Taking another look at Hillary.. See ARTICLES section below. Interesting inputs.
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At the table Wednesday 3/26/08
(Many thanks to Bob and Mary for hosting in my absence, and to Suellyn for taking notes! Ellen)
Attendance: Jonathan Rosenberg, Mary Biehn, Bob Witanowski, Ryan Donohue, Mira Rodwan, Linda Gruber, Tommie Flowers, Rob Milton, Miriam Shaw , Mr. G., Abby Artemesia, Autumn Artemesia, Ginger Lee Frank, Judy Cirillo, Marvin and Gerry Kraus, Donnajean Wells (Welcome newcomers!)
Song: Oh How Lovely is the Evening
Announcements:
Miriam; project in OTR across from Findlay Market rehabbing space to serve theater and art center for inner city youth. Ryan and Jonathan help. Work every Tuesday from 4-7pm. It is located behind a successful sewing center. Donations of tools, building materials, fabric for costumes are welcome.
Donna Jean first timer read about the Permaculture course on Salon Weekly and signed up for course.
Workshop at Imago Earth Center Heart of Now Abby will do NVC intro at the beginning of Heart of Now. April 5, 7pm $5 donation requested. Info on Dandelion Health Collective on yahoo group.
Bill: Counted, documentary on election fraud. At 7pm at the Esquire this evening. Maybe we can get a DVD and watch it at the Salon.
Environmental Commission Bill has written a template for actions to reduce effects of climate change. The number two action is to reduce your meat consumption by 10%. Only thing that would reduce it more is to get Duke to stop using coal.
Gerry: Enquirer today article on raising your own chickens.
Mira: Science Friday discussion on World Water Day referenced Lester Brown’s book on civilization. Mira has recording.
Compassionate Communication workshop on Saturday at Grailville, by Teresa Sapanar.
Bill suggests that Jim Schenk make presentation of Imago Ecovillage at the Salon. Suellyn can contact him if you want.
Mary: Wall Street Journal Article re: filing of candidtates Income Tax.
Topics: Marie Mason’s situation, John McCain’s remarks, Bush’s War on Front Line.
Ryan & Jonathan: passed handouts Principles of Earth First : biocentrism, no compromise, nonviolent direct action. Group in this region Maketewah. Working on Rockford stream in northside condo development and the Waldorf School. Resisting big box in area.
Marie longtime activist was arrested re: ELF action re: MSU genetic engineering lab. Was arrested in Cincinnati for federal offense arson 2 i/2 weeks ago. Doing fund raising for lawyer’s retainer. Is on electronic arrest. Released from jail after 10 days.
Mira suggested that she has contact with ACLU attorney who might be interested.
Abby: In the indictment calling it an act of terrorism. You can be a terrorist if you are demonstrating or boycotting and potentially threatening corporate economic well being.
Gerry: can you create a national incident re: Utube. Ryan is doing a tour to spread the word.
Use info at bottom of the flyer to contact about Marie. Please help with funds for attorney.
Marvin: be aware of the green scare.
Switching to John McCain: Mira said you wouldn’t believe it was the same person who appeared with Hagger... He sounded like a liberal. What he observed in the middle east. Shouldn’t
Gerry: He said we’ll stay in Iraq till we win, among other things.
Mira: He made a point of caring for the earth, and we should care for the homeowners who are foreclosed on.
G: The Ayatolla put Reagan in the white house. Maybe GW was an incentive for Bin Laden.
Jonathan: The Republicans are gonna have to start looking like liberals or lose a lot of votes.
Argument about liberal and conservatives and whether or not McCain is “nice” and which is right or left. And whether we are they.
Summary by Marvin: we’re done and he didn’t pick up any votes.
G: Has there been discussion of whether Republicans voting in the D. Primaries are having an effect.
Bush’s War
Judy: You see all the behind the scenes talking among the players about going into Iraq prior to 9/11. Hope everyone watches.
G: google Frontline or PBS.org to watch it.
Tommie: One of the reasons they attacked Sadaam is because he was rejecting US currency.
