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AFP – A Renaissance ARTDAILY – Fonts are not just
historian has unearthed fonts to some – they are highly
the oldest known developed symbols of emotion,
image of Venice dating gesture, message, and style.
from the 14th century, There’s a group for that: At
showing how even then TypeThursday, a monthly meet-
the city of canals up in several cities, including Los
gripped the imagination Angeles, London and Bucharest,
of visitors. Sandra Romania, font designers critique
Toffolo, a researcher at one another’s letterforms over
the University of Saint wine. They hold forth about negative space, consistent strokes and serif
Andrews in Scotland, experimentation. The group’s website bills the gathering as “three hours of
found the sketch in a manuscript describing Italian pilgrim Niccolo da fontastic fun.” TypeThursday, which began in 2015 at a Brooklyn bar
Poggibonsi’s 1346-1350 voyage to Jerusalem which took him through and has expanded to eight cities around the world, is a place to put a
the bustling port city. The drawing in pen shows what appears to be a face to a typeface. And to vent. Because even in the digital age, making
crowded city with churches, palaces with parapets, canals and even fonts is time-consuming, human labor.
gondolas. The manuscript was likely written shortly after his return to
Italy in 1350.
KOAA.COM – Emotional Kobe
Bryant fans are looking everywhere to
LONDON – One hundred percent of funds from the sale of this 1930 find memorabilia with his signature,
Norton CS1 will go towards the purchase of the Old URC Church in and sports memorabilia experts
Stoke-sub-Hamdon, warn scammers are trying to take
Somerset, built by a distant advantage. Even in Colorado Springs
relative of the bike’s owner, the demand for Kobe items has spiked.
former RAF pilot, Bill John Harding, who owns John’s Sports
Southcombe. The bike will Collectibles, says collectors “want to
be sold at auction by H&H have a Kobe autograph and they’re
Classics on April 7th at the willing to pay $1,000 instead of $300
National Motorcycle Museum for an autographed jersey or something like that.” Since Kobe’s tragic
in Birmingham, estimated at death, sports collectible authenticators say they’ve seen items with Kobe’s
$32,000- $35,000. As Bill Southcombe explains, “If we fail to buy the signature selling online for as much as $12,000 – most of them fake.
church it will be auctioned by the Synod, to developers probably, or
left to decay.” Purchased in approximately 1969 in a dismantled state
by the current owner, the machine was untouched and kept in boxes due MADRID, SPAIN – A Spanish court doubled the jail term handed to
to moving around the country for RAF duties. Restoration started in a former top banker for smuggling a 26-million-euro Picasso painting
2003 on his retirement. out of the country onboard a yacht.
Former Bankinter boss Jaime Botin, who is
83, was found guilty in January with a
NYT NEWS SERVICE – Fort Hill, in Peekskill, NY, has changed Madrid court sentencing him to 18 months
hands several times. First it was home to the Kitchawonk tribe, a in prison and a 52.4-million-euro fine
subdivision of the Mohicans. Dutch traders eventually forced the tribe to ($58.4 million). But in a rare turnaround
leave the area. Then, during the Revolutionary War, Fort Hill was a two weeks later, the judge raised the
strategic spot for the Continental Army. And in 1872, the Community sentence to three years and a 91.7-
of St. Mary, the first Anglican/Episcopalian religious order in the U.S., million-euro fine following what she said was an “error in the imposition
built an elaborate campus there. When the order moved closer to Albany of the penalty.” Entitled Head of a Young Girl, the work was painted by
in 2003, Ginsburg Development Picasso in Catalonia in 1906 during his pre-Cubist phase. The culture
Cos. bought the property and ministry had refused to allow the painting to leave the country on
turned the Abbey into a luxury grounds there was “no similar work on Spanish territory” from the
hotel. A reception area will have an same period in Picasso’s life.
exhibit with Revolutionary-era
items like musket balls, buttons and
belt buckles from soldier uniforms, THE TELEGRAPH –
cooking utensils and more, which Setting the celebrity trend
were excavated from Fort Hill. of re-wearing clothes for
formal occasions? None
other than the Duchess of
NEWS-PRESS – If you are seeking a spot Cambridge. BAFTA 2020
that’s the Bee’s Knees, The 86 Room Awards red carpet guide-
harkens back to a time of glitz and under- lines encouraged nominees
cover glamour tucked away at the bottom and stars to help turn it
of the old Greystone Hotel building in Fort green by re-wearing an outfit and put their wardrobe where their platform
Myers, FL. Owner Raimond Aulen says, of saving the planet resides. Kate re-wore an Alexander McQueen dress
“I have always been intrigued by old she had first worn on tour in Malaysia in 2012. Her fan clubs had been
things, especially from the 1920s and 30s era.” He salvaged cypress placing bets as to which of her evening gowns she might wear for the
wood from the former McCrory’s building downtown to construct his occasion – few had predicted that she still had this dress in her wardrobe.
bar. It is predominantly known as a whiskey bar, focusing on As for the rest of the celebrities, very few seemed to even try to pretend
handcrafted, Prohibition-style cocktails. that their dresses were eco-friendly.

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