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After Its High-Retro Renovation, This Marvelous Midcentury in Austin Is a Jewel Box of Color For Sale After Its High-Retro Renovation, This Marvelous Midcentury in Austin Is a Jewel Box of Color It isnt common for buyers to renovate a newly purchased home so that it looks just as it did in 1963. But in the case of this Austin home, it really works. Tiffani Sherman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail It isn’t common for a buyer to renovate a home and embrace a truly retro vibe, but that’s exa...

January 10–February 14, 2021 Resistance is a manifestation of fierce hope. After Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, Fawn Krieger took this notion to heart and into her studio, where she began to make a new body of work by pressing fired, underglazed pieces of clay into ceramic, frame-like troughs, filled with wet, often dyed, cement. Four years and 113 sculptures later, Krieger’s “Expe...

February 3 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free Sonoma State professor Anne Goldman, author of “Stargazing in the Atomic Age,” talks about Jewish physicists of the mid-20th century and their role in creating the atom bomb. Presented by Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies.Event Website

Award-Winning Midcentury Modern Restoration in Rancho Mirage, CA, Is Listed for $1.3M Award-Winning Midcentury Modern Restoration in Rancho Mirage, CA, Is Listed for $1.3M Authentic midcentury modern time capsules like this beauty dont land on the market often. When they do, they wind up selling in a flash. Lisa Johnson Mandell, provided by Dec. 31, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Authentic midcentury modern time capsules like this beauty in Rancho Mirage, CA, dont land on the market often. And when...

The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020 Updated Dec 28, 2020; Posted Dec 28, 2020 Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite. Facebook Share 2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way. Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaus...

USS Calhoun County sailors du mped thousands of tons of radioactive waste into ocean  Tampa Bay Times,  Times Staff Writer Dec. 24, 2013 They asked the dying Pasco County man about his Navy service a half-century before. He kept talking about the steel barrels. They haunted him, sea monsters plaguing an old sailor.”We turned off all the lights,” George Albernaz testified at a 2005 Department of Veterans Affairs hearing, “and … pretend that we were broken down and … we would take th...

arrow Staten Island motel, then and now L: Courtesy of the NYPL. R: Scott Heins / Gothamist The New York Public Librarys collection of photographs offers a visual record of the citys long history, along with providing a slow-motion look at the whiplash change that leaves New Yorkers nostalgic for any long gone era. Weve now chosen photos from the Librarys catalog and reshot them to show how much more things have changed since they were taken. Photograher Scott Heins traversed the ...

Wed Dec 16, 2020 Shortly after word reached England that the Spanish Armada had embarked, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, born in 1588, tells us that the terror induced in his mother labor pains that resulted in his premature birth. He memorably remarked that “fear and I were born twins together.” Hobbes’ words will doubtless resonate in spades with anyone who was born in 2020. The present year is the Year of Fear. It is the year of raw, wildly irrational fear.  For s...

December 16, 2020 The town of Los Alamos lies upon the slopes of a living supervolcano called the Valles Caldera, at a crisp High-Desert elevation of 7,300 feet above sea level. The modern town is barely a century old, but the nearby cliff villages were built more than a thousand years earlier by the Tewa, who carved homes into the caldera’s cliffs—Bandelier Tuff, the chalky volcanic stuff is called, in honor of the archaeologist Adolph Bandelier’s work here in the late 1800s. You can wal...

Two thousand nuclear devices have been tested since the dawn of the atomic age. this has contaminated thousands of square kilometers in the worlds oceans from the arctic to the south pacific. it has also led to more than four hundred thousand cases of cancer. gary mack lasses a professor of conservation at the university of idaho and an expert on how warfare affects the environment and local communities. the twentieth century. is a time were warfare preparations violent conflict and what happens...