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Curated shows have run the gamut this year from Van Gogh to the Art of the Guitar to American Folk. Van Gogh got equal billing with John Lennon’s guitar. Now, an 18th century carved George Washington doll shares the same media market as Van Gogh’s “Postman...
...63rd year of its existence, the Lowell House Opera (LHO) presents a very ambitious staging of Puccini’s classic La Bohème. Working under the aegis of the 18th century German philosopher, poet and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche, LHO’s production hopes to prove Marx wrong in his belief that “everything enters history only twice: first as tragedy, then as farce.” La Bohème explores Nietzsche’s proposed third entrance into history: irony...
Leslie Critchlow, 34, a manager at Accenture in San Francisco, got an even better deal: an 18th century chateau in Brittany with 14 rooms and a 20-acre park for only $285,000. Along with her mother and brother, she is hoping to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. "We saw this chateau and fell in love," says Critchlow. "We were shocked to find out we could afford...
...French chateau. But they rented a vacation home in Provence three years ago and fell in love with the region. "We started looking just to see what was out there," says the New York City businessman, 59, "and we were enthralled." What the Bauchners wound up with was an 18th century stone castle and 22 acres of forest. The place was a bargain at $570,000, even though a two-year renovation more than tripled the original cost. Now the Bauchners spend most of their time in Provence entertaining, visiting the surrounding villages and beautifying their property. Says Bauchner...
...that is precisely what's happening. A decade ago, the idea that the planet was warming up as a result of human activity was largely theoretical. We knew that since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, factories and power plants and automobiles and farms have been loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide and methane. But evidence that the climate was actually getting hotter was still murky...