Reading and Roaming
HIGH NOTES Last weekend, friends introduced us to one more of the musical gems that grace our cultural landscape. In 2004, Toby Perlman, wife of famed violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman, founded the Perlman Music Program/Suncoast. This residency program in Sarasota brings together more than 30 young performers (ages 12-24) for about two weeks of …
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BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS I have always been a book person. When I was a toddler, my mother would take me in the Taylor Tot (a popular stroller, very basic by today’s standards) to the nearby branch library for bunches of picture books. I was an early and avid reader and soon bored by the Dick and …
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More gorging on films and satisfying meals. We saw three more movies, the best being Hidden Figures, and returned to a recent restaurant find on W. 13th Street called Gradisca. Things to Come. While the Chief Penguin saw Neruda, I settled myself in for Isabelle Huppert in L’Avenir, The Future. I much prefer the French title for …
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Bingeing. When we are not happily engaged entertaining our granddaughters, we go to the movies. Some might say we binge. Yes, good films come to the Sarasota/Bradenton area, but not as quickly and not all of them. We are now well acquainted with several cinemas in the West Village and are not averse to settling …
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