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...first back-to-backs were completed in 1802. Consisting of three rooms, one above another, they were built around a central courtyard and each housed upward of 10 people. They became a byword for squalor until 1966 when they were finally declared unfit for habitation. Their rehabilitation began in 1988 when they were listed as historical monuments, and restoration of 54 Inge Street was initiated by the Birmingham Conservation Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slumming It | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...Refuge, tel: (223) 223 3799. It has no street address, so taxi drivers might have trouble finding it. So listen out for the chocolate-smooth, Cuban rumba drifting out from the rutted lanes, a stone's throw from the Rue N'Tomicorobougou. At La Refuge, in a courtyard lit by a lone fluorescent strip, middle-aged couples dance beneath a huge Sahelian moon. Neighborhood goats wander past. And a Malian band, replete with tom-tom, lilting flute and wheelchair-bound keyboardist, will likely be crooning in Portuguese about "Comandante Che Guevara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Traveler: One Nation Under a Groove | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...encountered at La Refuge, tel: (223) 223 3799. It has no street address, so taxi drivers might have trouble finding it. Listen out for the chocolate-smooth Cuban rumba drifting out from the rutted lanes, a stone's throw from the Rue N'Tomicorobougou. At La Refuge, in a courtyard lit by a lone fluorescent strip, middle-aged couples dance beneath a huge Sahelian moon. Neighborhood goats wander past. And a Malian band, replete with tom-tom, lilting flute and wheelchair-using keyboardist, will likely be crooning in Portuguese about "Comandante Che Guevara." "Music is important," says local veteran musician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Nation Under a Groove | 8/15/2004 | See Source »

...Spangler Center opened in January 2001 and boasts a copy center, travel office, bookstore, post office, auditorium, lounge, courtyard, dining room and grille complete with television sets and a fireplace...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Undergoes Renovations | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

Chang said Lin was finally found out on July 27 when she, Lin and several friends gathered in a friend’s room. She said proctors meeting in a room diagonally across the Adams House courtyard saw the gathering and came to investigate the unregistered event. In the Summer School Program, a party is defined as 10 or more people in one suite...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Runaway Caught In Adams House | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

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