects in a region undergoing dramatic change and development.
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On Tuesday, June 26, WNYC will join with other internet radio providers – including Yahoo!, Pandora.com, Rhapsody, and KCRW.org -- to observe a “Day of Silence,” to register our disagreement with a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board to significantly increase royalty rates for streaming music. WNYC2, our 24 hour classical music stream, will “go silent” on June 26 from 12 midnight – 11:59pm.
Should the CRB’s decision take effect, as it is expected to do on July 15, internet radio industry-wide will be seriously impacted. But, public radio providers will be particularly affected, as our non-profit status will no longer factor into our royalty rates. WNYC and other public broadcasters will now be subjected to the increased commercial rates.
Additionally, CRB will charge for every song listened to by every listener, and the new rates will be retroactive for 17 months.
Over time, these unforeseen and disproportionately high rate hikes will imperil WNYC2 and the web streaming of Evening and Overnight Music, and thwart plans for future music streams.
You can learn more about the CRB’s decision and the Day of Silence at www.kurthanson.com/dos. This site also provides information about the Internet Radio Equality Act, which is currently under consideration in both the House and Senate.
We encourage WNYC listeners and supporters to learn the facts about the CRB’s decision and the efforts being made to revise it, and to make your opinion about the matter known to your Congressional representatives.
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“Honey for sale. Good for allergies.”
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Now, I doubt very seriously if he thought that up on his own. More likely, the honey supplier put a bee in his ear. Well, no matter, the flashing sign put a bee in my ear! I did a quick health inventory right there on the spot and that’s when I made the connection. A half quart of honey later I was feeling better!
Of course, this was no proof. So, I stopped eating it…got worse…and started eating it and got better. That’s where I am as I peck out this article. I confess that more personal research on my part is needed before I put a nail in it, but it is promising!
Information on the World Wide Wait is sparse. Except for one lone scientist at some college or the other who claims that fructose has the same incidence of allergy alleviation as honey most of the rest of the claims are anecdotal. (Is there any test-tee out there who can’t tell the difference between Karo syrup and honey?? Give me a break!) However, chances are good that you know someone who swears by bee pollen. It continues to be a good seller, so there must be something to it.
I’m not alone, however, in postulating that the best help comes from locally grown honey. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that local honey contains the richest source of ingredients for your local allergies. For example, no help may be obtained if you are ingesting honey rich in stinkweed pollen if you have never been exposed to a stinkweed blossoms. All you are likely to get is a honey high and all the other beneficial effects claimed for the tasty elixir.
The accepted theory of allergy immunization is that when you are given minute amounts of what you are allergic to, you build up your natural defenses. This doesn’t make a dab of sense to most people, but it works, never the less. Local honey contains minute amounts of what makes you sniffle, ache, or suffer pollen induced grouchiness.
Much of the [Wrangler] company’s success is owed to the Cowboy Cut, a model often referred to by its style number, 13MWZ. Introduced in 1947 and to this day accounting for about 25 percent of the company’s sales annually, it was one of the original Wrangler products and the first truly functional cowboy jeans. The 13MWZ (MWZ stands for “men’s Western zipper”) was developed by Ben Lichenstein, a tailor from Philadelphia known as Rodeo Ben, for the Blue Bell Overall Company, a North Carolina-based work-apparel manufacturer looking to break into the Western cowboy market. Its design has remained unchanged for 60 years. Phil McAdams, president of Wrangler’s Western Wear division, knows these jeans inside and out. The pockets are positioned high in the back so that riders don’t sit on their wallets, and the belt loops are set a little wider in front to accommodate a championship buckle. They are made with flat rivets that do not scratch saddles and large zippers that riders can handle with gloves. The tapered legs fit tightly over boots so that they don’t drag like the flared “boot cut” jeans, which have little to do with practicing cowboys; and the inseam is four to six inches longer than the norm so that when a rider is in the saddle, the bottom of the jeans sits just so on the top of the foot.