Gerry: deregulation of the banks, etc caused a lot of the problems.
Billions are unaccounted for.
Gerry: they thought they were buying the warlords, but it turns out they were only renting them.
Talking about the politics of the primary and the election.
G: Roxanne Qualls said at a talk he heard: “the sole purpose of TV campaign ads is to get the opposition to stay home.”
Mira: Youth are using electronic media and getting involved. McCain said we need to have a meeting of all democratic nations.
Mira led the singing to close. “building bridges”
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
Leonard Orr Returns to Lloyd House
Wed, April 9, 1 hour talk 8 pm (immediately following the salon)
“Five Greatest Ideas of the Twenty-first Century”
$20
This is one of the great, the original New Age/Human Potential Movement American gurus from the 70’s on through now. We were fortunate to get him on his way home from his gig in Michigan last year, and I am thrilled he will be back. We are a little fueling station on his road trip. Leonard is the father of “Rebirthing”, the breathing technique for spiritual purification and psychological healing. Leonard thinks out of the box. A real smart guy, unassuming, very pleasant. As Mohamed Ali (Cassius Clay) once told me on the TV screen, if someone is the world’s best of something, it doesn’t matter what that something is, that someone has got to be pretty terrific. Leonard is arguably the very greatest American guru. It’s super neat to have him. Well worth $20 just to know you’ve seen him. I mean, like if say Billy Graham were to talk at the Lloyd House, you’d want to be here, right?
Leonard has been thinking about all sorts of things, and this talk is the highlights... Like how to tackle the political issue, What is important to know about our currency and democracy, How to live healthy for a very long time, maybe forever, etc. etc.
OK, here it is, Leonard is a Mt. Rushmore in his field. Check him out. (See you here. Also, feel free to come for the salon pot luck at 5:45... Or not. ) Ellen
Leonard Orr on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Orr
VACANCY AT LLOYD HOUSE..............Please circulate.
As of 1 May the two room suite on third floor will be available for our next housemate. You? Private bathroom adjoining living room. Kitchen shared with 3 other housemates (share refrig. with one other person only). Off street parking. High Speed Internet wy-fi. Fabulous multicultural ambiance in historic gaslight Clifton Victorian, historic register (John Uri Lloyd). Many perqs. 2 miles from U.C. $450, heat, elect. included. Photo at http://www.lloydhouse.com Ellen: 513 221 1289
Muse “New Spirituals” Concert April 5,6 House of Joy, College Hill
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(A young cellist friend of mine, Jennifer Wheatley, discovered a fabulous book and is bringing the author to town for a workshop May 2 –4 at the Moye Center just over the river. Only $200 for the weekend. If you need a breakthrough, this could be it. Ellen)
Hi everybody!
I wanted to invite you to this amazing workshop I'm organizing called "Desire and the Quest for the Inner Beloved". Since this is not normally the type of thing that I'd usually do, let me tell you how this all sort of happened: last summer I was doing a lot of soul seraching, mostly because I was in the process of quitting my library job, giving up a steady income so I could build a private cello studio and make music my profession full time. As I went through this process I discovered that I was longing for something, some indefinable thing that I wasn't getting in other areas of my life- I didn't even know how to put it into words. So I fumbled around for a little while, until by a lucky chance I came across Trebbe Johnson's book,"The World is a Waiting Lover" and found the very things I had been unable to define in my own mind written right there on the page in front of me.
The idea of Trebbe's book is that we go through our lives looking for meaning and and connection with others- friends parents lovers, spouses- and while they are all wonderful and can bring us much satisfaction, at some point looking outside ourselves for the joy we long for winds up being not enough. What Trebbe discusses, through her own experience, and through myths and stories from all cultures, is that the thing we really, really want is simply to meet, court, and fall in love with our own Soul; the way Trebbe invokes its image is as an Inner Beloved. As she descibes it, "This powerful force is always present in us, guiding us to the people, places, and projects that fascinate us." So basically, if we first learn to fall in love with our own selves, we can draw on the delight that feeling gives us which in turn deepens the level of delight we have in all areas of our lives.
