In the process, Magnus created a little oasis for Bohemians in a town famous for its Bohemians.
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But it's also because The Lesser Bohemians leaves you hopeful.
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Berlin instead became a left-wing hub, attracting bohemians and anti-capitalists.
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The ragged little band of artists and bohemians were each other's audiences.
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Out this month, The Lesser Bohemians took her nine years to write.
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They were bohemians in a way, but they were also very straight people.
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By the late 21990s it had become a gathering place for artists and bohemians.
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Plenty of bohemians still manage to cling to their private patch of hillside, however.
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These bohemians put a lot of effort into explaining themselves for the mainstream they shunned.
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The bohemians have souls, the aristocrats power, and neither knows what to do with them.
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"What used to be professionals or bohemians was turning into a party neighborhood," she said.
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The parents were village bohemians who kept exotic pets, including, for a time, a baby tiger.
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Bolinas mostly calls to mind its population of crusty bohemians, or its rows of old Victorians.
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"The Lesser Bohemians," like "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing," is all about the voice.
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We seemed to be in a half-gentrified underworld where bohemians rubbed shoulders with sadist police.
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Democrats can no longer compete by appealing exclusively to Brooklyn hipsters, "bourgeois bohemians" and Los Angeles celebrities.
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Today, many haute-bourgeois people cultivate personas as artists and bohemians — even when they are marketing executives.
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The Lesser Bohemians starts with a similar voice, but it's a softer, more open work—grammar included.
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There is hardly any furniture in the young bohemians' Paris garret, making the space resemble an empty stage.
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The bohemians of the 1960s and 1970s would later leave a powerful mark on the city as well.
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No longer reserved for bohemians or nimble-fingered knitting groups, patchwork pieces will slot seamlessly into your summer wardrobe.
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The statues represent the Sudeten Germans, or German Bohemians, an ethnic group that used to live in the area.
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Ultimately, though, Careyes is more than an architectural marvel and a stop on the social circuit for wealthy bohemians.
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Manon and Pierre, the married couple at its center, are Parisian bohemians who embrace a traditional asymmetry in their roles.
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Irish and German immigrants arrived in 1848 to build railroads; Italians, Greeks, Russians, Bohemians and Mexicans moved in shortly after.
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She continued this in "Bohemians," which follows Eily, an Irish student in London who begins an affair with an actor.
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The other bohemians, all excellent, were Quinn Kelsey as Marcello, Christian Van Horn as Colline and Davide Luciano as Schaunard.
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As heavy rain pounded the tenement buildings nearby, the two-story theater became a mosh pit of cross-generational bohemians.
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But its spiritual home is Prenzlauer Berg, a north Berlin district of posh cafés and organic shops beloved by prosperous bohemians.
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" The white bohemians have the freedom to go on benders and sprees, while Hayes must wonder how "to hold my face.
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In a 1949 photograph accompanying a Flair magazine article titled "The New Bohemians," Mr. Bissinger captured the moment and the tone.
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Jenny Southan, founder of Globetrender, described it as an emerging "hotspot for celebrities, models, upper-class bohemians and the monied elite."
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Instead of bohemians in cafés, we have people lining up for cronuts, the expensive hybrid of a croissant and a doughnut.
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In "Girl," there were no names; in "The Lesser Bohemians," Stephen and Eily don't inhabit a world — they are the world.
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They lived for the next decade as itinerant bohemians in Europe, bouncing among picturesque places and prominent groups of creative friends.
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Dix's portraits of Weimar Germany's social life, including artists, bohemians, and his friends, brilliantly capture the affectations and styles of his subjects.
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She was explaining that consuming marijuana allows a woman to awaken her "yoni," a Sanskrit term for vagina favored by Hollywood bohemians.
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"The Greenwich Village Story," originally released in 1963, grimly explores the consequences of love among a glum set of New York bohemians.
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The community of artists and high-end hippies was founded in 1968 and has since become an enclave for well-off bohemians.
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The first vintage-modern shops began to spring up, often in places where cadres of elderly bohemians and academics were dying out.
