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Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza

Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza

Published by Jenni Sidey

An expansive public plaza surrounding Los Angeles’s recently opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be permanently fenced off, reports the Los Angeles Times. The plaza around the museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, “was always meant to be a generous civic space,” the Times notes, adding that architect Ma Yansong called it “gateway” between the museum and the city. This past weekend, the first days the museum was open to the public, fences lined with plastic greenery “blocked entry to the plaza from both sides,” per the Times. It called the fences “a shockingly makeshift solution for a museum that cost over $1 billion,” while also noting that they will be replaced by permanent ones in stainless steel. Both the museum and architect confirmed through spokespeople that “the plaza’s main entryways will remain gated off.” Source link

The Color Recession May Be Permanent

The Color Recession May Be Permanent

Published by Daniella Wilson

When Bob Buckter, a 79-year-old housepainter who also goes by “Dr. Color,” began his career, in the 1970s, the job was a lot more fun. Acid-tripping hippies in his hometown of San Francisco wanted “wild-ass color combinations” for their facades, he told me. Armed with mustard-yellow, lime-green, and vermilion paint, Buckter happily transformed drab Victorian and Edwardian homes into vivid eye candy. Today, almost no one seems to be looking to the hues of jelly beans for inspiration for their home—or car or couch or fridge or practically anything else. Since the late 2000s, Buckter has watched with dismay as essentially colorless colors—think white, beige, gray—have taken over. “It’s not even three shades, or four shades, of gray. It’s just one dark gray,” he said. “It’s an ignorant way to paint your house.” A study of homes in Washington, D.C., last year found a similarly sharp rise in the number of gray homes, especially in the most rapidly gentrifying wards. Color trends used to come and go. But the color recession that began early this …

British Columbia to make daylight saving time permanent

British Columbia to make daylight saving time permanent

Published by Sam Flores

A selection of vintage clocks are displayed at the Electric Time Company, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Medfield, Mass. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Across much of the United States and Canada, daylight saving time begins Sunday at 2:00 a.m. local time. Most people will turn their clocks forward an hour, trading an hour of sunlight in the mornings for more daylight at the end of the day. When it ends, clocks will turn backward by an hour nearly eight months later to have more morning light in the darkest days of winter. But British Columbia will switch their clocks for the last time — ushering in a new era of permanent daylight saving time. The switch was supported by “more than 90% of British Columbians,” said David Eby, premier of British Columbia. “The way that we live our lives now in the modern era, having an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day, whether it’s the winter or the summer, makes a big difference for people,” Eby told …

refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’

refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’

Published by Sam Flores

The UK’s asylum system is being overhauled. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has laid out a series of reforms that will affect refugees seeking safety in Britain. Mahmood argues that these changes – which include removing financial and housing support for asylum seekers who break the law, and offering incentive payments for asylum seekers whose claims have been rejected to return home – will remove “incentives” drawing people to Britain. She says they are necessary as part of a “firm but fair approach” to asylum. One of the headline announcements is to make refugee status temporary, subject to review every 30 months. “Those whose country has now become safe, and therefore no longer require protection, will be expected to return home,” according to the home secretary. Under the current rules, asylum seekers who have been granted refugee status are permitted to stay for five years, after which they can apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK. Mahmood claims that “this means refugee status is, in effect, permanent from day one”. But this is …