Short Takes
July 24, 2010
The bells are ringing — in Rhinebeck
The non-Hampton up the Hudson will be the scene of a media frenzy when Chelsea Clinton marries What’s His Name there. And then it will, please, slip under the radar again. If you must go to Rhinebeck, my pals at Rural Intelligence offer a field guide to the town’s cool stuff.
July 24, 2010
‘Laurence Fishburne totally checked out your legs…’
A reader reports: “Okay, so I’m a woman of a certain age. I’m sitting in the front row of the play about Thurgood Marshall, and, when it’s over, I stay for the question-and-answer session. I’m wearing a short dress, and I had put on the Sally Hansen leg make up that your wife uses. My friend leaned over and whispered, ‘Laurence Fishburne totally checked out your legs…’ I think this made my decade. I am sending your wife a huge thank you.”
July 24, 2010
Is your kid targeted by bullies? ‘Friending’ bullies?
The cruelty of kids to kids didn’t start with Facebook and texting. If your kid is a target — or a bully — a kid’s book set a century ago powerfully shows how this cruelty catches on and grows. And, worse, how good kids get caught up in it and go along with it. The Hundred Dresses, a short, 80-page novel could change – or save — a life.
July 24, 2010
‘Girls Like Us’ – The book now has a free soundtrack
It’s like a low-tech app, a “m-book,” if you will. As you’re reading Sheila Weller’s beach-book-and-then-some, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — and the Journey of a Generation, you can go to a web site and listen to the songs that made them want to write, as well as the songs they wrote and recorded. With the occasional video and back story.
July 22, 2010
Mood Elevator: Classical Power Unleashed!
When some yahoo — like your kid — says classical music’s a bore, here’s your answer. And the fireworks at the end! Carmina Burana, of course.
