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More than 20 years ago, John Berman and some of his business partners pretended they were scouting locations for a film to tour a collection of Victorian-era industrial buildings in Toronto's east end and got an idea.Each building could be art gallery, a restaurant or a performance space, Berman recalls thinking.

Last year, No Mow May - a movement urging people not to mow their lawns during the fifth month of the year that started in the United Kingdom to address the impact we have on the critical pollinators that help sustain our lives - gained some momentum in Illinois.To participate in No Mow May, just as it sounds, people don't mow their lawns for the whole month.

So, as this is my blog, nothing is really "off-topic", but this is probably the most OT thing I've ever shared here.My wife is a big fan of Antiques Roadshow.I enjoy watching it too, although it isn't something I mind her watching without me.A month or so ago she discovered they were doing a taping in Baton Rouge (about an hour or so away from us) and she decided to get tickets.

G. Esposito & Sons Jersey Pork Store, a butcher shop in Carroll Gardens, is closing after 100 years in business.A sign posted to the Court Street shop's store states that April 10 is the last day for one of Brooklyn's oldest butchers.G. Esposito & Sons opened in Carroll Gardens a century ago, originally on Columbia Street, after the founder moved to New York by way of Naples, Italy in 1922.

What was life like for women in medieval times?Awful is the vague if definite answer that tends to spring to mind but this is an assumption, and authors have been tackling it with new vigour.The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega, and The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner both contend that women were not only bawdier but busier than we thought: they were brewers, blacksmiths, court poets, teachers, merchants, and master craftsmen, and they owned land too.

Europe London resident Finlay Glen received the letter with the wrong name and address sent with a penny King George V stamp.Glen says he wants to share the letter with the intended recipient's family.LEILA FADEL, HOST: Good morning.I'm Leila Fadel.London resident Finlay Glen got a letter in the mail with the wrong name and address.

Electric shock of voluminously frazzled hair, baggily dressed in what else but black, the Cure's singer, songwriter and guitarist Robert Smith is one of those rare rock stars whom you can recognise even in silhouette.His band's shadowy yet anthemic music  comfortably the creepiest thing to crawl out of Crawley, West Sussex circa 1978  remains every bit as unmistakable.

The White House Easter Egg Roll lottery will open this Thursday, March 16, at 10 AM.One of the White House's most cheerful traditions, the Easter Egg Roll will take place this year on April 10.It's free to sign up for the lottery, and entries must consist of at least one child (12 or under) and one adult.

The first day of spring is technically a date on the calendar.But your first day of spring is subjective.It might be the first time you realize you're sweating in long sleeves, or step out of your office into warmer air, or eat dinner while it's miraculously, implausibly still light out.On my first day of spring, I reach for a book to join me on a triumphant trip outside, my accomplice in an annual coup against winter.

Russian media, all state-controlled, offers only muted coverage of the retreat from Kherson.Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian colonel and parliamentarian, checks for mines as he and his detail make their way into the village of Snihurivka along the Kherson front in southern Ukraine on Thursday.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times In Russia, coverage was rather subdued of the withdrawal of the country's troops from the regional capital of Kherson and its surroundings, the latest in a string of setbacks suffered by the Russian military since it invaded Ukraine nearly nine months ago.

A hundred years later, our fascination with the wretchedly wonderful excess of the 1920s seems more intense than ever.Of the images captured in early newsreels as that era emerged from its own pandemic perhaps not one lingers more than the flapper with a long strand of pearls in full Charleston mode, seemingly happy to dance the night away.

Eline Gro Knatterud, 4, greets Queen Sonja of Norway as she arrives to Den Norske Lutherske Mindekirke, the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Minneapolis on Sunday.Giovanna Dell'Orto/AP MINNEAPOLIS  Before attending the packed Sunday morning service, Queen Sonja of Norway praised Mindekirken congregation for having maintained worship in Norwegian for all 100 years that the church has existed in Minneapolis.

Getty Images / Realtor.comPolitical podcaster Jon Favreau is trading up in the City of Angels.Indeed, the former speechwriter for President Barack Obama and current co-host of the podcast "Pod Save America" is moving to the coveted Windsor Square neighborhood.So he's unloading his gorgeously renovated Los Angeles lair, which he picked up in 2020 for $3.5 million.

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.When the Travel desk at The New York Times announced it was accepting nominations for its 2023 list of 52 Places to Go, Morioka, Japan, immediately came to my mind.I have lived and worked in Japan for over 20 years as a writer and photographer, and I spent four days in November 2021 doing book research in Morioka, in the north of Japan's main island, Honshu.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Flying Scotsman surprised travellers as it pulled into the Scottish capital to celebrate 100 years in service.The world-famous steam locomotive entered service on February 24, 1923 as it set off on its first journey from the sheds at Doncaster Works.

Bianca Stigter's recent documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening is based on a short home movie taken by an American tourist in the Polish town of Nasielsk in 1938.The same section of film appears again and again, accompanied by commentary and testimonies, slowed down, zoomed in on and freeze-framed.

It's well after teatime but we are working late, scanning yows.There is a regular clunk as the scanning crate doors open to let one yow out and another in.I have to juggle my spray cans so I use the right colour on the yow to show if she is carrying a single lamb, twins, triplets or is geld empty.The scanner works quickly and shouts twins or empty.

