CITIES THAT DON'T KNOW THEIR PLACE Venices
of the North include Amsterdam, Bruges, Manchester
and Stockholm. Western Venices
include Venice, California and Shannon in Ireland. Venices of the East: Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei, Suzhou
in China, Osaka in Japan and Udaipur in India. Venices of the South: Tigre in Argentina. Venice of the Pacific: Nan Madol in the Federated States of
Micronesia. After Venice, the city that
most others aspire to be like must be Paris.
Paris of the East: Baku,
Azerbaijan, Shangai. Paris of the North:
Tromso, Norway. Paris of the South: Buenos Aires. Paris
of Siberia: Irkutsk. https://www.tourdust.com/blog/posts/paris-of-the-east-venice-of-the-north-where-will-it-end Paris of the Antilles: Throughout
colonial times Cap-Haïtien was the capital of the French colony Saint-Domingue
(now called Haiti and today its second most important city) and was called
Cap-Français. http://www.alekseitrofimov.eu/cap-haitien-once-the-paris-of-the-antilles-and-whats-left-of-it/
Louisiana Shrimp Cornbread Uses raw,
peeled Louisiana shrimp (can be any size; devein, if desired; may substitute
peeled, cooked crawfish tails or diced, roasted andouille sausage) Find recipe for 12 servings at https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/louisiana-shrimp-cornbread/12507/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5c234f614490 Adapted from chef-owner Frank Brigsten of
Brigsten's Restaurant in New Orleans. Tested by
Bonnie S. Benwick
Michael
Cunningham (born
November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner
Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. Cunningham
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied English literature at Stanford University,
where he earned his degree. Later, at
the University of Iowa,
he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree
from the Iowa Writers'
Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in
the Atlantic Monthly and
the Paris Review. His short story "White Angel" was
later used as a chapter in his novel A Home at the End of the World. It was included in "The Best American
Short Stories, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1993, Cunningham received a Guggenheim Fellowship and
in 1988 a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In 1995 he was awarded a Whiting Award.
Cunningham has taught at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in the creative writing M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cunningham
June 25, 2018 What
happens if you are Cinderella and the prince turns out to be your father? Jamie Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein’s
firstborn daughter, has written a memoir of her family, a family that her
overwhelming dad—loving, inspired, and sometimes insufferable—dominated for
decades. The author grew up wriggling
inside a paradox, struggling to become a self when so much of her was defined
by her brilliant parent. “Famous
Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein” (HarperCollins) is unique
among classical-music memoirs for its physical intimacy, its humor and tenderness,
its ambivalence toward an irrepressible family genius. After a whirlwind life as a young man,
Bernstein married Felicia Montealegre, in 1951.
He was thirty-three; she was twenty-nine. Montealegre was raised in Chile; her mother
was Costa Rican and Catholic; her father, an American Jew, was a wealthy
industrialist. A South American
aristocrat who became socially ambitious in America, Felicia was an
accomplished actress with an elevated elocutionary style that was losing favor
to so-called naturalistic modes; she was good at narrating oratorios. They
had three children: Jamie, who is now
sixty-five; a boy, Alexander, and another girl, Nina, says that her father was
an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed
his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons.
The family gatherings were a conspiracy to have fun. Parents and children created rhyming nonsense
songs for special occasions; they made clowning home movies (“What Ever
Happened to Felicia Montealegre?,” an overwrought salute to Bette Davis and
Joan Crawford). If Lenny’s effusiveness
was sometimes hard to bear, plenty of smart people couldn’t get enough of him,
including Mike Nichols, Richard Avedon, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and the
young Stephen Sondheim. Lillian Hellman,
terrifying to Jamie, was a growling presence. With that crew around, however, and L.B.
