Reading and Roaming
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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Fabulous Fun. Asolo Repertory Theater’s production of Guys and Dolls is the perfect antidote for any lingering post-election blues. Energetic, boisterous, lively, romantic, it’s hard to find enough adjectives to describe the sheer fun of it all. I had never seen this musical before and was caught up in the music and the fast-paced dancing. …
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