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Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Royal Family
Not even a minor technical derailment in the third act can hinder the momentum of this venerable piece of American theater, which first appeared in 1927. This light comedy still has the power to summon chuckles, albeit not guffaws. The … Continue reading
Fela!
The set (panels of corrugated tin) for Bill T. Jones and his collaborators’ new production spills out into the auditorium of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre (even as far as the exit doors), promising to break the boundaries between performance and … Continue reading
Wolf Rock, Chimney Rock
Turkey Vultures were kettling above the toll road to Leesburg as I set out for Catoctin Mountain Park in Frederick County, Maryland on this unnaturally warm and sunny November day. Some hiking, some field work in support of the paper … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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Good intentions
Ariel Kaminer realty-checks volunteering at a soup kitchen for the holidays: So though [Joel] Berg [executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger] appreciates the thought, he says the best way to contribute is to lend your specialized … Continue reading
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Nature is never finished
Randy Kennedy visits Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty with conservators from the Dia Art Foundation, who have devised a low-tech way to document the structure’s changing condition year to year. …the institute, which often works in countries where conservation projects are … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Architecture
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Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley
The sun was burning off the morning fog, residue from our several days of rain, as we set off northwest on I-270 on this car-powered field trip, stopping at nearly a dozen places in the Blue Ridge and Ridge and … Continue reading
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One show at a time
The good news (as reported by Missy Frederick) is that Theater Alliance, a local performing company with some great work to its credit, has received a grant of federal economic stimulus money from the D.C Commission on the Arts and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and Business, Theater
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Nipped and tucked and buffed
Carrie Brownstein puts in a good word for flubs in recorded music. Voices, guitars and drums are really expressive instruments for the same reason that they’re really inexact instruments: [You] can’t coax the same note or beat out of them … Continue reading
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Perhaps the only colon in the book
A Tennessean named Webster had been watching him and he asked the judge what he aimed to do with those notes and sketches and the judge smiled and said that it was his intention to expunge them from the memory … Continue reading
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Known unknowns and unknown knowns
ROY COHN. So send me my pills, with a get-well bouquet, PRONTO, or I’ll ring up CBS and sing Mike Wallace a song: (Sotto voce, with relish) the ballad of adorable Ollie North and his secret contra slush fund. (He … Continue reading
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Angels in America
Forum Theatre, recently relocated to Round House Theater’s Silver Spring black box, delivers a commendable production of Tony Kushner’s huge, seven-hour two-part play. Each of the many, many scenes is suggested by only one or two set pieces on wheels—an … Continue reading
Disfarmer
A tornado conjured from scraps of paper fanned with a piece of stiff paper, a minature cow twirling on a stick, light projected through old-school photographic negative plates—such are the simple, powerful effects accomplished by Dan Hurlin in his new … Continue reading
Upcoming: 18
Next year’s Great Backyard Bird Count will again be held over Presidents Day weekend, 12 February thru 15 February. Painless citizen science: get out and count!
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No rust, no fuss
Sally Adee reports on a novel design for an energy generating station that runs on ocean swells. Oceanlinx, an Australian company, is developing a platform that is mostly submerged but has no moving parts below the waterline.
Posted in Energy Sources and Consumption
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On deck: 3
George Plimpton’s hockey book is back in print; an old Dickens from the basement shelves that I never got around to reading; an Angela Carter that I didn’t know about; and this seems to be the year of Edna Ferber … Continue reading
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