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Is the murder and mayhem in Mexico bizarre and disconnected from us as we sit so far from our nation’s southern border or is it maybe the leading edge of some form of mass chaos that could crack the social earth right here? Another 17 people gunned down in a bar in Monterey, Mexico, adding to the…
Read More »Just back from Boarding House Park and what some audience members described as a “life-changing experience” after 2.5 hours of musical immersion in the art of Bela Fleck and the fabulous Flecktones. I don’t know the vocabulary of the banjo, but Mr Fleck coaxes out of it a sophisticated sound…
Read More »From AOL/Huffington Post, here are comments by ultra-wealthy Warren Buffett on the political game being played by national Republicans in Congress concerning the national debt limit. The clip is from a CNBC interview. In May, Buffett stated at a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder’s meeting that if the Congress failed to raise the debt…
Read More »As long as this new museum would include everyone’s roots, then I think it has merit. If it comes from a backlash against national museums for Native Americans and African Americans, then it’s not starting with a positive spirit. I’m picking up more than a whiff of complaint in this news. There…
Read More »Congratulations to everyone at Trinity Financial, City Hall, and in the arts community who helped make the idea of artist housing in the Hamilton Canal District a reality. Here’s the news release from Gov. Patrick’s office about the ribbon-cutting Tuesday at the Appleton Mills artist live-work space project. Once again, cultural-related development is…
Read More »Cy Twombly was an artist, is an artist, whom I’ve long been aware of, but I never “got” him. Nevertheless, I always appreciated his creative project. The work is distinctive and ambitious. The handmade writing-like gestures in so much of the work exude a humane vibe. I like that…
Read More »If the debt ceiling talks fail, independents voters will see that Democrats were willing to compromise but Republicans were not. If responsible Republicans don’t take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans are not fit to govern. And they will be right.…
Read More »Growing up, I often heard the phrase “knee-high by the Fourth of July” when adults talked about the summer prospects for native corn. Yesterday I walked up and down the narrow streets of the Back Central neighborhood between Central and Lawrence streets, which I like to call “The Garden District.”…
Read More »Read the boston.com bulletin about four Red Sox teammates making the American League All Star Team: Ortiz, Gonzalez, Ellsbury, and Beckett. David Ortiz (dh) and Adrian Gonzalez (1b) made the starting line-up.
Read More »The Los Angeles Times today has an article by Michael Hiltzik on its Business pages about BMW closing an auto parts distribution center in Ontorio, Calif. The reporter effectively puts this action in perspective of the national and global economies and bottom-line financial decisionmaking. Read the article here, which I picked up on…
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