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Before The Doors of Perception, most people—Aldous Huxley included—thought of drugs as "dope," of interest only to psychiatrists, bohemians, and criminals.
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But the Transcendentalists went deeper than mere counterculture activism -- just as the bohemians, Beats and hippies would -- by walking through doors of perception.
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A live staging of Rent, the 1996 musical about broke bohemians facing the AIDS crisis, was supposed to air on Fox Sunday night.
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Inside a tiny-home village of abandoned streetcars that once existed in San Francisco in 1900 where the city's bohemians and artists lived
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These ideas got picked up by the early Bohemians of the 1940s in the US and later in the '60s and '70s countercultural movement.
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Instead Berlin attracted bohemians, lured by low rents and large numbers of abandoned factories and warehouses that made ideal artists' studios or rave venues.
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In my imagination, Hujar's images were of true bohemians living in a New York that has no room for that kind of life anymore.
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He travels with a retinue of bohemians, including a bearded woman, who frequent a jazz club and are one step removed from circus attractions.
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With the official frantically motioning for help and Borkovec motionless on the ground, Kone acted quickly before two other Bohemians came to aid him.
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The Freep soon became a voice and forum for young bohemians — disaffected artists, writers and activists who had previously been disconnected from one another.
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In his new book, "Haute Bohemians," he chronicles the lush and layered homes of the friends and acquaintances he has made along the way.
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An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society argues this victory was largely due to the local activism of the bohemians of Greenwich Village.
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The participating artists, whether dissipated bohemians or stout ascetics, were placed outside or on the periphery of official culture during the years of Goulash Communism.
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Instead the city attracted bohemians, lured by low rents and large numbers of abandoned factories and warehouses that made ideal artists' studios or rave venues.
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In the movie, called "Mei Shi Zhao Shi" ("Looking for Trouble"), Kos-Read plays an American documentary filmmaker following around a group of disillusioned bohemians.
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There were restaurants, club houses, homes, and more in the tiny-home village, and it became an epicenter for bohemians of 20th-century San Francisco.
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In southern Tuscany, a family of British bohemians has created an elegantly undone cultural refuge that pays homage to the everyday life of ancient Italy.
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The island is dotted with hippie villages that date back to the 1960s and 1970s, when artists, writers, and other bohemians moved to the island.
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For example, the theme associated with the Cafe Momus, where the bohemians hang out, is built from a few parallel triads that dip and rise ebulliently.
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Munch himself averred the importance of the Bohemians for his aesthetic development: they encouraged his turn away from realism in favor of expressionism and raw emotionality.
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I'm also pleasantly surprised that there's far less tacky cultural appropriation than you might expect from a crowd with so many wealthy white bohemians in it.
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For the first time since the punk era, British youth had a sound of their own, and a new class of bohemians hardly ever saw daylight.
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Derry ordinarily draws a couple of thousand fans to home games; for that game against Bohemians, it was down by a quarter or so, he said.
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"The class of Bohemians ... are not a race of today, they have existed in all climes and ages, and can claim an illustrious descent," he wrote.
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As Hotbed, an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, argues, this victory was largely due to the local activism of the bohemians of Greenwich Village.
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Like the New Yorkers of James Baldwin's "Another Country," Tea's bohemians are not refugees from middle-class propriety: Sexuality and poverty cast them out from the start.
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Perhaps an even more significant divergence is that the fictional businessman is soon undone by his own cowardice, with no action by the bohemians or aristocrats required.
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But even in a room as large as the Garden, these charming bohemians are able to make audiences feel as if they are sitting around a campfire.
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In contrast to Ms. Le Pen, Mr. Macron has been mocked for being the darling of the "bourgeois bohemians," and for his awkwardness among the working classes.
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It was a living monument to Lower Manhattan's lineage of multicultural artists and thinkers — people who often get overlooked in favor of narratives of and by successive generations of self-destructing, gentrifying white bohemians — but it was also an all-hours open house, where all were welcome (even the gentrifying white bohemians) and an essential site of Lower Manhattan's last gasp as the center of the avant-garde.
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In the 1920s it was danced only by Helsinki's bohemians; in the 1930s and 1940s an easier form of the dance developed, called the Finnish tango—or FINtango.
