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London's Most Curious Public Artworks

There's recently been an explosion of interest in temporary public art projects in London, from bus art trails to knitted phone boxes, Books about Town and Talking Statues. They encourage us to pay closer attention Head to 143 Old Church Street ...

From Cripplegate to Agar Town: inside London's vanished neighbourhoods

The fields of Old Oak Farm, on the edge of London, were the site for London's first Olympic Park and an exhibition the like of which Britain had never seen. Arranged to mark the Entente Cordiale of 1904, the show filled an area eight times the size of ...

Dew Drop Inn to the new Brookland bar from the owners of Wonderland Ballroom

The connection would be fairly obvious to anyone who's spent time at Wonderland over the last decade: The "found art" on the wall, including a hand-painted sign for "Brookland Watch, Clock and Jewelry Clinic," which was on 12th Street south of Randolph ...

Images: An Hour in Palatine

Orange tulips adorn Towne Square in Palatine. Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer. Two trains pass each other at the Palatine Metra station. Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer. Donna Podgorny of Palatine, plays ball with her 5-year-old son Brandon, at Vince ...

The search for America's best food cities: Chicago

celery salt dressing each dog. Conspicuously absent from the mix? Let the sign at Fatso's Last Stand in West Town make the point: “It is considered bad manners and harmful to the taste buds to put ketchup on your hot dog within the city limits of ...

Find your weekend fun in our events calendar

Towne Crier Cafe — 379 Main St., Beacon. 8:30 p.m. June 19, 7 p.m. June 19, 11 O'Clock Blues Band; 7 p.m. June 20, Joe “Elvis” Borelli. . Plein-air paintings by Barbara Masterson and nature-inspired quilted wall hangings by Suzanne Neusner ...

The great thaw-out: Things to do to keep warm this winter

Want some winter warrm-ups? Chill out here in Melbourne. The winter adventurer. City hotels step aside, with St. Jerome's – The Hotel, on the rooftop of Melbourne Central, offering state-of-the-art luxury accommodation overlooking the city skyline. The ...

Good runner in the family: £200k vintage motor puts generations on road to happiness

It is now estimated to be worth between £180,000 and £200,000, despite having 415,000 miles on the clock ... the car around his home town of Littleton Down, West Sussex. He said: “People absolutely love it, not only the old folk who remember those ...

Smithfield: London's centuries-old meat market where your 8am fry-up comes with a pint of stout

The blood would elicit gasps in any other part of town. And some ... Fabric, now a London institution with a vibrating dancefloor, opened in 1999 inside the old Metropolitan Cold Stores. "You see 'em shagging up the wall and all sorts," Biffo says.