After students were caught smuggling in contraband items like cellphones into class, a Pennsylvania middle school has banned Uggs —or other “outdoor, open top boots.” The Pottstown Mercury reports , ‘In a letter sent home with students Wednesday, Principal Gail Cooper announced the ban, saying “we have been experiencing problems with some students wearing open top boots and carrying items in their boots that are prohibited in school.’” [ more › ]
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Crimes Against Fashion: Pennsylvania School Bans Uggs
Photo: Antoine Predock Architect So often when hunting for high-end properties in ski country, we run into the same tired log cabin aesthetic, with Native American-inspired prints, heavy leather furniture, mounted moose heads, and other Western clichés. Luckily, there are some owners and designers willing to brave a chilly reception from the neighbors in pursuit of something more unique. No one has turned the log home on its head more than New Mexico-based AD 100 architect Antoine Predock. The Log Jam House was built in Colorado for a couple of New Yorkers, one of whom specializes in disequilibrium theory at Columbia Law School. He should feel right at home in the house, which has logs spearing through the rear facade, curved walls, and a curious arrangement of windows. The three-bedroom modern cabin’s otherwise sleek interiors were featured in the January 2008 issue of Architectural Digest. Photo: Pieter Estersohn/ Architectural Digest ↑ Arch Digest also profiled this far more conventional log home, this time in Aspen, Colo., renovated to a modern taste by Atelier AM. The firm benefited from the architect’s choice of spruce wood, which lend the place a much lighter feel than the usual log mansion, but used a contemporary Californian eye to really transform the space. The living room (above) features a blackened steel fireplace, contemporary art, and sleek (but cushy) furnishings. Photo: Bjorn Wallander/ Dwell ↑ For something a little more attainable, Dwell chimes in with this modern build in Winter Park, Colo. Constrained by the size of the lot and wanting to keep parts of the existing ranch house, the owner commissioned architect Michael P. Johnson, who designed a glassy cantilever over the driveway to house the living and dining room. According to the owner, it “feels like a treehouse,” despite disregarding a local zoning board suggestion to add some “log accents.” Photo: Pieter Estersohn/ Elle Decor ↑ Not that log accents are all bad, as this Montana mansion can attest. Designed by southern designer Ray Booth, the interiors of this Yellowstone Club spread were featured in Elle Decor, most likely for their cosmopolitan feel with hints at the mountain zone classics. The living room uses stacked stone for the fireplace surround and raw wood beams on the ceiling, but the wood is lighter and the stone is joined by clean-lined beige furniture. Photo: David O. Marlow/ Selldorf Architects ↑ Building a five-story mini-skyscraper in the middle of the Colorado wilderness might only have been the brainchild of a New Yorker and Manhattan-based starchitect Annabelle Selldorf is the one responsible. This high-floor bedroom might not be the most child-friendly, but the wire barrier provides unencumbered views, as does the sheer quantity of glass. · Log Jam House [Antoine Predock Architect] · A Not So Log Cabin [Arch Digest] · A Contemporary Colorado Lodge [Arch Digest] · Ski Lift [Dwell] · High & Mighty [Elle Decor] · Pika House [Selldorf Architects]
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Ski Chalet Week: Unconventional New Approaches to the Traditional Ski House
The real 2012 election is still months away (even considering the 24 or so Republican primary jibberjabbers-to-the-death), and already our greatest thinkers are turning their attention to 2016. While speaking about his directorial debut—the documentary “Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap”—at the Sundance Film Festival, Ice-T endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. “She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t cry…Obama will support her, and she’ll be the first woman president.” Well of course Ice-T would support her—Coco loves her! [ more › ]
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Ice-T Endorses Hillary Clinton For Homegirl-In-Chief
Denise Rich, the songwriter, philanthropist and Clinton Presidential Library donor, is putting her Fifth Avenue duplex on the market for $65 million, which makes it the most expensive co-op ever. [ more › ]
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$65 Million Co-Op Is Most Expensive Ever, Includes Recording Studio
BoConcept’s new Ottawa Collection, designed by Karim Rashid. Photo via Contemporist WORLDWIDE —New from BoConcept is the Ottawa dining room collection, which was designed by Karim Rashid. [Contemporist] NYC —Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York, a spinoff of the network’s original series profiling high-rolling agents and brokers in L.A., will kick off March 7. [Curbed NY] WORLDWIDE — House Beautiful welcomes two new contributing editors: Blair Voltz Clarke, a private art dealer, and Rebecca de Ravenel, a designer and stylist. [Editor at Large]
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Starting February 5th and running through May 20th, the Queens Museum of Art will be showing off the work of photographer Frank Oscar Larson , who documented the streets of New York in the 1950s. They’re in possession of “several thousand historic negatives hidden from sight for 55 years,” and will bring 65 of them in print form to their “1950s New York Street Stories” installation. Larson was a Queens banker who had a “lifelong passion for photography” and yielded a tremendous images of everyday life in 1950s New York. [ more › ]
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A major part of the reasoning behind the proposal to ban food on the subway currently in the State Senate is that your leftovers are many rats main courses. So what better time to sit back and watch some videos of rats hanging out in subway stations, chilling out and taking their people food for a stroll? [ more › ]
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Videos: Fearless Subway Rats Love Bagels
We know the Giants are officially the underdog heading into Super Bowl XLVI against the New England Patriots—but considering how consistently they’ve been playing lately, considering how elite Eli Manning’s Manningface has been, considering they’ve already beaten the Pats at Foxboro this year, and considering the psychological ramifications of a Super Bowl XLII rematch, the Giants certainly don’t seem like underdogs. Which makes Smokin’ Al’s BBQ Joint’s Super Bowl deal even crazier to us: “Pick up the food. You put it on a credit card, and if the Giants win, we rip up all the credit cards. We cancel them all out and the food is free on Smokin’ Al’s,” owner Al Horowitz told WCBS 880. [ more › ]
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Insane Super Bowl Deal: LI BBQ Place Will Pay For Your Party If Giants Win
The two boys who nearly killed real estate broker and avid volunteer Marion Salmon Hedges last year by tossing a shopping cart from a fourth story walkway just before Halloween may get off without a stop in jail . Surely helping their fate is forgiveness on the part of Hedges. [ more › ]
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Jail Not Likely For Shopping Cart Tossing Tweens
Congressman Ron Paul is currently placing third in the Floria primary polls , behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (who is leading!) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, but he got amused at last night’s debate, when he said of Newt Gingrich’s moon base idea, “I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.” Less amusing is the Washington Post’s report that Paul did in fact know that his newsletters contained racist content . [ more › ]
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Report: Ron Paul *Did* Sign Off On Racist Newsletters