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...that it features music by noise-jazz pioneer John Zorn. “He is a friend and colleague, and I am a fan,” she said when asked about including his work in the film. Child studied at Radcliffe College in the ’60s, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in history and literature. Originally intending to become a documentary filmmaker, she began to shoot short films in the early ’70s. Her other films over the years include “B-Side” (1996), a montage about homelessness...
...Last Saturday’s snowstorm covered Cambridge in more than an inch of snow and temperatures reached a low of 33 degrees Fahrenheit. The very next day, the weather was beautiful, and weather is expected to stay warm for at least another week, with temperatures hitting the high 60s, according to Walter Drag, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass. Drag says this weather, although mercurial, is nothing out of the ordinary. “The weather right now is weird because it is normal for the weather to be weird,” said Rotch...
...director in Menlo Park, Calif., helped produce a brochure for SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments), an advocacy group for abused women. Laxton is typical of many boomers who, in earlier years, put some of their youthful activism on hold while establishing careers and families. "I'm an old '60s girl," she says. "Then I was out in the streets protesting, and now I feel I've come full circle...
...leadership in volunteerism is not coming from traditional nonprofits," says Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures' president and co-founder, "but from a new generation of social entrepreneurs, boomers and preboomers who are taking matters into their own hands." Numbers tell part of the story. During the 1950s and early '60s, according to Leonard Steinhorn, author of the forthcoming The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, there were about 5,000 IRS-approved nonprofits. "From the 1970s through the 1990s, when boomers came into their own," he says, "that number soared to nearly...
...then at Vienna's Kunsthalle Wien from May 5 to Sept. 3. The original organizers (it started life at Tate Liverpool in England) say it's time to rediscover "this forgotten and repressed aesthetic." It's already happening: bizarre flower prints are back in style, and '60s furniture is highly collectible...