This book was exactly what I needed at the time, and when I discovered that Trebbe actually offered a workshop based on her book, I contacted her immediately to see if I could bring her to Cincinnati. She agreed and will be bringing her wonderful ideas of us to share and explore on May 2-4 . That's only a month and a half away, and I can't wait! All that's missing is people to enjoy it with me- Trebbe needs eight folks to sign up to make finacially viable for her to travel out here and lead us on what is sure to be a fantastic journey.
So if this sounds like something that you'd be cuious about, let me know! If you think you it's not for you, maybe you know someone is would just love to do this workshop and you can pass the info along.
So I'll leave you with a few details of time and place and cost:
The dates: May 2-4 at the Moye Center at St. Anne's Convent in Melbourne, KY (just outside Cincinnati). It's a commuting workshop so the times are: Friday night: 7:30-9:30, Saturday: 9:30-5, and Sunday: 9:30-1.
The fee for the whole weekend is $200, and that includes the workshop, lunch on Saturday and snacks. There is a fridge and microwave in the room we're using if you'd rather pack something.
Jen
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Jennifer Higgins Wheatley
1332 S. Fort Thomas Ave. Apt. 3
Fort Thomas, KY 41075
513-314-3555
From Moveon.org about FOX media smears that are ridiculously taken up by the major media. Protest this! Ellen
Dear Ellen Bierhorst,
Thank you so much for your contribution of $10.00 to support MoveOn.org Political Action. Your contribution will help fund our ongoing pushback against right-wing smears, including those that come from FOX.
The more signatures we can deliver to major media outlets, the better. So please tell some friends about the new Fox Attacks video and petition. Here's the link: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3495.
MoveOn.org Political Action is entirely funded by hundreds of thousands of our members - we don't take big checks from corporations. The average contribution is around $50 and we don't take any contributions larger than $5000. So your contribution today will go a long way. Thank you so much.
--Eli Pariser
Executive Director
MoveOn.org Political Action
Every Sunday morning an open weekly Tai Chi practice session at the Lloyd House in the third floor zendo at 10:15 am. Everyone welcome. Group is led by Jackie Millay She is excellent! Only three of us. Come join us. Raise the chi, warm yourself up. Come summer, will relocate back to Burnet Woods. ellen
My daughter’s father in law Marty Simon sends CELL PHONE tricks (I have not checked them out myself. Ellen.):
5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do ; or at least ''I'' never knew you could ! ! ! ! !
For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, wallet. Good information to have with you.)
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave
emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency: The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked
our car over a cell phone!'
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power: Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell phone next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone is stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
And Finally....
FIFTH
Free Directory Service for Cells: Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem.&nb sp; When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so
pass it on to your family and friends.
http://spanohio.org/ is about the healthcare reform that we are supporting. Here is their latest call:Tri-State Treasures
PUTTING SINGLE PAYER ON THE FRONT BURNER!
Single Payer Action Network of Ohio calls on volunteers for our April
Outreach to put the Healthcare for All Ohioans Act on the ballot for
2009.
The SPAN Signature Task Force has agreed to begin the build-up with an
Outreach Week April 6th. through 12th. We are asking SPAN regions and
local chapters to organize signature gathering efforts to begin that
week and continue through the month.
Goal-setting is the key to getting this done, so we are instituting a
pledge system. We agreed to call on volunteers to collect 130
signatures (two petitions) by the end of April (or a minimum of one
petition - 65 signatures) Our goal is to get 100+ volunteers to make
this pledge. We are compiling a list of those who have agreed to
participate. Please let us know if we can add your name to the list.
Contact us at 937 275-7259 or drop us a line. timbruce@erinet.com
Website: www.spanohio.org
Please forward this message!
In Solidarity,
Tim Bruce, Logan Martinez
On April 27 there will be a protest against the Bodies exhibition at the museum center. I plan to be there. More details later. Ellen.
YOGA at Lloyd House. Wednesdays 9:15 – 10:30 am. Open, free practice group led by Nina Tolley.
