Archive for April, 2007
The Week That Was
Last Wednesday, managed to catch the Design Made in Africa exhibit at the World Financial Center, co-sponsored by the Museum for African Art. Fantastic looking and very utilitarian pieces of furniture and other object des arts - modern Africa heading towards the 21st Century - at the Courtyard Gallery in the World Financial Center [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2007 under Brooklyn, Manhattan.
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First Half of the Week
Felt like summer already today.
Must watch “Heroes”… am sadly behind… don’t watch spoilers… must resist…
First I saw the AP article on Yahoo, and I, of course, scoffed at it: the idea of a “potentially habitable planet”? And, notice the numerosity of “maybe’s” and “this theory may change upon further research,” as [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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Uncertainty
Sorry I’ve been OL the last few days. Hay fever got the worst of me this weekend. I stayed home from work on Monday. Here’s lots of catchup:
Happy Bday to AS and MJ!
In random order, Taste of Chinatown was on Saturday. Peking Duck House gets their act together, and we were able to snag a [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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The sun has come out…
What lovely weather - finally spring outside, not reserved to the tulips in my office at work.
Time Magazine’s Lisa Takeuchi Cullen posts on her blog the Asian-American journalist’s dilemma in covering the Virginia Tech story. It made a lot of sense to me - you don’t want to make race/ethnicity the issue, but then [...]
Posted: April 20th, 2007 under Brooklyn, Manhattan.
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Will the Sun come out, tomorrow…
Note on the weather - despite the nor’easter being well over, the gray skies have yet to clear up around here; ugh. At least I’ve a bunch of tulips blooming in my office to give some color, otherwise it’d be really dark and dreary.
“Raines” episode of April 13, 2007 - pretty good, I have [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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