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Jools and Richard's guests include two other couples: the affluent lawyers Yusuf (Khalid Abdalla) and Andrew (Adam James); and the bohemians Teresa (Tara Fitzgerald) and Jim (Elliot Cowan).
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The other two, Oda Krogh and Aase Nørregaard, Munch's contemporaries among the Kristiania Bohemians of the 1880s, he refers to only in passing and doesn't say they're artists.
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Before C dies, we see C and M as comfortable rural bohemians, less twangy and less desperate than the Texans Affleck and Mara played in Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
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This is how Chinese food, which had previously only been eaten by Chinese locals or avant garde bohemians willing to venture into Chinatown, began to reach the mainstream palate.
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Her descriptions had filled my mind with images of unbelievable scenery and eccentric bohemians who had renounced the rat race in favor of a more fulfilling way of life.
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But long before all that, he was screening classic cartoons from his personal collection of 113mm prints to crowds of artists and bohemians at Club 57 in Manhattan's East Village.
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By the end of his mayorship in 2001, the former magnet for the wayward, beacon of bohemians, and haven for every flavor of queer in between will look very different.
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But the park doesn't do its job as well as it did, and its remaining energy may be more a testament to indomitable downtown bohemians than to its new order.
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It is 1899; Christian (Aaron Tveit), an American romantic in Paris, falls in with an amiable group of Montmartre artists and bohemians led by the spunky Toulouse-Lautrec (Sahr Ngaujah).
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Even severely edited, the story of Augie's first 30 years — spent among immigrants, bohemians, lowlifes and nouveau riches — takes three acts, three hours and 13 actors playing 40 roles to deliver.
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"She's put us in debt, just to make the BoBos happy," said Mr. Hansal, using French slang for the bourgeois bohemians, the environmentally conscious middle class that is the mayor's base.
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Kone, who plays for Slovacko, came to the rescue of Bohemians goalkeeper Martin Borkovec, who was in danger of swallowing his tongue and choking after a violent collision with teammate Daniel Krch.
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The young bohemians of Giacomo Puccini's famous opera La Bohème, which was based on a novel by Henri Murger, included the likes of a painter, a poet, a musician, and a philosopher.
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Still, the opera uplifts because the surviving bohemians learn a tough life lesson: It's fine to be penniless, carefree and passionate when you're young and healthy, but terminal illness is an adult problem.
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He and his wife, Pauline — both bohemians — and another couple occupying the other half of the house, hosted poetry readings, al fresco dinners on saw horses, and modern dancers performing in the buff.
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A new exhibition, "Nobodies and Somebodies," shows unseen portraits — many thought lost — of cabaret artists, bohemians, New Romantics, Punks, drag queens and fetish fans, as well as her drawings from the Berlin stage.
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But when it was new, Rent — which transplants the Parisian bohemians of Puccini's La Boheme to the grime of 903 New York — was hailed as "glittering" and "inventive" by the New York Times.
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Splendid Georgian townhouses formed the backdrop to what was for much of the 1960s and 1970s a playground for bohemians and punks; the dissolute and the dangerous; David Bowie, Malcolm Maclaren and Vivienne Westwood.
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My immediate impression was that it was full of extremely beautiful bohemians, who could be found hugging in a session on "the power of human connection" or removing their shoes for yoga and meditation.
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Later, he moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (before it was a well-known hotbed for young bohemians) and shared a 20203,000-square-foot industrial loft space with several other creative types, according to the Columbia Spectator.
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"Cheap apartments, cheap cafes, cheap bars — artists could afford to live there," John Strausbaugh, author of "The Village: 400 Years of Beats, Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village," said in an interview.
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Or, best of all, Le Baratin in the multiethnic (Moroccan plus Southeast Asian plus Congolese, to name a few) Belleville neighborhood, a restaurant beloved by the city's chefs, natural wine makers, bohemians, writers and painters.
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And from without had come the challenge of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture, whom Mr. Podhoretz derided as "Know-Nothing Bohemians," but who reflected the national mood more dynamically than the New York intellectuals.