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LUCERO
Skatopia was a great skatepark.
It was killer.
It had a half pipe and the little pool.
Yeah, that little pool was great. I broke my collarbone, separated my shoulder and broke my wrist, all in one go in that pool.
Doing what?
Trying to learn rock-n-rolls.
How did you hurt your shoulder from a rock-n-roll?
My brother used to call me “Bail Bonds John.” I’d keep trying to do it and I would jump off all the time. When rock-n-rolls came out, I really wanted to learn them. I’d try it and jump off. Try it and jump off. The first time I tried to commit, I was a little tired from all the bailing, so I got carried away and came in like a rock-n-roll fakie with my body turned toward the come in position. I shot down the wall fakie and my arm caught the wall. I tore my whole arm out of the socket and broke my collarbone and my wrist. My feet were still on the board, but I stood up and my arm was hanging down past my knees.
Did you go into shock?
Yeah, after I saw my brother’s eyes were buggin’ out. I was only 12 years old. My brother helped me up, and I lay down into the grass. When I lay down, everything kind of cracked, but my arm went back in to the socket. I took a trip to the hospital, and everything was separated and broken.
I’ve never broken my collarbone. I bet that hurts.
That was my first time, and it hurts.
Pulling your arm out of the socket must be painful.
I still have problems applying pressure with that arm. I’m like a gimp with certain actions, depending on how my arm bends.
Yuck. Was it loose ball-bearings wheels still?
I think we had Roadriders by the time we hit the parks. I know it progressed pretty fast. When the parks started happening, that’s when I really started skating. By the time I was 9 years old, I was skating full time.
Did you session that little driveway park?
We used to call it the local half-pipe. It was two embankments between the driveway cuts. We’d grind the edge down until the dirt and grass went away, and we had a two-inch gap to grind all day. Anything that was happening in the magazines, we did it right there on the local half-pipe. We built little wooden ramps and rode curbs. Then we started finding out about pools. We had four pools in our town, and that’s when we started getting into vertical.
Do you remember “Taters” working at Skatopia?
No, not really. I do remember him being there. It wasn’t until Whittier opened up that I became a local dude at a local park. Up ‘til then at Skatopia, I’d just go pay for my two-hour session. It’d go by so fast, and then it was time to go home. I was just trying to skate. That was my first real action skateboarding.
What was your first pool?
It was in La Mirada and it was called Moya’s pool. It was a left-hand kidney that had barely enough of a hip. These white trash people lived there, and they’d let you skate for $2. There was the La Mirada Plunge at the La Mirada City Park. It was the big Olympic-size square pool. I skated that for a long time. Then another friend named Dave Evans had a square pool with rock coping. We used to session that one all the time, because it was right next to my junior high school. We’d skate to school and stash our boards in the bushes by Dave’s house and as soon as we got out of school, we’d go skate.
You were addicted?
Yeah, and we’d try to get to Skatopia on the weekends. After we found pools, I didn’t think that parks were that great, but I still liked the flow of the parks. I love the flow of snake runs and banks as much as vertical. I loved the flow of Skatopia’s big snake run. Pools are the heaviest, though. You go straight into the action.
Did you ride Paramount?
It was one of my favorite parks. My brother loved Paramount because there was no coping there. You could snap over the top. It had some weird beveled edge. And they had the vert-bowl.
The vert bowl was insane.
I never made it to the top. I saw George Orton do a front side air out of there, though. My brother used to ride it on his back – kind of like a coffin ride. He used to do airs out of the vert bowl on his back.
I remember him well.
He’d get to the top of the last turn, and I’d put both hands on his helmet and push him as fast as I could down to the edge, and he’d go straight up, feet first, on his back, and he’d grab the board by its rail and float back down to the bottom. He’d go to the pro shop if he broke his board and get another one.
Did you ever skate Marina?
Yeah, it was kind of far away, but we went a few times. I dug on Marina. Marina had the some of the first best pools in a skate park.
What about Lakewood?
