The National Hockey League lockout is over and after a week of training camp the new season will open. I checked around to see how NHL players felt the shortened season would affect their play. “The one thing that sticks out in my mind about…
Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier once wrote that there were three world cuisines: French, Chinese and Mexican. To some extent the high end Mexican cuisine, not the antojitos that are considered strictly working-class fare, begs, borrows and steals a number of its techniques from classical French cooking. Mexican…
I was working a short piece about David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” when the news from Connecticut came over the server. It was one of those moments in which time, memory and multiple experiences transfer and superimpose themselves onto one another. Initially, the piece was just…
Back in a 2011 interview with Esquire, Catalonian chef, restaurateur and the cooking world’s resident mad scientist Ferran Adrià asked, “Could you imagine people eating a painting — if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It’s probably the artist’s dream, and we have the…
Patricia Wells, author of Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by Small Family Restaurants of Italy, writes, “Homey, unpretentious, honest, and homemade, that’s the heart and soul of Italian trattoria cooking. Robust food–served without frills or fuss–makes up the body and substance of small family…
Sloganza 10 from B2 L2 on Vimeo.
Little child, my name is April, I have a dog named Pinky, we live in happy squalor, my seven brothers and I. What’s that man saying, over there by the burning car. Let me in the El Dubo Restaurant, for some water to ease the…
In 2012 I put up 7 essential sets of life lessons. Of course, by life lessons, I mean “inane ramblings.” The original videos can now be accessed here.
What can be troubling is that open discussions like these don’t always happen, because faculty has followed the PAC model of politics: they lobby chairs, deans and provosts privately so that these questions never see the light of day. However, if the question ever made…
In August, I met with a fellow public-school-privatization critic and was told that in a meeting with a charter school employee, my [actual] name was mentioned and I was labelled as somewhat dangerous-scandalous and a person no one should ever talk to, listen to, or read. I wish I could say it was a surprise but it wasn’t. Since 2006, once or twice a year, someone associated with TfA, KIPP, or other entities in the school privatization movement has dropped by to post an insult, a you-are-so-wrong or unfair! comment. None of them have stopped me, and none of them have disputed facts presented. The complaints are about my unfairness, my “tone,” my “blindness” to the “successes.”
a guy didn’t smell too good stopped me
and desperate words rushed out of him like vomit
Getting back to Latin, this isn’t the first time the issue has surfaced. When the advanced courses in Latin came up for deletion, faculty asked a number of us to look into the problem by consulting with an eminent scholar in the English Department to…
Sloganza 9. The Government Stole My Heart from B2 L2 on Vimeo.