Reading and Roaming
EXTREME CLOTHING Costume Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute) The Costume Institute at the Met Museum has new space on the main floor. It’s spacious and easy to locate and a real plus for visitors; the old space was so tucked away it almost required crumbs to navigate to and from. Costume Art is the inaugural exhibition and …
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RECENT VIEWING FRENCH DETECTIVES TRIUMPH AGAIN Astrid Season 5 (PBS Masterpiece) Season 5 of Astrid has been available for some months now. I started watching it a while ago and only finished it this week. It’s a satisfyingly rich season with the usual array of quirky and weird murder cases, but what makes it special is the tight friendship between …
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WINTER THOUGHTS Good morning. Like much of the country, North Carolina is experiencing a winter weather event. For some, it will be a really massive storm with inches and possibly feet of snow; for others, after a bit of snow, the real concern is freezing rain and ice. We’ve had just over an inch of snow and are …
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It’s winter and the weather outside is cold and gray and sleety. When not exercising in the gym or fulfilling our several committee assignments, the Chief Penguin and I find ourselves burrowing deep into reading or bingeing on a TV series. Hence, this week, you have here a book and a medical drama. FABULOUS NOVEL The Correspondent by …
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