Harmless Glocks on Spring Break
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New Glocks on the Block in Amherst, Massachusetts
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Landlocked in Vermont: Fishy Business
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Artful cuts of salmon with the power to inspire
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Advice to a Professor/Friend Who Went South to Texas
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How could he have failed to foresee the prospect of legalized guns on campus?
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Old Man Walking–Just like a Train
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On the relativism of time: Student drivers meet an octogenarian with canes on a college campus.
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New iPhone App Will Not Replace Confession; Will Not Replace Priests
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Say what you will about the Catholic Church–unlike many American institutions, it has protected its key employees–i.e, the priests, from the scythe of downsizing via outsourcing and replacement by new technologies–like the new iPhone app, Confession: A Roman Catholic App.
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A Nixon in China Artifact
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In honor of Nixon in China, John Adam’s celebrated opera, which will be simulcast in theatres/cinemas this Saturday, here’s a story about this writer’s own visit to South China in 2006, which revealed a surprising artifact of Nixon’s 1972 trip.
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Greetings from Quebecachusetts!
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New Englanders, humbled by an uncooperative winter, have much to learn from their neighbors to the north.
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Owls and Messiaen Offer Levitation, Inspiration
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An extraordinary musical mating ritual at 3 a.m. involving Great Horned Owls behind my house brought to mind the avian obsessions of Olivier Messiaen. No doubt about it–for Messiaen, birdliness was next to godliness.
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On the Aging of Aquarius
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If you’re an aging male Boomer who slogged the mud at Woodstock in 1969, odds are strong that you won’t be the last Woodstock survivor. It’s almost a sure thing that the last man standing will be a woman. For the U.S. population 65 and above, women outnumber males 4 to 3. But if you’re a guy and you make it to the final cut of supercentenarians (age 110 and over), you’ll be swamped. Only five males grace the Gerentology Research Group’s international roster of 85 supercentenarians.
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Hitchcock and Hopper: Side by Side
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When Alfred Hitchcock sought architectural inspiration for his Victorian house in Psycho,
He turned to a painting by Edward Hopper. View the real estate side by side:View Link [wigpen.blogspot.com]
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Paris 1882: Edouard Manet Meets Bass Ale
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Two bottles of Bass Ale on the bar in Manet’s 1882 masterpiece A Bar at Folies-Bergere connect us in a wink to an increasingly distant world. They may also be one of the first, albeit inadvertent, examples of product placement.
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Do We Really Deserve A Netrebko Effect? A Rollins Effect?
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Following Anna Netrebko or Sonny Rollins on Stage Can Prove Hazardous to Even the Most Accomplished Artist.
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Crossing the Bosphorous: When Does Collecting Become Obsessive?
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Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel, The Museum of Innocence, and his own undertaking to create a museum in honor of his book, demonstrate the excesses of organized collecting. Organized collecting–not just hording–can prove obsessive and dysfunctional.
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Imodium at Tanglewood
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Colorful meds vending machines service Tanglewood’s seniors demographic.
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There’s an English arts and crafts painting that also has a Bass in it. A picture of William Morris’s settle or summat.