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When we are not running

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

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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, humiliated [...]

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

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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

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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

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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 place at [...]

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{play review} 33 Variations of Jane Fonda

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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 33 Variations. [...]

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

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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 Fashion Photograph: Considers the roots [...]

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{dvd review} Slings and Arrows

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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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{movie review} The Class

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The Class-winner of the Palm d’Or at Cannes, up for best foreign film at the Oscars.
François Bégaudeau wrote a novel about his experiences as a junior high school teacher in the working class, multicultural 20th arrondissement in Paris. The Class is based on the novel. All of the characters are played by students, administrators and [...]

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{dvd review} The Edge of Heaven – Faith Akin

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Getting your movies in the mail is fabulous.  But every once in a while, I am forced to step into the video store when the movie sent just stinks.  So it’s such a beautiful thing to go in after 9pm (when all the newly released have been stripped from the shelves) and find a gem.  [...]

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