This gorgeously restored 18th-Century Georgian home is located in Margate, Kent, England and can be yours for £1,295,000, which is $1.6 million USD … oops, hang on, we’re learning that there has been a price drop to £1,200,000 AKA $1.5 million USD. A bargain, no? Built in the 1790s as a family home there are six-bedrooms, four bathrooms, kitchen, double length parlor, a gallery space and a studio spread across five floors and 5,000 square feet. Many of the original architectural features have been preserved, and later Victorian cosmetic additions have been saved, including marble fireplace surrounds, internal archways and doors, sash windows, and original wooden floorboards. The front façade is a mix of exposed and painted brick and is...
A 1970s photoshoot of the prolific writer at her cliffside Malibu home helped crystallize her unique brand of West Coast cool, starting with Le Creuset pots and cookbooks. "California belongs to Joan Didion," is what Michiko Kakutani, former chief book critic for the New York Times, wrote of the aggressively clear-eyed literary figure in a 1979 profile. Kakutani eventually won a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished criticism," so I’m inclined to believe her. Today, Didion— who was born in Sacramento in 1934 and died in 2021 in New York, where she relocated from California in the late ’80s—is widely regarded as the ultimate Golden State writer, perhaps more so than Steinbeck. Her nervy reported essays, as well as several recognizable portraits...
Image taken from a video showing ambulances and rescue teams staffers outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. At least three dozen migrants have died in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, according to a newspaper report. Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue could also be seen.Associated Press A fire broke out in a Mexican immigration detention center near the border, killing multiple people Monday night.According to The Associated Press, it is “one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup...
Gov enacts universal free meals for studentsSurrounded by Pinon Elementary School students, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham yesterday signed Senate Bill 4, which will provide universal free meals for children through the Healthy Hunger-Free Students Bill of Rights Act, sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Michael Padilla, D-Albuquerque, and Sen. Leo Jaramillo, D-Española. That act requires K-12 students to have free breakfasts and lunches starting in the 2023-2024 school year, using approximately $30 million in annual funding; rule-making to determine the standards for healthy meals will happen this summer and be phased in over the next two years. “For many families in communities across New Mexico, access to a nutritious breakfast and lunch will fill an absolutely critical need, given that for some...
It could easily be in the Maldives. But Palafitos Overwater Bungalows, a cluster of 30 private dwellings perched over the achingly blue Caribbean sea, is only a half hour from the Cancun International Airport. In terms of otherworldly experiences you can get to by lunchtime, this one is impossible to beat. Courtesy Karisma Resorts The exclusive enclave is located at the El Dorado Maroma resort, located on an incredible stretch of beachfront property bristling with swaying palm trees. Their impressive acreage is some of the last unspoiled oceanfront land on this well-traveled part of the Riviera Maya. Courtesy Karisma Resorts And the Palafitos, the first and only overwater accommodations in all of Mexico, now have a new A-list worthy Presidential...