Articles
Contents:
- Hillary lied about her NAFTA position
- Insider source on Hillary
- Reagan’s speech writer praises Obama’s race speech... Cool piece.
- Salonista Shari Able staying in touch.
- What Jeremiah Wright actually said: essay by Tim Wise sent in by Diana Porter
(I know eveyone is more concerned about Hillary’s lying about her trip to Bosnia during Bill’s presidency. Yes, but I am more concerned about her lying re. the NAFTA thing. According to the Nation, admittedly a pro-Obama progressive newsmagazine, her papers, now released, show conclusively that she was pro-NAFTA all the way, contrary to what she has said especially to Ohio voters before the primary election. Ellen)
HILLARY LIED ABOUT NAFTA POSITION
From The Nation blog: Clinton Lie Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy
3/20/08
What is the proper word for the claim by Hillary Clinton and the more factually disinclined supporters of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination -- made in speeches, briefings and interviews (including one by this reporter with the candidate) -- that she has always been a critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Now that we know from the 11,000 pages of Clinton White House documents released this week that former First Lady was an ardent advocate for NAFTA; now that we know she held at least five meetings to strategize about how to win congressional approval of the deal; now that we know she was in the thick of the manuevering to block the efforts of labor, farm, environmental and human rights groups to get a better agreement. Now that we know all of this, how should we assess the claim that Hillary's heart has always beaten to a fair-trade rhythm?
Now that we know from official records of her time as First Lady that Clinton was the featured speaker at a closed-door session where 120 women opinion leaders were hectored to pressure their congressional representatives to approve NAFTA; now that we know from ABC News reporting on the session that "her remarks were totally pro-NAFTA" and that "there was no equivocation for her support for NAFTA at the time;" now that we have these details confirmed, what should we make of Clinton's campaign claim that she was never comfortable with the militant free-trade agenda that has cost the United States hundreds of thousands of union jobs, that has idled entire industries, that has saddled this country with record trade deficits, undermined the security of working families in the US and abroad, and has forced Mexican farmers off their land into an economic refugee status that ultimately forces them to cross the Rio Grande River in search of work?
As she campaigns now, Clinton says, "I have been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning."
But the White House records confirm that this is not true.
Her statement is, to be precise, a lie.
When it comes to the essential test of the trade debate, Clinton has been identified as a liar -- a put-in-boldface-type "L-I-A-R" liar.
Those of us who covered the 1993 NAFTA debate have frequently expressed doubts about the former First Lady's recent statements. We never heard anything at the time about her dissenting from the Clinton Administration line on trade policy. And we knew that she had defended NAFTA in the years following its enactment. But fairness required that we at least entertain that notion--promoted by the lamentable David Gergen, himself a champion of free-trade policies while working in the Clinton White House--that Hillary Clinton had been a behind-the-scenes critic. We had to at least consider the possibility that, at the very least, Clinton had been worried that advancing NAFTA would trip up her advocacy for health care reform, that she had made her concerns known and that she had absented herself from pro-NAFTA lobbying.
This was certainly the impression that Clinton and her supporters sought to create as she campaigned in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana--states where worried workers want to know exactly where the candidates have stood and currently stand with regard to trade issues.
But that impression was a deliberate deception.
And we must all now recognize that when Hillary Clinton speaks about trade policy, she begins with a lie so blatant--that she's been "a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning"--that everything else she says must be viewed as suspect.
(And this from my old classmate Evan Bukey, history prof. at U. Ark.. Has been strongly anti-Clinton ~ both H. and B.~ since the beginning of the 90’s.)
Interesting conversation ( referring to last week’s table notes.) Glad to read your friends appear to support Obama. Hillary carries too much baggage and lacks principle (other than
the advancement of her own career). Remember: she and Bill were once my
colleagues at the U of A - most unpleasant people.
love and kisses,
Evan
(And another source, a very astute person and salon Weekly lurker who knew Hillary years ago said that she is clearly the best qualified candidate, a brilliant person, but is both self-centered and self-righteous, and uses people. Also that she is the most brilliant extemporaneous speaker this friend has ever heard and “can light up a room like a Christmas tree.” ellen.)
