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...Shanghai treat: a relaxing massage at Dragonfly spa on Donghu Road. HANNAH BEECH, Shanghai bureau chief, TIME Begin your evening with a cocktail at YongFoo Elite (nominally a private club, but I've never seen anyone turned away at the door), where the brocaded wallpaper, spacious garden and Art Deco lamps hint at the building's origins as the 1920s residence of the British consul general. Then meander through the French Concession's sycamore-lined streets to my favorite hole-in-the-wall eatery, Jishi, on Tianping Road. Adventurous eaters can dig their chopsticks into Jishi's signature braised fish...
...joined with the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California, families of victims, and a small group of politicians to make a renewed push to make it harder to jump over the 4-ft. railing that separates the bridge's pedestrian walkway from the water below. As part of the Art Deco structure's 69th anniversary celebration, the coalition has organized a bell-ringing across the city Wednesday afternoon in memory of all those who have died jumping from the bridge...
...1920s. That's when news paper baron William Randolph Hearst commissioned the architect and stage designer Joseph Urban to produce a low-rise headquarters for Hearst's growing empire. The intention was that a taller addition would be constructed later, but the Depression intervened. For nearly eight decades, the Deco-flavored base stood alone. In the late 1990s the Hearst Corp. decided to keep the old building but to hollow it out and erect a new tower within and above...
...both the craft and the award, which honors original and challenging film making.“This award is really celebrating not so much me as what a small art theater, independent (means), and that creature has to be preserved,” she says, under the restored Art Deco ceiling of the seventy plus year old movie palace. “I think it’s a really important thing, and I’m proud to help out. Some of my really good friends are associated with the theater, and I’m happy to support...
...annual accolade, bestowed by the local Coolidge Corner Theatre, one of the few Art Deco movie palaces left in the nation, highlights a breakthrough contributor in a particular field of cinema...