Nor is the action entirely confined to the coastal meccas.
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Charleston, South Carolina represents one of America's earliest cultural meccas.
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The lettering looks just like the chalk scribblings on Gotham's streetball meccas.
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College basketball's meccas became smaller towns around the country like Lawrence, Kan.
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In these millennial meccas, average rents cost more than 60 percent of the average wages.
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The Korean beauty industry is one of the fastest-paced and most innovative beauty meccas.
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It's bad enough when large public universities present themselves as sports meccas first, educational institutions second.
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The locations on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and on Broadway in Greenwich Village became tourist meccas.
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Mr. Gowin's notion of moths evolved with unexpected encounters in preserved meccas of biodiversity in Latin America.
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In keeping with modern N.F.L. meccas, football is just part of the broader entertainment and commercial experience there.
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The choreographer believes technology can democratize art appreciation for audiences who aren't equipped to regularly visit creative meccas.
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A transmission line was cut during construction work on a bridge, knocking out electricity to the two tourist meccas.
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Despite its rich history, present-day Memphis sometimes finds itself outshone by modern rap meccas like Atlanta and Houston.
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Tourist meccas, from like the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China, became virtual forests of selfie sticks.
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The soaring cost of living in LGBTQ meccas makes them largely inaccessible now, especially for young people without parental support.
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Combining exoticism with economy, foreign retirement meccas are drawing ever more Americans south — and west and east — of the border.
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"The worry is these places are becoming Meccas for white, wealthy, college-educated brogrammers," says Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution.
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Even after a decades-long decline of America's urban centers as shopping meccas, New York remains a redoubt of holiday tradition.
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It also serves as a time capsule of electronic music's introduction to what would ultimately become one of the world's techno meccas.
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When you think of disco meccas, you probably picture New York or Los Angeles, maybe Miami, but definitely not Toronto or Montreal.
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In one section, the narrator opines on how 21st-century airports have become meccas, giant cities, for a new citizenry—travellers in transit.
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Big countries will only frustrate and drive their innovators to flee to friendly, smaller countries which will soon become the meccas of finance.
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Last year Americans drove a record 3.15 trillion miles, many of them on en route to national parks, entertainment meccas and other tourist attractions.
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Sidney, Nebraska-based Cabela's and Springfield, Missouri-based Bass Pro have been meccas for outdoor enthusiasts since their respective foundings in 1961 and 1971.
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Everybody eats and everyone has stories about food—whether they take place in fine dining meccas or around the Slurpee fountain at the 7-11.
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While large swaths of the national park were ravaged, the wind-whipped flames also reached the neighboring Appalachian tourist meccas of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.
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As the couple decided where to live, Mr. Kaine's family, who lived in the Kansas City area, wooed her by taking her to barbecue meccas.
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On the one hand, it's one of the meccas of American jazz music, the hometown of legendary figures like Louis Armstrong and the Marsalis family.
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Today, as start-up meccas are rising around the world, talented immigrants may choose to set up shop outside the United States, Seibel pointed out.
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Like other Fashion-Week meccas (read: Paris and Milan), it shouldn't come as a shock that Berlin, too, is home to a pretty major shopping scene.
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The Times sent dozens of photographers out to capture images of once-bustling public plazas, train stations and tourist meccas around the world, now virtually abandoned.
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These are the medical meccas that come to mind when we think of the best of American medicine — Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Mass General.
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If the store is a success, Mariotti said that more Funko locations could open up in other tourist meccas, such as London, Tokyo and Las Vegas.
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Mario Maglieri -- former owner of Sunset Strip rock meccas The Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy Theatre and The Rainbow Bar & Grill -- died Thursday in Los Angeles.
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"That's how I would love to spend all my winters; my favorite places are Verbier and Courchevel," he said, referring to the Swiss and French ski meccas.
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As Michael Grunwald wrote for Politico, the "economically secure retirement meccas" that delivered Trump his presidential victory were why Republicans were so optimistic they could win in 2018.
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The judge admitted that putting the proposal into practice might be "a tall order," but coming from him, in one of the nation's legal meccas, it carried unusual weight.
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Instead, it's one of Cleveland's best secrets, the sort of incredible scuzzy graffiti-scrawled punk rock dive that high rents and gentrification have steadily driven out of coastal meccas.
