Friday, May 11, 2012
Your daily guide to news, what you need to know, and a bit of trivia in Greenwich.
Today is Friday, May 11, 2012, and it's National Eat What You Want Day. This day in history: OK car aficionados—what part of automotive history happened today back in in 1947? Don't have the fancy ability to put the answers in upside down type—so the answer is: the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, OH, announced it developed a tubeless tire, a technological innovation that would make automobiles safer and more efficient. Unfortunately, he didn't "Don't Worry and Be Happy." In 1981, Bob Marley, the soul and international face of reggae music, died in a Miami, hospital at the age of 36, and his musical legacy lives on. In 1997, IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue makes chess history by defeating Russian master chess champion Gary Kasparov, who is …
An entertaining lady's home journal holds key to style and flair.
Sheila McCaffery can overwhelm you with her meticulous notes for a dinner party. She wants you to throw one on the same scale that she does but this is a gal who doesn’t believe in doing things by halves. In a time when cookbooks, culinary magazines and TV food shows can be more intimidating than inspiring, Sheila shows you how to become a successful hostess. An accomplished cook who learned by doing, she excels in the ideas department. An important tool to achieve the level of success that she has had is through the keeping of a journal. A chronicle of dinner parties that span four decades, her journals are virtual textbooks for home entertaining. Sheila recently came to the Greenwich Garden Center to present a slide show of her dinner …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The celebrated children's author was best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are."
Ridgefield's famed children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died Tuesday. The celebrated children's author, best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are," was "widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century," the New York Times reports. The Times reports that Mr. Sendak died of complications from a recent stroke, according to his longtime editor, Michael di Capua. "Where The Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, and the story of a little boy named Max who sails into his dreams to have a "wild rumpus" with imaginative, sometimes nightmarish monsters was a bestseller. Mr. Sendak wrote and illustrated more than a dozen solo picture books and over 80 books in all—one more posthumous piece…
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Tuesday, May 8
I am in my 13th year as director of the Greenwich High School choir program. Even though I am not fortunate enough to be a Greenwich resident, the relationships I have forged with countless students and their families over the years have nevertheless caused me to feel like a part of the community. And I have always been tremendously proud to work in and for a community that sees itself as something special—as a place that has no tolerance for mediocrity. Toward that end, the people of Greenwich have always demanded the very best from its schools, teachers and students. The motto of the Greenwich Public Schools says it all: Setting the Standard for Excellence in Public Education. As an out-of-towner, I have neither the right nor the …
Friday, May 4, 2012
Legions drawn to the sights and sounds of art for the Greenwich Arts Council's 15th annual Art to the Avenue fest.
A little drizzle didn't deter art aficionados from descending upon the Greenwich downtown business district Thursday night for the lively, colorful opening of Art to the Avenue. The Greenwich Arts Council's 15th annual art exhibition featuring the works of about 150 artists in 120 downtown venues drew legions who leisurely strolled from business to business, viewing art, knoshing on savory hors d'oeuvres and sipping wine. There were performances by singers, dancers, musicians and even Big Nazo, the puppet creature, to keep visitors entertained as they walked along Greenwich Avenue and the sidestreets in between, from East and West Putnam Avenue to Railroad Avenue. The works of the artists participating in Art to the Avenue will be on view …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Your daily guide to news, what you need to know, and a bit of trivia in Greenwich.
Today is Thursday, May 3, 2012 and it's National Raspberry Tart Day. This day in history: Really bringing back the hand of time, in 1469 the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born. In 1937, Margaret Mitchell's Civil War novel Gone With The Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 1952, A ski-modified U.S. Air Force C-47 piloted by Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. Col. William P. Benedict became the first aircraft to land on the North Pole. Fletcher climbed out of the plane and walked to the exact geographic North Pole, becoming the first person believed to do so. On the cusp of the Kentucky Derby this coming Saturday, it was on May 3, 1986, 54-year-old Willie Shoemaker, aboard 18-to-1 shot Ferdinand, became …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Plenty, but it's also unintentionally humorous and so badly written it hurts (and not in a good way).
In keeping with the number theme in the title, here's what you need to know before buying "50 Shades of Grey." Number of times the protagonist, Anastasia Steele, says "Crap" or "Holy Crap": 86 Number of times Anastasia refers to her lover Christian Grey and his moves as "hot" or "freaking hot": 37 Number of times a specific part of the female anatomy is referred to as "down there": 6 If fine writing is like bittersweet truffles, this book is like a wad of Gummi Bears stuck to your back teeth. To use another food metaphor — and I'm not sure this author knows what a metaphor is — it's the literary equivalent of eating Sugar Smacks for dinner. Author E.L. James gives us the first-person perspective of a naive 21-year-old college graduate who …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The iconic producer and TV host suffered a heart attack, ABC News reports.
Famed TV host, producer Dick Clark died today at the age of 82, ABC reports. The longtime host of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve’ reportedly died of a heart attack. He had suffered a stroke in 2004 but “returned to the airwaves” for the last several years, according to ABC News. Clark became a household name after the afternoon dance show he hosted in the 50s became the popular “American Bandstand,” and from there Clark started the successful Dick Clark Productions company in Hollywood, according to ABC.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Thirty-three of the passengers on the Titanic were headed to Connecticut. Eighteen of them never made it when the unthinkable happened to the "unsinkable."
Margaret Kelly, the eldest daughter of James Kelly of Kildare County in Ireland, had been working in a corset factory in New Haven for two years when, in early 1912, she bought her father a third-class ticket to come across the Atlantic on the maiden voyage of the Titanic and visit her. The plan was that James would work for a while and save enough money to send for his wife, Kate, and his five other children to join them. But the reunion never happened, cut short by one of the worst maritime disasters in history. Kelly's body was found by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett and buried at sea. The heartbreak for the Kelly family didn't end there — his son, Thomas, was killed in action four years later during World War I. Eventually, Kate and the…
Friday, March 9, 2012
Students from across the state will be attending the presentation on June 25.
The Spirit of Broadway's Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards Program announced this week that it has been accepted as one of 30 professional theater organizations in the U.S. to participate in the 4th annual presentation of the National High School Musical Theater Awards, also known as The Jimmy™ Awards. As a part of the presentation, which will be held in New York City on June 25 at the Minskoff Theater, students will be invited before the ceremony to attend rehearsals, master classes, private coaching and interviews with theater professionals starting June 20. “Being accepted into the national program for a fourth year is a good draw for schools to participate at the state level, however, for us at The Spirit of Broadway, this…
Leslie Yager
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