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...look beyond the lawn mower and there are signs of abundance that even the most jaded urbanite can decipher. The garden hoses hang limply on the wall, the rose bushes don't need constant coddling, the basil plant is big as a bush, and the potted fern is threatening to block the path to the front door. Everything is green, not gold this summer, except for the bag of plump, ripe tomatoes delivered by a neighor. Tomato vines love the rain. "It may well be a tomato year - a happy thought," writes Austin organic farmer Carol Ann Sayles from Boggy...
...Blockbuster and other large stores. Those of us who are linguistically impaired can get English subtitles for the movies; but the extras are in Spanish only. Also, the movies' visual quality ranges from mediocre to muddy. I've seen TV prints of Mexican films from the same period, like Fernández; La Perla and Maria Candelaria, and they gleam. But Las Islas Marias, the Infante-Fernández collaboration in the new collection (and shot, like the other two, by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa), looks like a faded dupe...
...street. Next door, there are no windows in which to hang curtains, and the dirty and soot-stained brick wall is punctured by holes. Uninviting and marred with graffiti, the building on the right is home to nothing but neglect. In the series “View Along Fern St. from 10th St.,” Vergara attempts to depict the passage of time. In four photos from different years, Vergara shows how a view down the same street changes in response to its residents—or lack thereof. In the photo from 1979, two complete rows of apartments...
...want specifics," one resident shouted, garnering applause "We know where almost every fern in the window will be, but you’re not telling us where parking is or how traffic will be affected. This is our community you’re talking about...
...Blier’s firm, Landworks Studio, was founded in 1996 and is being recognized for its work on Court Square Press Courtyard, a garden for residents of a South Boston condominium. The design of the garden combines disjointed pathways with lighted benches and three layers of bamboo and fern to create a “collection of fragmented views,” said project designer Letitia Tormay. The view of the garden is entirely different from any window in the six stories of condominiums surrounding the garden. Tormay said the project was particularly challenging both because of the unusual...