The World, “water-based island masterplan” off the coast of Dubai, is ready for developers to start building custom $10 million island communities and resorts.
Massive sand-tankers built The World one archipelago at a time by spraying earth into the sea. How God is that?
Transportation around the aqueous city-state will be almost entirely by boat, ensuring that it’s only a matter of time before these azure waters are the setting for some imaginative outburst of zombie plague. This entire setup seems like an ad from the Umbrella Corporation.
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As Katrina’s two year anniversary approaches New Orleans is getting the predictable attention from the media, mostly retrospective looks at how little has been done over the past two years to shore New Orleans against renewed ruin from future disaster.
While we agree that pathetic little has been done to protect New Orleans against the very force of nature that devastated the city two years ago, New Orleans is still a vibrantly layered, bursting city, that refuses to let its future be a constant retelling of Katrina.
LVHRD member Rob Hudak’s latest…
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Monocle Magazine’s latest issue has an affair’s report called “Top 20 Liveable Cities.” Munich ranks #1, Oslo is in there somewhere, Tokyo, Madrid, an Australian city, some Italian cities etc. Not one of Monocle’s most liveable cities is in the Americas, Africa or Asia (apart from Tokyo). All of the top cities’ inhabitants are of predominantly Anglo-European descent (again excluding Tokyo). Since Monocle is based in the UK, perhaps this is understandable.
To clarify before we continue: we are not taking issue with Monocle Magazine. We like their publication and believe…
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The New York Times chronicled LVHRD member Chris Roan’s (DNCHRD 1, lampshade) search for a new apartment this weekend in The Hunt.
Chris and his co-worker at The Onion, Justin Fluck, decided to get a place together after they got fed up with their solo living situations.
Chris felt isolated living in Bushwick and Justins $1400 rent for a studio on St. Marks was killing him.
It sounded easy enough, but after they each drew up a list of criteria the new place had to meet it was apparent they…
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We are sad to hear that after nine years of avant-garde music, Tonic on Norfolk will close next Friday, April 13th, after John Zorn’s performance. The tiny club can no longer afford to do business on the Lower East Side, being increasingly surrounded by rent-raising luxury condos.
Raise your glass up: this weekend is the Tonic Alumni Festival, with performers ranging from Ikue Mori to Sean Lennon to T.K. Webb. Tonic will have great shows all through next week leading up to the closing. Check out their site for a performance schedule.…
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We just got back from lunch at the new Whole Foods. They haven’t even got the security cameras up yet. There’s a waterfall, a pommes frittes counter with twelve dipping sauces in varieties of cinnamon and salt, a fromagerie, a land of powdered confections, and NYPD keeping watch over it all from the 2nd floor bridge, probably to deter any unfortunates who who decide they can make the rounds and fill up on the satellite hors d’ourves trays. Because, really, you don’t have to buy anything. You can just munch…
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Weary of the hordes returning from Las Vegas spending only “a few nickles and dimes” as they pass through the Grand Canyon, the Hualapai tribe of Arizona (people of the tall pines) have built the perfect 30 million dollar cure for your hangover.
As if looking at the 4,000 foot drop from the rim of the Grand Canyon didn’t make our palms sweat enough, now you can walk out 70 feet over the void via the brand new Skywalk, with just four inches of glass under your feet to keep you from…
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