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With one day to go, a Congressional committee heard repeated pleas not to hamstring an industry that could rival other Asian gambling meccas by obliging casinos to report suspicious transactions.
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With one day to go, a Congressional committee heard repeated pleas not to hamstring an industry that could rival other Asian gambling meccas by obliging casinos to report suspicious transactions.
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It is time to find a way to make access free to all by expanding services at our public libraries and by creatively turning other venues into Wi-Fi meccas.
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But lately, more and more states and municipalities are giving up on their Hollywood dreams — or at least the tax incentives they were offering in hopes of becoming movie meccas.
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The James Beard Foundation's annual awards — considered the "Oscars of the food world" — named its Outstanding Restaurant for 2019, and it's not in foodie meccas New York City or Los Angeles.
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The James Beard Foundation's annual awards, considered the "Oscars of the food world," named its Outstanding Restaurant for 2019, and it's not in foodie meccas New York City or Los Angeles.
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His Calder-inspired mobiles and spheres are sold in such design meccas as the Future Perfect and Ralph Pucci, and he has collaborated with FlOS and the Parisian fashion boutique Colette.
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Now, nearly 50 years later, Schapiro has revisited the American hippie counterculture, finding it alive and well — ecstatically, insuperably so — especially at Rainbow Gatherings, festivals like Burning Man, and other patchouli-scented hippie meccas.
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The city is one of the top 10 tech meccas in the US, according to CBRE's 2018 Tech Talent report: From 2010 to 2016 alone, total tech populations in the area increased by 46.7%.
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While I won't be using The "Snowball Method" on most trips — I'm not that big of a shopper — but I will be utilizing it again for these long-haul vacations to big shopping Meccas.
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From the beginning, the magazine ran personal ads from readers all over the country, many of whom lived far from the gay meccas of San Francisco, where On Our Backs was headquartered, and New York City.
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" It's worth noting the fact that this story takes place in LA instead of fashion meccas New York or Paris is an early hint that Refn is less concerned with realism than an impressionistic "heightened reality.
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"The Age of Spectacle" by Tom Dyckhoff, a British architecture critic, is the story of the transformation of cities from the dense manufacturing hubs of the early 20th century to the consumerist meccas they are today.
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The average one-bedroom apartment is $3,400 in San Francisco, and $3,350 in New York City, making these meccas of innovation increasingly out-of-reach of even well-funded startup founders let alone artists or educators.
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Dean & DeLuca, the upscale grocer, is on the southeast corner, while the Prada flagship anchors the northwest, and the two shopping meccas, along with the Apple store farther west on Prince, keep the foot traffic high.
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In an effort to help you navigate your upcoming shopping spree(s), we tapped our fellow R29ers to dish on their ride-or-die spring finds available at one of our all-time-fave beauty meccas: Ulta Beauty.
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As DJs and clubbers from all around the world descend on the White Isle, the year's musical identity is defined through all-day beach parties, all-night sessions at clubbing meccas, and secret jungle parties tucked into leafy enclaves.
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Bobble came onto the market in 2010, and just a couple years later, they were seemingly everywhere, from hipster meccas like American Apparel and Urban Outfitters to Bed Bath and Beyond to their own flagship store in New York's SoHo neighborhood.
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The presupposed age of those making the decisions around the bulk of what comes out of our entertainment meccas no doubt counts the band among their youthful influences, be that as direct contemporaries or through the medium of classic rock radio.
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Some have argued that the reason Bergen County has kept the blue laws for so long is because the area has long been one of the biggest shopping meccas in the U.S., with five major malls, not including American Dream.
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As a city in transition and finding its footing next to meccas like New York and Atlanta, a younger set of second-generation immigrants are much more responsive to the heavy 808s of the American South than the familiar pulses of reggae sound systems.
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His work is usually abstract painting and sculpture that looks like it was either carved from, dreamed up by, or vomited out of a computer, and he's shown it at nerd Meccas like Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and bitforms gallery in the Lower East Side.
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Nationally, Walmart has achieved some of its best sales growth in years, transforming its Supercenters into digital retailing meccas, where shelf-scanning robots roam the aisles and shoppers idling in the parking lot can order avocados on their phones and have them delivered to their cars.
