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October 11, 2009 - October 17, 2009 Archives

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Hardware pastry

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Stacks by Tony Cragg, 1975, the Tate Collection. To make this work Cragg arranged miscellaneous objects and materials, collected at random, into a solid, geometric structure. The layering suggests geological strata, showing how both natural and fabricated elements are......

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Lost Alfred Hitchcock 1973 TV interview found intact, now on YouTube

4:57 AM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | | Write a comment
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Alfred Hitchcock famously directed Psycho and other classic movies, but many of us first knew him as kids, when he hosted a weekly nighttime series of TV stories called Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955-65. Sir Alfred died in 1980 --......

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Gone today, here tomorrow: Polaroid to relaunch instant cameras

2:20 AM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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Sept. 26 2009: Polaroid Last picture show. Telegraph (U.K.) As the final cartridges of Polaroid film pass their use-by date, an exhibition of the finest photographers to use the instant format demonstrates just how much it will be missed... Oct.......

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Providence ranked 22nd-smartest city at Tina Brown's 'Daily Beast'

3:09 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | | Comments (2)
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Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown's Daily Beast site ranks America's Smartest Cities--From First to Worst and Providence is #22: #22, PROVIDENCE Metro Area Population: 1,596,611 Daily Beast IQ Score: 110 Providence is home to half of......

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Notes from the flu

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Monday 11:37 a.m. I slept through the night, and woke late, feeling cool-headed and clear-eyed. My voice is husky, but most of the syllables are now audible. More important, I feel alive again. This flu packs a wallop. I spent......

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