TV review: 'Endgame' and the fall of apartheid Oct 23, 2009
Jonny Lee Miller plays Michael Young, the low-key matchmaker who eventually brings a group of African National Congress exiles, led by Thabo Mbeki (Chiwetel Ejiofor), to the bargaining table with an unofficial delegation of white South Africans led by Professor Will Esterhuyse (William Hurt) at a remote English manor house. Half the battle is getting everyone to the table. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Atlanta flooding: News and photos » Oct 16, 2009
com Joe Rich was trapped at his Paces Manor house with no way out, except a boat. He has been ferrying various things back and forth and is surprised he still has power. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Cinderella story for an Oakland home Oct 1, 2009
Accompanied by a designer friend, she headed for a vintage fabric shop housed in a Cotswolds manor house and the antiquarian flea market in Paris, among other places. The expeditions yielded a distressed bibliothque used to store crockery in the kitchen, an elegant secretary in the living room and a grand old armoire in the master bedroom. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Walk-Through: 17020 Wild Way, Los Gatos Jun 30, 2009
The main residence is an English Cotswold-style manor house designed by architect Ralph Wyckoff, who designed San Jose's main post office and other notable civic buildings. The formal living room has a large carved limestone Tudor fireplace, original oak flooring, French doors and picture windows overlooking a rear garden. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Piedmont home deserves a look Apr 29, 2009
He built several low-slung ranch-style Piedmont and Berkeley structures, his most famous being the Manor House in Orinda, which garnered much attention. Wed indoors and outdoors. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Sea Island offers coastal comforts Apr 28, 2009
Reminscent of an English manor house. Rates start at $750 per night. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Antebeullum homes in Washington, Ga. Apr 18, 2009
The site has plenty of items that might have been used by the occupants, including a rocking butter churn in the brick warming kitchen connected to the manor house by a breezeway. $4 adults; $2 children 5-12; free for children younger than 5. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Pauses raise heat in Jackson's 'Miss Julie' Apr 12, 2009
Some convey the passage of time or a shift from present reality to fantasy or memory, as Heather Basarab's dreamy lights play across the impressive details of Giulio Cesare Perrone's 19th century manor house kitchen set and the country fiddles of David A. Graves' score give way to a ghostly piano or insistent hum. Without unduly calling attention to itself, Jackson's approach takes Strindberg's long-banned but now oft-produced 1888 tragedy and makes it seem both familiar and remarkably new -... (San Francisco Chronicle)
$32 Mil Can Take A Village Mar 19, 2009
The village of Linkenholt's 21 cottages, grand manor house, lush green cricket pitch and accompanying pavilion are part of an estate that also encompasses 1,500 acres of farmland and another 425 acres of woods ... Betty Smith was educated at the local school and at age 14 started working as a scullery maid at the manor house, which was then owned by the Dudley family and was the centerpiece of a busy, working farm ... The Dudleys lived at the manor house and owned all the land. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
