The Times Union published a fictional blog post titled “Storytime with Elise Stefanik” on Sunday meant to satirically mock the congresswoman, written as though she were reading to a group of children.
“I myself am childless because I am a rising star in the Republican Party, and family planning is possible by way of the contraception paid for by my excellent taxpayer-provided healthcare plan,” reads one line in the highly critical piece written by Peter Marino and Lale Davidson.
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Stefanik and her husband, Matt Manda, released a statement on Tuesday demanding the post be taken down.
“As a young married couple, we have developed a thick skin over many years as we have become accustomed to repeated sexist smears in media coverage. However the Times Union’s decision to publish an article that mocked us as childless is a new low and is truly heinous and wildly inappropriate,” they wrote.
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A ribbon of steel and aluminium winds around the Suzhou Bay Cultural Center, which French architect Christian de Portzamparc has completed on the shore of Lake Tai in China.
Set on an esplanade in Wujiang District in Suzhou, the centre is divided into two distinct wings that contain a mix of performance halls, educational spaces and galleries.
The wings are unified by a curved, 500-metre-long metal structure, which swoops up and around them in a figure of eight and distinguishes the building from afar.
Above: the cultural centre sits on the shore of Lake Tai. Top image: it is wrapped by a continuous metallic ribbon
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quite furniture but aren t your typical art either. Their oversized wall hangings take cues from jewelry design, but they favor plush materials like supple leather and puffy shearling. This makes sense when you consider the company s roots: Moses and Lara Nadel met almost 10 years ago, when he was working on a bespoke bag line and she was designing jewelry. We kind of came together with our roots, explains Lara.
Believe it not, Peter Marino is an unabashed romantic. Yes, that Peter Marino: the AD100 Hall of Fame architect and designer, he of the artfully inked epidermis, shiny Harley-Davidsons and Ducatis, and black leather, biker-chic ensembles. Give the maestro a historic property
with a star-studded backstory, and he turns to putty.
“You just sort of gulp,” Marino explains of projects like the sprawling 1916 San Francisco mansion that he labored on for more than three years, overhauling its nearly two dozen rooms for effervescent East Coast transplants with three teenagers, two French bulldogs, and a passion for pedigreed real estate. The husband and wife also possessed phenomenal sangfroid, accepting with barely a blink the seismic requirements that demanded gutting the house and driving concrete pilings 30 feet into the ground. “It was a Herculean task,” Marino continues. “There was no roof, the exterior walls were under boarding, and there were no floor slabs. It all look