I liked Lakewood’s little keyholes. The half pipe was gnarly. It got real deep on the end.
When did you first get sponsored?
I think it was 1980. ASPO (Association of Skate Park Owners) was a contest series in the parks for all the un-sponsored amateurs, 1A, 2A and park teams, and I started skating in those contests in late ‘79. I was riding 2A at 13 years old. I was at ASPO at the Reseda Skatercross, and I was riding one of your boards. I had some Blood Revolver wheels on and some Indys. I ran into Denise Barter, and she was stoked I was riding those wheels. She checked me out in the contest, and then she asked if I wanted to ride for Dogtown.
What happened?
I was down, but I never got a phone call back or anything. I found out later that Dogtown was going under. That was the beginning and end of my Dogtown sponsorship. Sponsorship never came up again, until I got booted out of the Whittier Skatepark for being a little punk rock troublemaker kid. I remember Stacy Peralta came up to us out front, riding the curbs. He was giving us the lowdown. He said that this was the next generation of skateboarding. He thought we were something else, so he started sending us these little street boards and then Stecyk came a few times and took photos of us. The whole time I was doing this, I was kicked out of the skatepark. All I was thinking of was how to get back into the skatepark. I was trying to tell Stacy that. He was like, “No, man. We want you on the streets.” I was like, “Street skating is cool, but I ride pools.” He never really listened to me on that, and I always wondered why. Later on, I realized they had a plan. That was my first encounter with the industry types.
[Laughs] The industry types?
They had a plan. I thought the plan was so girly.
Why wouldn’t Peralta let you ride the pools?
I don’t know. I wanted to be in the contests and skating pools. I kept asking, and he never listened. He said street skating is the future of skateboarding. I was bummed. I thought it was all skateboarding.
Why did you get booted out of the Whittier park?
I was just getting too rowdy. We used to torture people. The little girls would show up, and we’d pee in water guns and squirt them in the face. We’d put ice in pellet guns and shoot people. We’d piss off the balconies. The owner of the park pretty much had it with us. We never paid, so they just threw us out for life. When we got booted out of the park, it was the worst thing that could have ever happened to me.
Who was the owner?
Ross Guilotti.
Did he have kids?
Yeah, he had two kids. They skated the park.
What were their names?
Mike Guilotti and Angelo Guilotti. They used to skate around the park naked. They were kind of fucked up.
Brewce Martin syndrome?
Yeah, totally.
Well, Angelo Guilotti now has a pool up in Malibu built for skating.
Really? He was the first person I knew who had edible undies. He wore edible undies to the park one night.
What?
He was one of those naked guys .You know, those guys that have to get naked every time something happens.
What did they have to get naked for?
I don’t know.
Did anyone eat his undies?
I hope not.
You got booted from the skatepark, but Whittier was your first skate team?
Yeah, we were still skating at Lakewood and Big O, but we couldn’t go everyday because we didn’t have cars. I didn’t want to tell my mom I got booted out of the park because it was my perfect excuse to be out of the house. I went to school, came home, got a bite to eat and went to the skate park every single night. We’d go there and just antagonize Ross Guilotti and ride the curbs and sidewalks in the parking lot. My buddy Richard Armijo and I both got booted. It was our purpose to have everyone think we were complete idiots. One of us would fall over and then we’d start throwing our boards at each other. We were out there screaming and raising hell, and people started noticing that. We’d do inverts on curbs and board slides. Whatever we were missing in the pool, we were doing on the curb.
And Stacy Peralta thought this was the newest thing?
Yeah, I think he already had a plan before he saw us. People were already street skating. We weren’t the first ones. When he saw us, I think he saw some unknown kids that were already doing what he was thinking needed to be done. It was our own version, and he was amped up on it. We weren’t really buying his program, though.
He was sending you boards and stuff?
