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Jon Matthews Architects designs Manchester homeless village pro bono 1/21 Source: Source: Jon Matthews Architects has revealed plans for a 40-home ‘village’ for homeless men in Manchester built from repurposed shipping containers The practice has worked without a fee on the proposed new modular community, which will sit below railway arches between the Bridgewater Canal and River Irwell in the city centre. Advertisement The project for Manchester-based charity Embassy – which started by r...

Shipping containers could be transformed into 40 new homes for rough sleepers in Manchester The Embassy Village would provide up to 40 new modular homes in the city centre, if plans are approved Updated Dont miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommend...

Sarah Townsend Manchester-based charity Embassy plans to create 40 modular homes made from repurposed shipping containers to provide secure housing for the city’s homeless people, in partnership with developers Peel L&P and Capital & Centric. Embassy Village would be located on a self-contained, currently derelict site owned by Peel L&P, below the railway arches between the Bridgewater Canal and River Irwell in Manchester city centre. Capital & Centric is advising on the delivery of the schem...

Accordion. you still have that -- >> sid: hip-hop stuff. ill tell you what, i can call my momma, shes 85, right now on the phone. and shed want to talk to me in french. my grandma couldnt speak nothing else. >> dave: right. >> anthony: im having lunch today with historian and radio dj herman fusiler, creole cowboy, dave lemelle, and musically inclined business owner, sid williams. the spot is lauras plate lunch ii. popular all the time, but particularly busy on sundays after church. rice and gra...

French. my grandma couldnt speak nothing else. >> dave: right. >> anthony: im having lunch today with historian and radio dj herman fusiler, creole cowboy, dave lemelle, and musically inclined business owner, sid williams. the spot is lauras plate lunch ii. popular all the time, but particularly busy on sundays after church. rice and gravy, fried fish, ribs and smothered stuffed turkey wings, which i am all over like a heat-seeking missile. damn. that looks serious. >> sid: mhmm. >> dave lemelle...

Popular all the time, but particularly busy on sundays after church. rice and gravy, fried fish, ribs and smothered stuffed turkey wings, which i am all over like a heat-seeking missile. damn. that looks serious. >> sid: mhmm. >> dave lemelle: when you say louisiana, they think of cajun. cajun is a big part of louisiana, but creole is a big part of louisiana too, you know. >> anthony: it used to be native to louisiana. >> herman fusiler: yeah. >> anthony: that was the original meaning as i under...

Creole means, or has come to mean, a mixture of languages, peoples, and cultures. in louisiana though, its usually used to describe members of the african-american or mixed-race french-speaking community. why do you think its important that people still sing in french and keep that language -- that dialect alive? >> herman fusiler: thats what makes it zydeco. zydeco has always been influenced by mainstream music. but it started as french music as the creole music. and you totally remove that fro...

>> sid: mhmm. >> dave lemelle: when you say louisiana, they think of cajun. cajun is a big part of louisiana, but creole is a big part of louisiana too, you know. >> anthony: it used to be native to louisiana. >> herman fusiler: yeah. >> anthony: that was the original meaning as i understand it. >> herman fusiler: it still has hundreds of definitions, but for us, its descendants of slaves and free people of color, and it deals with the food and the music. and the catholic church is a big part of...

♪ >> sid williams: ash wednesday, man. thats the beginning of lent. got to get all the devil out of you. you know i drink a little whiskey every now and then. see a buzzard fly high, but he got to come down to drink. >> anthony: what is creole and what is cajun are increasingly difficult distinctions in this day of commercialization and appropriation. anything delicious and unique is going to end up slapped on a bag in front of the words "potato chips." creole means, or has come to mean, a mix...

Dialect alive? >> herman fusiler: thats what makes it zydeco. zydeco has always been influenced by mainstream music. but it started as french music as the creole music. and you totally remove that from the music, a lot of times its just rap with an accordion. or rock & roll with an accordion. you still have that -- >> sid: hip-hop stuff. ill tell you what, i can call my momma, shes 85, right now on the phone. and shed want to talk to me in french. my grandma couldnt speak nothing else. >> dave: ...