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June 2011 Archives


2011 4th of July barbecue recipes from newspaper food sections

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The Providence Journal/ Steve SzydlowskiThe Fourth in the Ocean State: Cod Paupiette, foreground, with watermelon and feta cheese salad in the background and grilled littlenecks with sun dried tomatos and honey butter from Pinelli's Cafe Chef Michael Moreno. Not pictured......

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'As long as something creates a reaction it's alive'

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

'As long as something creates a reaction it's alive' simply says something we all understand:The power to move us is still cooking in the best work by artists living and long dead. That quote belongs to this artist: The Embroidered......

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Free new Google Web Fonts are a type fan's playground

11:10 PM Tue, Jun 28, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Google Web Fonts: Yet another new launch, another hundred or so new fonts, eye candy for folks who like fonts and spec type: "Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web." They offer the code, too, to embed in......

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Google quietly launches 'What do you love?' search portal

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Overnight Google launched a new search page, titled only 'What do you love?' at a URL that's an acronym for those words, wdyl.com. On a faint pink background, you'll see, Having played with it a bit, I understand that it's......

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From seed to this

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Photo / Sheila Lennon This patio tomato sits in a 12-inch pot on the lip of my deck. I've given it water and some invisible (to me) nutrients, light did the rest. The results seems far more than the......

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Links dump: Ticketmaster to get clue, belly-dancing billionairess bankrupt

8:40 AM Sun, Jun 26, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Financial profiles of Patricia Kluge have been done more soberly elsewhere, but never so colorfully as the Daily Mail's Fall of the belly-dancer billionairess. That headline is hard to beat. Subhed "How ex-cloakroom girl and porn star who married America's......

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Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes are a band worth catching

11:46 PM Thu, Jun 23, 2011 | | Write a comment
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We dropped into Nick-A-Nee's tonight, going out into a music world that was full of the really young. Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes are originals, a really good band. On that ReverbNation link they're pigeonholed as "Alternative /......

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Free mp3s: Clarence Clemons, Springsteen

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Tributes to Bruce Springsteen's sax sidekick Clarence Clemons, who died Saturday, June 18 in his Singer Island, Fla., condo after suffering a stroke the previous Sunday, pour in. The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, honors him with Bloodbrother: Clarence Clemons,......

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At Stonehenge, summer solstice morning

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AP reports, "Around 18,000 neo-pagans, new agers and curious visitors gathered Tuesday in heavy rain to watch the sun rise over the ancient stone circle on the Salisbury Plain about 80 miles southwest of London. " Summer begins at 1:16......

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Happy Father's Day, Chief Esserman, from a former commissioner's daughter

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Francis Ambrose Lennon as a young National Guardsman. Back in September, 1959, when I was in eighth grade, Providence mayor Walter H. "Barney" Reynolds rang our doorbell one Sunday morning, and asked my dad to take a walk with......

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Skunked by Facebook

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Expletive-laced children's book parody is a viral hit

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Just in time for Father's Day, Reuters reports (Expletive-laced kids book parody is unlikely US hit) on the book that mirrors the bedtime frustration of nearly every parent of a toddler: Exhausted parent, wide-awake tot. You probably won't want to......

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Facebook is a measure of what the Web has lost

1:20 AM Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

(All these Brilliant People at) Facebook Make Me Sad. Eran Hammer-Lahav, Yahoo!'s Director of Standards Development, at his own site, hueniverse: This is not a post about open, about standards, about privacy, or really any criticism of Facebook in any......

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Reverse graffiti: Removing the dirt

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instead of using actual spray cans...some artist are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces. and they are calling it reverse graffiti. kind of brilliant. via good ju-ju This photo has been floating around in......

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Stay dry with Bach, blues, belly dancing on this rainy Sunday

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Dave Hansen performs "Nadine" with Duke Robillard, Thom Enright and friends at a Sunday Blues Jam at The Met, Pawtucket May 1. Today's jam runs from 4-8 p.m. Details below. Heavy rain woke me, and I started fiddling with......

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Shepard Fairey knockoff supports imprisoned Chinese artist

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

ARTORICAL | "Love The Future" Free Ai Weiwei I created this... I created this poster à la Shepard Fairey's OBEY Giant poster in order to help raise awareness for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. His recent arrest and incarceration on......

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Famous folks -- including a Chafee and a Licht -- praise libraries in 1971 letters to kids

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

As a child, libraries were my favorite places. After a hard morning defending my knock-hockey crown at the neighborhood playground, I'd sink gratefully into a rattan chair on the back porch and work my way through every one of Andrew......

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Clouds

11:59 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Re-entry after vacation spent largely with my hands in dirt is especially difficult. Here's a relaxing Monday-morning ease-in: Hector Thunderstorm Project from Murray Fredericks on Vimeo. This time-lapse assembly is part of the Hector Thunderstorm Project being produced in northern......

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