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Gravely intoning against super PACs and Citizens United to massive crowds across the country's liberal meccas, Sanders discovered something that reformers have long maintained exists under the surface -- that campaign-finance reform can be not just a winning issue for politicians, but a fundraising tool of its own.
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A cursory, general glance at the findings seems to show that populations with the best credit tend to be in Sun Belt meccas — where mostly retirees reside — while those with the worst credit appear to be Rust Belt towns in the East, with larger-than-average minority populations.
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The latest dispute began this fall when the clothing company H&M was looking for a place to hold a fashion shoot and found what seemed like a perfectly gritty — but not actually dangerous — location: a graffitied handball court in the William Sheridan Playground in the heart of one of Brooklyn's hipster meccas.
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As Michael Grunwald wrote for Politico, the "economically secure retirement meccas" that delivered Trump his presidential victory are giving Republicans hope that they can stave off a possible "blue wave" election in 2018: For all the hype about Puerto Ricans moving to the Sunshine State after Hurricane Maria, or high school students like the Parkland gun control activists turning 18 and registering to vote, any Democratic surge could be offset by the migration of Republican-leaning seniors who like Florida's balmy weather and lack of income tax.
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As Michael Grunwald wrote for Politico, the "economically secure retirement meccas" that delivered Trump his presidential victory are giving Republicans hope they can stave off a possible "blue wave" election in 2018: For all the hype about Puerto Ricans moving to the Sunshine State after Hurricane Maria, or high school students like the Parkland gun control activists turning 18 and registering to vote, any Democratic surge could be offset by the migration of Republican-leaning seniors who like Florida's balmy weather and lack of income tax.
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Finally a large ballroom was constructed. In 1916, competition came in the form of a new park a mile away—Lakewood. That park, too, incorporated swimming, rides, a playhouse and, a Crystal Ballroom, opened in 1925, one year after Lakeside's. These ballrooms became Big Band-era entertainment meccas.
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As of 2017, at least one annual pride event takes place in every Canadian province and territory; in recent years, particularly in the 2010s, successful pride events have been launched in many Canadian cities much smaller than the traditional gay meccas."Evolution of Pride celebrations in Canada". Xtra!, June 11, 2013.
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The State Library Victoria is the most visited library in the city, and hosts the Wheeler Centre. Melbourne has been placed alongside New York and Berlin as one of the world's great street art meccas,Allen, Jessica. The World’s Best Cities for Viewing Street Art, International Business Times (2010). Retrieved 16 October 2010.
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As one of the first individuals to bring the dubstep culture to America (in one of the USA's electronic meccas, Los Angeles) 12th Planet has frequently been cited as the General of the Riddim Gang. 12th Planet worked frequently with Orange County producer Flinch and LA Local Skrillex (on tracks "Needed Change" And "Burst" Along with Kill The Noise).
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The centre remained largely unchanged until 2004, when the centre was expanded, and new lighting, flooring and decor were added. More retail units were constructed along with the expansion of the Tesco outlet and thus becoming "one of the Major developments in Ireland".Ireland's Shopping Meccas The carpark was extended to allow for a capacity of 750. The entire project was overseen by the Burke Morrison Engineering firm.
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Mount Geikie, pronounced like "geeky", is a mountain summit located in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. Situated southwest of Jasper near the Tonquin Valley, Mount Geikie is the second highest peak of The Ramparts in the Canadian Rockies, one of the most beautiful mountain meccas in the world. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Fraser, to the southeast, and the Continental Divide lies to the east. Mount Geikie is composed of quartzite of the Cambrian period.
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North of the Baths is the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbor, formerly owned by Little Dix Bay. The most notable ruin on Virgin Gorda is the old Copper Mine. One of the great harbors of the world, North Sound, and historically Gorda Sound, lies at the northeast end of the island. It is bordered by four islands and connecting reef systems that keep the sound calm, creating one of the world's great watersports meccas, with over of protected waters.