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Artists and bohemians are squatting in a crystal palace set in the folds of an enormous flower, throwing together shows and festivals without much thought about who built this place, and why they left it.
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John Strausbaugh began his 2013 history, "The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues," at the time when European settlers first arrived in New York and former slaves were granted land to farm.
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At the University of Virginia, he met bohemians for the first time, and heard experimental, absurdist bands like the Butthole Surfers and Can, which led him to move to New York after graduation and start Pavement.
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A new — or at least newish — character has joined the coterie of Nazi-era bohemians awaiting the end of their world in "A Bright Room Called Day," Tony Kushner's feverish retooling of his first produced play.
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A century ago, a group of bohemians in Manhattan declared Greenwich Village "The Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square," even taking over the arch in the middle of Washington Square Park to prove their point.
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But more Berliners have a different worry: that its reinvention as a modern European political and start-up hub is driving out the working-class Berliners and poor bohemians who make the city the place it is.
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If Sander's work makes visible the workaday vivacities of academics, bohemians, housewives and children, Otto Dix's art tears away those surfaces to portray an unruly domain of endless combat and vain materialism, sadistic violence and drunken debauchery.
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Santa Monica, with the exception of rent-controlled sliver Pico, is traditionally well-heeled and white; Venice, the "Slum by the Sea," once attracted nodding donkeys to its oil-rich beaches and nodding bohemians to its cheap rents.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artists, bohemians, obsessive collectors, and idlers have long frequented bazaars, curio shops, yard sales, and other offbeat emporia in search of the Marvelous, as the Surrealists called it, hidden in the everyday.
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Sources: Greenwich Village and how it got that way, Terry Miller; Gay Metropolis, Charles Kaiser; The Village: 400 years of beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues, John Strausbaugh; Love, Christopher Street: Reflections of New York City, Thomas Keith.
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It seemed like an easy target: the earnestness of its intentions, the $1150 glamping packages, my expectation that it would be full of Coachella-style trust fund bohemians who got their social justice philosophies off a t-shirt.
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Johnny Nicholson, whose tiny Midtown Manhattan restaurant, the Café Nicholson, served as a gathering place for the artists and celebrities known as "the New Bohemians" in the 259s and '60s, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan.
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Charters and vouchers are most appealing to the poor, the religious and the eccentric — to low-income families locked into failing schools and religious conservatives and bohemians with ideological doubts about the content of the public-school curriculum.
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Quinn Kelsey, who sang with a rich, sonorous baritone and enacted the role of Marcello with charismatic flair, was the standout of the four bohemians, who also included David Pershall as Schaunard and Kihwan Sim as an appealing Colline.
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"London is my home and I love photographing all the wonderful colourful characters it [has]: the eccentrics, the artists, the crazies, the bohemians, and the crazy nutty woman who lives around the corner who owns 50 cats," she said.
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Like well-off bohemians who might send their children to Waldorf schools, where an anti-vaccination culture is baked in the warm ovens of so many sprouted-wheat snacks, many among the ultra-Orthodox resist the incursions of modernity.
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A gentrification story often unspools as a morality play, with bohemians playing a central if ambiguous part: their arrival can signal that a neighborhood is undergoing gentrification, but so can their departure, as rising rents increasingly bring economic stratification.
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The southernmost incorporated place in the continental U.S., this quirky island city of 8003,500 "Conchs," as locals call themselves, lies at the end of the 100-mile-long Florida Keys archipelago and has long attracted writers, artists and other bohemians.
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To celebrate her recently-launched book, The New Bohemians Handbook, we've invited Blakeney to share her top decorating secrets — illustrated with stunning shots excerpted from her book — so you can channel her amazing Instagram feed in your over own home.
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But during my five days on the Costa Chica, I was struck again and again by how different each of these countercultural enclaves — some of coastal Mexico's few remaining pockets of weirdness and eccentricity, artists and bohemians — are from each other.
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"You went to my restaurant because it was extraordinary, beautiful, with very good food and a very different experience," Mr. Nicholson said in 2013 in "The Luminous Years: Karl Bissinger and the New Bohemians," an as-yet-unfinished documentary by Catherine Johnson.
