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Historic Denver reveals 50 Actions fo 50 Places Dalton Ross and last updated 2021-08-03 20:42:29-04 DENVER — With the constant construction of new buildings in Denver, its easy to forget the ones that have been here the longest. Historic Denver asked the community last spring what 50 places they would like to see preserved. And they were overwhelmed with responses, including a Victorian-style home designed by a well-known Denver architect. "It is amazing to look at this house and realiz...

  Alan Dearling visits a new cider company making an original range of ciders and more in the English-Scottish borderlands I’ve known Phil Elliott for well over a decade since his Peel Walls’ cider-making days outside the village of Ayton in Berwickshire. He’s a larger than life character. He looks the part of an artisan scrumpy farmer, or, a butcher, brewer or baker, come to think of it. I think he’s actually worked in all those professions. He’s now a year into commercial cider-mak...

THESE pictures from the archive document the highs - and lows - of another of the great ‘lost’ houses of East Lancashire. Witton House was built in the 1800s for one of Blackburn’s richest families - the Feildens. The textile magnates loved an impressive house - they also owned they also owned nearby Woodfold Hall and Feniscowles Hall. By the 1850s, Joseph Feilden had extended the original design and the home boasted 18 bedrooms and 16 full time staff were employed there. There are ...

Ali Nagle A chalkboard that hangs above a high-top table at the Monkey House in Winooski bears a message in faded white printing: "Fuck U Covid & Trump." Those words have remained in place since a customer wrote them last summer. Nearly everything else at the bar has been in a swirl of change and disruption. Since the pandemic arrived in Vermont, the Monkey House has been open, closed, open, closed and open again, in accordance with state re...

Hoodoo Gurus are hitting the Sidney Myer Music Bowl alongside The Dandy Warhols Image by Christopher Ferguson To celebrate 40 years of playing live. Hoodoo Gurus are heading out on tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their live existence, harking all the way back to their first gig in 1981. They’ll be joined by The Dandy Warhols for five dates across the country, including a show at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. What you need to know Hoodoo Gurus are celebratin...

Restaurant Poco and others. As owner of T. Ruggs, he plans to tend the bar at least four days a week. "When Im behind the bar, it feels pretty much the same," Dunn said. "I tell you what was weird. I came in for a drink [on Sunday], and I got my first drink served to me as the owner. That was weird." He had an Italian Greyhound — a cocktail of vodka, grapefruit juice and Campari. While sticking with the vibe, Dunn plans to update the bars offerings to reflect todays beverage trends. "It...

According to The Parable of the Poisoned Well, there once lived a king who ruled over a great city. He was loved for his wisdom and feared for his pow

New acting school to open in Bristol By Lowie Trevena, Thursday May 6, 2021 In a bid to bring more acting opportunities to the South West, a drama school is opening its new centre in Bristol. Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company are bringing professional vocational actor training to Bristol from September 2021 at a new Fourth Monkey Regional Centre of Excellence. The London-based company will be working with The Actors’ Workshop and Screenology, with regional practitioners and facilitators...

The spacious patio offers plenty of room for monkeying around. Renowned local architect Edgar Ullrich was lured from his Colorado home a century ago by a prized commission — chief design responsibilities for Casa de Mañana, a luxury resort hotel in La Jolla that eventually became an upscale retirement community. He ended up loving San Diego so much that he never left. He continued to design homes for wealthy locals until his death in 1958. Ullrich’s first project, however, was the home he ...

Virginia Theological Seminary and CollegeIn January 1910, at age twenty-six, Ota Benga moved to Lynchburg to attend Virginia Theological Seminary and College, a Black Baptist school located in Durmid, a suburb south of the city. Ever since the scandal at the zoo, and largely thanks to the advocacy of seminary president Gregory W. Hayes, Benga’s guardians had sought to send him to Lynchburg. They believed the seminary would give him the best chance to receive a formal education and convert to ...