Today, The Grandma has visited Charles-HadenSavage, OliverPutnam and MabelMora, some old friends who live in Arconia, a historic New Yorker building, where TheGrandma has a rental flat.
While The Grandma was visiting their friends, a neighbour has been murdered, and The Grangers have had to demonstrate their innocence, and explain that they were visiting a member of the family, who has spent the night in the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
Only Murders in the Building is anAmerican mystery-comedy streamingtelevision series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman.
The ten-episode first season premiered on Hulu on August 31, 2021.
The plot follows three strangers played by Steve Martin, MartinShort, and Selena Gomez, who share an obsession with a true crime podcast. After a suspicious death in their affluent Upper West Side apartment building, the Arconia,
the three neighbors decide to start their own podcast about their
investigation of the death, which the police ruled a suicide.
The
series has received critical acclaim, with praise directed at its
comedic approach to crime fiction, as well as the performances and
chemistry among the lead performers.
In
September 2021, Hulu renewed the series for a second season which is
set to premiere on June 28, 2022. Alongside the initial announcement, it
was announced Martin and Short would star in the series.
In August 2020, Selena Gomez joined the cast and also serves as an executive producer.
In November 2020, Aaron Dominguez joined the cast in a series regular role.
In January 2021, Amy Ryan joined the cast in a series regular role. That same month, Nathan Lane joined the cast in a recurring role.
On December 1, 2021, it was reported that Cara Delevingne joined the cast as a new series regular for the second season.
On January 12, 2022, Short announced that Shirley MacLaine and AmySchumer were cast to guest star for the second season.
On February 11, 2022, Michael Rapaport joined the cast in a recurring role for the second season.
Principal photography for the first season began on December 3, 2020, in NewYork City, and concluded in April 2021. The Belnord was used for exterior shots of the Arconia. Filming of the second season began on December 1, 2021.
Chelsea is a neighbourhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s or 34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north.
To the northwest of Chelsea is the neighbourhood of Hell's Kitchen, as well as Hudson Yards; to the northeast are the Garment District and the remainder of Midtown South; to the east are NoMad and the Flatiron District; to the southwest is the Meatpacking District; and to the south and southeast are the West Village and the remainder of Greenwich Village.
Chelsea is named after the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London,England.
Chelsea contains the Chelsea Historic District and its extension, which were designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and 1981 respectively. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and expanded in 1982 to include contiguous blocks containing particularly significant examples of period architecture.
The neighbourhood is primarily residential, with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks, city housing projects, townhouses, and renovated rowhouses, but its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population.
The area has a large LGBTQ population.
Chelsea is also known as one of the centers of the city's art world, with over 200 galleries in the neighbourhood. As of 2015, due to the area's gentrification, there is a widening income gap between the wealthy living in luxury buildings and the poor living in housing projects, who are, at times, across the street from each other.
Chelsea takes its name from the estate and Georgian-style house of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who obtained the property when he bought the farm of Jacob Somerindyck on August 16, 1750.
The land was bounded by what would become 21st and 24th Streets, from the Hudson River to Eighth Avenue. Clarke chose the name Chelsea after the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, England. Clarke passed the estate on to his daughter, Charity, who, with her husband Benjamin Moore, added land on the south of the estate, extending it to 19th Street. The house was the birthplace of their son, Clement Clarke Moore, who in turn inherited the property. Moore is generally credited with writing A Visit From St. Nicholas and was the author of the first Greek and Hebrew lexicons printed in the United States.
In 1827, Moore gave the land of his apple orchard to the Episcopal Diocese of New York for the General Theological Seminary, which built its brownstone Gothic, tree-shaded campus south of the manor house. Despite his objections to the Commissioner's Plan of 1811, which ran the new Ninth Avenue through the middle of his estate, Moore began the development of Chelsea with the help of James N. Wells, dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers.
Covenants in the deeds of sale specified what could be built on the land -stables, manufacturing and commercial uses were forbidden- as well as architectural details of the buildings.
The new neighbourhood thrived for three decades, with many single family homes and rowhouses, in the process expanding past the original boundaries of Clarke's estate, but an industrial zone also began to develop along the Hudson.
In 1847 the Hudson River Railroad laid its freight tracks up a right-of-way between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, separating Chelsea from the Hudson River waterfront. By the time of the Civil War, the area west of Ninth Avenue and below 20th Street was the location of numerous distilleries making turpentine and camphene, a lamp fuel. In addition, the huge Manhattan Gas Works complex, which converted bituminous coal into gas, was located at Ninth Avenue and 18th Street.
The industrialization of western Chelsea brought immigrant populations from many countries to work in the factories, including a large number of Irish immigrants, who dominated work on the Hudson River piers that lined the nearby waterfront and the truck terminals integrated with the freight railroad spur.
