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The two new owners--previously the theatre's projectionist and office manager, respectively--have no plans to alter the program of this historic site that has gone from debutante hall to playhouse to cinema in its one hundred and eleven year history.
On Friday, the Brattle Movie Theatre passed into the hands of two new owners. Ivy Moylan and Ned Hinkle are the third set to own the historic building in its current incarnation as a cinema.
Phoenix critic Peary faults Harvard students for not appreciating the merits of the historic theater's programming.
The most brazen violation occurred last year in Dinghai, the site of the first Opium War, where town officials flattened nationally protected city walls and houses to make way for profit-making office blocks. Local citizens had tried to secure a judicial order to halt demolition. But under pressure from...
Much of Shanghai's so-called urban renewal stems from similarly short-sighted greed. In the mid-'90s, China's largest metropolis went on a building blitz. Across the muddy Huangpu river, a futuristic realm called Pudong materialized, filled with hubris and towering skyscrapers. Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the...