Jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson has passed away at 75. NPR writes: Bobby Hutcherson, a vibraphonist whose improvising and composition helped to define modernity for jazz as a whole, has died. He had long struggled with emphysema. He was 75. As a mallet percussionist, he expanded the scope of what was possible on his instrument. And […]
RIP Bobby Hutcherson
The Cosmic Center of the Rio Games
At 29, Usain Bolt is old, but not ancient. Sunday night Bolt did it again. The Jamaican sprinter has already defied time by winning his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash, or bolt, if you will. Writes the WSJ: He’s fun to watch as a three-Olympics geezer. It’s pretty clear Bolt will […]
My Favorite Small Village Country Inn- Dorset Inn
Originally posted May 23, 2009. For more than 200 years, The Dorset Inn has offered traditional New England hospitality. Gracious lodging, gourmet dining, fine wines and great spirits….all trademarks of Vermont’s oldest continually operating inn. Downhill skiing at Bromley and Stratton, shopping Manchester’s designer outlets, attending summer stock theater at our own Dorset Playhouse, enjoying […]
Greetings from Warren, Vermont and the Pitcher Inn overlooking the Warren Store
Greetings from Warren, Vermont and the Pitcher Inn overlooking the Warren Store.
Greetings from Warren, Vermont and the Mad River Valley
A Stinking Mass of Sewage?
With the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics just days away and anticipation mounting, are you feeling a twinge of regret for not being in Rio? Perhaps you won’t after reading this description of Rio from the LA Times: The mood in Brazil during the run-up to the Rio Games has been tempered for […]
Google’s Project Wing Heads to Federal Testing Ground
Now that the U.S. government has given commercial drone flights its stamp of approval, there are many bugs that need to be worked out. The most pressing concern rules about line-of-sight piloting. If you want to successfully deliver products, you can’t be forced to watch your drone as it drops each parcel. So Google (now […]
Ethical, Sustainable Foie Gras?
About a five-hour car drive southwest of Madrid, a fifth-generation Spanish farmer and an ecologist and migratory bird expert are in business together—the foie gras business. Foie gras is, of course, that wonderful buttery, fatty goose or duck liver that is revered in Europe, especially in France. It’s also banned in at least 20 countries […]
Wine Investing—Burgundy or Bordeaux?
I have three full EuroCave, Revelation wine coolers. And not a bottle of Bordeaux or Cabernet in residence. In Jay Mcinerney’s excellent The Wine Questionnaire, Jay puts the Burgundy or Bordeaux question to a number of experts Daniel Johnnes, Wine director for Daniel Boulud’s Dinex Group: “Ask anyone in the world of wine and they […]
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