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Often cited as the second-highest grossing shopping district in Chicago after the Magnificent Mile, Little Village is synonymous with Mexican culture. As the city reopens, local businesses and community advocates say that Mexican identity will be key to the neighborhood’s recovery.
James Bond Actors You May Not Have Known Passed Away James Bond Actors You May Not Have Known Passed Away MGM/United Artists By Tim Lammers/May 19, 2021 7:17 pm EDT Without question, Eon Productions' James Bond film series has been one of the most successful franchises in cinematic history, with 25 films produced to date, including the upcoming, long-delayed "No Time to Die." The series kicked off, of course, with "Dr. No" in 1962, with Sean Connery playing the dashing British secret agent who goes by the code name 007. Over the years the Bond mantle has been taken up by five...
Unearthing an Origin Story for Gentrification Annalee Newitz Updated at 9:53 a.m. ET on May 12, 2021. Historians have always assumed that the medieval city of Angkor, today located in Cambodia, was huge, simply based on how much land its kings commanded. From the ninth to the 15th centuries, Angkor was the capital of the Khmer empire, which at its zenith stretched across modern Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The city was thronged with visitors from all over Southeast Asia—royalty and peasants alike—and was home to large numbers of farmers who kept the city fed, as ...
The Atlantic Unearthing an Origin Story for Gentrification The growth of the medieval city of Angkor involved wealthy elites pushing people off the land they had made valuable. May 11, 2021 Thierry Falise / LightRocket / Getty Updated at 9:53 a.m. ET on May 12, 2021. Historians have always assumed that the medieval city of Angkor, today located in Cambodia, was huge, simply based on how much land its kings commanded. From the ninth to the 15th centuries, Angkor was the capital of the Khmer empire, which at its zenith stretched across modern Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The city was ...
I’ve even interviewed Tom about his love for Gold, Moore’s 1974 non-Bond masterpiece which essentially supplies the plot for A View to a Kill: a villain plans a calamitous flood to boost the price of a commodity he wants to control (microchips this time), only to be stopped by an ageing knitwear model and the women he seduces. So when I was charged with making the case that A View to a Kill is not the subject of ridicule it has in some places sadly become, I discussed it with Tom. He’s currently surviving lockdown in south London with only pillows with Sir Roger’s face on them for com...