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Wednesday, May 28, 2003 New Stuff Lots of new stuff and neat stuff if you just push the buttons on the left: Tax credits, post-gay photography, apartments, jobs, and a large mural dedicated to pettiness and acrimony -- wait, make that peace and understanding -- but only if you push those buttons. posted by smallstreams | 9:11 PM Friday, May 23, 2003 Any comments on the Baum Boulevard Corridor Meeting? posted by smallstreams | 9:19 AM Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Robin, It's just like a sack of potatoes. I'm glad someone's reading. We actually need more people posting. Actually, I was beginning to think some incendiary comments were in order, start a discussion on the benefits of vinyl siding for Queen Anne Style houses, perhaps. posted by smallstreams | 5:17 PM Dowd Wins In what promises to be a major change for the Pittsburgh Public School Board, Patrick Dowd wins in district 2, defeating School Board President Jean Harris. Check the P-G. posted by smallstreams | 8:37 AM Newsletter From: Dana Smith What's Happening In Friendship (for more details click on the Newsletter button on the left): 1) Friendship Development Associates Honored By The Fannie Mae Foundation 2) Annual Community Job Fair (Wednesday, May 21, 2003) 3) Important Community Meeting - Penn Ave Reconstruction Project (Tuesday, May 27, 2003) 4) Mural To Be Painted On Penn Avenue 5) Nuisance Bar Task Force Monthly Meeting (Thursday, May 29, 2003) 6) Schedule of Performances at the Quiet Storm (Starting Tonight) ************************************************************************ What's Happening Near Friendship: 1) Baum/Centre Planning Initiative Public Visioning Meeting (Thursday, May 22, 2003) 2) Whole Foods Market and The Sprout Fund Help Innovation Flourish 3) "Celebrate Your Library" Day (Tuesday June 3, 2003) 4) Center for Lifetime Learning-"Pitt At The Pole" (Thursday, June 5) 5) Northside Leadership Conference Immediate Opening ************************************************************************ posted by smallstreams | 8:33 AM Saturday, May 17, 2003 New Look *$*&#$$@!# blogspot, lost the template somehow. Tried to make a virtue out of a necessity (depravity?), or some such, and changed the look of the web log. Links will be up soon. Just heard that Jill hasn't seen the new logo. Cool logo. Good logo. My precious. posted by smallstreams | 11:19 AM Wednesday, May 14, 2003 Corrections Dana sent some corrections to the e-mail newsletter: wasn't able to post the one about the "Welcome to Waldorf" gathering, but the community meeting on Penn Avenue construction will be rescheduled to the 27th. posted by smallstreams | 5:17 PM Monday, May 12, 2003 A Good F-ing Time I had a great time at F4, and hope you did, too. According to Dutch, we made about 10 to 20 percent less than we did last year in non-flower receipts, but considering that the whole thing could have been a rain-soaked bust, we should all be happy. Perhaps we can post some post-mortems here. For instance I'm already doing some soul searching on the veggie kabobs. Not much return-on-investment. So I'm open to suggestions for high-margin, signature foods. posted by smallstreams | 1:40 PM Friday, May 09, 2003 Flower Fest Hosts New Lost City Rambler I'm looking forward to hearing all of F4s musical guests, but one of them, Tracy Schwartz, belongs to one of the best string, old-time, revivalist bands that I know of, The New Lost City Ramblers. My friend John lent me a copy of New Lost City Ramblers' Songbook, a compilation of old time, mostly Southern Appalachian songs. It has lyrics, chords, melodies, and old photos from recording company promotions or WPA-type photo projects. During the '50s, 60s, and beyond, the New Lost City Ramblers played and sang these songs and others, discovered and preserved a lot of great music, and -- as noted in John Cohen's foreword -- styles. More than most others, the three original members (Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley) and later member Tracy Schwartz propagated country blues, bluegrass, cajun, and traditional music. They searched out old masters like Doc Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb and Carribean guitarist Joseph Spence. They also made definitive recordings, to me at least, of songs like "I Truly Understand," "Little Moses," and "When First unto This Country." When they weren't being earnest purveyors of music and styles, much of their stage patter was vaudevillian, after the old vaudeville, and before the new vaudeville, and they weren't above self-parody. One of my favorite lines was the one about singing to an old, Appalachian farmer who took out his tape machine to record The New Lost City Ramblers. As the years went by, Mike Seeger sometimes also prefaced a song by saying "We learned this one off a New Lost City Ramblers record." Enjoy! posted by smallstreams | 8:58 AM Wednesday, May 07, 2003 Classifieds and Newsletter Online Check it out by clicking the links underneath the "Links" heading on the left. posted by smallstreams | 3:43 PM This Week on Penn Avenue Find out what's happening on Penn Avenue by clicking on the Penn Avenue Arts button underneath the links. Remember life in Friendship isn't all about music and flowers. posted by smallstreams | 1:21 PM Tuesday, May 06, 2003 Penn and Graham Meeting Tonight I received the following from Dana Smith: Imperative Community Meetingposted by smallstreams | 8:20 AM |
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