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Tellingly, the premiere of the film, scheduled to take place on a big screen at Bohemians 1905's stadium, was forced to be cancelled after right-wing supporters of other Prague clubs made threats towards the organisers if they dared show it.
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Read more:You can watch the northern lights and polar bears from your table at this remote Canadian dinerI spent 3 nights in a hidden resort in Mexico that&aposs beloved by wealthy bohemians and has an invite-only festival comparable to Burning Man.
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But the neighborhood has belonged to others as well: students living off whatever they had in their pockets, bohemians drinking and taking drugs in the bistros, and others who, lacking a home base, turned the cafés and streets into their stomping ground.
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I was even more surprised when I opened up The Lesser Bohemians and saw a grammar and voice similar to those in Girl—I had imagined the voice of Girl to be the narrator's internal monologue, not something that belonged to the writer.
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Looking at this sculpture, with its magical elegance, helps explain how and why African art came to be such an inspiration to rich bohemians like Nancy Cunard and early 216th-century avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Henri Matisse.
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Unlike reality shows predicated on conflict and the grotesque (all shouting and slicks of fake tan) Gogglebox mobilises the wit and warmth of recognisable tribes: the grandparents in Liverpool, the minority middle-class family from Derby, the woman vicar in Nottingham, the bohemians in Cambridge.
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Ms. Hidalgo was derided as "Notre-Drame de Paris" ("our drama queen") by a business magazine, Challenges, and branded "Queen of the Bobos" (bourgeois bohemians) by conservative opponents who accuse her of catering to the left-leaning yuppie voters of a gentrified French capital.
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"A tavern and a cavern of all the great men without names, of all the Bohemians of petty journalism," is how the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, who lived nearby on the Rue St.-Georges, described it in their popular journal in 1857.
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The resisters included Galileo Figaro and Scaramouche; other outcasts, called the Bohemians, worshiped the hazy memory of something called rock music via salvaged totemic artifacts like a "vy-day-oh tappee" — they didn't know how to pronounce it and, dear reader, that made me laugh.
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Songs like "Words Don't Come Easy" and "My Hometown" (not a Springsteen cover, though I'd be curious) could be played in the background of an idealized bistro, where scruffily well-dressed bohemians relax in the afternoon and drink wine and listen to music as sophisticated as they.
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The interior designer and author of The New Bohemians Handbook is the founder of Jungalow, a home decor brand that's wildly popular on social media; the phrase "jungalow" itself has become synonymous with the boho-chic style (though Blakeney's company retains intellectual property rights over the term).
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"City of Sedition" is also an intriguing case study of New York's perpetual identity crisis, a metropolis "rarely of one mind," inhabited by Tammany thugs and the "shoddy aristocracy" of war profiteers, crusading journalists and abolitionists, Copperheads, Know-Nothings, humbugs and, of course, literary bohemians like Whitman.
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"Bleecker Bob's is a perfect example of the funky, idiosyncratic little Greenwich Village institutions that had enormous impacts on culture in the 21980s and '22001s," John Strausbaugh, the author of "The Village: 21967 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues" (2013), said in an email.
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Once described as "part aphrodisiac, part narcotic and part hallucinogen" — and featuring rock bands alongside trapeze artists, puppet shows and a coffee bar called the Think Tank — the Electric Circus welcomed both bohemians and socialites, an eclectic mix of the Andy Warhol and Leonard Bernstein crowds.
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His lenses captured the reckless, drug-taking bohemians in postwar Paris, the gruesome slaughter of hunted elephants in Africa, the demolition of Amsterdam's looted and destroyed Jewish Quarter, segregation in South Africa under apartheid, jazz musicians onstage, and all forms of love — gender-bending, interracial and otherwise.
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Thanks in part to Gloria Steinem and the editors at Ms., Wonder Woman course-corrected in the early 1970s back to her World War II persona—the one shaped by an extremely odd man, his sister wives, and the cast of bohemians and firebrands that rotated around them.
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In short, I'm here as one of Noisey's resident old guys to get to know the wave of young West Coast bohemians who are bringing back some of the utopian ideals the California hippie movement left behind when it flamed out a few years before I was born.
