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Archive for October, 2011
Halloween Before and After
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dracula, halloween on October 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
They Might Be Angels
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american studies, angel, angel wing, boston college, carlo rotella, gratitude, lowell, Luna & Stella, lunaandstella.com, marathon, pendant, thanks, thanksgiving on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about angels and how almost anyone might be an angel at any moment in time. An ex-con who rescues a baby from a burning building is an angel to that baby’s family. When I read this Boston Globe essay by Carlo Rotella (Boston College director of American Studies) I thought that — [...]
Traffic Mimes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged canadian press, caracas, Christopher Toothaker, dickens, dropping into poetry, limerick, marcel marceau, mime, poem, poet, poetry, rhyme, venezuela on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Who wouldn’t love this story? Remember the mime Marcel Marceau? Now try to picture him directing traffic in a crazy intersection. According to an article in the Canadian Press, by Christopher Toothaker (really his name), “Caracas, Venezuela, is placing over a hundred mimes on its busy streets to admonish reckless drivers and pedestrians. The mimes, [...]
Circus Brings Iraq Some Normalcy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acrobats, arabic, baghdad, circus, cotton candy, dog, Greatest Show on Earth, iraq, Jasim Mohammed Saeed, lady's hair, michael s. schmidt, sword swallower, tiger, trapeze, Zaid Thaker on October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The happy faces say it all. The circus is good for Baghdad. An article by Michael S. Schmidt and Zaid Thaker in today’s NY Times describes the scene. “There were not any tigers because the animals were stuck in Egypt. There were dogs, however, but they were not [the promised] poodles. And the big snake, [...]
I Like the Way You Walk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston globe, cara lewis, hip, i like the way you walk, joints, orthopedist, osteoarthritis, toddler, walk on October 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I like to sing this old blues song to toddlers, “I like the way you walk, I like the way you walk, You my babe, I got my eyes on you.” I was thinking about that song recently when a relative who’s an orthopedist said my toddler grandson walks just like his mother. The doctor [...]
World’s Oldest Art Studio
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abalone, Amina Khan, archaeologist, art studio, artifact, blombos cave, journal, los angeles times, Magnus Haaland, ochre, science on October 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“In a tiny South African cave,” writes Amina Khan in the Los Angeles Times, “archaeologists have unearthed a 100,000-year-old art studio that contains tools for mixing powder from red and yellow rocks with animal fat and marrow to make vibrant paints as well as abalone shells full of dried-out red pigment, the oldest paint containers ever [...]
Newest NYC Tourist Attraction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gene sharp, how to start a revolution, new york, nyc, occupier, occupy, occupy wall street, Tiananmen Square, wall street on October 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I couldn’t resist the pull of Occupy Wall Street yesterday, and I think that was true for most of the tourists in the Ground Zero area. Everyone had a camera out, and most occupiers were taking advantage of being on display by holding up signs for their causes or handing out flyers. Souvenir buttons were on [...]
Weekend in Harlem
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bus, bus pass, chelsea, harlem, new york, nyc, swede, swedish on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Harlem this weekend with five other family members in a leafy neighborhood, mostly very quiet. Well, not always quiet in the middle of the night when, on more than one occasion, I’ve woken up wondering, “Should I be calling 911?” Fortunately, last night’s commotion didn’t seem like a true 911 issue. Her: ”Don’t touch me! Don’t touch [...]
Catalog Season: Better Watch Out
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged catalog, catalog choice, catalogue, christmas, gardeners greenhouse, holidays, ll bean on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A couple years ago, buried under unwanted catalogs with every mail delivery, I decided to join Catalog Choice. It’s easy to use (if intitially time consuming).And I think I have really stemmed the flow. Catalog Choice saves your address and all the different ways that companies spell the names of people in your household, and each [...]
Chinatown Mural
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged addiction, antismoking, boston, boston youth fund, chinatown, mural, south cove health enter, suffern, tobacco on October 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Taking my walk in Chinatown this morning, I noticed an unusual mural. I got up close to read the sign, which said the South Cove Community Health Center Tobacco Control Project that had created the mural in 1998. The Boston Youth Fund site adds more: “This mural was commissioned by the South Cove Health [...]
Hunter-Gatherer Joins Facebook
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anthropologist, artsjournal.com, crocodile, e-zine, filmmaker, hunter-gatherer, jonnie hughes, new guinea, sago, salon, sepik, tribe on October 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The online magazine Salon has a story this month about New Guinea tribe members taking up Facebook. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jonnie Hughes writes, “Ping! The other day, I got a Facebook friend request in my in box. … Intrigued, I opened it up, to find that this was no ordinary future friend (from the past) [...]
Did a Ballerina Spark Occupy Wall Street?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adbusters, artists, arts, ballerina, ballet, crosscuts, dance, kalle lasn, news of the great nearby, occupy, vancouver on October 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
ArtsJournal.com sent me to this article describing a ballerina posed on the Wall Street bull. The article suggests that one of the many tipping points that led to the Occupy movement was this image of a dancer. I like to think that the arts can spark a movement, although I think the Arab Spring played [...]
New Opera at Fringe Festival
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allison voth, boston, boston univeristy, fringe, fringe festival, gene scheer, jake heggie, opera, school of music opera institute, school of theatre, set design, steve mcgonagle, terrence mcnally, three decembers, tomer zvulun on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Steve McGonagle is a set designer whose community-theater work always amazed me back when I was a reviewer. One set that stands out in my mind was his huge train engine charging toward the audience in the Vokes Players performance of On the Twentieth Century (not to mention all the scene changes for that old-time [...]
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