driving the entertainments, the long evenings could become barbed—anagrams and
other word games were played as life-and-death matters, and more than one
participant, Jamie says, left the room in tears. After L.B.’s death, chagrin gives way to
relief; life resumes its usual shapes of success and failure. The overwhelmed children try to pull
themselves together, and Jamie Bernstein finds a way—many ways, actually—of
making a life out of music without being a musician, narrating concert works,
creating an equivalent of the Young People’s Concerts (the Bernstein Beat,
devoted to his music), making a film about the training of young American
instrumentalists. She and her brother
and sister have devoted themselves to their father’s name, his work, and his
recordings, and have helped along restorative efforts on his compositions and
much else. David Denby https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/leonard-bernstein-through-his-daughters-eyes See also https://www.jamiebernstein.net/about/
Two common ingredients in Hungarian cuisine
are paprika spice and tomato sauce and they are what put a Hungarian spin
on this version of stuffed peppers known as toltott paprika. It definitely
wouldn't be Hungarian without the ever-present, but optional, garnish of sour
cream. Paprika in Hungarian also refers to the peppers from which the spice is
made. The peppers are native to the
Americas and were taken to Hungary by merchants where it flourished. Hungarian paprika is revered the world over
because it is said the soil the peppers are grown in lends a flavor like no
other. The Spanish, however, will argue
that their paprika, especially smoked paprika, is superior to Hungarian
paprika. It's all a matter of
taste. Barbara Rolek See
recipe for Hungarian stuffed cabbage and link to video, plus link to recipes including, nokedli, stuffed cabbage,
and stuffed kohlrabi bulbs at https://www.thespruceeats.com/hungarian-stuffed-peppers-toltott-paprika-recipe-1136772
Nokedli are fluffy Hungarian egg noodle dumplings. In German cooking they are known as
“spaetzle“ or “Spätzle.”
Libraries are an example of what I
call “social infrastructure”: the physical spaces
and organizations that shape the way people interact. Libraries don’t just provide free access to
books and other cultural materials, they also offer things like companionship
for older adults, de facto child care for busy parents, language instruction for
immigrants and welcoming public spaces for the poor, the homeless and young
people. For older people, especially widows, widowers and those who live
alone, libraries are places for culture and company, through book clubs, movie
nights, sewing circles and classes in art, current events and computing. For many, the library is the main place they
interact with people from other generations. For children and teenagers, libraries help
instill an ethic of responsibility, to themselves and to their neighbors, by
teaching them what it means to borrow and take care of something public, and to
return it so others can have it too. For
new parents, grandparents and caretakers who feel overwhelmed when watching an
infant or a toddler by themselves, libraries are a godsend. In many neighborhoods, particularly those
where young people aren’t hyper-scheduled in formal after-school programs,
libraries are highly popular among adolescents and teenagers who want to spend
time with other people their age. One
reason is that they’re open, accessible and free. Another is that the library
staff members welcome them; in many branches, they even assign areas for
teenagers to be with one another. To appreciate why this matters, compare the social
space of the library with the social space of commercial establishments like
Starbucks or McDonald’s. These are
valuable parts of the social infrastructure, but not everyone can afford to
frequent them, and not all paying customers are welcome to stay for long. Eric Klinenberg https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.html
Since 2002, Medina County Law Library
(Ohio) has contracted with LexisNexis to provide search services for
approximately 100 private practitioners (attorneys who are not employed by the
County). The access privilege for the
private attorneys was paid by the law library.
In 2018, LexisNexis informed the law library that it was cancelling this
license mid-term because the listed subscribers were not government
professional users employed by the subscriber.
Of course LexisNexis was fully aware that the 100 or so subscribers were
private sector attorneys when the company entered and repeatedly renewed its
license with the law library. So why the
change? Probably because the Company
thinks it would make more money by forcing the private practitioners to
contract directly and individually with LexisNexis. On Sept. 6th, 2018 the Medina County Law
Library sued LexisNexis for breach of contract.
Here’s the text of the Motion for Temporary Injunction https://lawlibrarianblog2.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/time-stamped-motion-for-temporary-injunction-lexisnexis-case.pdf
and the LexisNexis Complaint
https://lawlibrarianblog2.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/time-stamped-lexisnexis-complaint-with-exhibits-final-6-sep-2018-1.pdf
Thank you, Muse reader!
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1951
September 12, 2018
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