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Aaron and Candy Spelling's 56,500-square-foot (5,250 m2) mansion in Holmby Hills. The French chateau, under construction now for two years, has turned the corner of Mapleton and Club View drives into a gawker's paradise. Sprawled across 6 acres (2.4 ha) on what once was the Bing Crosby estate, the house dwarfs the sizable mansions on the block and looms large over tranquil Holmby Park near Wilshire Boulevard. In 2016, she decided to sell the property, and it was on and off the market for three years. The 11,000-square-foot main residence is laid out on a single story and designed for indoor-outdoor living, with 14-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, and numerous glass doors opening out onto the home’s terraces, according to listing photos.
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In total, there are 123 rooms including 14 bedrooms, 27 bathrooms, a tanning room, solarium, game room, grand foyer, formal dining room, library, movie theater and bowling alley. When someone spends more than $100 million on a home, their identity usually trickles out at some point, but the Manor’s owner remains unknown. Records show it was purchased by a California-based limited liability company called 594 Mapleton, but the entity behind the company is a mystery. Sure, you can pick up jelly beans at any corner drugstore but you can’t see where Jelly Belly comes from just anywhere.
“Book Tour: At Home with Jennifer Egan,” Washington Post with John Williams
Known as The Reserve, the estate is located on two acres in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles’s westside and comprises both a five-bedroom main residence and a newly built three-story, five-bedroom guest house, according to marketing materials. Get lost in aisles stocked with more than 550 varieties of craft beer and vintage soda, including Coca-Cola that’s truly made in Mexico (not just bottled there) with cane sugar (not high-fructose corn syrup). Expect old-fashioned cream sodas, ginger beer made with real ginger oil, and even newer lines, such as Virgil's, the micro-brew of root beers. Just browsing the bins of hard-to-find retro candy evokes delicious childhood memories, sans stomach aches and sticky fingers. Choose from hard-to-find vintage candy bars such as the Abba-Zaba, Chunky, Rocky Road and Hershey’s bars in nostalgic packaging.
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Much of “The Candy House” takes place in a future influenced by Bix’s revolution, but the novel rarely contends with the implications of that premise for Bix’s life, the tech industry or the world shaped by it. Instead, Bix’s skin color remains about as relevant as his hair color. In The Candy House, there is a persistent, lovely countermelody to the corporate project of mapping human experience and using it to predict what people will think and buy. The novel is full of people engaged in a kind of sweeter and more plaintive human algebra. I haven't recently read a gentler or funnier description of longing than in one chapter here in which a "senior empiricist and metrics expert" named Lincoln tries to determine what will make his crush, "M", fall in love with him.
The Manor, an iconic L.A. mansion, seeks $165 million
Excerpt: 'The Candy House' - Alta Magazine
Excerpt: 'The Candy House'.
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On Thursday, state Rep. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Democrat from Kansas City, brought the conversation back to abortion. The issue has been an undercurrent in this year’s initiative petition debate. State Rep. Peter Merideth, a Democrat from St. Louis, said under the current framework of one person one vote, Gragg was flat-out wrong. After an hour-long debate Thursday morning, the bill ultimately passed, with House Majority Leader Jon Patterson of Lee’s Summit the lone “no” vote among his Republican colleagues.
This is a difficult time for everyone, but I know our students and staff will lean on each other through this time. Oklahoma Baptist University posted on social media that Dylan was a student at the school. An initial investigation shows that a 42-year-old man shot and killed his wife and three of his children before turning the gun on himself. Below is what we know about the case, the suspect, the victims and what is unknown as of Friday morning.
Partly, this is simply a matter of the book’s structure, which insists on constantly fracturing and abandoning its forms, themes and characters. But as other chapters leap to other lives, we see people who do resist the Web’s mind-absorbing candy. Alfred Hollander, for instance, is so desperate for authenticity that he randomly screams just to discombobulate passing strangers for a moment. Citizen-led initiative petitions currently require signatures from 8% of voters in five of the state’s eight congressional districts.
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As cars drove down Mirage Street on Tuesday to get a glimpse of the house at the end of the cul-de-sac, where the Candys' two family vehicles are still parked, neighbor Michael Burcham, 68, told The Oklahoman that Jonathon Candy was not someone who kept to himself. Investigators found no signs of a struggle, and Knight said at least one of the children was shot in bed. Jack Flemming covers luxury real estate for the Los Angeles Times. A Midwestern boy at heart, he was raised in St. Louis and studied journalism at the University of Missouri. Before joining The Times as an intern in 2017, he wrote for the Columbia Missourian and Politico Europe. Found just down the street from the Playboy Mansion, the estate shares a border with Los Angeles Country Club.
“This may be a regret the Republicans will have because people are going to be angry, and when you're angry you vote,” Baringer said. Louis, said she thinks voters are going to show up in droves. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade, D-Springfield, said with the changes, there is a possibility that the resolution does not pass. The proposed amendment passed after hours of filibustering from Senate Democrats who wanted other language that was originally in the resolution stripped off. When the Senate initially sent over its resolution, it contained only the provision that raises the required votes needed.
Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. Plocher said last session if abortion were to become legal through a constitutional amendment, it was the Senate’s fault, not the House’s, for not passing changes to the initiative petition process. Democrats remain adamant voters will see through the “ballot candy” if the initiative petition legislation makes it to the ballot. On Thursday, the House added language to the bill that would ask Missourians if they want to change the constitution to define legal voters as citizens of the United States as well as whether they want to prohibit foreign entities from sponsoring initiative petitions.
Lindsay Candy was married to the suspect, and Dylan, Ethan and Lucas Candy were his children, according to police. "He must have really been having a hard time," Burcham added of Candy. Burcham said he and his neighbors were in disbelief Monday when they heard the news of the family's deaths.
To pass once on the ballot, a statewide vote of 50% plus one is required — a simple majority vote. A candy store is one of those whimsical, colorful shops in Los Angeles that we wish were on every street corner. Sure, we've got ice cream, pie and macarons to satisfy our everyday sugar cravings, but sometimes they just don't cut it—sometimes even a stop in a chocolatier won't do.
Somewhat more effective is a chapter constructed from a great thicket of nested email conversations. But here again Egan presumes a lot on her readers’ ability to know what she’s talking about. It would have taken so little additional information to make this more inviting that I can’t help feeling the author was overindulged by her editor.
This is an author endlessly capable of experimentation (Egan shocked readers in 2010 with a chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, quaint as it might sound now). But ending on something so straightforwardly conventional — so formulaic — feels not like a copout but rather like a winking flex, a master pianist infusing unexpected feeling into Chopsticks. It is moving, somehow, both despite and because of its familiarity.
You can shop by era, size or color, and will be hard-pressed to think of a candy Jack's doesn't stock. But even more shocking than the selection of classic sweets is the section of the store dedicated solely to oversized candy. You'll find a chocolate-covered fortune cookie of jumbo proportions and a Rice Krispies Treat that could feed a family of six—or one person to finish over a month or so. Grab a bag, head to the columns of dispensers and let those bulk candies fly.
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