Page 71 - Benjamin Walker News Today

The money and goodwill extended to restaurants early in the pandemic are drying up. Independent restaurant owners say that lifelines extended by landlords, banks and vendors when the pandemic first hit the U.S. are ending, while federal loans made as part of pandemic-related stimulus programs are long gone. The bleak financial picture means that many more restaurants could close in the coming months, adding to the tens of thousands of restaurants that have already shut during the pandemic. The...

Lalanne Carpe sculpture reels in $2.4M at Bonhams Modern Decorative Art + Design sale in New York Carpe (Très Grande) by François-Xavier Lalanne. Sold for $2,430,313 (Estimate: $650,000-850,000). NEW YORK, NY .- A monumental Lalanne sculpture, Carpe (Très Grande), achieved an impressive $2,430,313 at Bonhams’ Modern Decorative Art + Design Sale in New York on December 17. Conceived and cast in 2000, the work had an estimate of $650,000-850,000. Bonhams Head of Modern Decorative Art and Desi...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   by Doreen Carvajal (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For more than 70 years, Léone Meyer’s family has fought to reclaim a looted painting, and yet she cannot bear the thought of displaying it in her Left Bank home, across from the River Seine. The small work, by Camille Pissarro, shows a shepherdess tending her flock, and hangs not far away at the Musée d’Orsay, with other precious French impressionist paintings. But the peaceful countryside scene from 1886 is frau...

no, thats yours. really? yeah, you keep it. oh, thanks. okay, come on. you shoot, you score, you win. now lets go get some ice cream. ice cream! ice cream! lets go. ice cream. ice cream. ice cream. ice cream! so, what was that back there? it was nothing. really? cause it didnt look like nothing. well talk about it tonight, okay? yes, please. we will. okay. that rabbits foot looked familiar. yeah, think you gave it to me around the same age. pretty sure i hit a home run that day, too. i...

see some moderate rain, but for stafford, for king george county until 4:30, severe thunderstorm warning. also the potential for small hail, but the bigger threat will be that of these hard downpours, frequent lightning, and with any of these, that means low visibility on area roads. were seeing another batch just south of annapolis, moving east over the bay. for us, from now until 9:00, the threat of severe weather, and then after that, some more showers will continue until the cold f...

the main event is now pushing into southern ohio. thats the cold front and that will move in mid to late afternoon with some showers and thunderstorms. so we will see increasing clouds out there. it will kind of be a mostly cloudy afternoon and look out for the potential for some of the storms late every today. behind the front cooler air for the weekend gets in here. more details on that in a minute but for today a little bit of sunshine and temperatures back into the 90s. still not a...

>> you can take a cherry. you take a cherry. lets get out of here. we never have, hardly ever, ever, ever have an audience, a studio audience. >> and what an audience weve got today. >> but look whos here. weve got a studio audience. [ cheers and applause ] whoo! >> hello, ladies. how are you doing? >> yeah. whoo! >> oh, my god. >> its so much fun. because one of the signs says "reege-united and it feels so good." reege. nice to see you. >> first time in about 12 years that weve been t...

regis. >> no. >> really. can i take a cherry or two? >> you can take a cherry. you take a cherry. lets get out of here. we never have, hardly ever, ever, ever have an audience, a studio audience. >> and what an audience weve got today. >> but look whos here. weve got a studio audience. [ cheers and applause ] whoo! >> hello, ladies. how are you doing? >> yeah. whoo! >> oh, my god. >> its so much fun. because one of the signs says "reege-united and it feels so good." reege. nice to see ...

>> its a little early for regis. >> no. >> really. can i take a cherry or two? >> you can take a cherry. you take a cherry. lets get out of here. we never have, hardly ever, ever, ever have an audience, a studio audience. >> and what an audience weve got today. >> but look whos here. weve got a studio audience. [ cheers and applause ] whoo! >> hello, ladies. how are you doing? >> yeah. whoo! >> oh, my god. >> its so much fun. because one of the signs says "reege-united and it feels so ...

today, wednesday, june 20th, dont tell the whole story today, wednesday, june 20th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and ann curry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning. im matt lauer. >> im ann curry. summer doesnt officially start until later this evening but the heat wave in the middle part of the country is moving east and will have people sweating up and down the east coast today. >...