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City Limits (magazine)
City limits City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary (real estate), boundary or border of a city. The area within the city limit can be called the city proper. Town limit/boundary and village limit/boundary apply to towns and villages. ... are the defined boundaries of a city. City Limits may also refer to: __NOTOC__ Film and television * ''City Limits'' (1934 film), an American romantic comedy * ''City Limits'' (1985 film), an American post-apocalyptic action film * ''City Limits'' (2004 film), an Italian crime film * ''City Limits'' (TV series), a 1983–1995 Canadian music magazine series Magazines * ''City Limits'' (London magazine), an events and arts magazine 1981–1993 * ''City Limits'' (New York magazine), an investigative journalism magazine founded in 1976 Music * ''City Limits'', a 1961 album by the Wilburn Brothers * ''City Limits'', a 2009–2011 series of albums by Silkie * ''City Limit'', a 1980 album by Billy Ocean Other uses * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits
City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary (real estate), boundary or border of a city. The area within the city limit can be called the city proper. Town limit/boundary and village limit/boundary apply to towns and villages. Similarly, corporate limit is a legal name that refers to the boundary of municipal corporations. In some countries, the limit of a municipality may be expanded through Municipal annexation, annexation. United Kingdom In the UK, city boundaries are more difficult to define, and the specific concept of a city boundary as opposed to e.g. a town or borough boundary, is less useful: British City status in the United Kingdom, cities are defined as any town or local authority area, regardless of area or population size, that has been granted letters patent as a royal prerogative. In smaller cities, such as Wells, Somerset, Wells (pop. approx. 10,000) or Gloucester (pop. approx. 100,000), the boundary will be that governed by the city council, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (1934 Film)
''City Limits'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William Nigh and starring Frank Craven, Sally Blane, Ray Walker and Claude Gillingwater. ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed August 9, 2015. It was remade in 1941 as '' Father Steps Out''. Plot J.B. Matthews is president of a railroad and is getting sick of doctors, when he falls off his train, and meets up with a pair of es, King and Napoleon, who show him how to enjoy life, and real cooking. It's up to intrepid reporter Jimmy Dugan and Helen to find him, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (1985 Film)
''City Limits'' is a 1985 post-apocalyptic action film written and directed by Aaron Lipstadt and is based on a story by Lipstadt & James Reigle. The film stars Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall, Rae Dawn Chong, John Diehl, Pamela Ludwig, Tony Plana, Robby Benson, Dean Devlin, and James Earl Jones. Plot In the near future a mysterious plague kills almost every adult and leaves behind "a world of orphans". Some fortunate few are raised by the surviving adults, including Lee ( John Stockwell), who is taken in and raised by Albert (James Earl Jones) on his remote farm. Fifteen years later, Lee sets out for the nearby ruins of Los Angeles in the hopes of joining the Clippers, a famous motorcycle gang. Lee follows a convoy of trucks into a fenced off building, where he is noticed by Bolo (Norbert Weisser), who is overseeing operations. When workers begin to converge on Lee he flees on his motorcycle. After defending himself against and fleeing from a hostile group of bik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (2004 Film)
''City Limits'' () is a 2004 Italian crime drama film written and directed by Andrea Costantini and starring Edoardo Leo. It won the award for best production at the 2005 Brooklyn Film Festival. Plot Commissioner Aldo Chessari is sent to direct a police detachment on the outskirts of Rome, a temporary station in a hot area where he is entrusted with few means and few men. His deputy, Lorenzo Corsi, a young man just out of the Academy, collides with the corrupt and deformed reality of real life. The small police station appears to be a frontier outpost, a punitive destination where recruits and hotheads have been assigned. Chessari would like a quiet department, routine operations, stalking and wiretapping and no fuss that could affect his chances of career advancement. But his men, a group of mavericks, do not stop in front of the rules imposed by power, even reaching the limit of legality. Cast * Edoardo Leo as Deputy Commissioner Lorenzo Corsi * Elisabetta Cavallotti as Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (TV Series)
''City Limits'' is a Canadian television series, which aired on Citytv and later MuchMusic in the 1980s and 1990s."Catching up with old VJs: Much Music alumni create new careers". ''Ottawa Citizen'', December 24, 2002. The program premiered on CITY-TV in 1983, as an overnight series on Friday and Saturday nights. Hosted by Christopher Ward,"Rock music and CITY go together". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 25, 1984. the series originally featured a cross-genre mix of interviews, music news, comedy sketches and music videos, and was essentially the prototype for MuchMusic's overall format. During this era, Mike Myers made several appearances on the program as Wayne Campbell, the character he would later take to ''Saturday Night Live'' in the ''Wayne's World'' sketches. After MuchMusic debuted in 1984, the program initially continued as a daily magazine series on the network, but soon became a weekly series with its daily mandate taken over by ''Rockflash''. As a weekly series, its f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (London Magazine)
