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A Brooklyn Storefront Hid an Artist's Decades of Work

Even after the neighborhood began to change — the derelict Ansonia Clock Company building was converted into lofts; the flats-fixed shop became a fancy food store; the restaurant Talde opened across the street — the storefront at 367 Seventh Avenue ...

Design of the Times

A onetime luxurious gambling resort frequented by socialites and celebrities, Agua Caliente featured a Moorish-tiled spa, a deco-Roman dining room and an enormous roadside tower that became the resort's iconic symbol. McAllister also designed While ...

Top 8 Challengers for Seth Rollins

Owens giving up the NXT title to go after the WWE World Heavyweight Championship would make for a fabulous story. NXT vs. Authority. Owens' smashmouth style vs. Rollins' insane moveset. They faced each back in ROH, so they'd probably click. It would be ...

All Rather Predictable

He had been frequently booed during the game in panto style. I was told recently that Wenger was so appalled at the manner in which his team won the 2005 FA Cup Final that he determined in the future to ensure that his team did not play in such a ...

Monte-Carlo Masters: For champion Wawrinka 'the memories are coming back'

His form and ranking had fallen away with assorted injuries—wrist in 2013, hip last year—and he had fallen in the opening match of his first four tournaments this year, but he was on the move upwards, helped by his first Masters quarter-final in ...

The wonder that is Israel

Created by settlers who moved from the old Jaffa area, Tel Aviv is a metropolitan city that never sleeps. Even at 3 am, At the grand entrance to Old Jaffa is the Jaffa Clock Tower, built during the Ottoman period to commemorate the silver jubilee ...

Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?

Ozar Hatorah, which is today known as Ohr Hatorah, is surrounded by a high wall, topped in places by barbed wire. I visited the school “We speak the same language, literally”—he says he and his patients move easily between Arabic and French—“and ...