Elvis' Jewish Roots?
John Marks sends along this "respectful">http://www.elvispresleynews.com/JewishElvis.html">"respectful and perhaps link-worthy page on Elvis' Jewishness".
Wes Phillips
101 No-Fuss Appetizers
Thishttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19mini.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">…; is Mark Bittman's third collection of 101 no-hassle dishes. These aren't gimmicks—they're good food designed to be made in under 20 minutes (frequently much under), using foods you might have around the house. (Over the years, I've discovered that a little prep at the shopping stage guarantees that you'll have the ingredients to make good food fast.)
Thanks, I Needed That
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Covers From Beyond the Id
Back when I worked at the lower Broadway Tower Records, those crazy cut-ups in the Classical Annex culled the stupidest, most cheesecakey covers from the used bins and covered a wall-of-shame in the count-out room with them.
Martin Puryear in Perspective
I'm a huge fan of Martin Puryear's sculpture, having discovered it at a 1987 Hirschhorn retrospective. So I've been meaning to catch up with his current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Arthur C. Danto's appreciationhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20071231/danto">appreciation; in The Nation serves not only as a stimulus to hie me hence forthwith, but also as a meditation on MOMA's second-floor atrium.
Perfect Score
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Embiggening Lincoln
Andrew Ferguson has written a highway">http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2007-11/Interview.html">highway history of Abraham Lincoln. Among other observations, he points out that the man who "waged one of the most savage wars in our history" was definitely not non-judgmental.
Arghh Matey
Helen A. S. Popkin has written a fine opinion">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22251370/">opinion piece on the new, phenomenally wrong-headed Congressional Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP Act), which among other things (such as absurd penalties) includes a spanking new enforcement agency called WHIPER (White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative).
Sinatra's Second Act
Was Frank Sinatra's failed marriage to Ava Gardner responsible for one of the greatest comebackshttp://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200707/sinatra">comebacks; in American art?
How to Say Love in "Click"
Walker">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/boyinthemoon">Walker Brown was born 11 years ago with "an impossibly rare and random genetic mutation—cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome, a technical name for a mash of symptoms. He is globally delayed and can't speak, so I never know what's wrong. No one does."