Culture
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Pajama Party Preliminaries
This post pertains to the planning which is underway for a marathon — in pajamas, in bed — for the cultured clinomaniac and dysaniac. Wether you desire to stay in bed, or have difficulties getting out of bed, the stay will be filled with an array of joys. These days in pajamas put us as…
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Days with Pedro Almodóvar: Carne Trémula (1997)
Carne Trémula (Live Flesh)February 1, 1998By James Bowman Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar begins with a scene, set on a lonely night in 1970, in which a baby is born on a bus on the way to the hospital. There is a comic bus driver and a comic older woman helping the baby be born.…
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Days with Pedro Almodóvar: Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988)
Almodovar’s First MasterpieceFebruary 23, 2010 by Emanuel Levy With the exception of “Talk to Her,” the 2003 feature in which the two protagonists are men (and straight men at that), and “Bad Education,” there are not many men in Almodovar’s films. At times, there are no men at all, and if there are, the men…
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Sabores Ancestrales de Mexico
¿QUÉ ES LA COMIDA MEXICANA? La cocina de México es el resultado de miles de años de historia, transmitida de generación en generación. Pasando desde la gastronomía mesoamericana, la prehispánica, la azteca… Hasta llegar a la cocina mexicana contemporánea se ha transformado, fusionado y evolucionado gracias a sus distintas influencias. En 2010, la gastronomía mexicana…
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The Life You Give: Edgard Varèse *1883
Edgard Varèse, born Edgar Varèse on Dec. 22, 1883, in Paris, France, was a composer and innovator in 20th-century techniques of sound production. Varèse spent his boyhood in Paris, Burgundy, and Turin, Italy. After composing without formal instruction as a youth, he later studied under Vincent d’Indy, Albert Roussel, and Charles Widor and was strongly…
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Personal Lexicon: food
Food is given that the animal noble may entertain, satisfy, and celebrate being, physically and metaphysically, rather than merely subside hunger. Hence, I need to question the intake of food which is artificial.
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Green Walnut — with San Giovanni, Saint-Jean, and Sant Joan, it is Nocino, Vin de Noix, and Ratafia — in New York it is my way
In New York, New York, just like in Italy, Spain, and France, the twenty-forth of June is upon us. It is the time of the year in which humans interject nature, as they often do. Throughout the history of mankind, we have been observing our environment, and, in various instances — instead of taking the…
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The Life You Give: Carl Linnaeus *1707
Carolus Linnaeus, born on May 23, 1707, in Råshult, Småland, Sweden, is the naturalist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them (binomial nomenclature). Linnaeus was the son of a curate and grew up in Småland, a…
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