As well as the piers, warehouses and factories, the industrial area west of Tenth Avenue also included lumberyards and breweries, and tenements built to house the workers. With the immigrant population came the political domination of the neighbourhood by the Tammany Hall machine, as well as festering ethnic tensions: around 67 people died in a riot between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants on July 12, 1871, which took place around 24th Street and Eighth Avenue.
The social problems of the area's workers provoked John Lovejoy Elliot to form the Hudson Guild in 1897, one of the first settlement houses -private organizations designed to provide social services.
A theater district had formed in the area by 1869, and soon West 23rd Street was the center of American theater, led by Pike's Opera House (1868, demolished 1960), on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue. Chelsea was an early center for the motion picture industry before World War I. Some of Mary Pickford's first pictures were made on the top floors of an armory building at 221 West 26th Street, while other studios were located on 23rd and 21st Streets.
London Terrace was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with a swimming pool, solarium, gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies. Other major housing complexes in the Chelsea area are Penn South, a 1962 cooperative housing development sponsored by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, and the New York City Housing Authority-built and -operated Fulton Houses and Chelsea-Elliot Houses.
The massive 23-story Art Deco Walker Building, which spans the block between 17th and 18th Streets just off of Seventh Avenue, was built in the early 1930s. It typifies the real estate activity of the district, as it has been converted in 2012 to residential apartments on the top 16 floors, with Verizon retaining the lower seven floors.
In the early 1940s, tons of uranium for the Manhattan Project were stored in the Baker & Williams Warehouse at 513-519 West 20th Street. The uranium was removed and a decontamination project at the site was completed during the early 1990s.
People of many different cultures live in Chelsea.
Chelsea is famous for having a large LGBTQ population, with one of Chelsea's census tracts reporting that 22% of its residents were gay couples, and is known for its social diversity and inclusion.
Eighth Avenue is a center for LGBT-oriented shopping and dining, and from 16th to 22nd Streets between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, mid-nineteenth-century brick and brownstone townhouses are still occupied, a few even restored to single family use.
I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
This morning, The Beans have continued their English classes. Today, they have revised Past Continuous vs. Past Simple using While and When and they have been working how to create questions, paying attention to the syntactic order.
While Paqui Bean was offering some Polish sweets to her family to celebrate the world day of mother tongues, The Beans talked about famous characters like Harry Potter, Mary Poppins, Werewolf, Snowhite, Count Dracula or Levi Strauss.
The Grandma has also commented some gossips about Enriqueta Martí, a serial killer who had a direct relationship with Jack the Ripper or Vlad Tepes, aka Count Dracula: the need of blood.
Finally, the family has been playing to liberate stress and to be preparated to visit Adrian Monk, a clever detective from San Francisco who has a special obsession for order and cleaning.
This afternoon, The Beans have visited Alamo Square with the company of Mr. Monk who has enjoyed with the architectural order of the houses and with the impressive cleaning of its streets and the well-cut grass of its gardens. All is in order, Mr.Monk!
Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, in the Western Addition. Its boundaries are not well-defined, but are generally considered to be Webster Street on the east, Golden Gate Avenue on the north, Divisadero Street on the west, and Fell Street on the south.
Alamo Square Park, the neighborhood's focal point and namesake, consists of four city blocks at the top of a hill overlooking much of downtown San Francisco, with a number of large and architecturally distinctive mansions along the perimeter, including the Painted Ladies, a well-known postcard motif.
Óscar Bean's selfie in Alamo Square
The park is bordered by Hayes Street to the south, Steiner Street to the east, Fulton Street to the north, and Scott Street to the west. Named after the lone cottonwood tree, alamo in Spanish, Alamo Hill, was a watering hole on the horseback trail from Mission Dolores to the Presidio in the 1800s.
In 1856, Mayor James Van Ness created a park surrounding the watering hole, creating Alamo Square.
The Alamo Square neighborhood is characterized by Victorian architecture that was left largely untouched by the urban renewal projects in other parts of the Western Addition. The Alamo Square area contains the second largest concentration of homes over 930 metres square in San Francisco, after the Pacific Heights neighborhood.
The Grandma remembers the effects of The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Today, its importance comes more from the wealth of scientific knowledge derived from it than from its sheer size. Rupturing the northernmost 477 kilometers of the San Andreas fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino, the earthquake confounded contemporary geologists with its large, horizontal displacements and great rupture length. Indeed, the significance of the fault and recognition of its large cumulative offset would not be fully appreciated until the advent of plate tectonics more than half a century later.
Grandma's memories. Alamo Square, 1906.
Analysis of the 1906 displacements and strain in the surrounding crust led Reid (1910) to formulate his elastic-rebound theory of the earthquake source, which remains today the principal model of the earthquake cycle.
At almost precisely 5:12 a.m., local time, a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area. The great earthquake broke loose some 20 to 25 seconds later, with an epicenter near San Francisco. Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds.
