A Semi-Secret Garden in Queens
A watercolorist and her husband have a lushly planted backyard at their home in Hillcrest, with plants that figure in her paintings.
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Bethany Bultman's garden room offers outside sensibility with inside comforts
The solarium hosts workshops, meetings, parties and programs for the New Orleans Musicians' Assistance Foundation, of which Bultman is the president.
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Belvedere, Off Abbotsbury Road, Holland Park, London W8
Sitting in the heart of Holland Park like a miniaturised Alhambra Palace, the Belvedere is a thing of considerable beauty. It dates back to the 17th century, when it was a summer ballroom connected to Holland House. A century ago, it was made over as an art deco palace and more recently it's been redesigned by David Collins in a mixum-gatherum of old and new styles. Walk in and you gasp at its ...
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Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us, By Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount advances a preposterous thesis, wearing the poker face a schoolboy hopes will convince his teacher of an implausible whopper. Related Stories Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, By Kai Bird Butterfly Shadow, By Lee Langley
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Calendar: Week of July 30, 2010
FRIDAY, JULY 30 Flat Top Reed and Riveter, Tenacious Brothers Pub, 118 S. Seventh St., 9:30 p.m., ages 21 plus, $5, http://www.myspace.com/flattopreed, http://www.myspace.com/riveter, 589-6229.
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