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...They are Wayúu, indigenous to the northern reaches of Colombia and Venezuela, and brave....
...Its LA-based owners (the city is a two-hour drive away) have retained quite a few of those midcentury traces, but mostly it feels like a very 2024 balance of high and low, with printed cement-tile floors...
...stages peppered across the city....
...The 1946 Lafayette Hotel, once a favourite escape of the likes of Ava Gardner and Lana Turner, was acquired a couple of years ago by CH Projects, which owns and operates a handful of the city’s coolest restaurants...
...His industrial design company, SR_A, has handled a raft of projects including a Hublot Tourbillon watch and the Beats Studio3 Wireless headphones....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...Ruaridh Nicoll Imperial Hotel, Amador, California In a fold in the Shenandoah hills, California’s least populous incorporated city splits in two directions just by the Imperial Hotel....
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Google, Facebook, Apple: members of an industry whose home, or at least cradle, is verdant Santa Clara County. If a city is not borderline unlivable, I question its greatness....
...Los Angeles and Santa Monica have both made retrofitting all vulnerable buildings mandatory but plenty of other cities continue to resist....
...Salta is a medium-sized city with a population of 700,000 people....
...It’s a dangerous line of work. And so there’s a real . . . there’s a real emphasis on “Watch the fire”....
...In November, the venerated Roman house will open in the City of Lights: the Bulgari Hôtel Paris has (naturally) a mint location on the Avenue Georges V – in the coveted Triangle d’Or – and its usual architectural...
...from bathtub to hot-tub temperature depending on the height of the river....
...projected in our River of Patriots”....
...The ubiquity of administration officials who move in and out of office reminds me of the 1976 song “Hotel California”, a meditation on what one Eagles band member described as “the dark underbelly of the...
...Milliat in Lyon, or free-range eggs from New Zealand, or anchovies and octopus from a family-owned purveyor on the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain, or tender organic Angus from Australia’s Margaret River...
...The Salton Sea is not a true sea, but the vestige of a great flood: the consequence of the Colorado River breaching the banks of an ill-built irrigation channel in 1905....
...Two weeks of road from chilled northern prairies to the steamy Gulf Coast. Miles driven: 3,112. CO2 equivalent burnt: 1.24 tonnes....
...Albany is the capital of a strongly Democratic state anchored by the nation’s largest city, New York, some 150 miles south along the Hudson River....
...Businesses also moved: the Taiwanese-American computer industry emerged in the San Gabriel Valley, near Los Angeles; the mythical Silicon Valley sprung up between San Francisco and San Jose in northern California...
...It also turned her thoughts to her native state of California, where wildfires have ripped through towns, including her parents’ community outside Santa Rosa. “The skies are grey, everything is dirty....
...As part of my research, I spent time among the Yurok tribe, amid the glorious redwoods of northern California. The Yurok, whose lands border a river, value salmon and sturgeon....
...The following day, in much the same spirit, we are invited for lunch with the outrageously macho Fernándo Rodriguez, a 70-year-old who works the Santa Rosa, a small finca, with his wife Marlene....
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