Click here to view the full photogallery. Living on the waterfront, with views of the sparkling water from the bedroom, might be considered luxury enough for some, but for those who like to take to the high seas while the weather is warm there’s nothing quite like a private dock. This waterfront home on San Francisco Bay in Belvedere, Calif. had to make concessions on convenience in order to get so close to the water: the home is accessed by a private funicular from street level. But considering the owner could commute to S.F. by boat, this $19.5M four bedroom is a bit more practical than it looks. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ On South Carolina’s pricey Kiawah Island, at least one secluded estate had to make an effort to get to deep water. The 15,000-square-foot main house, set on an 11.7-acre peninsula, was separated from open water by hundreds of feet of marsh land, so a long wooden causeway was constructed to give the owner of this $29M estate some additional bragging rights. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ For something a bit more permanent, there’s this compound in Woods Hole, Mass., equipped with a stone and concrete pier. If the boat-loving buyer could spare $14M, he or she would be in good seafaring company in this town, home to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Plus, with a spacious main house and two three-bedroom guest cottages, there’s plenty of room for jealous friends. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ A bit further north, in York Harbor, Maine, a similar property beckons with a lower price tag. Seabury Farm, set alongside York River, offers quick access to the ocean but with better protection from the elements and 12 acres of space to spread out. The six bedroom house has recently seen its price cut to $3.495M. And that’s one magnificent dock. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Lastly, it would be hard to neglect an estate referred to as The Boat House, even if it is in the middle of Montana. Set on Whitefish Lake in Whitefish, Mont., the two-bedroom vacation home has a garage for the owner’s powerboat, which is carted up from the lake on rails. Better yet, the $4.4M asking price includes a 24-foot boat. Talk about turn-key! · 125 Belvedere Ave [Sotheby's] · 85 Blue Heron Pond Road [Sotheby's] · 43 Church Street [LandVest] · Seabury Farm [LandVest] · The Boat House [Sotheby's]
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On the Market: Five Houses for Those More at Home Living By the Water
Today is Good Friday, the day that Jesus was crucified, and dozens of people observed it with the Way of the Cross walk from Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, to St. Peter’s Church in lower Manhattan. The group organizing the walk explains a little more about the walk below, and no, it’s not like actual Christians being crucified, the way Good Friday is being celebrated in the Philippines today : [ more › ]
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Good Friday Way Of The Cross Procession On Brooklyn Bridge
With a price tag of $70 million and counting, by far the most expensive musical ever, Spider-Man: Dead And Loving It Turn Off The Dark is on hiatus for an overhaul until May 12 . But you wouldn’t know it from the press the show has been pushing out the past few days. First came the announcement that injured actor/stuntman Christopher Tierney would be returning when the show reopens and now two of the shows producers have turned to the AP to flagellate themselves in public . [ more › ]
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And the saga of Afrika Owes continues. Yesterday, the 17-year-old accused of ferrying drugs for her boyfriend’s Harlem gang was released from Rikers after the Abyssinian Baptist Church used their funds to post her $25,000 bail and give her a second chance. Just like Patty Hearst ! Church deacon Gerald Barbour said , “Whatever the facts are, she’s one of ours.” [ more › ]
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Church Bails Out Alleged Teenage Gun-Mule From Rikers
The Church of Scientology wants to get down with its bad self and expand the golf course next to its San Jacinto, Calif., headquarters. Sounds fun—we assume scientologists are pretty good with a 7-iron—except two residents of Sleepy Hollow trailer park are refusing to budge to make way for the construction. Although 19 of their neighbors have moved—whether happily or not—Candice Savage and Joseph Neely maintain that the park is protected by a law that requires mobile-home tenants be given a year’s notice, filing court motions to prolong the eviction. They were supposed to be out yesterday after the Church gave them $800, waived their rent, and gave them two months to leave. The things people do for the man upstairs! · SAN JACINTO: Tenants evicted from almost-vacant trailer park [The Press-Enterprise via Gawker ]
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Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart sat down to interview Pilar Guzman, the newly seated editor in chief of Martha Stewart Living. Standard questions were asked, laughs were had. Here’s an interesting morsel: Guzman shares a Brooklyn brownstone with her brother-in-law and the two families coordinate family dinner every Sunday. [ previously; The Martha Blog]
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Interview with Pilar Guzman: Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart sat down…
No sooner did pro spiderman Alain Robert scale Burj Khalifa in Dubai, currently the world’s tallest tower, did the port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, decide to stick it to the poor guy. Just greenlight: the Kingdom Tower, which, when complete, will stand one mile high —it takes 12 minutes to ascend to the top via elevator—and be filled with a mix of commercial, residential, and hotel space. As far as building teetering skyscrapers in the Middle East goes, developer Kingdom Holding knew exactly who to turn to: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture—architect Adrian Smith had a hand in the design of Burj Khalifa. Turns out Kingdom Tower will be the very obvious, hulking, and hard-to-miss epicenter of a larger urban development expected to accommodate 80,000 people and cost more than $26B. Architizer has a video of a scale-model tour · World’s Most Famous Spiderman Scales World’s Tallest Tower [Curbed National] · Tallest tower plan in Jeddah on track [Gulf News] · Denial by Architecture: Mile-High Tower OK’d in Saudi Arabia [Architizer]
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Globe Trotting: Mile-High Tower Twice the Height of Burj Khalifa to be Built
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s first Broadway musical , The Book of Mormon , is currently in previews on Broadway and the South Park guys have been living in the city as the show comes together. But what have they been eating while not-exactly-mocking the Church of Latter Day Saints? [ more › ]
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Like Their Food Fast, Dirty
A NJ Priest has been accused of extreme rudeness by two of his congregants who claim that he interrupted and rushed them through their grandmother’s funeral service. Sisters Laurie Treene and Robyn Nini say that Reverend Bartley P. Baker, of St. Leo’s Roman Catholic Church in Elmwood Park, ruined their 96-year-old grandmother’s funeral, cuing the proverbial awards show music at points: “I got about halfway through [my eulogy] and he ran up to the podium and said, ‘Wrap it up! Wrap it up!’ I was just flabbergasted,” said Treene. [ more › ]
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NJ Priest Accused Of Rushing Pallbearers, Holy Communion, And Eulogy
Harlem Reverend Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church is still on his crusade to clear the name of Afrika Owes , the former straight-A student who is now sitting in Rikers after being accused of ferrying guns to a Harlem street gang at the command of her boyfriend, who was also doing time in Rikers. But where do you draw the line between Stockholm Syndrome and stupidity? Butts suggests Owes’s actions fall within the former, and that she deserves a second chance . Just like Patty Hearst got. [ more › ]
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Rev. Butts: Prep School Gun Mule Just Like Patty Hearst