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The company of bohemians — the Serbian David Bizic as Marcello, a painter; the American Ryan Speedo Green as Colline, a philosopher; and the Russian Rodion Pogossov as Schaunard, a musician — were particularly satisfying in the individuality of their characterizations as well as in their work as an ensemble.
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"The mystical experience, the colors…" She found a cheap room overlooking the Thames in London, and it quickly became an LSD-fueled hub for the artsy bohemians of the era—Allen Ginsberg, in town for a poetry festival at the Royal Albert Hall, even crashed on her floor.
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During the peak of the measles crisis earlier this year, attention was focused on vaccine resistance in a few ultra-Orthodox communities upstate and in Brooklyn, where the disease had erupted so ferociously, and among well-off bohemians drawn to the hand-knit, multigrain ways of Waldorf schools.
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Now, we're pretty sure she didn't exit the party belting "Moon River" atop a Parisian terrace or anything, but in our dreams, that's actually exactly what she did; followed by a house party filled with bohemians and bootleggers dancing the night away to "Sally's Tomato" in slow-mo, of course.
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Alexander Bruno, like Lethem, was raised by bohemians in the late 1960s and '703s and earns a glamorous living doing what millions of people do for fun — in Bruno's case, playing backgammon against rich guys, "suavely robbing them at clubs and in their private drawing rooms" all over the world.
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Quite a few of these brilliant bohemians were avid gardeners, and in the spring, when this gorgeous region bursts into flower, one can visit the houses they decorated, the gardens they planted and the homes of the artists and celebrated horticulturists who lived nearby, with whom they exchanged ideas about art and landscape design.
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Rent isn't just any musical; the modern-era retelling of La Boheme, with its "bohemians" defined by battles against death, drug addiction, poverty and rent-gouging, and artistic obsolescence, is the voice of a generation decimated by AIDS, of a New York City living under the shadow of the virus in the '80s and '90s.
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Given how much the punk form has stagnated, how limited the options are for Brooklyn bohemians playing edgy, noisy songs on electric guitars, anybody who remains true to the genre is a traditionalist by definition, doubly so any group of obsessive rock nerds who take care to work into their music absurdly specific, arcane references to classic alternative bands.
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Although Conner did what he could to keep the public at a distance in the early days of his career — even once asking a San Francisco gallery to present his work as that of "the late Bruce Conner" — he was also the much-loved "president" of a tight community of artist/bohemians: The Rat Bastard Protective Association.
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Although in his youth he was known as one of the staunchest of the Greenwich Village bohemians, befriending a wide range of artists from Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes (who wrote a couple of articles about Hartley), Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein, he spent most of his years in his native Maine, far away from city life.
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Russians, Hungarians, Poles, Bohemians, Italians, Greeks, and even Asiatics, whose immigration to America was almost unknown twenty years ago, have during the last twenty years poured in in steadily increasing numbers, until now they nearly equal the immigration of those races kindred in blood or speech, or both, by whom the United States has hitherto been built up and the American people formed.
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There are charity balls, well-dressed window shoppers in Paris and London, heroic bohemians Vali Myers and Juliette Gréco, sundry aristocrats, the professional debut of Yves Saint Laurent, American models in Paris, debutantes, Harry Belafonte, Vera Zorina, Audrey Hepburn, a training session at the Helena Rubinstein Beauty Salon, Edith Head at work, Andy Warhol with Louise Bourgeois and of course Hollywood.
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She winds up mothering Cole in her own strange way, though at times it comes across like a half seduction: inviting him to her weekly salon for well-heeled bohemians like herself, offering him a place to stay, discussing her affair with his father with great candor (if not total honesty), and essentially procuring her stunning "protégé" Delphine for his pleasure.
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The manual dexterity and knowledge required to work with clay may have been too challenging for Bloomsbury's bohemians in an era in which painting and sculpture were the dominant art forms — Britton calls Fry's circa 1914 tea set on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum "lumpy" — but their attempts paved the way for Modernist postwar British artisans, including the master weaver Ethel Mairet and the ceramist Bernard Leach.
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