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“Please God let there be a career.” Tynan Davis Masterclass with Marilyn Horne
Despite her claims to the contrary, Tynan Davis is a writer, as this week’s blog posts prove. But she’s mostly a singer and I’ve been poking around Youtube for samples to share. Turns out,…
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Brunettes have more fun! (by Tynan Davis)
As Mercedes… Never in my life have I had to contend with so much hair. It's so foreign and distracting that I actually tried to blame it for some of my mistakes in last…
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One click led to . . . The Aubade: Poem of Beginnings
Last night we passed an hour or so in Ithaca's Buffalo Street Books, a store that was saved from closing when the community raised over a quarter of a millior dollars to re-open…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: ObamaCare as Imperial Fizz
The case against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. ObamaCare, is not nearly as fun as an Imperial Fizz, though it's definitely fizzy. All of the law's ingredients, the whiskey, rum, lemon…
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Hipster Visions of Birmingham (by Tynan Davis)
I'm not a hipster, but my camera is. A strolling pianist, giving his hands a rest. I love a man…
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You’d Be Surprised at Madeline! (by Laura Orem)
The late Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most talented women of the 20th century. She received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, the first in 1974 for her performance as Trixie Delight…
