Word: offbeats
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...Atlas of California (Viking; $50) by James Halliday is organized according to American Viticultural Areas (AVAS), the U.S. government's muddled system of classifying the nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery, for example, he notes that they once donned masks, waved toy guns and hijacked the famed Napa Valley Wine Train, forcing its startled passengers to sample Gundlach Bundschu wines...
Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...
INCITE! Free, and done by my friend Tim, and one of the biggest influences on the way I think or write about music; accurate reviews share the pocket-sized spaces with graphics approrpriated from Victorian magazines and with offbeat autobiographical bits (like "Out of the Way First Names: A History of People"). Write to P O Box 649, Cambridge, MA 02138; you may be a slightly happier person after reading Tim's zine, which is more than I can say for my own work. See you next year...
Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th- and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...
This bit of surrealism is, however, only one of the fey charms of the work, which opened off-Broadway last week. Playwright Donald Margulies, a 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sight Unseen, is, as usual, absolutely fearless in going for the offbeat. A long-dead aunt, for example, returns to life by climbing in a 10th-story window. The title refers to the wackiest moment, an imagined new scene for Death of a Salesman, which the precocious younger son envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem...