What’s This? The British Have Come To Love Le Corbusier?

In England, there is “fresh debate about whether to preserve what used to be regarded simply as bad Corbu-derived architecture. Occasionally a cultural figure provides a little window into a nation’s shifting identity, and in Britain the self-regarding Swiss-born, Paris-based architectural genius who died in 1965, at 77, may now be one such figure.”

Livent Partners Convicted Of Fraud

Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, co-founders of the once-powerful theater production company Livent – the enterprise behind such juggernauts as Show Boat, Ragtime and Phantom of the Opera – have been convicted of forgery and defrauding investors following a lengthy trial in Toronto. They each face a maximum of 34 years in prison.