Yeah, he sent us these little street issues. When he first showed them to us, he said, “What do you think about these boards?” I said, “These are like Hobie Mike Weed radical terrain models, just painted over.” He said, “How can you tell?” I said, “I know. I can tell what these things are. You must have gotten them for $2. Closeout special. You could put some camouflage on them and call them the ‘street issue’.” He said, “Well, we have another coming out and it’s called the ‘general issue’.” He sent them and we rode them and Stecyk took photos. They were fun boards, but to me, it was all a joke. It was fun to make people hate us, but we just wanted to ride pools.
It was an antagonistic approach?
You want people to not understand you. You want people to laugh at you. You want people to not understand your scene, because you don’t want to be just like them.
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Michael chats with session drummer extraordinaire Hal Blaine who's thousands of recordings include 40 #1 hits & 150 top 10 hits including work with Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Tommy Roe, The Partridge Family, and thousands more. We'll also get the dirt on recently deceased musicians when Goldmine Magazine's obituary writer Phast Phreddie Patterson checks in, and we'll find out what #1 hit song has been left in Michael's Mailbox!
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But in Michigan, the differing response to Ms. Granholm’s order is part of a broader and, perhaps, more universal wrangle over how to commemorate tragedy when there is so much of it and whether lowering the flag each time a soldier is killed cheapens the tribute by doing it too often.
Since the start of the Iraq war, more than half the states have decided to lower their flags for 24 hours or more when a local soldier dies in combat.
Opponents of lowering the flag see it as a subtle antiwar gesture that may run counter to federal guidelines, which reserve the action for “officials,” not soldiers.
In the documentation for the route, Teemu apologizes because "Most of Jersey City and Newark area waterfront are included , PRR terminal in Jersey City could not be made because of the tile size problem, but PRR Greenville terminal is included". Only in V-Scale would someone apologize for only including "Most of Jersey City and Newark area waterfront"
But the evidence of daily life has not been scrubbed from the house. The line of walnut cabinets that define the sleeping area are a little scuffed. The ceiling shows signs of the old, leaking roof. The kitchen, a simple open plan of cabinets and an almost antique electric stove, is a real estate agent's nightmare. You can hear the officious salesman: Just tear that out, put in some stainless steel and you're good to go.
Which, fortunately, will never happen. In 1986, when Johnson was getting into his 80s, he willed the house and its surrounding 47-acre campus to the National Trust, though he retained the right to live there until his death. A ribbon-cutting Thursday helped introduce the house to its nervous neighbors in New Canaan, once a center of modernist architecture, now a tony, leafy enclave with a distressing number of tacky McMansions.
Woody Allen directing an opera? In Los Angeles? It's set to happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo who's general director of the Los Angeles Opera.
REPORTER: The New York filmmaker is scheduled to direct "Gianni Schicchi," part of a trio of one act operas by Puccini.
REPORTER: “Gianni Schicchi" is set in medieval Florence. It's Puccini's only comedy. Allen says he has "no idea'' what he's doing. But he jokes that incompetence has never prevented him from plunging in with enthusiasm.
REPORTER: Domingo says he's often asked movie directors to try their hand at opera. He says he'd been after Allen for four years.
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Introducing a show of European color photography, which he has curated at Hasted Hunt Gallery, the well-known photographer Martin Parr laments that in "the rather dysfunctional history of colour photography, the seminal exhibition by William Eggleston in 1976 at MOMA . . . is often cited as the start of serious colour photography." He goes on to mention photographer Stephen Shore's contribution "to the establishement and acceptance" of the medium and notes that, before the '70s, "colour work had predominantly been associated with commercial or even snapshot photography."
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Five proposals for the 40-acre park area at the southern half of the island offer the clearest evidence so far of what the island’s future could hold. The designs, commissioned by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, should be regarded as preliminary sketches. After the winning design is selected next month, it will no doubt face significant revisions. Even so, the five proposals hold clues to what’s right and wrong about how public space is designed.
It might tell us that it was one of hundreds like it that used to lie quietly in the halls of Paimio sanatorium. Someone then thought tat orange and red go better with the hallmark L legs.
