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...midyear. With federal recognition, Quiet Hawk's Paugussetts--factory and government workers, small-business owners and retirees--would become, in many respects, a sovereign nation and could, with the state's approval, open their casino. And not just any casino. Their preferred site would be on the Bridgeport waterfront--only 55 miles from New York City, and even nearer to the city's wealthy northern suburbs...
...Thai entrepreneurs who owned the prime Ko Pha-Ngan waterfront were, at one point, the black sheep of their respective clans. Beaches were useless: the prime coconut-farming plots were inland. But with the arrival of the sand-loving farangs, a whole new economy emerged. Families like the Thuaycharoens, known locally as the Khaos, grew wealthy building bungalow complexes and beach bars. Mustachioed Mr. Khao is now governor of the whole province. Bespectacled Mrs. Khao manages their real estate empire from behind the counter of her two-aisle grocery store. The kids who buy rolling papers and beer from...
...Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan...
BEEF: WTO ignores animal rights, environmental treaties STUNT: Teamed with United Steelworkers for waterfront Boston WTeaO Party...
...early 1970s. However, artists are the unwilling shock troops of gentrification, followed into once-gritty neighborhoods by young professionals who drive up the rent. Dot-coms have begun to move into the area in the last several years, and, because of the city's multi-billion dollar South Boston Waterfront project and ensuing private development, these are probably the last days of Fort Point as an artists' community. Of course, this is a story played over and over in American cities; against their intentions and interests, artists work enzyme-style on run-down urban neighborhoods, leading the way for bistros...