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Large vases of white chrysanthemums once adorned the porch of Tercentenary Theater sometime in the late 1960s. There was a line of them on each corner. “I don’t think anybody liked them,” Gomes said. “It seemed unnatural.” There were also some flowery shrubs—rhododendrons—the bulbs of which were placed in a bed outside Massachusetts Hall at some point. “We waited, they grew, and still most people didn’t like...
...Joaquina Frias, the president's 73-year-old aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look...
...Window Blues.” The former is angsty and Oasis-like, and it’s probably the album’s most redeeming track. The latter is beautiful in its own right, but in the larger context of the album, it’s just more back-porch country-blues. Still, it ends the record nicely, serving as a perfect soundtrack for the album cover: a half moon hanging over still water...
...stands like a Hollywood blockbuster beside the backstage vaudeville of the catalogue that precedes it. Gone are the living-room fuzz and the steady solitude of a lone acoustic guitar. Gone, too, is the image of a storyteller, suspender-bound, murmuring myths on a sun-drenched porch. In some ways, to bemoan the increased polish of Iron & Wine is to lament the inevitable, as with expanding audiences comes a pull into the wiry world of the studio. Still, selfish as it sounds, there was a soft magic to the lo-fi ambiance of his earliest records, buried now below vocal...
...cheap, in part because of rising land prices in the Ithaca area. Draped in vegetation and occasionally sporting solar panels, the homes are Norman Rockwell meets Al Gore. "We were drawn by the fact that this was an environmentally based community," says Alison Cohn, 36, watching from her front porch as her 4-year-old son Asher digs in a nearby sandbox. "But it's when I see how much my kids love it here that I really know we made the right choice...