CITYFOX AND LISTED TO THROW ‘SPACE KNIGHTS’ PARTY

After two wildly successful New York throwdowns (most recently Monkey Business), Cityfox and Listed are back again for more party goodness. From 3pm to 6am on September 28, The Well Wick in Brooklyn will be transformed into an immersive Space Knights atmosphere with a new 20 point sound system from KV2 Audio accompanied by 3D visual mapping. The special guest for the party will be Get Physical head honcho Philipp Jung from M.A.N.D.Y who has certainly become a New York favorite, Read more [...]

Hard work

He explained that he had spent the past few days studying 20 years of food stamp policy, trying to differentiate himself from his colleagues by becoming an expert. “Nobody here really knows anything,” he said. He thought about that for a second and then reconsidered. “There’s one other guy,” he said. “A Democrat.” He told her about a Massachusetts liberal named Jim McGovern, who had been giving a speech about hunger on the House floor each week. McGovern had rallied the Democrats against Read more [...]

Coleraine short-listed for club honour at RSA Cricket Ireland Awards

Cricket Ireland have announced the first nominees for the 2013 RSA Cricket Ireland Awards, which will take place on Friday 11th October in the Hilton Double Tree Hotel (formerly the Burlington) in Dublin. Clontarf, Coleraine, and YMCA have been short-listed for the Tildenet Club of the Year, following excellent campaigns for all.Coleraine cricket club was another team who enjoyed unparalleled success in 2013. Without a major trophy since 1986, the Sandel Lodge outfit Read more [...]

Preston bus station: a sublime choice for grade II listing

Preston bus station, which only a few months ago was consigned for demolition by the local council, has just been granted what appears to be a total reprieve – a grade II listing. This is a spectacular victory for a conservation campaign for the sort of building that conservationists used to oppose bitterly.Preston bus station is a brutalist building – brutalist as it was defined by architects in the 1950s and 1960s, before the word came to denote any offensive postwar building. Brutalism Read more [...]

Trying to track committee hearings? Why docs.house.gov may be your best bet

By Carrie Tian and Matt Rumsey. Research Assistance by Justin Lin. Every morning in Washington staffers, lobbyists, activists, and ordinary citizens are faced with choices as they try to schedule their days on Capitol Hill. To fill their calendars and get to hearings on time they have to navigate several, often conflicting, sources of information to find the right date, time, and hearing room. As a result they can find themselves checking their laptops before leaving the house and Read more [...]

Korean Restaurant Seoul Garden is Listed for Sale

Seoul Garden [Thu N./Yelp] Although it's been around for 30 years, 25 years at its current location, Seoul Garden is currently listed for sale on a popular commercial real estate site. The listing refers to it simply as "Korean Restaurant" with the address (9446 Long Point) matching that well-known restaurant. The listing states that the 10,000-square-foot space has a long-term, low-rental-rate lease. It also states that the staff will likely remain and that this is a "business sale only." Read more [...]

Aetna Building listed for sale by CBRE

by Karen Brune Mathis, Managing EditorThe Aetna Building, a 20-story Southbank tower often heralded as the tallest building in Florida when it was developed in 1955, is for sale. CBRE Inc., the exclusive agent for the owner, Southshore Group Partners Inc., is listing the almost 495,000-square-foot office building. No listing price was given in an opportunity statement that is available online. The building's 2012 certified taxable value was almost $28.6 million. Southshore bought the property Read more [...]

Preston Bus Station given listed status

“In particular, we need to look at costs and the impact on budgets and how it affects Preston taxpayers. We will work closely with Lancashire County Council as transport authority to consider the next steps.” Since it was unveiled in 1969, the building, designed by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson and often described as the second biggest bus station in Western Europe, has divided opinion. A survey by the Lancashire Evening Post in 2010 suggested that it was the Preston residents’ Read more [...]