FLW AT MoMA, PART 2
NEW YORK City’s Museum of Modern Art is celebrating FLW’s sesquicentennial with “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive.” Yesterday’s armchair tour here at SimanaitisSays focused on FLW’s works … Continue reading
FLW AT MoMA, PART 1
THIS YEAR is the sesquicentennial of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art is celebrating this with its “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive.” … Continue reading
OPEN WIDE, THEN RINSE
PRAISE FOR our rock-star guitarist/car nut/dentist is county wide, especially among ex-R&T staff. Dr. Eric Prouty is a skilled, compassionate, and most modern of dental practitioners as well. It’s one … Continue reading
ELECTRIC CARS
“SUDDENLY, AFTER a lapse of nearly 50 years, we’re hearing a lot about electric cars. Back in the fledgling days of animal-less conveyances, electric cars were more popular than gasoline-powered … Continue reading
THROUGH AN OPERAGLASS, WITH TIME TRAVEL, PART 2
CHARLES ANNESLEY sure knew his operas, all 151 of them discussed in his 1910 guide. Yesterday’s Annesley time capsule focused on Puccini; today, the Wagner family appears in all its … Continue reading
THROUGH AN OPERAGLASS, WITH TIME TRAVEL, PART 1
CHARLES ANNESLEY was the author of a popular guide to the world’s operas. Or at least as these operas were perceived back in 1910. I judge his book’s popularity by … Continue reading
BRITISH NARROWBOATS
ONE OF my life’s regrets (there are only a few) is that Wife Dottie and I never took a narrowboat holiday on British canals. The nearest we came to this … Continue reading
WITCH HUNT? I’LL SHOW YOU A REAL WITCH HUNT
THE TERM “witch hunt” is appearing with increasing regularity in the news, and this has encouraged me to investigate the real thing, not just in relation to cornered politicos such … Continue reading
DEDICATED, SIGNED, AND (MAYBE WARMLY) INSCRIBED
A RENEWAL notice from London Review of Books told a good story: “George Bernard Shaw once saw a copy of one of his books in a secondhand bookshop. When he … Continue reading
AN AEROPLANE FOR EVERYMAN—THE AUSTIN WHIPPET, PART 2
MAYBE A British Great War pilot was contemplating conversion of the back garden potting shed into an aeroplane hangar for his Austin Whippet. Or maybe not. It was 1919 and … Continue reading
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