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Dream home near Chestertown is a Colonial classic
By all accounts, Frank and Wendy Bunch's farm in Kent County would be an appropriate — and historically correct — setting for any film or documentary on America's Colonial past. One would only need to replace the couple's late-model cars...Tags: Real Estate, Farms, Chestertown, Documentary (genre), Homes
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The corkage controversy -- it popped
Dining@LargeIn Maryland, you may bring your own bottle of wine into an unlicensed (BYOB) establishment. You've likely done so.State law prohibits you, however, from bringing your own bottle of wine into a restaurant with a liquor license. Proposed legislation in........Tags: Marketing, Dining and Drinking, Judges, Lawyers, Restaurants
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A Colorful Life
Sun reporterWhen Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....Tags: Preventative Medicine, World War II (1939-1945), Museum of Modern Art, Diseases and Illnesses, Mick Jagger
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Let the bidding begin
Special to The SunI consider myself a fairly fearless traveler. I've eaten things indigenous that were inedible (goat stomach, anyone?), hitched rides from people whose language I didn't speak, and bartered the shirt off my back for a souvenir. Until recently, though, I'd...Tags: Matthew Barney, Hospitals and Clinics, Music Theater, New York City, Property
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Toy cars for adult budgets
Times Staff WriterAt a crowded toy convention last month, Bruce Pascal delicately pulled a small plastic cylinder from his pocket. He popped the cap and out slid a 3-inch-long bundle swathed in bubble wrap. "I'm asking $35,000," he said, unwrapping his treasure: a die-...Tags: Automotive Equipment, San Jose, Real Estate Agents, Barbie (fictional character), Washington, DC
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Probation for Colorado woman who slid buttocks across $30 mln painting
ReutersBy Keith Coffman DENVER, June 1 (Reuters) - A woman who punched, scratched and slid her buttocks against a $30 million painting by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still at a Denver museum has been sentenced to two years of probation, and will have to...Tags: Prosecution, World War II (1939-1945), Health Treatments, Punishment, Lawyers
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C. Frederick Wehba's estate sells for half price
Even the rich love a half-off sale.
A transaction in the mid-$30-million range in Beverly Hills just set the mark for the highest-priced residential closing so far this year in L.A. County.
The 36,000-square-foot house, which came on the market two...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Ryan Seacrest, Breast Cancer, Homes, Ellen DeGeneres
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Asia art sales dispel some, not all, China uncertainty
ReutersBy James Pomfret HONG KONG, May 31 (Reuters) - Global auction house Christie's sold HK$2.7 billion ($351.7 million) worth of Asian and Chinese art, wine and jewellery in its Hong Kong spring sales, a steady showing despite a gathering pall of economic...Tags: Material Science, Pomfret, Human Accomplishments, Asia, Hong Kong
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Historic Apple items go on auction
Apple products are always in demand, but right now three items from its past are particularly hot. A prototype of the first-generation iPad was sold on EBay for $10,200 Monday. The prototype is described as having 16GB of memory and two dock connectors...
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Justin Bieber pays $6.5 million for Calabasas home
The price that first-time homeowner Justin Bieber paid for his new digs in Calabasas has wended its way into the public record: $6.5 million.
Set on 1.3 acres in a gated community, the 10,000-square-foot main house is described as "transitional French"...Tags: Larry Hagman, Die Hard (movie), Cinco de Mayo, Justin Bieber, Property
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Better copies can sell well
The Smart CollectorQ: Over 30 years ago, I rescued a beautiful plaster bust from the trash at a public library branch. The name "Barthe" is scratched into the back of the base. From my research, I am assuming that it might have been created by Richmond Bartha. I don't...Tags: Artists, Material Science, New York City, Sears Holdings Corp., Michigan Avenue
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Dealers, auction houses cheer ruling on Calif. Resale Royalty Act
For more than 30 years, California gallery owners have complained about the state's resale royalty law, which gives visual artists in certain cases a percentage of repeat sales of their artworks. But few disputes over royalties have ever reached court,...
Tags: Martin Lawrence, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Artists, Same-Sex Marriage, Sam Francis
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