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Two of the house bands there were Barry and the Remains Forgotten New York Greenwich Avenue and Benny Gordon and the Soul Brothers Funky 16 Corners Benny Gordon and the Soul Brothers – I Can’t Turn You Loose Some of the headlining acts were Ben E. King, Otis Redding and Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.Forgotten New York Greenwich Avenue Other acts who have appeared there through the years have been the Beastie Boys in their early days,Rock Cellar Magazine Rock Meccas of NYC: What Are They Now? Written by: Frank Mastropolo Frankie Paris and the Purple Haze,New York Magazine May 25, 1970 In And Around Town edited by Ruth Gilbert Page 18 Funk Steady,Billboard July 8th 1972 Page 16, Music from the capitals if the world Goldie and the Gingerbreads (featuring Genya Ravan),Rock Cellar Magazine Rock Meccas of NYC: What Are They Now? Written by: Frank Mastropolo The Scoundrels,Billboard 25 May 1968 Page 50, International News Reports Artie Stewart The Villager Stewart, the ‘Heart of the Park,’ dies at 68 and Marion Taylor and the Reggie Moore Trio.
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Harry Rintoul (December 9, 1956 - January 14, 2002) was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. He was best known for his 1990 play Brave Hearts,"A brave play and production". Kingston Whig-Standard, January 23, 1992. which was noted as one of the first significant gay-themed plays in Canadian theatre history to be written by a heterosexual writer, and one of the first ever to address gay themes in a rural setting outside of the traditional gay urban meccas of Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
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Sublett left The Violators after six months to concentrate on the Skunks, and the Violators disbanded thereafter, but the Skunks recorded numerous singles, EP's and LP's, and played across the US, including the punk meccas of New York City, CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. Sublett sang and played electric bass in the band. He also wrote most of the band's original material.See the Skunks compilation CD, "Earthquake Shake: Live," 2000, or their other releases Munoz left the band at the end of 1978 to join the Plimsouls.
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Mount Erebus is a mountain summit located near one of the most beautiful mountain meccas in the world, the Tonquin Valley of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. Mount Erebus is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Cambrian period, then was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Fraser, to the northwest. The Continental Divide lies to the west, Angle Peak is situated to the southeast, and The Ramparts are to the north.
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One of Singapore's most famous tourist meccas since the 1950s, renowned internationally for its nightly parade of flamboyantly dressed trans women, Bugis Street attracted hordes of Caucasian gawkers who had never witnessed Asian queens in full regalia. The latter would tease, cajole and sit on visitors' laps or pose for photographs for a fee. The amount of revenue that they raked in was considerable, providing a shot in the arm for the tourism industry. Veterans recall that the notorious drinking section began at Victoria Street, and proceeded west to Queen Street.
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By the 1960s, however, many studios and broadcasters had moved onto more upscale areas, and the area fell into disrepair and disrepute, with many abandoned stores and offices, and the streets themselves, claimed by squatters and panhandlers. It took several decades for redevelopment to take hold, and visitors looking for Hollywood dreams were often taken aback by the area's contrast with shinier tourist meccas. The Hollywood/Vine subway station opened in 1999, and led to more sustained and serious redevelopment in the area. On May 29, 2003, Hollywood and Vine was named "Bob Hope Square" to commemorate Hope's 100th birthday.
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Hallyuwood, along with Hollywood and Bollywood, constitute the three major pillars of the contemporary world entertainment industry. The three are considered the most famous film-making meccas on Earth. Korean directors, most notably Park Chan-wook and Kim Jee-woon have made the transition from Hallyuwood to Hollywood, and have already released their first English- language films, most notably Kim Jee-woon's The Last Stand starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Park Chan-wook's Stoker starring Nicole Kidman. The Discovery Channel released a five-part series documentary by the winners of Discovery Channel’s First Time Filmmakers (FTFM) Korea.
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Trude Heller's was a club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City and located at 6th Avenue and West 9th Street and operated from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.Forgotten New York Greenwich Avenue It has been described as the only truly “in” spot in Greenwich Village.The New York Times News Service Syndicate NY NIGHTLIFE 1964 Some of the acts that got their starts there were Duane and Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers, Cyndi Lauper,Rock Cellar Magazine Rock Meccas of NYC: What Are They Now? Written by: Frank Mastropolo and the Manhattan Transfer.
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Reid was a fan of Mafia movies (including The Godfather and Goodfellas) and aspired to become a filmmaker. Being of Irish and Italian ancestry, he wanted to make a film that would relate to both nationalities. Reid first heard about mobster Danny Greene from his roommates in Ohio, and believed that New York City, Chicago and Boston were the "three meccas of mafia crime". According to Reid, there wasn't much documentation on Greene's life, but after hearing that Porrello was about to publish a book on Greene and the Mafia in Cleveland, he was determined to make a movie about him.
