Paris Dating: TRAVEL CHARLESTON CULTURE HAS TOUCH OF EUROPE
The European influence in Charleston is remarkable in its subtlety.Settlers from Spain, France and England in the 1500s brought ideas more than objects. Many homes, plantations, museums and churches retain those influences, which sometimes conflicted with the pride of an independent Charleston.The Europeans who shaped the city wanted it to be a place of their own, not a reprise of their homelands, says Anne Fox, administrator at the Joseph Manigault historic home.“This was the…
Paris Dating: Berkeley man guides Parisians
LEONARD PITT has a little bit of France behind his house in Berkeley. It’s a replica of a 17th-century French cottage with a turret, slate roof, hand-hewn beams and “Home, Sweet Home” inscribed above the door. It looks extremely picturesque and not a bit out of place. Pitt calls its design “a mishmash of my imagination.”Pitt, 61, has lived in Berkeley for 32 years, though the cottage is of more recent vintage — 1996. But his love…
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Mariam Fares sings for charity
Lebanese singer Mariam Fares recently held a charity concert for the Love and Faith Association at their annual dinner celebration at the Movenpick Hotel in Beirut.According to the London based Elaph, Mariam accepted the invitation to hold the performance with great joy and stated that she was honored to sing for a worthy cause, believing that every artist should take part in charity work. Mariam performed a number of her most popular hits while the audience sang right along with her….