In the public's mind, this earthquake is perhaps remembered most for the fire it spawned in San Francisco, giving it the somewhat misleading appellation of the San Francisco earthquake. Shaking damage, however, was equally severe in many other places along the fault rupture. The frequently quoted value of 700 deaths caused by the earthquake and fire is now believed to underestimate the total loss of life by a factor of 3 or 4. Most of the fatalities occurred in San Francisco, and 189 were reported elsewhere.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Today, The Bonds are flying to Venice. The Grandma is still in The USA because she must resolve some business but the rest of the family is arriving to this wonderful city to enjoy the Carnival.
They have been revising some English grammar during the flight. They've practised Past Simple and Past Continuous (While and When) and Countable & Uncountable.
Finally, the family has prepared a listening playing with Yes/No answers and trying to remember as things as they could about themselves and contrast their alibis.
Yesterday, The Poppins had another beautiful day.
First, they started with some grammar: PastContinuous(While/When), Conditional Simple and how
to convert an uncountable noun in countable.
Later, the
family assisted to an incredible class of fashion and trend thanks to Lulú Addams-Poppins who is a
professional of these themes.
The family
is finishing its Australian holiday and they’re crossing the desert with the help of an old Grandma's friend, Cocodrilo Dundee. They're travelling across it to homage Priscilla and her friends and because
of this, they chose The Poppins’
Queen: Tonyi.
After
remembering ABBA and some mystic writers like Ramon Llull, San Juan de la
Cruz and Santa Teresa de Jesús,
they continued its travel with the idea of enjoying these last hours in the
south hemisphere.
Yesterday, The Poppins had an intensive day of
grammar and communication skills.
First, they finished the last exercise
about Social English.Next, they reviewed
Past Continuous and later they did
some exercises of Past Simple vs. Past
Continuous using while or when.
After a
little break, they continued with some advice about how to earn
possibilities in an interview or in an exam. The Grandma is a person obsessed with communication skills and she
tries to explain some secrets to them every day, some interesting things like
how to keep calm and control a bad situation; how to manage the weight of a
discuss without having the power in it; how to survive to nerves; how to avoid
uncomfortable questions or how to seem the best option when we aren’t
interested in accepting the deal.
An
interview, an exam, a situation where we’re exposed to other people is a game,
in fact, a mental game where you must be stronger, more intelligent and
cleverer than your opponent although s/he could be your future boss or the
person who is going to decide your exam marks. Train your communication
skills and you will have more possibilities of success.
The secrets are
clear:
-Create your
profile and work in it to improve the negative things and expose the positive ones.
-Do it with honesty
and a little bit of humour, an element very important in difficult situations.
-Trust in
you, because you’re the real treasure that must bright with as force as you
can.
-Know your
limits and work to arrive far away of them.
To sum up… Be a Poppins in essence and be yourself in existence.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your
communication skills so that when important occasions arise,
you will have the
gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity,
Yesterday, The Holmesreviewed SecondConditional, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Adverbs of
Manner and Prepositions. They
took The Tube and travelled round London visiting the most important places.
They also read a little more about Charles
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Moreover,
they received new manuals to work PET Exam and practise Phrasal Verbs.
On Thursday, they had visited London Eye where they took lots of
photos and they continued practising Social
English and Present Perfect
Continuous.
Yesterday, The Holmes reviewed Past Simple & Past Continuous, Articles,
Present Continuous and the
connectors While & When.
They also
created a song for participating in the next Eurovision Contest Song. After some moments of emotion and nerves,
the winners were Geni and Núria with the beautiful song “Idiot”.
Both of them represented Belgium.
While the
most part of The Holmes were creating their songs, Rosa was in Milano with The Grandma and Iris, an old friend of her, taking information about some new fashion
business to invest.
For other
hand, Geni must leave the family
during some days because she must attend some personal business.
The family
continues its Italian tour. After visiting Pisa,
Siena and Verona they arrived to Venice
where they are prepared to spend some beautiful moments enjoying the Carnival.
After visiting
the Pope, the Holmes have continued reviewing Past Continuous, Used to
and Modal Verbs (May-Might).
Moreover they’ve practised some Social
English.
Next, they’ve
created comparisons between Antoni Gaudí’s
Sagrada Família and Vatican City
and they’ve been talking about voodoo and its effects nowadays.
The family
arrives to Venice tonight where they
want to enjoy the Carnival during
this weekend before going to Belgium
to participate in Eurovision Song
Contest. Because of this, today, they have read some interesting songs from
Tom Jones, Queen, Suzanne Vega and Joan Baez.
Tomorrow,
they’re going to prepare excellent songs to win the festival and continue
travelling, this time, perhaps, to London.
May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Yesterday, we reviewed the verb
can; studied more expressions of Social English; corrected wrong
letters and did while/when exercises for revising Past Simple and Past
Continuous. We talked about pencils and its utilities and about American
History in the XX Century.
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