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Clooney, known now to a new generation as the aunt of actor George Clooney, tells a good yarn. Still the likable girl-next-door, despite life's vicissitudes, she describes how she went from being a schoolgirl in kneesocks in Maysville, Ky., to a Big Band singer, performing with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. There were bumps along the way: a failed marriage to the unfaithful Jose Ferrer, addiction to prescription drugs, even a stay in a psychiatric ward. Life got so blurry, she flushed a 7 1/2-carat diamond down the toilet. But Clooney is back...
...back the clock. Weary of staring at computer screens all day and bored with the monochrome sweater sets at Banana Republic, they have turned to an old craft for satisfaction. Four million people, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, began knitting last year alone, according to the Craft Yarn Council of America. A recent "Knit Out" in New York drew 7,000 people to check out the latest in fashions and supplies, more than double the previous year. Hundreds of websites, such as eknitting.com offer lessons, patterns and books...
...Arts, a large non-profit which also runs the Cyclorama, various theaters and over 50 artists' studios in the South End. The well-curated exhibitions emphasize the contemporary and the local. In the current show, Boston-based artist Sheila Pepe has stretched great drips and webs of crocheted yarn across the room. From what I gather, crochet is the medium of the moment; see, for example, the work of Seong Chun. Pepe also plays with casting shadows, created by found-object mini-sculptures, across her childlike drawings. A limber, nimble exhibition...
...Brustein: My first job, aside from working for father in the shipping room of a wool yarn business, was playing clarinet and tenor sax with a swing band at a high school junior prom...
Fiddling with numbers doesn't help at all. It only turns our House system into a muddled, vapid ball of yarn...