Some people are just too good for the world. They smile constantly, never show a bitter emotion, always have time to listen to someone else’s problems, always make an effort to be cordial and always want others to be as happy as them. To most of us, people like this can be quite an annoyance. Why is that? Are we, as a people, so wrapped up in our own little lively melodramas that we need to wallow, and can’t stand it when the rest of the world does not wallow with us? It’s not exactly a soup question, and I do not intend to answer it here. But just think about it. Read Post
I wasn’t going to review the wonderful new French film Tell No One this week because I didn’t think it would still be playing next week. Glancing through the paper today, I was delighted to see that our good friends at the Carousel Cinemas are holding it over for one more week. I am here to tell you now to go see this movie before it is gone. Or I will find you. And slap you. And tell you not to complain about Greensboro not getting good movies because you don’t go see them anyway. Seriously. Read Post
When I heard that Oliver Stone– director of JFK, Nixon, Wall Street– was going to make a film based on the life of George W. Bush while Bush was still in office, I was more than a little intrigued. I don’t like our current president. I used to. I actually voted for him in 2000, a mistake I didn’t repeat in ‘04. However I feel about the man on a day to day basis…I must admit to always being fascinated by him as a character. Read Post
Here’s something I’ve been looking forward to for months. Thanks in large part to our neighbor Heather and the kind staff of the Weatherspoon Art Museum we gained access to the inner workings of the art installation process and were able to interview Leo in our kitchen.
This was a collaborative effort as part of our [...]
Two songs just aren’t enough. They came to our kitchen, braved the cold and the drizzle in the back yard and ate Indian food with us before returning to Brooklyn, NY. Fear not, they’ll be returning to Greensboro on March 13th as part of our Monkeywhale presents series …
Many thanks to Jocelyn, Emily and Jeremy [...]
For the past 2 years monkeywhale and our kind neighbors have thrown a Halloween party. Nothing fancy. A couple of gazebos, a keg, strings of lights across the lawn and a few lanterns. We also project films on the barn that have fallen into the public domain … like, Nosferatu for instance. Creepy and a [...]
An Apache Relay is the pre-colonial version of a courier system. Chiefs would compete against each other to see who could have a message delivered in the shortest amount of time. A Relay of 8 scouts could hand a message over a quarter of a mile in 3 minutes. Apparently. Just imagine if they [...]
Lyndsay, a neighbor to our fellow monkeywhalers in Asheville, NC came to our attention due to the insistence of Dulci, Shane and Jason of Now You See Them (a prior visitor to the kitchen). Dulci and Shane actually accompany Lyndsay on this song along with the very talented Matt Williams.
Who is this Lyndsay Wojcik? (pronounced [...]
Here’s another song from a very special evening that began with a lovely set by Bruce Piephoff (a longtime friend who inaugurated the Harvey’s Kitchen series). Jim Avett is father to Scott and Seth Avett, of the Avett Brothers who were recently signed to Columbia Records.
The dotmatrix project is a monthly concert series which is [...]
