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In Canterbury at a bar on Burgate Street. Bewitching light coming on through the blinds and 5 green bottles in staggered view.
Well, he was David Graham then. Later on he was Dr. David E. Graham, of Spruce Pine, Charlotte, Goldsboro, and Matthews (those are all in North Carolina, for you outlanders.) He was the most curious combination of extreme orneriness and extreme intelligence that I have ever met. My Uncle. My mother's beloved brother (she
has two other brothers, and they are beloved too, but David was the oldest of the boys(the two girls came first), and I think that made a difference.) He was Phi Beta Kappa at Carolina, and then he went on to get his medical degree at the University of Maryland (I'm a bit hazy on some of these facts). He loved the Tarheels and he loathed the Terps. He told me they had a tank of nitrous in a closet off the delivery room in the hospital in Baltimore where he did his residency, and the boys would be in there whiffing on it right before they stepped back into the room to deliver the babies. I don't think he was making that up. One time he stopped the car (with a bunch of nephews riding along) and said he had to go down this trail (we were up in the mountains) and see his moonshiner. I think he was making that up---he probably just had to take a leak.
He did have moonshine, though---patients gave it to him. He would shake it up and show you by the bead whether it was good or not.
Once, when he was much older, when the Alzheimer's was just setting in, he asked my mother to take him to the "girly" bar (that's probably not the word he used). And my mother, who is quite a genteel lady, took him in the car and they set out on a quest to find the "girly" bar. But when they got to where he thought it was, it wasn't there anymore.
He let us (the sons, the nephews) puff the "see-gars" and sip the beers. He paid
me a quarter one time to let a llama at the Columbus zoo spit in my face a second time. I probably wanted the quarter, but more, I wanted to humor him.
He had a ferocious temper and he was capable of being extremely profane. He was, I think, the ultimate instigator. He loved a beautiful sunset---I think he could feel it in his soul.
I'm sure there are ten thousand stories about my Uncle David, and it saddens me that I only know a few of them. He was the Platonic ideal of the preacher's kid.
I would imagine that almost everyone who knew him misses him.
I already have one of these cards, but this one is stamped with a girl's name-'Sally'
(all the girls had an English name they used)
Steampunk bar in Beijing's Xiang'er Hutong. While visited during the opening hours, it was unfortunately closed without stating a reason. So, there are no pictures of the interior. Hope, they didn't go out of business. The early evening light can hardly hide the ever present smog in downtown Beijing.
The Grand Opera House is a theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by the most prolific theatre architect of the period, Frank Matcham. It opened on 23 December 1895.
According to the Theatres Trust, the "magnificent auditorium is probably the best surviving example in the United Kingdom of the oriental style applied to theatre architecture".
The auditorium was restored to its former glory, and the foyer spaces and bars were reimagined and developed as part of a £12.2 million project in 2020/2021, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The venue hosts musicals, drama, ballet, opera and comedy performances as well as educational events and tours. The Theatre’s annual pantomime, which has been performed since its opening in 1895, remains the most popular show each year. The Theatre’s capacity is 1,058.
History
Originally called the New Grand Opera House and Cirque, it was renamed the Palace of Varieties in 1904, changing its name to the Grand Opera House in 1909. Charlie Chaplin performed there in 1908, and although Variety programmes dominated the pre-war years, entertainers as diverse as Nellie Melba, Sarah Bernhardt, Ralph Richardson and Gracie Fields performed there regularly. It became a repertory theatre during World War II and at the celebrations to mark the end of the war, Eisenhower, Montgomery and Alanbrooke attended gala performances at the Theatre.
After the war, stars of stage and screen returned to the Theatre, with notably highlights including performances by Laurel and Hardy, Vera Lynn, Orson Welles, and Luciano Pavarotti in his UK debut. In 1965 the National Theatre brought its production of Love for Love to the Grand Opera House with a cast boasting Laurence Olivier, Lyn Redgrave, Albert Finney, Geraldine McEwan and a young Anthony Hopkins.
The Grand Opera House was acquired by the Rank Organisation, which led to its use as a cinema between 1961 and 1972.
As business slowed in the early 1970s with the onset of the Troubles, Rank initiated plans to sell the theatre to a property developer, who proposed that the building be pulled down and replaced with an office block. However, following the action of Kenneth Jamison (director of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland) and Charles Brett (founder member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society and ACNI board member), the building was bought by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and listed in 1974. The Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education, Arthur Brooke, lent his support to the project and his department provided the funding for extensive renovatation of the theatre. The Grand Opera House reopened in 1980, and in the years that followed many leading performers appeared on its stage, including Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, Darcey Bussell and Lesley Garrett. The building has been damaged by bombs on several occasions, usually when the nearby Europa Hotel had been targeted. It was badly damaged by bomb blasts in 1991 and 1993. The theatre continued, however, to host musicals, plays, pantomimes and live music.
2006 renovation and reopening
In 1995 the running of the theatre was taken over by the Grand Opera House Trust. In 2006 an extension was added which included a studio theatre space , extended foyers, dressings rooms and access for customers with disabilities. The Theatre reopened with a Gala event on 21 October 2006.
Restoration 2020
In 2020 the Grand Opera House closed for restoration and development. The project saw the auditorium’s paintings and decorative and ornate plasterwork painstakingly restored and conserved, as well as new seating, carpets, curtains and drapes installed. The design of the foyer and public spaces was reimagined, with a new bar installed in the restored 1980 glass extension overhanging Great Victoria Street, and the stalls and circle bars refurbished. As part of the project, the Theatre’s technical infrastructure was also upgraded and a permanent heritage exhibition installed telling the Theatre’s 125-year history installed.
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Potlikker Block Party
Music To Your Mouth
The Inn at Palmetto Bluff
Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina
(November 22, 2013)
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new parts arriving in advance of the build of my new bike.
Strobist: lp180 in a lumiquest SBIII at camera left, 1/4 power; bare 430exii camera right t as a rim light; triggered by pw.
Chock full of fibre, protein and complex carbs, these chewy bars will keep you going through your workouts and beyond. Made with psyllium, oats, wheat bran, quinoa, almonds, seeds, dried fruit and peanut butter.
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It's one of my most favorite bars in New York City, but I'd never taken a picture of one of it's coolest features - the bar. I was venturing into the Broome Street Bar well before Derek Jeter and The Boss made it famous in a Visa commercial. The food's good too.
This was taken at a very sexually themed bar for women and couples only in Tokyo. It housed an enormous and eclectic collection of dildos and vibrators, which customers could put on plastic gloves to touch and turn on, but actually using them was prohibited.
The crust and topping, golden brown once baked, are chewy and pleasantly sweet, while the filling is rich and velvety.
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