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...Wideman, a two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner, is too old for playground basketball, the game he loves. He is the perfect age, however, to drift back and examine his rise from ghetto prodigy to Ivy League hoops star to literary Brahmin. At all phases playground ball is there, teaching creativity, the difference between "solo triumph" and group participation, and other life lessons. There are too many basketball-is-like-jazz musings, but at its best moments, Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop...
...Vozrozhdeniye, or Renaissance Island as it is known in English, was manned by some of the Soviet Union's top scientists until 1991 when it was shut down and abandoned. The chipped mosaics of cats and dogs in the deserted kindergarten playground, the red jungle gym and blue swings evoke the happy childhoods of the offspring of the communist Elite who once lived here. There's a vast, empty military parade ground, scores of abandoned trucks and bulldozers and barrack blocks where beds still lie made and pressed uniforms hang in closets. A few kilometers away is the laboratory...
...Battery Park City is a stroller?s balm on a summer day. Walk down the mile-and-a-quarter promenade - past the lovers on the lawn, the kids in their rubberized playground, the skateboarders pretending that Manhattan is Manhattan Beach, the al fresco diners at Steamer?s Landing. Stop to admire the imposing bandshell of the World Financial Center?s Winter Garden; it has enough wonderfully wasted space to remind me of the dear dead original Penn Station. And across the plaza, the Hudson River, potent and polluted, Circe seducer of the first European settlers to this tiny plot...
...bombed Afghanistan this month, the students of Horace Mann Elementary School in Oak Park, Ill., mounted their own response to terrorism. More than 200 of them ran around the block and through an open field next to the playground, panting, laughing and earning a sticker for each lap they completed in the name of their "Moving Us Forward" program. After a fortnight of morning runs, they cumulatively completed more than 1,000 miles, the distance from their school to the World Trade Center to the Pentagon...
...landscape and how city-dwellers shape, inhabit, neglect or enhance it. The group formed in 1990 and has built 12 major projects in the area from the Muddy River, to Government Center Plaza to Somerville’s Mystic River shoreline. “It’s a playground for artists to make statements without worrying about selling pieces. It’s about ideas and how to bring them to a large scale,” says RA member and Boston sculptor Leslie Wilcox...