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Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?
In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...
Tags: Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Dwayne Johnson, Central Park, Uptown, Arts and Culture
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Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry, Art Institute of Chicago, Entertainment Events, Pritzker Architecture Prize
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Museums, Science and Technology, The Getty, Conservation, Building Material
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Condo, apartment developers using design psychology
The eclectic collection of framed art hanging in a condo hallway was carefully chosen and included a mix of sketches, pictures of insects and a poster that simply said "cinema." "This is the couple that go to flea markets," said Lisa Simeone,...
Tags: Consumers, Medical Specialization, Condos, Philosophy, Psychology
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10 romantic honeymoons by land and by sea
Special CorrespondentLove is in the air as June, the traditional month for weddings, is just around the corner, and many brides and grooms are planning a honeymoon –perhaps the most important trip they will undertake together as it officially launches their married...Tags: Coral Gables, Lifestyle and Leisure, Marriage, Holland America Line, Walt Disney World Resort
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L.A. Philharmonic concerned about potential subway noise
Nothing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's repertoire calls for 135-ton trains. The orchestra aims to keep it that way when Metro light rail cars start rumbling through a subway tunnel near Walt Disney Concert Hall. Experts who know the hall's...
Tags: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Music, Zev Yaroslavsky, Entertainment, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Tyre House: Cool elegance and the art of A. Quincy Jones
The Tyre House, designed by A. Quincy Jones in the 1950s and recently restored by the Silver Lake architecture firm Escher GuneWardena, is a dreamy testament to Los Angeles' age of cool. Step inside the house's expansive, all-white living area and an 11-...Tags: Services and Shopping, Real Estate, Arts and Culture
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'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century
Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Lady Gaga, Music, Marriage, Entertainment Events
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Heritage Committee may tweak historical structures list
X may mark the spot that was once a historical structure. The city Heritage Committee is considering making a new category for structures on the historical structures list for those that have been altered and are no longer historical. The proposal...Tags: Inventories, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit
"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...
Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Science and Technology
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