Month: February 2011

With an architect in the family (that means you, Rohit), we need to pay attention to such stuff:

more and more

Here’s a good, in-depth piece from NASA:

Today’s The Oregonian ran this piece as a front-page story.  Portland seems rightly proud of its hometown Best New Artist.  In the article, Spalding cites Thara Memory as one of her mentors.  (An aside: Ivi was lucky enough to meet Thara Memory and attend one of his workshops a year or two ago in her jazz studies.)

If you haven’t heard of Esperanza Spalding yet, you will soon.

Esperanza Spalding: Short And Sweet

Here’s some sample press from Atlantic.com.

eye avenue picked up the now-Grammy’s Best New Artist in October 2010; check out her PBS interview and performance.

(In case you’re wondering, the Short and Sweet piece was a free download from her site; no animals were harmed, etc.)

Brother Dennis turns me on to a rather different kind of food blog: http://www.ediblegeography.com/

Inspirational? Takes me back to my boyhood days on the farm.