{"id":1372,"date":"2016-12-04T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2016-12-04T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T13:47:46","slug":"new-york-city-blog-nov-30-dec-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog \u2014 Nov. 30 – Dec. 4."},"content":{"rendered":"
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We went to a delightful talk by Frick Curator, Xavier F. Salomon, about an almost forgotten seventeenth-century Italian painter, Guido Cagnacci. The main focus was on Cagnacci\u2019s weird and wonderful \u201cRepentant Magdalene\u201d. It\u2019s on loan from the Norton Simon museum. Travels with Cagnacci was the name of the lecture. By means of erudition, dry wit, a charming accent and video, Curator Salomon took us on a little trip around Emilia-Romagna to the birthplace of the eccentric and gifted Guido Cagnacci. Curator Salomon also gave an evocative picture of what it\u2019s like to be in provincial Italy, away from the tourism of Venice, Rome and Bologna. After the talk, we walked four blocks north to the restaurant, Caravaggio. So appropriate, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n

On Thursday night I took my slightly schizophrenic self to a Green Party Meeting at the LGBTQ Building. There were about forty of us stuffed into an airless room. I recognized the regulars and listened to a new group who were joining the Greens under the banner Bernie Greens.The question of why Jill Stein had collected and spent seven million dollars to investigate voting fraud in three states was raised and quickly, too quickly, shelved. The same thing happened about the question of open primaries.<\/p>\n

Friends and I went to “A Chanticleer Christmas” at \u00a0the church of St. Ignatius Loyola. It\u2019s an exhilarating experience to sit in an enormous, cell free zone and listen to twelve men singing in their countertenor to bass voices a medley of carols, medieval and Renaissance music.
\nThe Gospel according to Rex Stout: Black Orchid is an organization dedicated to mystery writer Rex Stout, the creator of Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, Fritz etc. I attended their annual dinner at the Arno Restaurant on West 38th Street. The restaurant itself could have stepped out of the pages of a Stout mystery.
\nWas his Quaker upbringing responsible for his reasoned approach to life? Some memorable quotes are: If my garbage has been tampered with I don’t know if it’s the FBI or the raccoon. My subconscious and I are not on speaking terms.
\nIn addition to dinner, we indulge in quizzes based on the books and Wolfean lore. Stout was a foodie so, of course, his culinary obsession fits in perfectly with our modern interest in food and drink.
\nFrom Too Many Cooks<\/em>: Nero Wolfe says, \u201cI do not soil myself cheaply; I charge high fees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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