Author Archives: sogalitno

What Emma Thompson is up to November 5, 2006  By SARAH LYALL LONDON – EMMA THOMPSON was recalling the pivotal scene in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” when her resolutely self-contained character, Elinor Dashwood, realizes that her life has changed … Continue reading →

Read it and cheer – and VOTE on Tuesday! The Difference Two Years Made On Tuesday, when this page runs the list of people it has endorsed for election, we will include no Republican Congressional candidates for the first time … Continue reading →

See the superb Andrew Sullivan for the editorial to be released by the ARMY TIMES calling for R’s resignation.  

It was TIME to clean up the basement storage area – couldn’t  deal with all the folded moving boxes stacked and scattered throughout boxes full of “mysterious” yarn – what was where? miscellaneous boxes full of “stuff” So it being … Continue reading →

George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do. They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry — a man who is not even running for office but … Continue reading →

from NY TIMES By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Even before his career took off, the young Leonard Bernstein sized up television and thought, first, that it was potentially the greatest tool for general music education and, second, that he was the ideal … Continue reading →

New School Knitting: The Influence of Elizabeth Zimmermann and Schoolhouse Press October 27 – December 17, 2006 Elizabeth Zimmermann and Meg Swansen, ca. 1947. Photo courtesy of Schoolhouse Press. A virtual exhibition catalog is available at http://www.newschoolknittingexhibition.org Knitwear designers Elizabeth … Continue reading →

From  Mambocat's Knitting Asylum a trip down MEMORY LANE What with it being Halloween and all, I decided to regale you with a Very Old Object that has been raised from the dead. During the course of the repair work on … Continue reading →

From The Guardian four interesting articles Trouble in Catfish RowIs it a celebration of the African-American spirit – or just a high-class minstrel show? Gary Younge on the controversy that has plagued Porgy and Bess since its creation. Oliver Knussen … Continue reading →

By EDWARD ROTHSTEINNew York Times Published: October 20, 2006 Anna Russell, the prima donna of operatic parody who claimed to have begun her career as “leading soprano of the Ellis Island Opera Company,” who said she learned to play the … Continue reading →