Long Beach Civic Center Is Getting A $900-million Makeover That's A Model For Other Cities

A home bordering Cheesman Park with a former basement speakeasy decorated with portraits from artist Herndon Davis has hit the market for $2.5 million. Kevin Brynestad and his wife Valeriya Pauley purchased the Tudor home on the 1900 block of E. 8th Avenue in 2013 for $900,000. The four-bedroom, four-bath, 5,000-square-foot home faces Cheesman Park and is within walking distance of Cherry Creek’s shops and restaurants. Brynstead was initially drawn to the 1936 home for its architecture.

The Tattered Cover, a beloved Denver institution and nationally known independent bookstore, has accepted a sales offer from Barnes & Noble, a model for the fictionalized corporate bookstore chain that ran a small independent bookseller out of business in the movie “You’ve Got Mail.” The 53-year-old Denver business, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2023, agreed Monday to accept Barnes & Noble’s offer of up to $1.83 million in cash.

‘Fast Company’ editor Yasmin Gagne discusses Apple’s new high-stakes partnership with OpenAI on the latest episode of Robert Safian’s ‘Rapid Response’ podcast. Apple used Monday’s keynote at the annual WWDC event to unveil a roster of new software developments, product upgrades, and most importantly—their long-awaited AI play. Fast Company’s own Yasmin Gagne discusses Apple’s new high-stakes partnership with OpenAI, implications for app-based businesses, and investors’ reactions to the week’s news.

Decommissioning old wells can cost billions of dollars and that expense could fall to taxpayers if oicompanies fail to meet their obligations. Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday sued the U. S. government to block the Biden administration’s proposed rule that would require the offshore oil and gas industry to provide nearly $7 billion in financial assurances to cover costs of dismantling old infrastructure.

Enlarge / Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy. (credit: Universal Pictures) Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stuntman in the new action comedy The Fall Guy, a loose adaptation of the popular 1980s TV series of the same name starring Lee Majors. Gosling even did a few of his own stunts, although professional stunt performers handled the most dangerous sequences.

Enlarge (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)) Supermassive black holes appear to be present at the center of every galaxy, going back to some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. And we have no idea how they got there. It shouldn't be possible for them to grow from supernova remnants to supermassive sizes as quickly as they do.