When we are not running

Innovative Body Solutions – Doing the Home Stretch with Dara Torres

July 30, 2009

Dara and I are tight…tight-muscled that is. When I read her book ( Age is Just a Number) that included her pre-olympic routine I wanted to know more about the stretching she came to rely on to get her there. She called it her secret weapon. Now, I do not have the very apparent resources [...]

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Dansko – Making running feet happy when not running

June 26, 2009

Monica and Jean are too polite to mention that, when it comes to my devotion to Dansko shoes, I sound like a broken record (a quaint term!) I was introduced to them during a bleak bout of plantar fasciitis. The fit was extraordinarily comfortable. The heel height seemed to relieve the pressure of fasciitis. The [...]

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{movie review} FOOD, INC for thought: What all runners (people) should know

June 21, 2009

The true gift of Father’s Day (and actually Mother’s Day) is the household moratorium on complaining. My husband, in the occasionally cunning spirit of parenthood, seized the opportunity to enlist (coerce) our teenage children to do something he wants them to do without the grumbling. Today he took them to see FOOD, INC the new documentary from filmmaker Robert [...]

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{dvd review} Elegy

March 29, 2009

Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard star in Elegy based on a Phillip Roth novel. Need I say more? Kingsley plays a droll, urbane and steely professor at Columbia—the smartest guy in the room. He is felled by the otherworldly beauty, charisma and decency of Penelope Cruz. Kingsley brilliantly plays smug, cutting, [...]

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{book preview} More on Dara Torres — Age is Just a Number

March 20, 2009

I finally went to the doctor today to check out the constant nagging pain in my foot. The one that has been keeping me off the road and out of the Boston Marathon. Feeling a bit defeated, I decided to get an official diagnosis. The doctor thinks it is a stress fracture or heel spur and [...]

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[product review] Moore Brothers — Vine Inspiration

March 17, 2009

I love it when wine complements my food. But I am not really sure how to pick out the proper wine. That is why I love going to Moore Brothers Wine Company. The store has a vast collection of wines from both Europe and the US. I have been to Moore Brothers to purchase wine [...]

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{art review} Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts: George Tooker

March 12, 2009

George Tooker – A Retrospective: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)*: 118 North Broad Street (near Cherry), Philadelphia, PA 19102 When: Now through April 5, 2009 Cost (“Special Exhibit” fees): Adults $15 ; Seniors and Students w/ I.D. $12 ; Youth (5 – 18) $8 George Tooker’s first museum retrospective in 30 years is taking [...]

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{play review} 33 Variations of Jane Fonda

March 11, 2009

Jane Fonda: I coveted the iconic shag (and it’s “cool”) in Klute. Those exercise videos propelled me into a decade of aerobics classes. I relished her hard bitten turn in The Morning After. But, I’ve never been up close to Jane until Sunday on Broadway. Fonda stars (at age 71 and she looks terrific) in [...]

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{art review} Art on the Cheap: MOMA, ICP, NY Public Library

March 1, 2009

The luxury of an art filled afternoon can be accomplished, even in NY, on the cheap… The art stroll: International Center of Photography: 6th and 43rd – $12.00 general admission This year, the ICP is focused on fashion: Fashion Photography Now: Prints and magazine spreads-many from the Times Magazine and Italian Vogue. This Is Not a [...]

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{dvd review} Slings and Arrows

February 26, 2009

Slings and Arrows is a 3 season Canadian television series about a quirky (but not too quirky) theatre company, The New Burbage Theatre. Each season the actors mount a Shakespearian play, along with other events. The plays are luminous; the stagings inspired. We feel the singular exhilaration of live theatre. The writing is smart, dark, [...]

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