Word: eclecticism
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"The Mish" caters to an eclectic clientele, depending on the time of day. At 10 a.m., when the kegs still haven't been cleared from the dance room, the mountain types are usually already swilling Coors around the pool table. Scenery aficianados stop pies) either in the glassed room or...
In the late 1950s, McDarrah was a strange cross between Beat writer and camera buff who once started a successful "Rent a Beatnik" enterprise, charging 5-40 for a Beatnik to appear at cocktail parties. His photographs of his Greenwich village buddies and his selection of commentaries from the time...
One of the earliest champions of American food and regional dishes, as well as of outdoor cooking, Beard acknowledged in his autobiographical cookbook, Delights and Prejudices, that a strong influence on his career was his English-born mother. She operated a hotel noted for its fine food in Portland, where...
A child prodigy who sat in with Cuba's best musicians as early as the age of seven, D'Rivera went on to become a founding member of the Cuban super band, Irakere. Founded in the early 1970s, Irakere (whose name is a Yoruba meaning forest), an II-piece aggregation...
Wit, misfit and eccentric, Glenn Gould was one of the most provocative pianists of the century. In 1964, after an international concert career that had lasted only nine years, he abruptly retired from the stage to explore the potential of the recording studio. In more than 90 releases, ranging from...