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  • "It became apparent we needed a redesign of the room," said Shanta Thake , the club's director.

    In the Village, Bellying Up to a New Bar Jim Fusilli 2011

  • Though Joe's Pub now more resembles an upscale cabaret for grown-ups than a stop-off for downtown college students, Ms. Thake says the booking policy will remain the same: "We have the same mission," she said.

    In the Village, Bellying Up to a New Bar Jim Fusilli 2011

  • "We try to look for things that just don't look right," said Richard Thake, head of surveillance.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • "We try to look for things that just don't look right," said Richard Thake, head of surveillance.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Thake is perhaps best remembered today for the wry series of linocuts he produced for his Christmas cards every year from 1941, and this is probably the best-known,

    Airminded 2010

  • Thake was also featured in Shared Experience, Art & War

    Airminded 2010

  • My paternal grandmother (who was born a Thake) did maintain that he was related, but how exactly was unclear, and his middle-class life in suburban Melbourne seemed a long way from her family on the Murray.

    Airminded 2010

  • Thake was the subject of a retrospective exhibition (with another artist - Harold Freedman, if I recall correctly) at the RAAF Museum a year or two ago.

    Airminded 2010

  • Eric Thake (1904-1982), and the family is mine, although only in the extended sense: Thake's grandparents, John and Sarah (née Prentice) Thake, were my great-great-grandparents.

    Airminded 2010

  • He started out as a commercial artist in the 1920s, but also began to make a name for himself in less practical forms of art, including surrealism: in 1940, the director of the National Gallery of Victoria denounced Thake for being 'too modern'!

    Airminded 2010

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