LE PATRON’S PERSONAL PASTA MACHINE
ETTORE BUGATTI WAS KNOWN as Le Patron, French loosely for “the Boss,” with factory and estate located in Molsheim, Alsace, in a portion of eastern France that had been western … Continue reading
SCIENCE AND THE BALLOT
HOW SECURE IS our balloting? Last year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science established the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues. One focus, as described by … Continue reading
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS REVISITED PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE BEGAN tidbits gleaned from Marina Warner’s “Travelling Texts,” in London Review of Books, discussing The Arabian Nights. Today in Part 2, there’s a Frenchmen who translates (and adds … Continue reading
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS REVISITED PART 1
THE LONDON REVIEW of Books has enriched its online presence with Diverted Traffic, reappearances of LRB articles from years past. Recently here at SimanaitisSays, I’ve shared Diverted Traffic adventures of … Continue reading
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TECHRON!
PERHAPS TODAY WHILE washing your hands thoroughly, you can sing “Happy Birthday,” twice, of course, to Techron, Chevron’s gasoline additive celebrating its 25th anniversary. Here are tidbits on the auto … Continue reading
BRITISH THEATRE DESIGN: THE MODERN AGE PART 2
THE BOOK BRITISH Theatre Design: the Modern Age gives fascinating insights into dance, plays, the Great British Musical, and opera. Here in Part 2, I share tidbits on two British … Continue reading
BRITISH THEATRE DESIGN: THE MODERN AGE PART 1
WE SEEM TO be on a Brit kick, having recently celebrated BBC TV’s 50 years. Presented here at SimanaitisSays in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, tidbits from the … Continue reading
CELEBRATING THE BRITS’ EARLY TELLY PART 2
EVERYTHING WAS GOING brilliantly for viewers of BBC’s fledgling television service, at least for those in London who possessed early TV sets in the late 1930s. Tall TV Sets. Cathode-ray … Continue reading
CELEBRATING THE BRITS’ EARLY TELLY PART 1
HAVE YOU BEEN watching a lot of electronic images lately? Me too, including television, opera streaming, GMax aeroplane crafting, and occasional Zooming. I guess I count any screen, be it … Continue reading
DEATH AT THE OPERA MATINEE
TRAGIC DEATHS ARE nothing new to opera. But these two were tragically real. At the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, January 23, 1988, opera singer Bantcho … Continue reading
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