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Elvin Jones
Sweating It Out
By: - Sep 16th, 2014My first assignment for the daily Herald Traveler was covering Elvin Jones. There was a surprise when I visited his dressing room.
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Weather or Not
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Road Kill
I Read the News Today Oh Boy
By: - Sep 13th, 2014The Globe today read. The driver of a tractor trailer was killed when his vehicle flipped over onto the median on Route 128 near Lexington, State Police said.
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Seance
Tales of the Lower East Side
By: - Sep 11th, 2014Mooshie the stray cat adopted me. After an uptown seance we parted company.
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Cedar Tavern
Ersatz Artist Mecca
By: - Sep 10th, 2014The emerging ideas of the abstract expressionists were debated and brawled at the legendary Cedar Tavern. It was just a bar near Greenwich Village in walking distance from 10th street studios where artists gathered to hang out and drink. As an art student on Spring Break I wandered in expecting to find de Kooning.
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Dissent
Reading Hannah Arendt
By: - Sep 07th, 2014I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car
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The Man with the Beckett Face
Heavier Than Joyce, Terser,
By: - Sep 07th, 2014He crossed over to Ireland, yet again. That was August,1939, and the Germans On the move.
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Fig Tree
Wintering Over
By: - Sep 07th, 2014Italians bundle up and bury their fig trees to endure harsh winters. Or keep them in pots to bring indoors. As did my grandmother back in Brooklyn.
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In Love
From The Merit of Light Poems by Stephen Rifkin
By: - Sep 04th, 2014A debut collection of poetry The Merit of Light is inspired by the author’s relationship with his wife and their time living on an island in Maine. Rifkin’s poems... communicate both the beauty and isolation of island life, and his wife Wilma's simple but lovely sketches enhance the poems, making them even more evocative.
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Art and Fashion
No Regrets
By: - Sep 01st, 2014Once celebrated artists no longer are. One of them was Jennifer Bartlett. Even then I was not impressed.
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September Song
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Magna Carta at the Clark
1215 and All That
By: - Aug 29th, 2014Magna Carta comes to the Clark courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral as part of the United Kingdom’s preparations for celebrating the document’s 800th anniversary in 2015. The Lincoln Cathedral Exemplar of Magna Carta is widely regarded as the finest extant copy of the document due to the fact that it is written in an ‘official’ hand and has remained at Lincoln since the time of its first issue.
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August
Last Days of Summer
By: - Aug 11th, 2014In the Roman calendar August was named for Augustus, the Roman emperor Gaius Octavian eleveated to the status of a god. The peak and tipping point of summer. Start of the long slide into January and the two faced god Janus.
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36 Righteous
A Serial Killer's Hit List
By: - Mar 29th, 2014In a haters-gonna-hate world shared by the likes of Fred Phelps and a host of jihadist suicide bombers, we are obliged to grant credence to the central motif of a thriller pitting radical fundamentalist beliefs—one Jewish, the other Christian—against one another.
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Venus of Willendorf
Poem Inspired by Vienna Viewing
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013While in Vienna Astrid Hiemer viewed the Venus of Willendorf. It inspired the poem reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Jim Jacobs
On the Fly
By: - Jun 13th, 2013When I worked as an intern for the Egyptian Department of the MFA next door Jim Jacobs was a student of classics curator Cornelius Vermule. We have been friends ever since although I rarely get to see him. Last night he flew in for a visit but vanished by dawn.
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Snagged
A 500 Word Mystery
By: - May 09th, 2013The premise for the story is intriguing: a 500-word mystery that required the following elements: a jug of bootleg moonshine, a stuffed swordfish, a 1959 Soviet armored limousine, and a dead gypsy! Gerald Elias, who resides in Utah and West Stockbridge, is author of the award-winning Daniel Jacobus mystery series (St. Martin’s Press).
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MASS MoCA's Book Club April 3
Features Artists Johnny Carrera and Tom Phillips
By: - Mar 19th, 2013The second installment of MASS MoCA's Book Club will feature artists Johnny Carrera and Tom Phillips. It will be held on April 3rd at 6pm in the Life's Work exhibition. Unlike traditional book clubs, this program makes connections between museum exhibitions and the written word.
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Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
Schedule of Events March 1 through 7
By: - Feb 19th, 2013Major funding for the Festival of Women Writers is provided by the John A. Sellon Charitable Trust, the Massachusetts Council on the Humanities, Bard College at Simon's Rock, and local Cultural Councils of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, along with many organizations, individuals and businesses.
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Abolitionists' Words Framed Our History
American Antislavery Writings Edited By Jim Basker
By: - Jan 30th, 2013Part of the Library of America series, American Antislavery Writings edited by Jim Basker, speak the eloquent words of the Abolitionists that still echo today 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a time of division, a time of turmoil but a moment of articulate condemnation of the sins of slavery. This very human American story is a major part of our nation's heritage.
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Gerald Elias Musican and Author
Tanglewood Violinist and Mystery Writer
By: - Nov 04th, 2012Violinist Gerald Elias departed the Boston Symphony Orchestra some years ago for greater opportunities in Salt Lake City. He returns each summer to get his "orchestral fix" performing with Tanglewood. Several years ago he conflated music and writing with a series of successful mystery novels. We met briefly during WordFest a weekend long writer's conference at The Mount.
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Boston Book Festival October 27
Full Schedule of Events
By: - Oct 09th, 2012The Boston Book Festival, in partnership with WBUR 90.9 FM, announces the complete schedule and locations for the widely anticipated annual event, taking place Oct. 27, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in locations in and around Copley Square
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WORDfest 2012 at Wharton’s The Mount
May Become A Yearly Event
By: - Sep 25th, 2012Here's a second account of this year's WORDfest at the Edith Wharton estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts, which celebrated authors and readers September 14-16. The article is offering a different point of view and photo angles.
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Faith vs. Flatulence
Mom Had a Pill for Everything
By: - Sep 17th, 2012Lunch at Mt. Alvernia Academy was followed by chapel and then recess. This sequence of events and its digestive process led to unfortunate consequences and intense embarrassment. Particularly when it entailed relics. It was an awkward moment not to be in control of bodily functions.
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The Mount Hosts Its Second WordFest
The Literati Gather in the Berkhires
By: - Sep 17th, 2012On a glorious fall weekend WordFest was held at Edith Wharton's estate The Mount. There was an intense program of back to back panel discussions, interviews and poetry readings. It seemed like many in the audience were New Yorker readers while the speakers were top loaded with contributors. Surely it was a well read and well-heeled assembly in the posh Berkshires.
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