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...them. "Old custom," he said. It worked! Brunello, made from the Sangiovese Grosso grape, is often referred to as Chianti on hormones - it's bigger, bolder and pricier. The Biondi-Santi winery in Montalcino is credited with making the first Brunello around 1888, and the firm still produces a glorious version. But it took two winemaking brothers from Long Island, New York, John and Harry Mariani, to raise the wine to fame. In the late 1970s, the Marianis bought a medieval castle in the Montalcino area, Castello Banfi, started growing Sangiovese Grasso grapes on some of the surrounding...
...very first significant comics artist was Winsor McCay, who, just 100 years ago, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday- supplement Hieronymus Bosch--a glorious otherworld of dreamscapes as phantasmagoric as they were funny. "He created a vocabulary for artistic creation in comics," Carlin says of McCay, "showing how they could achieve extraordinary, avant-garde things without undermining their popular appeal...
...Piano Four-Hand,” and Brahms’ “Viola Quintet in G major, Op. 111.” Sanders Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $46/37/26/17/8/5. (KAF)On Fire, Gregor Samsa, and Kayo Dot. Making a glorious return to the stage from time away, On Fire will open at 9:15 p.m., followed by Gregor Samsa at 10:15. Kayo Dot will greet the crowd with their rock-injected modern classical tunes at 11:15. T.T. the Bear’s Place. Tickets available at the door...
...that’s what you would expect of a libero, the least glorious of all positions in volleyball...
Ironically, these “terrors of urban living” seem to denigrate the relative trivialities of the country (chirping birds and glorious grass) and accentuate the important educational opportunity available from living in a city like Cambridge. After all, I’d rather wake up to the sound of a blaring horn and be exposed to the deepest problems of society—which are laid bare for all to see in Cambridge—than be serenaded by chickadees in a tranquil setting where the only people I run into are transplanted suburbanites who close their...