By ALLAN KOZINN : Orchestral instruments don’t come more treacherous than the French horn, either for the musicians who play it, or, when the going gets rough, for the listeners who find themselves within earshot. Sometimes you wonder how the instrument found its way from the hunting lodge to the orchestra.
At the Mostly Mozart Festival […]
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by admin
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Museum Review : By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
NEW ORLEANS — What is it about these creatures? In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened here in June, you can watch Formosan termites eat through a wooden skyline of New Orleans (as if this city didn’t have enough problems), stick your head into a transparent dome in […]
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by admin
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Weekend Explorer : By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH
ON a hot, bright July afternoon I found myself standing at the tip of Croton Point Park, a peninsula in Westchester County that hooks far out into the Hudson River from its eastern shore near the town of Croton-on-Hudson. For me it was less than an hour’s scenic ride on […]
Posted on August 1st, 2008 by admin
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By CAROL VOGEL : A rectangular patch of sand in Central Park may be the last place you’d expect to find a gleaming “Star Trek”-style spacecraft. But an art pavilion that resembles just that will make a temporary landing there this fall.
Called Mobile Art, the structure itself was designed by the renowned London architect Zaha […]
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by admin
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Connections : By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Nearly every car here has Wyoming license plates, but you can tell which are not driven by locals. Like mine, they hurriedly pull to the side of the road or even stop dead center, their drivers gawking as thunderously dumb-looking bison amble alongside. At dusk a moose […]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by admin
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MILWAUKEE - A banker held beloved motorcycle-maker Harley-Davidson’s fate in 1984.
He could agree to refinance the $90 million loan that executives took out a few years before to buy the company back from American Machine and Foundry Co., or make them declare bankruptcy.
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by admin
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