(Reagan’s speech writer praises Obama’s Race speech. This is a wonderful piece. Ellen)
(From the online Wall Street Journal last week)
DECLARATIONS
By PEGGY NOONAN
March 21, 2008;
I thought Barack Obama's speech was strong, thoughtful and important. Rather beautifully, it was a speech to think to, not clap to. It was clear that's what he wanted, and this is rare.
It seemed to me as honest a speech as one in his position could give within the limits imposed by politics. As such it was a contribution. We'll see if it was a success. The blowhard guild, proud member since 2000, praised it, and, in the biggest compliment, cable news shows came out of the speech not with jokes or jaded insiderism, but with thought. They started talking, pundits left and right, black and white, about what they'd experienced of race in America. It was kind of wonderful. I thought, Go, America, go, go.
You know what Mr. Obama said. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright was wrong. His sermons were "incendiary," and they "denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation." Mr. Obama admitted that if all he knew of Mr. Wright were what he saw on the "endless loop . . . of YouTube," he wouldn't like him either. But he's known him 20 years as a man who taught him Christian faith, helped the poor, served as a Marine, and leads a community helping the homeless, needy and sick. "As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me." He would not renounce their friendship.
Most significantly, Mr. Obama asserted that race in America has become a generational story. The original sin of slavery is a fact, but the progress we have lived through the past 50 years means each generation experiences race differently. Older blacks, like Mr. Wright, remember Jim Crow and were left misshapen by it. Some rose anyway, some did not; of the latter, a "legacy of defeat" went on to misshape another generation. The result: destructive anger that is at times "exploited by politicians" and that can keep African-Americans "from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition." But "a similar anger exists within segments of the white community." He speaks of working- and middle-class whites whose "experience is the immigrant experience," who started with nothing. "As far as they're concerned, no one handed them anything, they've built it from scratch." "So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town," when they hear of someone receiving preferences they never received, and "when they're told their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced," they feel anger too.
This is all, simply, true. And we are not used to political figures being frank, in this way, in public. For this Mr. Obama deserves deep credit. It is also true the particular whites Obama chose to paint -- ethnic, middle class -- are precisely the voters he needs to draw in Pennsylvania. It was strategically clever. But as one who witnessed busing in Boston first hand, and whose memories of those days can still bring tears, I was glad for his admission that busing was experienced as an injustice by the white working class. Next step: admitting it was an injustice, period.
* * *
The primary rhetorical virtue of the speech can be found in two words, endemic and Faulkner. Endemic is the kind of word political consultants don't let politicians use because 72% of Americans don't understand it. This lowest-common-denominator thinking, based on dizzy polling, has long degraded American discourse. When Obama said Mr. Wright wrongly encouraged "a view that sees white racism as endemic," everyone understood. Because they're not, actually, stupid. As for Faulkner -- well, this was an American politician quoting William Faulkner: "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." This is a thought, an interesting one, which means most current politicians would never share it.
The speech assumed the audience was intelligent. This was a compliment, and I suspect was received as a gift. It also assumed many in the audience were educated. I was grateful for this, as the educated are not much addressed in American politics.
Here I point out an aspect of the speech that may have a beneficial impact on current rhetoric. It is assumed now that a candidate must say a silly, boring line -- "And families in Michigan matter!" or "What I stand for is affordable quality health care!" -- and the audience will clap. The line and the applause make, together, the eight-second soundbite that will be used tonight on the news, and seen by the people. This has been standard politico-journalistic procedure for 20 years.
Mr. Obama subverted this in his speech. He didn't have applause lines. He didn't give you eight seconds of a line followed by clapping. He spoke in full and longish paragraphs that didn't summon applause. This left TV producers having to use longer-than-usual soundbites in order to capture his meaning. And so the cuts of the speech you heard on the news were more substantial and interesting than usual, which made the coverage of the speech better. People who didn't hear it but only saw parts on the news got a real sense of what he'd said.
