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...These days the Roubaisiens who have jobs - unemployment is 14% - tend to work in retail and advertising rather than in factories. Figuring that tourism could be an option for a place that had run short of them, in 1990 Gaudichon persuaded the city to convert the derelict swimming pool into a home for Roubaix's unseen treasures. They included a unique hoard of textile patterns and samples dating back to 1839, as well as an art collection that had been closed to public view since 1940. Gaudichon, named curator of the collection in 1989, reckoned it needed a home...
...spent the night at Haji Abdul's headquarters; a few derelict buildings and a dying garden. Over dinner he wanted to talk more about our plans. He too couldn't give soldiers without the governor's permission, "but I must call him at 8pm and I will ask." Later he said he could not make contact, though he did seem better informed about the governor's movements. He began to tell stories about the perils of the road to Baghran, saying "if you paid me $500 I would not give you a vehicle, so badly damaged would...
...observe the casting of copper cauldrons, used to brew ouzo, the potent, anise-flavored national drink. Or trek to the fringes of Psirri, a few steps beyond the final show of its spanking new hot spots, and discover the 200-year-old bakery of Venetis. The site, dusty and derelict, may be unappealing. But the aroma is alluring, guaranteed to send you straight to the counter for a slice of traditional feta-cheese pie, plus some olive-and-basil bread, plus a taste of those yeastless loaves that nourished the ancient Greeks for eons. Then hit the district's hippest...
...Hinkle and Ivy Moylan, the recent renovations to the well known repertory theatre were long overdue. The theater, which was closed from Aug. 31 to Sept. 7, is now open to the public with a gleaming new interior. Although some diehard Brattle fans may complain that the previously derelict theater, whose seats were notoriously uncomfortable, has lost some of its original charm, Hinkle and Moylan are keen to point out that these changes were not made in an attempt to revamp the Brattle’s image but simply to make the viewing experience more pleasant. They hope that these...
...more ambitious of the two - geographically at least - is the Almeida. Last year it produced Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus starring Ralph Fiennes, not on its own stage but at the derelict Gainsborough Film Studios. Now, forced to leave their 300-seat Islington base while $6 million in renovations are carried out, Kent and McDiarmid have spent $1.2 million fixing up a long-closed bus station at King's Cross as an alternative home. The result is one of the most unusual and invigorating spaces in London...