Once known as communes, until the word became overly associated with hippies and other cultural relics of the 1960s and ’70s, intentional communities have a long history in this country, going back to the Shakers and even, I suppose, the Pilgrims. I’d long wanted to visit one, to see how utopian ideals were surviving in the more cynical America of today, and so I logged on to www.ic.org and searched for intentional communities in Wisconsin and Iowa. At first, I found what I had expected: devout Christians, pagan farmers and a polyamorous “family” (my wife, Jean, vetoed that one). Almost all, however, wanted serious members, not casual visitors like me.
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Christy MacLear, executive director of Philip Johnson's Glass House for the National Trust, recognizes the unprecedented nature of the project, but finds it neither sad nor daunting. Ms. MacLear has had to face two major challenges: how to keep something that was always on the lively edge of the new from becoming a lifeless simulacrum, and the even more difficult problem that goes straight to the heart of the matter -- how to deal with a period and a style for which no models exist and standards are only evolving at a time when the modernist architecture of the 20th century is being rapidly and thoughtlessly demolished. Obviously, the Glass House could not follow the formula of a tastefully reinvented past. You can't reinvent Philip Johnson.
Marcel Breuer one of the fathers of modern architecture, built only one skyscraper, the 29-story Cleveland Trust Tower, which today stands abandoned on a forlorn block downtown.
But a plan to demolish the tower, and replace it with a midrise government office building, has caused an outcry among architectural preservationists, who call the building an overlooked landmark.
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Certainly we’re all a bit apprehensive here at the [Chelsea] hotel, wondering what will happen now to our unique artistic community. The actual ownership structure of the hotel is a closely guarded secret. It is known that Stanley’s father, David, in partnership with two men named Krauss and Gross, bought the hotel in 1940. (Stanley took over upon his father’s death in 1957.) These days, the part of the hotel that Stanley’s father owned is still in the Bard family, but the interests of the other partners’ families are represented by a board of directors. The board seems to have given Stanley a wide latitude in managing the hotel over the years--that is, apparently, until just recently. What happened is that the hotel simply became too valuable.
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Stonehenge is in big trouble. Unbeknown to most of us, a global contest is currently under way to select seven "new" wonders of the world. Next month, 20 monuments, including the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal, will be whittled down to create a new magnificent seven. But it's all looking a bit Eurovision for Stonehenge, the only UK candidate. Although 50 million people worldwide have so far voted by text or online at new7wonders.com, latest results reveal the famous landmark languishing in the bottom 10 - alongside the Sydney Opera House and the Statue of Liberty.
Pieces of architectural history sit on Milwaukee's south side -- a row of four duplexes and two cottages designed by Frank Lloyd Wright more than 90 years ago for low-to-moderate-income families.
But years of makeovers -- aluminum siding was added to one house -- rendered some of them shells of their former designs. Now a non-profit group wants to restore the Frank Lloyd Wright charm to one of the single-family homes -- right down to the crushed quartz stone-infused stucco on the exterior.
FOUR years ago Henry Scott, a media consultant living in Manhattan, hired Sergio Guardia to design a weekend house on a wooded site in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Mr. Guardia, an architect who was born in Bolivia and trained at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, came up with plans for a futuristic house set on thick steel beams cantilevered over a hillside.
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NOT JUVENTUDES REPORT 06/07
Monday is the big Raw draft show from Wilkes-Barre, PA., which will include many special guest appearances including Mick Foley, Jesse Ventura, Bobby Heenan and Gene Okerlund. The Jackass vs WWE angle is supposed to begin on this show. Supposedly.
The way the draft is going to be done is there will be a series of interpromotional matches on Raw and each winner will then get to pick a wrestler from the losing roster for his team. The show will open in the ring at 8 p.m. Eastern with a champion vs. champion match with John Cena vs. Edge.
Add Moolah and Mae Young to the guests for Mr. McMahon Appreciation Night tomorrow night on Raw.
The current issue of "Stuff" Magazine has an article on Dave Batista and his collection of lunch boxes.