''City Limits'' magazine was an alternative weekly event listings and arts magazine for London, founded in 1981 by former staff members of the weekly London listings magazine '' Time Out'', after its owner Tony Elliott abandoned running ''Time Out'' on its original equal pay principles. ''City Limits'' was edited in its prime by jazz writer John Fordham and former '' Oz'' writer Nigel Fountain. The magazine continued to be run as a co-operative for most of its existence, then underwent a chaotic final period of three owners within two years before it finally ceased publication in 1993. Among other journalists, it launched the careers of Melissa Benn, Kim Newman and Suzanne Moore. It was also an early site for the writings of Matt Preston and the art critic Matthew Collings Matthew Collings (born 1955) is a British art critic, writer, broadcaster, and artist. He is married to Emma Biggs, with whom he collaborates on art works. Education Born in London in 1955, Collings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (New York Magazine)
''City Limits'' is a nonprofit news organization based in New York City. Since 1976, ''City Limits'' has published in-depth reporting on civic issues affecting the city's low- and moderate-income communities. Focused on civic issues related to housing, education, criminal justice, the environment, economic and government policy, City Limits publishes in-depth news and analysis daily. History ''City Limits'' was founded in February 1976 as a newsletter and resource for advocates in New York City's housing rehabilitation movement. The publication would expand to become an investigative monthly magazine that covered other major policy issues over the next three decades, establishing the Center for an Urban Future in 1996 as a research institution dedicated to exploring policy solutions that were featured in City Limits' reportage. In 2009, ''City Limits'' was acquired by the Community Service Society of New York and re-launched as a single-issue bi-monthly magazine and weekly new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilburn Brothers
The Wilburn Brothers were an American country music duo from the 1950s to the 1970s, consisting of brothers Virgil Doyle Wilburn (1930–1982) and Thurman Theodore "Teddy" Wilburn (1931–2003). Biography The brothers were born in Hardy, Arkansas. They first attracted attention as child performers, beginning in 1937, in an act called The Wilburn Children;Diekman 2007, p. 17. Roy Acuff discovered them and brought them to the Grand Ole Opry in 1940. Due to federal child labor laws, the Wilburns were forced to leave the Opry after six months. After growing up, they continued to travel and were regulars on the similar ''Louisiana Hayride'' program in Shreveport from 1948Hefley 1992, p. 177. until 1951. After the family act disbanded, and the brothers served stints in the US Army during the Korean War, they continued in 1953 as The Wilburn Brothers touring with Faron Young and Webb Pierce.Carlin 2003, p. 429. They signed with Decca Records in May 1954, and had th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silkie (musician)
Solomon Rose (born ), known professionally as Silkie, is an English dubstep and UK garage producer and DJ from London. He has released several extended plays and albums with Deep Medi Musik and formed the music labels Antisocial Records in 2004 and Bedroom Rat Records in 2023. Biography The son of British Jamaicans, Silkie was born in Hammersmith, a district of West London, England. He got into music in 1999 after discovering the UK garage artists Oxide & Neutrino and the So Solid Crew through pirate radio stations. He began experimenting with producing grime music with FL Studio by 2001, releasing his first single ''Dark Square'' the following year as a collaboration with schoolmate Harry Craze under the alias of Grimey Beetz. The track would receive play at the London night club FWD, where Silkie would discover dubstep music. He co-founded Antisocial Entertainment, later renamed Antisocial Records, in 2004 and began playing his music on the London-based community radio stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Ocean
Leslie Sebastian Charles (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-born British singer and songwriter. Between 1976 and 1988, he had a series of hit songs in the UK and internationally. After releasing several recordings under other stage names, he achieved breakthrough success with the 1976 single "Love Really Hurts Without You". It was the second single released under the stage name Billy Ocean and peaked at no. 2 in the UK and no. 3 in Australia. Later that year, he achieved two additional top 20 singles in the UK. In 1977, his single "Red Light Spells Danger" also peaked at no. 2. After a period of limited chart success, he released the single "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" in 1984. In the UK, the song peaked at no. 6. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at no. 85 but peaked at no. 1 ten weeks later. Ocean won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the song. It also cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits (painting)
''City Limits'' is a 1969 painting by Phillip Guston, part of his “hoods” series of representational works. These paintings depicted cartoonish versions of Klansmen engaged in various mundane activities. While other works in this series (i.e. ''The Studio'') featured the artist himself under the guise of a KKK member, ''City Limits'' provides a more straightforward depiction. The child-like presentation has been described as enabling “a simple account of the simple-mindedness of violence.” It is influenced by his early work with Mexican Muralists and was part of his polarizing abandonment of Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depressi ... as a genre at his 1970 Marlborough Gallery exhibition. It is featured in ''Philip Guston Now'', a traveling ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
