Hollywood's Most Coveted Cemetery Plots
0 6 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Courtesy of Hollywood Forever The entrance to Hollywood Forever, originally called Hollywood Memorial when it was founded in 1899. Graves with a view, celebrity neighbors...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: BANDALOOP to perform this Saturday on Berkeley’s Campanile...
(Source: University of California - Berkeley) ATTENTION: Weekend, general assignment, photo and features desks NOTE: Outstanding visuals for TV crews, photographers WHAT: Two performances on Cal Day...
View ArticleCemetery program to feature photographers
NATCHEZ, Miss. A hundred years apart, two men worked to ensure the images of historic — or, depending on your perspective in history, contemporary — Natchez were recorded in photographs. This fall...
View ArticleStanford's Meyer Library to be replaced with open space (Stanford University)
(Source: Stanford University) Artist's rendering shows view of the landscaped open space that will replace Meyer Library, looking west from Escondido Road toward the main Quad. (University Architect /...
View ArticleArt and History Among the Dead
ONE of New York City’s most unusual museums is not on Fifth Avenue or Madison Avenue, but on 400 acres of beautifully landscaped land at Webster Avenue and East 233rd Street in the Bronx. Related Go to...
View ArticleMountain View council at odds over major office project
Staff San Francisco Business Times Mountain View City Council members on Tuesday clashed over a proposal for a major office development in the city by RREEF, the Palo Alto Daily News reports. The real...
View Article5 hidden stories of Oakland Cemetery
We know the stories of Margaret Mitchell, Bobby Jones and Maynard Jackson. They're among the most famous of Oakland Cemetery's residents, but were their lives the most interesting? Here are five...
View ArticleHow Julia Morgan finally won U.S. architecture's highest honor
Nobody in the Bay Area who cares about architecture needs to be convinced of Julia Morgan's lasting worth. Her early 20th century buildings - public and private, large and small - enrich the texture of...
View ArticleSacramento in a Day
Image by Amanda Law Sacramento is not known as a destination city. I get it. It's small, quiet, and mostly suburban. But I am here to tell you that there's plenty to do and see. Albeit most activities...
View ArticleAt home with Mimi and Burnett Miller
For as much art, artifacts and singular travel memorabilia are in their home, Mimi and Burnett Miller always seem remarkably unencumbered. Sitting beneath Roy DeForest’s imposing painting “Midnight...
View ArticleMountain View Cemetery offering Black History Month tour
Other notables mentioned on the tour are artist and educator Pauline Powell Burns, a decedent of slaves from President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and the first African-American to exhibit...
View ArticleHearst Castle's Julia Morgan is first woman to win AIA's gold medal
The American Institute of Architects has broken the gender barrier for its highest award, the gold medal. The 2014 medal is going to famed California architect Julia Morgan nearly 57 years after her...
View ArticleCemetery tours part of Flint's Back to the Bricks
Back to the Bricks has been focusing on immortalizing some of the big names of the auto industry in bronze, but this year they're looking to take car lovers to the final resting places of some of those...
View ArticleRemembering the fallen at Mountain View Cemetery
The 94th Memorial Day Commemoration was held Monday at Mountain View Cemetery on Piedmont Avenue, including the presentation of colors, a 21-gun salute to the fallen, release of doves, the playing of...
View ArticleMountain View Cemetery to feature historical, docent-led programs
Cemetery to feature...
View ArticleNY's largest cemetery celebrates 175th anniversary
NEW YORK (AP) — Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also...
View ArticleHistory comes alive in Akron at Glendale Cemetery’s 175th anniversary...
Glendale Cemetery came alive Friday morning. Amid the rolling hills and historic stone buildings on grounds where many of Akron’s favorite sons and daughters rest in peace, the present embraced the...
View ArticleFiat lux: Mirrors flash sunlight from top of Campanile (University of...
(Source: University of California) BERKELEY - Two solar reflectors that decorated the Golden Gate Bridge last year during its 75th birthday celebrations have now been installed atop one of UC...
View ArticleCity Administrator's Weekly Report for September 12, 2014 (City of Oakland, CA)
(Source: City of Oakland, CA) Microsoft Word - 9-12-14 City Administrator's Weekly Report -- Draft DISTRIBUTION DATE: September 12, 2014 MEMORANDUM TO: HONORABLE MAYOR & FROM: Henry Gardner CITY...
View ArticleOakland Cemetery receives excellence award
Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery was named the 2014 Great Place winner in the Atlanta Regional Commission’s 16th annual Developments of Excellence Awards. The Commission honors trend-setting private...
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