Arts & Culture

La Vie En Rose

By

The Real Food Film Series takes a turn from the political to the sublime on September 7 with Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers, director Les Blank’s 57-minute-long ode to garlic, the “stinking rose.”

The House Strained Peas Built

By

The centerpiece of the collection is a first-rate group of Winslow Homer paintings and watercolors, followed by a strong collection of works from the “Ash Can School,” urban realists working in the early 20th century.

Irish Symphony

By

n 1607, a pair of powerful Irish noblemen fled Ireland to seek help against the tightening grip of English domination. Robinson McClellan used the earls’ travels and travails to structure his piece.

Joshing Around

By

Today the Great Josh Billings RunAground draws more than 400 teams made up of one, two, three, or four people, most of them wearing spandex and sporting state-of-the-art shoes, bikes, canoes, and kayaks.

River Keeper

By

Annea Lockwood has created an “aural journey” from the river’s source—the beautifully named Lake Tear of the Clouds, in the high peaks of the Adirondacks—to its terminus in New York harbor.

It's an Ed Thing

By

The first thing to know about the band Eddie from Ohio, is that, yes, there is an Eddie but, no, he’s not from Ohio.

Portfolio: Judith Linhares

By

From a distance, Judith Linhares’s paintings are pure candy-coated fantasies. The colors strike you first, pinks and purples, phosphorous greens, aqua- and ultramarines.

Art Review: Idyll Rich

By

To think that a rich, young American couple could have inspired great art in a variety of media on two continents through the sheer force of their personalities and lifestyle is almost beyond imagination.

Food & Drink

Sometimes You Want to Go

By

The Blue Plate Restaurant is one of those rarities that possess a definitive but indescribable essence—what’s known in Latin as genius loci, or “spirit of place.”

Books

Writing His Way Home

By

Like the disadvantaged tooth fairy in his latest novel, hatched parentless in an old tin can, author Gregory Maguire had a rough start.

Short Takes

By

Reviews of books by Dr. Lewis Marola, Naton Leslie, Jon Katz, Paul Grondahl, and Bruce Piasecki.

Book Reviews: The Family Diamond

By

Schwarzschild’s new short story collection provides real emotional, intellectual, and aesthetic nourishment, never offering simplistic resolutions to complex situations.

Book Reviews: When Madeline Was Young

By

When Madeline Was Young is conceptually imaginative and potentially haunting, yet Madeline’s unique world failed to materialize in that ethereal transit zone between page and heart.