Monthly Archives: April 2014

Boerum Hill House Wants $2.1M Profit for Doing Nothing

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Click here to view the full photogallery. In one of the most audacious flip attempts we've seen in recent memory, a multi-family townhouse at 101 Douglass Street is on the market for $2.5 million after selling for $900,000 last August. The catch: the new owners have made no moves to renovate the 2,100-square-foot house, and it's still in the decidedly pre-conversion shape that it was in at the time of purchase (h/t Brick Underground]. "Bring your contractor and architect [and $2.5 million] Read more [...]

Aphex Twin Unreleased Album Listed for Sale at $13500

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It's a good week for rich people who like experimental music (it's probably also a good week for rich people who don't like experimental music, but let's stick to the subject at hand). Sun Ra's vintage master tapes are on eBay, albeit at a price that Penn Jillette, of Penn Teller fame, tweeted was "too rich for my blood." Now a seller on Discogs is offering a copy of Aphex Twin's 1994 Caustic Window for $13,500 — plus shipping, obviously.According to AFX lore, the album made it Read more [...]

Holyoke council committee unable to consider proposal to ban toy gun sales due …

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HOLYOKE -- The City Council Ordinance Committee Tuesday (April 8) will have to postpone consideration of a proposal to ban vendors from selling toys guns at outdoor events because the item wasn't posted under the state Open Meeting Law , an official said. "If it's not listed at this point I cannot take it up," Ordinance Committee Chairwoman Rebecca Lisi said. An order to have the City Council consider adopting such an ordinance was supposed to be listed on the city website among Ordinance Committee Read more [...]

Cyber threat? It’s good news here for for AIM-listed Accumuli

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Being in the right place, at the right time, is certainly not the easiest of feats to achieve. However, for AIM-listed Accumuli, a company focused on combating cyber threats and the subsequent theft of data, it may well have achieved this goal. The shares have performed well since I first took a look just over a year back at 10.5p, and since then there has been a raft of news and progress, which has seen the share price more than double to a current 23p.While it may be tempting to assume that after Read more [...]

New homes plan for listed building plot

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C20 Society backs calls to list Cullinan-designed office

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Grade II listed Bradwell Windmill restoration to be completed by summer

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Work on restoring the historic Bradwell Windmill to its former glory is due to be complete this summer. Milton Keynes Council decided to spend more than £160,000 in renovating the sails and restoring one of the city’s most historic Grade II listed buildings last May.The project started in autumn 2013, and since then contractors Owlsworth IJP millwrights have been busy removing the ten metre sails and restoring the building.Now under the care of Milton Keynes Museum, Read more [...]

Giants to take over Liverpool’s Newsham Park for summer showcase

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The Giants are set to take over Newsham Park this summer in one of the largest cultural events ever seen in the grade II listed green space.The park will be the sleep-over location for the giant visitors on the Friday night of the July event, with the marionettes exploring the streets around nearby Gardener’s Drive and Sheil Road.Two years ago a similar presence in Stanley Park during the Sea Odyssey weekend brought thousands of people out in the area.French street theatre experts Royal de Luxe Read more [...]