Ma.gnolia: Eliz. S.'s Bookmarks

The Smart Set: Divine Drunks - July 23, 2008

2008-07-23T13:27:00-07:00

"the Bacchic rites have always been shrouded in mystery, the evidence blurred perhaps by the fact that the eyewitnesses tended to be blitheringly drunk."

Return to an Abandoned Style? - New York Times Blog

2008-07-23T08:58:41-07:00

"Mr. Bernard, after beginning his remarks with a passionate defense of them, said that when he told [Elliot] Carter that he liked his early music, Mr. Carter responded: “So do I. I didn’t used to like it, but now I like it again.”

The Smart Set: X-Men and Suicide Girls - July 14, 2008

2008-07-15T11:01:35-07:00

Used to be a girl could read comic books with the big boys. Then the latter discovered that some of the X-Men had breasts.

On the death of BPP | Gravity Medium

2008-07-14T14:25:26-07:00

"All in all, it’s a sad day for NPR. Not so much because it lost a program that was, in truth, faltering from the start, but because the Board appears to have missed a key opportunity here."

BBC NEWS | James Reynolds' China: Queuing Day

2008-07-11T13:37:16-07:00

"I went to a Beijing subway station. Queue monitors pointed people towards various lines on the platform. There were groups of people queuing up reasonably well (it wasn't a strict one-behind-the-other queue, more of a kind of ordered clump). I walked straight past everybody, and stood in front. Nobody behind me said anything. I felt horrific. A few seconds later, a queuing monitor came up to me and politely asked me to get to the back of the line."

Sepinwall on TV: 'Burn Notice' review - NJ.com

2008-07-10T08:30:11-07:00

"despite the introduction of Carla (played with both sauce and venom by Helfer, the rare model-turned-actress whose acting chops are even more impressive than her looks), season two "Burn Notice" is pretty much the same as season one."

Sarah and Joshua Littman | StoryCorps

2008-07-08T11:48:21-07:00

Fastest moving Storycorps I've ever heard: "Have you ever lied to me?" 12-year-old Joshua Littman, who has Asperger's syndrome, interviews his mother.

Music for the masses | Economist.com

2008-07-07T11:58:42-07:00

"the simulcasts’ main point is to broaden the audience. According to a recent survey by Shugoll Research, a pollster, more than 92% of the people who saw one of the Met’s performances in a cinema said they were likely to go to a performance at the Met or another opera house. As almost one in five of those surveyed said that they had not gone to the opera in the past two years, and around 5% said they had never been to the opera at all, the Met can justifiably claim that simulcasts are rejuvenating and expanding the audience for opera."

Home | How I Spent My Stimulus

2008-07-02T09:05:07-07:00

I should take a pic of my new computer and send it in. =)

In a Year at a Brooklyn School, a Professional French Hornist Encounters Music at Its Most Basic - NYTimes.com

2008-06-23T13:12:47-07:00

A professional musician confronts the real world at a Brooklyn junior high.

Exile In Guyville: In The Music Industry, Female "Geniuses" Are Hard To Find

2008-06-19T12:46:59-07:00

I checked out the Billboard Hot 100, and as five of the top ten albums are by women, maybe we need to lament the lack of "genius" females in music writing, not music making.

I Choose My Choice!

2008-06-16T12:26:59-07:00

The fruits of the feminist revolution? Sisterhood, empowerment, and eight hours a day in a cubicle

She and Him: The Lillywhite Session : NPR Music

2008-06-13T15:31:29-07:00

ooooooooh, She & Him on NPR!!

Leatherback Turtle in Texas - First Since 1930s - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

2008-06-12T09:02:45-07:00

"For the first time since the 1930’s, federal biologists confirmed that a leatherback sea turtle has nested on a Texas beach, at the Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi."

Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 11

2008-06-11T08:17:51-07:00

slideshow of Lichtenstein's early work. I love his stuff.

The Smart Set: On Sex and the City: The Movie

2008-06-10T13:09:57-07:00

"The latest turn in women’s liberation is to stop imitating men and to celebrate not being them. High-level corporate and academic women have jettisoned their power suits for miniskirts and scooped-neck tops. Carrie Bradshaw is the patron saint of this empowered female self. And only a dolt would take her sartorial choices literally — they’re meant to showcase an idea, not serve as a blueprint."

Gas Spike Troubles Meals on Wheels : NPR

2008-06-10T08:56:52-07:00

"Steep costs for gas and a sharp increase in food prices have forced Meals on Wheels programs across the country to rethink how they get prepared meals to low-income people who need them."

Iron My Skirt

2008-06-09T12:55:29-07:00

"Love her or loathe her, the big story here is Americans saw a woman who was a serious, popular, major-party candidate."

Hullabaloo: Eye Opener

2008-06-09T10:40:51-07:00

"Clinton's campaign ripped open a hole in our culture and forced us to look inside. And what we found was a simmering cauldron of crude, sophomoric sexism and ugly misogyny that a lot of us knew existed but didn't realize was still so socially acceptable that it could be broadcast on national television and garner nary a complaint from anybody but a few internet scolds like me."

Elastic Waist - the reason why healthy foods cost so much

2008-06-05T08:23:34-07:00

interesting. . .

The Female Vote: It Was 89 Years Ago Today

2008-06-04T12:37:11-07:00

Whatever the outcome of the 2008 election, we can all still honor the fact that we are allowed to vote in the first place! On June 4th, 1919, Congress approved the women's suffrage amendment, and sent it to the states for ratification.

Elastic Waist - 12 ways to save money on your grocery bill without resorting to eating spam

2008-06-04T11:27:25-07:00

I've talked about this once before (and those tips are here) and here are even more ways to save money at the grocery store while still eating healthy.

Politics - California's Democrats shift into Obama's camp, Field Poll finds - sacbee.com

2008-05-30T13:10:32-07:00

"In a May 16-27 survey of Democratic voters, Obama was preferred over Clinton by 51 percent to 38 percent – nearly the reverse of Clinton's 51.5 percent to Obama's 43.2 percent in the California primary."

"Bourne" Trilogy Headed To The MoMA - The Huffington Post

2008-05-28T15:11:18-07:00

"What the 'Bourne' films managed to do was to move people's expectations into a whole new area in terms of what the spy genre could deliver," said MoMA chief film curator Rajendra Roy.

The Smart Set: Anatomy of an Earthquake - May 27, 2008

2008-05-28T12:17:21-07:00

"Nature is essentially in a state of flux, but that’s the anti-thesis of the human condition: Humans seek safety in organized stability. And here in Deyang, any sense of safety had been shattered on that fateful day."

Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet: Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet - PopMatters Music Review

2008-05-22T13:07:42-07:00

Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet, Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet, (Nettwerk), review by Maura Walz -- Bluegrass masters journey from Appalachia to Asia and back, often in the course of a single tune. Article published 2008-05-22

The Smart Set: Small Town Cinderella - May 9, 2008

2008-05-13T09:43:38-07:00

At the tiny amusement park in New England where I worked, my costume smelled, the pirate boat had an awful driver, and the teacup ride could've taken a kid's leg off. Story Land was no Disney World.

ESPN - Richardson wins track team title by herself - Trackandfield

2008-05-12T09:20:00-07:00

Richardson wins track team title by herself

Cognitive Daily: Non-musicians can identify minor-key tunes, but only when labeled "sad"

2008-05-07T10:28:18-07:00

interesting!

Masterpiece | Cranford | PBS

2008-05-05T13:47:30-07:00

you can watch episodes online until May 23!