Crazy Tuesday coming. ECW of course, as well as a live UFC show from Hollywood, FL, and Oxygen debuts its version of its season of Ultimate Fighter, called Fight Girls. Gina Carano is a coach and Kerry Vera (Brandon's wife) is one of the women. You may remember her and Brandon brought her to the ring to announce their wedding in Las Vegas at one of the UFC shows. I think all three shows are going head-to-head, with the Oxygen show at 10:30 p.m. Eastern.
Butterbean was supposed to fight last night in Coeur D'Alene, ID at North Idaho College. The show was canceled because the people working the show couldn't figure out how to set up the ring. The fighters were there hanging with the crowd for two hours as the workers tried to figure out how to put the ring together. Two hours later, the show was called off. The crowd got its money back. And at least the fighters were paid.
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“He treated the whole property as one house,” said Michael Moran, a photographer who visited the property several times in the 1990s. “The guest house was the bedroom, the Glass House was the living room, the library was his study.” There is little doubt, though, that for Mr. Johnson the 1,728-square-foot Glass House, for which he named the entire property, remained the centerpiece.
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WMF announces 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites: This year’s list highlights three critical man-made threats: political conflict, unchecked urban and industrial development, and, for the first time, global climate change.
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When criminal investigator and part-time DJ Dori Hadar stumbled across hand-painted LP sleeves containing cardboard "records," he knew he had to find out more about the artist. The result is his book, "Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar." (This story first aired on WNYC's Studio 360.)
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If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.
Two years after arriving at Nanterre, Jean [Baudrillard] was thrown into the most momentous event in recent French history—May ’68. Many people who take him simply for a dandy or a cynic forget the significance of these weeks of intense fever and utopia suddenly realized, which he experienced firsthand. It was all the more powerful since no one had thought it possible. For a while he became an activist, even a Maoist, but it did not take him long to realize that the same media that had snowballed the Paris events around the rest of the country, bringing General de Gaulle to his knees, had also brought about the sudden deflation that followed. Nevertheless, May ’68 remained for him one of the extraordinary occasions when signs assume a singular meaning—a radical event up there with the attacks on the World Trade Center. May ’68 and the twin towers were both far more formidable in their abrupt disappearance than they ever were in actuality. Indeed, after the latter event, Jean claimed that architecture had lost its ability to define space or acquire symbolic power. Architecture had nothing left to express beyond its own flat functionality, and he notoriously concluded that only those buildings that deserve to be destroyed are worth erecting.
cistern swimming pool (liners)
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East Village Meatshop Kurowycky's Shuttering
Sion Misrahi has revamped the Lower East Side, helping to transform old storefronts around Orchard Street into trendy businesses, but not everyone is impressed with the changes.
But the company owned by C. C. Myers, a 6-foot-5 contractor who favors peacock cowboy boots, fixed the mangled freeway so fast that some residents have recalibrated their respect for the California Department of Transportation, which hired him.
The state estimated that repairs to the 165-foot-long ramp between Interstates 80 and 580 would take 50 days and cost $5.2 million. For every day short of the June 26 deadline, it promised a $200,000 bonus, not to exceed a total of $5 million. The highest bid came in at $6.4 million. Mr. Myers’s company, C. C. Myers Inc., won with the lowest bid — $867,075 — and completed the project in 17 days, winning the full $5 million.
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yeah, id wear it
As part of the new Bauhaus permanent exhibit in Dessau, Germany, the historic home of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee is surprisingly sparse. Aside from a few photos of the middle-aged artists posing with rakish smiles, the unadorned, recently refurbished building where they once lived and worked serves as a testament to the movement's functional "design for living" philosophy. Nestled among pine trees alongside the half-dozen other Masters' Houses that architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius built in the 1920s, the angular building features sprawling windows, spacious workshops, wine-red floors and pastel-green stairwells. It is the radiant symbol of an avant-garde movement whose activity was cut short—and one that people are now clamoring to rediscover.