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Melbourne City Council to hire activist (Florida Today)

9 Jul 2008

MELBOURNE — Although millions of public and private dollars have pumped into the Eau Gallie section of Melbourne in recent years, restaurateurs have endured rocky times.

Fred Yates: Self-styled 'happy Lowry' (Independent)

9 Jul 2008

The painter Fred Yates used colour to break away from the early influence of L.S. Lowry, whom he knew in post-war Manchester art circles. Despite the local industrial landscape "school" Lowry spawned, there were as many canvases at inter-war Manchester Academy exhibitions of holiday beaches as there were of chimneys and smog. It was to this tradition of northern escapism that Yates, a ...

Angles from heaven: Frank Gehry takes on his dream project (Independent)

9 Jul 2008

Alan Williams, a burly subcontractor, gazes up at the jut and splay of the giant, out-of-whack pillars and beams rising from behind the soft frieze of horse chestnut trees along the West Carriage Drive of Hyde Park, London. "Yeah! No problem!" he yells into his cellphone. "I'll get the forklift round!" Through an almost orientally delicate site fence can be glimpsed the bits and pieces – and ...