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The filming of these productions led to a surge in popularity of many of the landmarks and locations depicted; according to the scholar Sue Parrill, they became "instant meccas for viewers." When Sense and Sensibility was released in cinemas in the US, Town & Country published a six-page article entitled "Jane Austen's England", which focused on the landscape and sites shown in the film. A press book released by the studio, as well as Thompson's published screenplay and diaries, listed all the filming locations and helped to boost tourism. Saltram House for instance was carefully promoted during the film's release, and saw a 57 percent increase in attendance.
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The 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 39th edition of Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, played from December 26, 2014 to January 5, 2015. It was co-hosted by Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and organized by Hockey Canada, Hockey Quebec, the Ontario Hockey Federation, the Montreal Canadiens, Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment and Evenko."Heading to hockey’s meccas" , IIHF.com. June 20, 2013 Games were split between Air Canada Centre in Toronto and Bell Centre in Montreal, with Montreal hosting Group A matches and two quarter finals, and Toronto hosting Group B, along with the relegation games, two quarter finals, along with the semi-finals, bronze medal, and gold medal games.
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Today, the Department offers over 259 classes, sponsors adult, teen, and youth athletic leagues, aquatic programs, gymnastics, youth and teen services as well as a comprehensive senior adult program, park maintenance, hall rentals, special events, and more. Giammona Pool and Jefferson Pool are two public indoor swimming pools that provide swimming lessons, aquatic recreation, and host local swimming related organizations including the Daly City Dolphins. Daly City and neighboring Colma have emerged as shopping meccas for San Francisco residents. A combination of plentiful free parking space (compared to the constrained and expensive parking options in San Francisco) and San Mateo County's historically slightly lower state sales tax rateCalifornia City and County Sales and Use Tax Rates - Cities, Counties and Tax Rates - California State Board of Equalization . Boe.ca.
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Intersection of North Bridge Road and Rochor Road After World War II, hawkers gathered there to sell food and goods. There was initially also a small number of outdoor bars set up beside rat-infested drains. When transvestites began to rendezvous in the area in the 1950s, they attracted increasing numbers of Western tourists who came for the booze, the food, the pasar malam shopping and the "girls". Business boomed and Bugis Street became a lively and bustling area, forming the heart of Xiao Po. It was one of Singapore's most famous tourist meccas from the 1950s to the 1980s, renowned internationally for its nightly parade of flamboyantly-dressed transvestites and it attracted hordes of Caucasian gawkers who had never before witnessed Asian queens in full regalia.
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Monument to Hope in Otay Mesa Tijuana also has a very active and independent artist community whose internationally recognized work has earned Tijuana the title of "one of the most important new cultural meccas", according to Newsweek,Strange New World an exhibition of Tijuana's current art scene, is being curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and is traveling across the USA in 2006 and 2007. Art collectives like Bulbo and film production like Palenque Filmaciones explore the use of film like the award-winning Tijuana Makes Me Happy, media like television bulbo TV and print "bulbo PRESS", to show different realities of Tijuana out of Mexico. In 2004, Tijuana earned international acclaim for an art exhibition displayed on the cement banks of the Tijuana River and along the Mexico/U.S. border fence in Otay Mesa.
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W Mair, Historic Morningside, Lands, Mansions and Celebrities, With "Annals of the Parish" and some account of Ecclesiastical Morningside, Edinburgh 1947 As late as the mid-1960s, the author of a survey of Edinburgh wrote of the community in Morningside that, > ...respect is due to this disciplined if stolid army of South Edinburgh, > repairing each week in satins and 'stands' of Sabbath broadcloth to its > respective persuasions at 'Holy Corner', (Churchhill) and similar > ecclesiastical meccas, and in the pleasant Sunday afternoons making > pilgrimages to the large, airy, orderly and flowery cemeteries of Grange, > Morningside and Newington. This society sent many of its sons and daughters > to settle in New Zealand (among other regions) and to graft the names and > cultures of home into places like Dunedin. Its influence has been truly > world-wide. So, if an Empire has been lost, this cannot be laid at > Morningside's door.
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