THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME…Clockwise, from top left: Workers at a Bridgeport, Conn., plant creating the first of three Dymaxion cars; the Dymaxion at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress exposition—the car was involved in a fatal accident at the fair; interior view of the Dymaxion; usin...
He finished his novel Black Spring here. 129: Madison Avenue Baptist Church 121 (corner): This handsome 10-story red-brick building was designed by Hubert, Pirrson and was completed in 1883. Houses Subtle Tea, caffeine and WiFi.
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who All About Jazz reports has “fully established himself in the forefront of jazz pianists.” A child prodigy who grew up playing in his father’s storefront Baptist Church, Reed has been one of the most important ambassadors of the music for over 30 years. Ah...
At L’oscar, a former Baptist church in central London, the effect is that of a posh country manor reimagined by Merchant Ivory by way of Stanley Kubrick. A butler is assigned to each guest; waiters effortlessly remember orders from the day before. The 118-year-old building’s listed ...
MARK WHO?…Inspired by aMark Twainnovel, 1931’sA Connecticut Yankeewas mostly aWill Rogersvehicle. Top right, Sagramor (Mitchell Harris) confronts the “Connecticut Yankee” Hank Martin (Will Rogers). Below, the queen (Myrna Loy) tries to make nice with Hank. (IMDB) ...
Like Springwood, Top Cottage had many famous visitors: Winston Churchill, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Princesses Juliana and Beatrix, Norway’s Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha, and interestingly, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. On the fi...
2050: Was Mount Moriah Baptist Church, originally Mount Morris Church, built in 1888 with Romanesque Revival arches. (Moriah is the mountain where Abraham was supposed to sacrifice Isaac.) In 2011, it was bought by artist Ugo Rondinone for $2.7 million to serve as a studio and exhibition spa...
(Director and Screenwriter: Adamma Ebo, Producers: Daniel Kaluuya, Adanne Ebo, Rowan Riley, Amandla Crichlow, Jesse Burgum, Matthew Cooper) — In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist megachurch, attempts to help ...
“The morgues were packed almost to the ceiling with bodies stacked one on top of another. The morticians worked day and night. You could never turn around without seeing a big red truck loaded with caskets for the train station so bodies could be sent home. We didn’t have the time ...