Monthly Archives: March 2008

Some links: 25

Posted on Monday, 31 March 2008 by David Gorsline

The third rail of nearly every relationship: what does your loved one read? “I know there were occasions when I just wrote people off completely because of what they were reading long before it ever got near the point of … Continue reading →

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Princeton HQ

Posted on Wednesday, 26 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Into the bus and over the Susquehanna and Delaware with a group of volunteers from the Washington Unit to visit the National Headquarters of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Princeton, N.J. The satellite radio in the bus kept … Continue reading →

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Two tickets at will call for Pinth-Garnell, Leonard

Posted on Tuesday, 25 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Via 11D: Joe Queenan parses awful, or why The Hottie and the Nottie is not in the same class of wretched as Heaven’s Gate. …that is the reason I became a critic in the first place; criticism seemed to be … Continue reading →

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At the park: 13

Posted on Sunday, 23 March 2008 by David Gorsline

There still isn’t very much green in the park, but the birds are getting busy. We have two nests of Hooded Merganser active, and three of Wood Duck. As we were getting our gear ready in the parking lot, a … Continue reading →

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Tailspin

Posted on Saturday, 22 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Oh, my: in a leader published just prior to the most recent bad news about the Environmental Protecton Agency ignoring good science (splitting the difference on ozone standards), a leader for Nature makes a modest proposal: In a rational world, … Continue reading →

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About nothing but itself

Posted on Saturday, 22 March 2008 by David Gorsline

“Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975,” organized by the American Federation of Arts, is stopping at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in between visits to Denver and Nashville. It’s a smallish show, with some good large pieces by Jules Olitiski … Continue reading →

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Stunning

Posted on Saturday, 22 March 2008 by David Gorsline

David Adjmi’s new play, set in the enclave of Syrian Jews of Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood, gives us a look into that prosperous but highly isolated community in which he himself grew up. It opens with a bang-up scene to introduce … Continue reading →

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A more perfect union

Posted on Thursday, 20 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Taking as his text the Preamble to the Constitution, and quoting the Gospels and William Faulkner, Barack Obama delivers a moving, thoughtful, and genuinely inspiring speech on race relations. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have … Continue reading →

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88 plus 2

Posted on Thursday, 20 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Happy 90th, Marian McPartland. Tom Nolan recaps her 30-plus-year run onPiano Jazz series from NPR (link via ArtsJournal). McPartland was one of the jazz artists pictured in Art Kane’s iconic photograph from 1958.

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Upcoming: 8

Posted on Thursday, 20 March 2008 by David Gorsline

DCist reports that Artomatic 2008 will open May 9 in the Capitol Plaza 1 building, one block from the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue station on the Red Line.

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Because Rush is Canadian

Posted on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Via The Morning News: Perhaps the perfect marriage of performer and material: songs by Journey are popular with the musical directors of NCAA pep bands.

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Missing middle

Posted on Saturday, 15 March 2008 by David Gorsline

James Surowiecki sounds a contrary note in the chorus of appreciation for microfinance: What poor countries need most, then, is not more microbusinesses. They need more small-to-medium-sized enterprises, the kind that are bigger than a fruit stand but smaller than … Continue reading →

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Some snaps: 2

Posted on Friday, 14 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Highway signs using Clearview, a more legible alternative to so-called Freeway Gothic, are starting to make their appearance in Virginia. Here’s an example, this one particularly easy to photograph, at the end of the parking lot for the W&OD Trail … Continue reading →

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Major Barbara

Posted on Thursday, 13 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Would that everyone in the world were as amiably self-aware as the characters in a play by George Bernard Shaw! Or at least our adversaries. Of this much reconciliation would come. Andrew Undershaft (the majestic Ted van Griethuysen), weapons dealer … Continue reading →

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Upcoming: 7

Posted on Sunday, 9 March 2008 by David Gorsline

Jacki Lyden talks to Linda Murray, Artistic Director of local startup company Solas Nua. We hear a couple of brief readings from the upcoming production of Portia Coughlin by Marina Carr, a contemporary Irish drama of death and twins.

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