{"id":615,"date":"2014-11-09T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2014-11-09T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T13:46:52","slug":"new-york-city-blog-nov-2-nov-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog Nov. 2 – Nov. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amnesty International mailed me a 12\u201d by 12\u201d 2015 paper calendar. Is there any more dated symbol of a bygone world? The paper calendar is in the same category as all those deserted malls. Isn\u2019t the internet, or a similar communication device, here to stay? In addition to the expense of producing the calendar, the contents are highly suspect. There are colored photos of pretty dark children smiling in soft focused lighting. We know Panos Pictures did the photos because the credit is almost an inch high and mentioned three times. It\u2019s Project Runway meets the Sierra Club. Some day these shots might be considered vintage. Now they\u2019re only dated examples of another charity spending its money unwisely. What a distortion of human suffering. What a waste of money.<\/p>\n

Vivaldi is to Venice what Gershwin is to NYC. I was thinking this while listening to the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato at Carnegie Hall. She was celebrating Venice. In addition to Vivaldi, she sang the works of Faure\u00b4, Rossini, Head, Hahn and DeCurtis.It\u2019s all lovely and wonderful to hear, but I favor Vivaldi because he\u2019s a hometown boy and I associate his music with the churches, Santa Maria della Pieta and San Vidal. Who was San Vidal? There\u2019s a Carpaccio painting of him on horseback on San Vidal\u2019s main altar. You can gaze at it and other paintings while listening to gorgeous music – Vivaldi, of course, at the church just over the Accademia Bridge.<\/p>\n

Crisis Geography
\nHave you visited any of the following countries in the last 21 days, followed by a map of western Africa showing Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Maps of Vietnam, Irag, Iran, Syria come to mind. Do we have to have a health crisis or declare war to become interested in geography?<\/p>\n

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