Bolton Wanderers left it late to book a Wembley date with Plymouth Argyle in the Papa Johns Trophy Final.Wanderers overcame Accrington Stanley 2-0 at the Wham Stadium after the hosts were forced to play more than an hour with 10 men after Sean McConville's early red card.Elias Kachunga and Aaron Morley struck in the closing stages to decide the semi-final for the 1989 winners.

American company Steelcase has used archival designs by architect Frank Lloyd Wright to create the Racine Collection, a line of home office furniture.Steelcases' furniture line, which features desks and chairs, was named Racine Collection after the town where Wright created the SC Johnson Administration building in 1939.

Local firm Note Design Studio has overhauled a 1920s flat in Stockholm, adding sound-absorbing marble floors, mouldings informed by the eaves of the building and custom-made furniture.The studio renovated the apartment, which is located in a building designed by architecture studio Höög & Morssing in the early 1920s, to create an interior that "might pass for the original", it said.

President Joe Biden took aim at critics who deride the teaching of past racial and social injustices in American history as woke during his keynote speech at the National Action Network's annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast on Monday.While discussing a whole host of topics and policy items, Biden eventually landed on the topic of civil rights.

Irv's Burgers has commenced a very cool collaboration with Searchlight Pictures and its 2022 film , starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes.The fictional thriller set at a fine dining restaurant involves a burger and will be on sale at the film-appropriate price of $9.95 (including fries).And just like the movie, the burger special comes with two griddled patties, thinly shaved onions, American cheese, special sauce, and pickles on a plush sesame seed bun.

The post-World War II London drama "Living" puts Nighy at the center of a story: he plays Williams, the head of the Public Works Department, who receives a terminal health diagnosis and, after a period of shock, begins taking stock in his life and essentially trying to be the best person he can before he goes.

The writer, theorist and feminist Helene Cixous was born in Algeria in 1937 and has long lived in Paris.She came to public renown for her essay, "The Laughter of Medusa" (1975), in which she outlines how women can defend themselves against widespread oppression.Speaking to DW from Paris, Cixous says that the current women-led protests in Iran are part of an extended feminist movement in the country.

Long, long ago in a Midtown office far, far away, I used to work for Investopedia, a website about money and investing where, among other things, I wrote about blockchain, cryptocurrency, Elon Musk, and Apple's quarterly earnings.Looking back, it's almost hard to believe, now that most of what I cover concerns finance bros, food tech companies, NFT restaurants, and - well, I guess if the shoe fits.

There is a genre of tweet that shows up every so often that I like to call: fun with endpoints - Hockey Reference style.Someone who wants to make a wow sort of point, clips a section of the Hockey Reference League Averages page that's carefully designed to make some fairly normal fluctuation in seasonal results seem amazing!

The Toronto Maple Leafs have a history that dates back more than a hundred years.So it is kind of weird that the longest scoring streak in the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs was  just 18 games.You would figure that a 20 or so game streak would have happened by accident over that much time.But much like the rest of the Leafs history, it's better just to say whatever and not worry about it too much.

When he gave me the emerald he got from the Atocha, nothing in the world could be more exciting  other than being engaged, she said.For years, Mitzi Perdue looked down at her hand and saw history.The emerald stone on her ring finger told a story stretching back nearly four centuries, to the sinking of a Spanish galleon near the Florida Keys in 1622 and a decades-long effort of a colorful undersea treasure hunter named Mel Fisher to retrieve its payload of gold and silver coins, gold nuggets and jewelry.

It was a Sunday, and I was out and about in west Croydon.I was 13.A young stranger called out to me, Hey!What are you doing now?Why don't you come in, we are having an event now.There will be singing and dancing, it's really fun, come in!Never in a hundred years would I have thought that accepting their invitation would change the course of my life, twice.

The Blavatnik Wing will host more than one hundred years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the gallery's Inspiring People project.Paintings of naturalist Charles Darwin, and writers Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the Bronte sisters and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor will help visitors to explore society and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Rams fans should be ashamed of themselves.At least 60% of the stadium in the 49ers game was red.Shameful.:: As a lifelong Rams fan, and season-ticket holder since they returned to L.A., recent showings by so-called Rams fans who sell their tickets to opposing teams fans such as the 49ers, Cowboys and very likely Raiders fans, is mostly for greed.

NASA is keeping a watchful eye on an asteroid that will make a close pass of Earth tomorrow.The space rock 2022 RM4 is up to 2427 feet long, making it almost twice the size of the Empire State Building.Luckily, it's expected to scorch past at a safe distance and poses no threat to our planet.The asteroid has been added to Nasa's "Close Approaches"  database, which tracks thousands of so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs).

NASA is keeping a watchful eye on an asteroid that will make a close pass of Earth tomorrow.The space rock 2022 RM4 is up to 2427 feet long, making it almost twice the size of the Empire State Building.Luckily, it's expected to scorch past at a safe distance and poses no threat to our planet.The asteroid has been added to Nasa's "Close Approaches"  database, which tracks thousands of so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs).

Darling, you simply must have a , someone is sure to say to you sometime soon, if they haven't already.Italian cocktails are all the rage.The Aperol Spritz, Campari Spritz and Negroni are everywhere, much to the delight of the Campari Group, the liquor giant that owns both Aperol and Campari.And now you can add one drink more to that expanding list, the Negroni Sbagliato.