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Ursula von Rydingsvard carefully outlines a pattern in chalk on a cedar beam before it is violently carved with a circular saw. The serrated blade incises the wood as sawdust flies about her Brooklyn studio...
...Rydingsvard evokes human forms and organs, shapes that through their elemental nature engage the viewer by engendering thoughts on the fundamentals of human existence. Her works bring to mind body parts like lips, eyes and stomachs abstractly represented by protrusions, rounded interiors, linear extensions and rhythmic undulations. Using cedar as her primary medium, she designs and executes these forms masterfully, shaping each block of wood into a patterned whole...
...melodramatic title and the group’s troubled past, Lost Souls is a nuanced album that does not fall into the irritating whining of misery-rock. The wispy guitars and vocals play games with each other in the seven-and-a-half minute ballad “Cedar Room.” “The Man Who Told Everything” seems to stand for the group’s naked honesty about its experiences, while also reflecting the band’s confidence that there are “blue skies ahead.” The group...
...tall princess doesn't have a name yet. (Emperor Akihito will bestow one this weekend.) But even before the Emperor sent his new grandchild a traditional sword, before the little princess had her first bath in a sacred cedar tub, and before she was outfitted with a hakama, or ceremonial skirt, the expectations for her were high. An economist estimated her birth could generate more than $1 billion worth of consumer spending, including grannies showering gifts on their grandkids. Doctors have predicted a mini baby boom, as parenting-resistant youth, who have given Japan one of the lowest birth rates...
...during Ramadan, the month-long period of fasting and thanks celebrated by Muslims all over the world. So in many households this year the two holidays will merge. Muslims in Iowa--old families from Lebanon and Syria and new immigrants from Turkey, Tunisia, Pakistan and Afghanistan--will gather in Cedar Rapids at the oldest mosque in North America and break their Ramadan fast with a Thanksgiving feast of turkey and stuffing, grape leaves, flatbread, cranberry sauce and kibbe--a Lebanese dish of cracked wheat, meats and spices...