Archive for March 27th, 2009
One dish at a time
By Tom Teicholz at 27 March, 2009, 3:41 pm
Some people rate a restauran by ther overall quality — for sometimes it’s not the place but the dish — which is to say that I will rush to a terrible place with one great dish. So as an occasional feature I will start listing the one dishes I like (ofte at places that no [...]
Read More >>Hate the financial game, not the player
By Tom Teicholz at 27 March, 2009, 3:35 pm
Jake DeSantis published his AIG resignation in the New York Times the other day. It was well-written and hearfelt. DeSantis described the way he and his fellow workers were betrayed by AIG, how promises were made repeatedly and broken, how difficult work conditions have become, and how it;s no longer worth it for him, how [...]
Read More >>Ars Choralis (incl. Nancy Chusid) performs music played at Birkenau
By Tom Teicholz at 27 March, 2009, 3:13 pm
Yesterday the New York Times reported on a upstate New York Group, Ars Choralis and their performance of music performed by the women’s orchestra at Birkenau. The women’s orchestra who played for the enjoyment of the Nazi guards and as a distraction to the soon-to-be-murdered Jews, and who survived for doing so, in one of [...]
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