If Hillary or John McCain said something interesting, they'd get more than an eight-second cut too. But it works only if you don't write an applause-line speech. It works only if you write a thinking speech.
They should try it.
* * *
Here's what didn't work. Near the end of the speech, Mr. Obama painted an America that didn't summon thoughts of Faulkner but of William Blake. The bankruptcies, the dark satanic mills, the job loss and corporate corruptions. There is of course some truth in his portrait, but why do appeals to the Democratic base have to be so unrelievedly, so unrealistically, bleak?
This connected in my mind to the persistent feeling one has -- the fear one has, actually -- that the Obamas, he and she, may not actually know all that much about America. They are bright, accomplished, decent, they know all about the yuppie experience, the buppie experience, Ivy League ways, networking. But they bring along with all this -- perhaps defensively, to keep their ideological views from being refuted by the evidence of their own lives, or so as not to be embarrassed about how nice fame, success, and power are -- habitual reversions to how tough it is to be in America, and to be black in America, and how everyone since the Reagan days has been dying of nothing to eat, and of exploding untreated diseases. America is always coming to them on crutches.
But most people didn't experience the past 25 years that way. Because it wasn't that way. Do the Obamas know it?
This is a lot of baggage to bring into the Executive Mansion.
Still, it was a good speech, and a serious one. I don't know if it will help him. We're in uncharted territory. We've never had a major-party presidential front-runner who is black, or rather black and white, who has given such an address. We don't know if more voters will be alienated by Mr. Wright than will be impressed by the speech about Mr. Wright. We don't know if voters will welcome a meditation on race. My sense: The speech will be labeled by history as the speech that saved a candidacy or the speech that helped do it in. I hope the former.
displaced salonista Shari Able writes from Los Angeles:
Wow these weekly notes keep me in touch with lots of stuff i wouldn't know a thing about if i didn't read them. thanks ellen i love you shari
(A propos of our table discussion on Obama’s race speech, Diana Porter, Salon Weekly lurker sends us this: Brutally excerpted, I hope you will click on the link and read the entire text. ellen)
Ellen:
I thought you and the salon would be interested in this essay/perspective that I received from a friend this afternoon.
Diana
A White anti-racist view of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's statements and white reaction
By TIM WISE
For most white folks, indignation just doesn't wear well. Once affected
or conjured up, it reminds one of a pudgy man, wearing a tie that may
well have fit him when he was fifty pounds lighter, but which now cuts
off somewhere above his navel and makes him look like an idiot.
Indignation doesn't work for most whites, because having remained
sanguine about, silent during, indeed often supportive of so much
injustice over the years in this country--the theft of native land and
genocide of indigenous persons, and the enslavement of Africans being
only two of the best examples--we are just a bit late to get into the
game of moral rectitude. And once we enter it, our efforts at
righteousness tend to fail the test of sincerity.
But here we are, in 2008, fuming at the words of Pastor Jeremiah Wright,
of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago--occasionally Barack
Obama's pastor, and the man whom Obama credits with having brought him
to Christianity--for merely reminding us of those evils about which we
have remained so quiet, so dismissive, so unconcerned. It is not the
crime that bothers us, but the remembrance of it, the unwillingness to
let it go--these last words being the first ones uttered by most whites
it seems whenever anyone, least of all an "angry black man" like
Jeremiah Wright, foists upon us the bill of particulars for several
centuries of white supremacy.
But our collective indignation, no matter how loudly we announce it,
cannot drown out the truth. And as much as white America may not be able
to hear it (and as much as politics may require Obama to condemn it) let
us be clear, Jeremiah Wright fundamentally told the truth.
(for the whole of this excellent essay: http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/NationalLies.html )
....
But white folks have a hard time hearing these simple truths. We find it
almost impossible to listen to an alternative version of reality.
Indeed, what seems to bother white people more than anything, whether in
the recent episode, or at any other time, is being confronted with the
recognition that black people do not, by and large, see the world like
we do; that black people, by and large, do not view America as white
people view it. We are, in fact, shocked that this should be so, having
come to believe, apparently, that the falsehoods to which we cling like
a kidney patient clings to a dialysis machine, are equally shared by our
darker-skinned compatriots.
