March 08, 2009
so i'm watching this show on european travel, earlier it was on umbria and tuscany. right now they're covering london and i've realized my lazy ass has taken much of that city for granted.or maybe the show just makes it seem more exciting and neat.i've never walked across the millenium bridge.i gues...
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at 8:53 PM
March 01, 2009
More and more of us dream of escaping the rat race - last week it emerged 34,000 people had applied for a single job on an Australian island. Here Amanda Hyzler describes what taking the plunge is really like, and four other life-shifters describe their experiences We are both in our early 40s and s...
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at 12:16 AM
February 26, 2009
ACT the SECONDwherein the noble COUNT reccollects old WOUNDS They overtook the lead elements of the army four miles up the road. The host was crossing the new canal between the Brenta and the Bacchiglione. Here they caught up with the commander of the foot soldiers, Vanni Scornigiani. Called...
The Master of Verona
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David Blixt
at 10:28 AM
February 13, 2009
An organic farm in the green hills of Umbria, Italy, proposes an unusual gift idea for Christmas: Adoption of an olive tree, a present that will help to preserve nature. The olive tree is one of the oldest cultivated plants of humanity. Since antique times it is a symbol for peace, longevity, health...
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at 5:38 AM
February 10, 2009
Woo-hoo!! Thank you Joe! The snow is falling thick and fast but the memories of mussels, tiny Manilla clams and cobia linger on. Umbria may be land locked and meat-centric, but living in the Wasatch mountains of Utah really makes......
Aroma Cucina
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JudithKlinger
at 10:36 PM
February 06, 2009
Rachel Cusk is a prodigiously gifted novelist whose black comedies of domestic compromise and claustrophobia are so merciless that they are painful to read. She has exposed herself in memoir once before: A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother differed from the usual narratives of transformation in that...
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Justine Jordan
at 7:01 PM
January 29, 2009
So, I was on the bus the other day, cheerfully folding away and rocking out to an old Bowie/Eno song and got to thinking about culture. The song was ostensibly about culture, you see — Bowie says: It’s not as truly hostile about Americans as say “Born in the U.S.A.”: it’...
The Fitful Flog
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oschene
at 12:50 PM
January 27, 2009
Hal Espo, President of Contextual Connections, LLC interviews Glenn S. Goldberg, President Information & Media, The McGraw-Hill Companies. McGraw-Hill has a global footprint in which it delivers both traditional media and enterprise information products. "Content really matters," Notes Goldberg,...
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John Blossom
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January 19, 2009
No news on the pending Jazz Consumer Guide column. It's in the Voice's mill and presumably will come out sooner or later. I'm preoccupied with work on my house. Taking spare moments to keep from falling too far behind, but time for working on this is limited. I expect it to get far worse over the ne...
Tom Hull
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at 2:03 PM
January 12, 2009
DEWEY’S CIRCLE David Murray Ming Black Saint : 1980 BUY DM, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Olu Dara, trumpet; Lawrence “Butch” Morris, cornet; George Lewis, trombone; Henry Threadgill, alto sax; Anthony Davis, piano; Wilber Morris, bass; Steve McCall, drums. MOON WALTZ John Carter Dance...
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