Fashion can add a whimsy edge to a garden

Source: Lebanon Daily Star

SEATTLE: I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Sprinting past an alligator drinking a soda pop and a T-Rex playing guitar, I lean toward a family of colorful metal toadstools that come to my knee. “Aren’t those great?” asks Jim Honold as he ushers me through ...
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Moonrise Kingdom

Source: Pate Magazine

After seven features, a Wes Anderson production is unmistakable: white, upper-middle-class dysfunctional families deadpanning wry dialogue amid meticulous mise-en-scène to an eclectic soundtrack. Also: exquisite, often centered, shot ...
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'Moonrise Kingdom': Quirk, And An Earnest Heart

Source: NPR

Cousin Ben (Jason Schwartzman) leads Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) down a dock in Moonrise Kingdom. The film, set in 1965, follows Sam and Suzy when they elope together into the wilderness of the fictitious New Pen ...
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REVIEW: Moonrise Kingdom -- Attractive and Meticulous, Yet Lacking the Indefinable Magic of Moonlight

Source: Movieline

Whenever I throw away one of those large round plastic lids from an orange-juice jug, in my head I hear my mother saying, as she would have said to my 8-year-old self, “That would make a great table-top for a doll’s house.” As an adult I don’t have a dol ...
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Dutch dollhouse mania explains U.S. housing bust

Source: NorthJersey.com

Alongside the spoils of world dominance, the dollhouses said: "Here's what all that risk and travel is for!" AFTER THE U.S. housing crash began in 2007, the media often made comparisons with the Dutch tulip mania o ...
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Film: Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom

Source: The A.V. Club

When Kara Hayward steals away for a romantic camping adventure with her endearingly awkward 12-year-old suitor (Jared Gilman), she brings along an impractical array of supplies, including a portable record player and a ca ...
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Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Source: LA Weekly

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki ...
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Twee's Company! Wes Anderson's Love Story, Moonrise Kingdom, Reviewed. [Grierson & Leitch]

Source: Deadspin

1. Wes Anderson is considered by many to be a cold, dispassionate filmmaker more interested in creating miniature worlds to run around and play in than creating well-rounded, relatable human beings to inhabit them. You constantly hear the word " ...
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Museums abound in British Columbia's capital city of Victoria

Source: Victoria Times Colonist

Katusha Team's Joaquim Rodriguez of Spain, wearing the leader pink jersey, celebrates as he crosses the finish line ahead of Garmin-Barracuda's Ryder Hesjedal of Victoria, left, and Liquigas-Cannondale... The provincial government is preparing ...
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Jim Parsons Comes Out As Gay: 'Big Bang Theory' Star's Sexuality Revealed In New York Times

Source: The Huffington Post

Matt Bomer, 2012 The 34-year-old "White Collar" hunk thanked his partner Simon Halls and his three children during Saturday's Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards, where he received the New Generation Arts and Activism Award for his ...
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