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...biggest impact, though, lay in the example she set. She showed that the Web was not just for the young but for anyone interested in "[interacting] with the world." For L??pez, amis95 was a way to communicate with her blogueros, the readers who flocked to it in droves--and made her last two years the most connected of her life...
Communicating with others "wakes up the brain," Mara Amelia L??pez explained in one of the last entries in her acclaimed online journal, amis95.blogspot.com. The name roughly translates as "my 95 years." That was how old L??pez--who died May 20 at 97--was when she began posting on the blog that her grandson created as a birthday gift. At an age when some elderly women might unwittingly put a floppy disc into a CD drive, L??pez became a worldwide Internet sensation, reaching more than 1.5 million far-flung readers from the comfort of her seaside hometown...
Like any doting nonagenarian, L??pez sang the praises of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But she also recalled her opposition to Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime and grappled with contemporary political debates ranging from Basque separatism to Iran's nuclear ambitions. Her ingenuity and lively writing won her a sit-down in 2008 with Spanish Prime Minister Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero...
...House’s “French Farcefest,” which has occurred semiannually for the past 20 years. “They always seem to be translations of mine,” he says of past productions. The latest of these productions is “L??onie est en avance ou le mal joli”—translated by Shapiro to mean “The Pregnant Pause or Love’s Labor Lost” —an obscure 1911 one-act farce written by French playwright Georges Feydeau. During...
...aesthetic—Sawyer spent the entire set in a wheelchair, her face bandaged and her voice howling, while her bandmates all wore red-stained OR scrubs—and Quits played experimental noise music. Daniel Striped Tiger played a cleaner, jazz-infused brand of post-hardcore, while L??Antietam’s heavier, more distorted songs featured complex tempo changes and polyrhythms. The audience had no difficulty moshing during the sludge hardcore of Connecticut’s Iron Hand before sitting down to take in the melodic finger-picked folk of New Hampshire’s Redwing...