Word: journeyings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a ridiculous idea. The media subsequently takes this man's journey and turns it into a huge event involving interviews, talk show appearances and documentary films. This is also a ridiculous idea. But this is the simple premise of Valparaiso (say: "val puh rise oh"), the new play making its stage debut at the American Repertory Theater this month. Its simple premise, however, is deceptive: Valparaiso was written by Don DeLillo, a master of illustrating the complex nature of even the simplest situation and the inherent ridiculousness of the culture we live...
...Sanders as a learning environment. Last year, when Hankins offered his course in the Renaissance in Florence, he planned on facing 120 students. But when 450 showed up, the massive class had to bounce around the campus looking for a venue capable of accommodating the crowd. The room-hopping journey started out in Harvard Hall 104, a room Hankins says he adores. "You get to look people in the face, like the Roman Senate arrangement," he says. He wasn't there for long...
There is no place to buy kosher spare ribs in Tucson, Arizona. Those who happen to be stranded in that far corner of the American Jewish Diaspora have to make the two-hour journey to Phoenix in order to partake of succulent barbecued beef. It was on the way home from one such trip that the illusion of love was demystified, and my young soul turned to black stone...
...periodic media attention, though, has not been the most satisfying result of Birk's journey back to his home state. What matters most to the wide-eyed alum isn't the ice fishing, but the familiar faces within driving distance...
They are the stars of River of Song: A Musical Journey down the Mississippi, an ambitious four-hour, four-part documentary series that begins airing on PBS stations this month (check local listings). The series, written by Elijah Wald, a music critic for the Boston Globe, and directed by Boston-based filmmaker John Junkerman, is a multimedia event: there's a corresponding seven-hour, seven-part series airing on Public Radio International; a 36-song, two-CD sound track (Smithsonian Folkways); and a 352-page companion book (St. Martin's). But the purpose of each is singularly focused: to document...