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Baghdad's Barbie Clinic: 'Looks Good, Feel Better'

Edit Voa News 20 Jun 2016
Bright pink neon lights light up one corner of Baghdad's busy downtown area of Karrada. the Barbie Clinic is open for business. Two men in T-shirts lazily guard the entrance, as women in full-figure covering robes and others in jeans walk in. Once in, the world of violence and bombings that swirls around Baghdad disappears ... Slaeem al Khoury ... ....

A spiritual high in the temples of Takayama

Edit Topix 19 Jun 2016
Isolated from the pulsating sounds of pachinko parlors and the neon lights of Tokyo, the small, laid-back city of Takayama in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture offers something that visitors to Japan's urban hubs don't typically find. quiet. Caught in the bustle of the modern world, we often forget the impact that nature's stillness can have on us - and that's what makes a visit to Takayama so worthwhile ... ....

Where to Take Dad This Father’s Day (Lyft Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jun 2016
(Source. Lyft Inc). Your Dad taught you how to drive. He took you to Little League, and showed you how to swing the bat ... This Father's Day, take Dad somewhere ... Idea #1. For the Creative Dad ... Idea #2 ... We're taking all regular sports out of the equation for the moment, so what does that leave? How about laser tag! There is nothing more thrilling than running around in a dark room, trying to beat the other team as neon lights flash all around....

Watch: Demi Lovato Sings 'Neon Lights' Live on 'GMA'

Edit ABC News 17 Jun 2016
The pop superstar rocked the Central Park crowd with her hit song ... ....

Film Review: Tale of Tales - Cemetery of Splendour - Bang Gang (A Modern Love ...

Edit Huffington Post 16 Jun 2016
Director. Matteo Garrone. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones. Drama, Adventure. English & Russian with English subtitles. France, Italy, UK 2015 125 mins. Official Selection 2015 Cannes Film Festival (15) **** ... Reilly) ... Wonderful. Released 17th June. Director ... Jenjira finds Itt's cryptic notebook with strange writings and sketches and doctors experiment with ways, including using neon lights, to ease the men's troubled dreams ... Director ... ***....

First mushroom farm in Palestine ends Israel's monopoly

Edit Al Jazeera 16 Jun 2016
Tucked away amid the palm trees in one of the world's oldest cities, an unadorned white warehouse sits on a dusty plot of land. Inside, air conditioners hum as workers hover over elevated beds of dirt. They methodically pick out the pearly white domes peeking out from the compost as a strip of neon lights shines overhead ... Mahmoud Kuhail and Sameer Khrishi now work on the farm full-time ... READ MORE. 'Ramadan Tov' ... "The picture is bleak ... ....

Disrupting Power and Defending Connecticut’s Black Lives

Edit CounterPunch 15 Jun 2016
Approaching a downtown Hartford intersection, rush hour traffic stood still, blocked by about forty Black Lives Matter protesters who refused to budge from the street. A larger crowd cheered on the blockade from the sidewalks and from an overpass. “This is how we [create change]. It starts here in the streets. It starts with controlling our own narratives ... Protesters ignored orders to disperse ... Blue neon lights hung from the ceiling....

Small Houses With Big Stories

Edit CityLab 13 Jun 2016
The Whiteladies House looks a bit like the younger cousin of Le Corbusier’s concrete Villa Savoye, completed five years prior just outside of Paris. Both are stark white, simultaneously sloping and angular ... It fit on top of a table ... toy company, is flooded with neon light and full of modular furniture and translucent accents, as well as microscopic versions of work by the artists Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Mel Bochner, and others ... ....

Orlando shooting: Details emerge of Latin night drawing to a close and 'firecrackers'

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 13 Jun 2016
It was nearing last call. The music was still pounding but the night was drawing to a close at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when shots rang out. At first, the crack of gunfire did not really register. Advertisement ... The gunfire did not let up ... A video taken inside the club in the hours before the attack captured the festive mood, with patrons taking shots, slugging back beers and dancing under neon lights ... By the door, he saw his friend....

Celebrating the bridges of Suzhou Creek

Edit China Daily 11 Jun 2016
The Suzhou Creek, nicknamed by the locals as a "natural museum of bridges" because of the sheer number of such structures on it, will soon be getting yet another addition to its collection ... Those on the west of the creek were introduced as the city started expanding ... Come nightfall, colorful neon lights illuminate the structure, turning it from a mere transportation tool to a romantic spot for lovers ... Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page ... ....

Artist Brook Andrew's reimagining of the past

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 11 Jun 2016
The old and the new collide in artist Brook Andrew's latest exhibition Space & Time. "It's like walking through a time vortex," Andrew says. "I'm trying to conflate time, stretch it, and bring different dominant and hidden narratives to the forefront." ... Blending a mix of collage, sculpture, screen-printing, painting, photography and neon lights, he splices images together to create surreal and abstract scenes ... ....

Technology Time-Capsule

Edit The Atlantic 10 Jun 2016
When Beverly Hills, 90210, premiered in 1990, it was buzzed about for all the reasons high school dramas ever make headlines. Namely, teens were obsessed with it ... The fashion, definitely, but even more so. The technology ... CBS / Hulu ... Notice that he also had what I think is one of those neon light-up landline phones, which makes sense, because basically everything in his bachelor pad looks like it came out of the Sharper Image catalogue ... ....

Fat Cats Are Curdling the Cream - Time to Regulate Bosses?

Edit Huffington Post 10 Jun 2016
Are we in a new infuriating phase of the economic cycle, that one where a few individuals shake your faith in corporate life just when everyone has got over austerity?. It certainly feels that way, judging by what we have heard from the heads of retailer Sports Direct and the bankrupt BHS chain recently in evidence to MPs. In order ... The moral they teach us is in high, flashing neon lights is a simple one ... But that appears to be failing ... ....
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