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The Internet is making libraries obsolete. Libraries as a place people use to conduct research are going the way of the dodo. Nobody goes to the library anymore. That’s the assumption some people make, but a brief note in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project […]
With Johnny Depp nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, some might be tempted to ask, Was there a real Sweeney Todd? The subtitle of Robert Mack’s book The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend gives away the disappointing truth: he […]
This week’s Word Of The Week is: Denizen. Meaning a person who dwells within a particular place, it originally meant a resident of a country (as opposed to a foreigner). Denizen is derived via Old French from Latin words “within” and “foreign”. It has also been used as a verb meaning “to make a denizen”.
In his hilarious travel blog, Charles Starmer Smith says, “Willy Wonka would be proud” and calls a chocolate-powered car “a typically British hair-brained scheme”, but, as he explains, the project also had a serious message. British adventurers Andy Pag and John Grimshaw drove six-thousand miles from England to Timbuktu in a car powered entirely by […]
The death of Bobby Fischer put chess, briefly, back on the front page, at least in the United States. Fischer, the strange, eccentric genius who took on the Soviet chess juggernaut and won, then disappeared and descended into madness, appearing only occasionally to make outrageous and often anti-Semitic or anti-American remarks, is considered by many […]
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”-Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
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Every year in the early hours on the day of January 19th, a mysterious, black-clad figure enters Westminster Hall And Burying Ground in Baltimore, Maryland, goes to the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, raises a cognac toast, and then leaves half a bottle of cognac and three roses. The tradition began in 1949, a little […]
The exhibit of artwork by Jeanette Martone at the Sarratt Art Galley on the Vanderbilt University campus is a beautiful testament to the “common linkage found in our humanity” which, as she says in her artist’s statement, “inspires the foundation of” her work. Simple black and white drawings of people, mostly from the Dominican Republic […]
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival is beginning its 20th Anniversary season with one of Shakespeare’s darkest and best plays: Hamlet. The production runs from January 17th through February 2nd. From its beginning, with an army advancing on Elsinore and a ghost disturbing the guards, to the final act which begins with two gravediggers throwing around bones […] |
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