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From the Flats in West L.A. to the suburbs of Chicago and Boston, any block with smallish homes near desirable workplaces, good schools and popular stores and entertainment is red meat for carnivorous builders. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in a 2002 report documented more than 200 historically significant communities in 20 states where teardowns were prevalent. In the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, the report said, an astonishing 1,200 homes (20% of the supply) had been demolished since 1986. The trend has intensified since then. Nationally, as many as 75,000 of the single-family houses built last...
...because the role is not like me at all. It is a stretch. But I just felt like the stars were lined up for me to do this." "? eight, nine, ten. The cat is in the house? " Despite its waterways, Vancouver is a world away from the Sydney harborside suburb of Hunters Hill where McKenzie grew up. Its leafy, conservative environs might have contained the lawyer's daughter, had not drama pushed her over the bridge to nida straight out of Presbyterian Ladies' College. At acting school, the most useful tool learned was phonetics, she says, "which basically means...
Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...
...those terms. There are the dreadfully poor and the obscenely wealthy, to be sure. But color, or race, is less and less the deciding factor. There are also the people in between, and there are plenty of us. I live very happily in an ordinary middle-class suburb. I am white; all my neighbors are dark-skinned. They drive better cars than I do. We all have walls and dogs and alarms. We don't live in paradise and never will, but we're all journeying to meet each other, and it's a challenging, rewarding, puzzling voyage of discovery...
Hubbard was born on September 4, 1958, in Orlando, Fla. Raised in the nearby suburb of Apopka, he attended public school there and matriculated...