This is what James Baldwin was talking about in his classic 1972 work,
No Name in the Street, wherein he noted:
"White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up
with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be
described as deluded--about themselves and the world they live in. White
people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this
euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who
sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an
eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac."
....
We were shocked to learn that black people actually believed that a
white cop who was a documented racist might frame a black man; and we're
shocked to learn that lots of black folks still perceive the U.S. as a
racist nation--we're literally stunned that people who say they
experience discrimination regularly (and who have the social science
research to back them up) actually think that those experiences and that
data might actually say something about the nation in which they reside.
Imagine.
....
Whites refuse to remember (or perhaps have never learned) that which
black folks cannot afford to forget. I've seen white people stunned to
the point of paralysis when they learn the truth about lynchings in this
country--when they discover that such events were not just a couple of
good old boys with a truck and a rope hauling some black guy out to the
tree, hanging him, and letting him swing there. They were never told the
truth: that lynchings were often community events, advertised in papers
as "Negro Barbecues," involving hundreds or even thousands of whites,
who would join in the fun, eat chicken salad and drink sweet tea, all
while the black victims of their depravity were being hung, then shot,
then burned, and then having their body parts cut off, to be handed out
to onlookers. They are stunned to learn that postcards of the events
were traded as souvenirs, and that very few whites, including members of
their own families did or said anything to stop it.
....
Most white people desire, or perhaps even require the propagation of
lies when it comes to our history. Surely we prefer the lies to anything
resembling, even remotely, the truth. Our version of history, of our
national past, simply cannot allow for the intrusion of fact into a
worldview so thoroughly identified with fiction. But that white version
of America is not only extraordinarily incomplete, in that it so favors
the white experience to the exclusion of others; it is more than that;
it is actually a slap in the face to people of color, a re-injury, a
reminder that they are essentially irrelevant, their concerns trivial,
their lives unworthy of being taken seriously. In that sense, and what
few if any white Americans appear capable of grasping at present, is
that "Leave it Beaver" and "Father Knows Best," portray an America so
divorced from the reality of the times in which they were produced, as
to raise serious questions about the sanity of those who found them so
moving, so accurate, so real. These iconographic representations of life
in the U.S. are worse than selective, worse than false, they are
assaults to the humanity and memory of black people, who were being
savagely oppressed even as June Cleaver did housework in heels and
laughed about the hilarious hijinks of Beaver and Larry Mondello.
....
So what can we say about a nation that values lies more than it loves
truth?
Pardon me, but something is wrong here, and whatever it is, is not to be
found at Trinity United Church of Christ.
[Tim Wise is the author of: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a
Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and Affirmative Action: Racial
Preference in Black and White (Routledge: 2005). He can be reached at:
timjwise@msn.com This essay originally appeared in Lip.]
(for the entirety of this excellent essay: http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/NationalLies.html )
Also, Henry Brown, another lurker, writes:
Ellen,
Some food for your table topic re: Rev Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama can be found at http://evapaterson.com/ There is a link there to a piece written by Tim Wise regarding Senator Obama and his relationship with Rev. Wright. (this is the piece directly above. Ellen)
Henry
Books,Movies, Reviews
It’s up to you folks to send me blurbs. I know you are reading. What? Is it good? Ellen........................
Cable Movies recommended by Dr. Tom Firor last Dec.
Hearts in Atlantis
Starman
Muriel’s Wedding
Better off dead
High Fidelity
The Commitments
Quigley Down Under
Almost Famous
Mrs. Doubtfire
Moscow on the Hudson
Sunshine state
My big fat Greek wedding
Italian for beginners (subtitled)
Broadway Danny Rose
Song catcher
Stand and deliver
Mr. Saturday Night
Pump up the volume
Zebrahead
New Jersey Story
Around the bend
Missing in America
Cinderella Man
Bigger Than the Sky
The Man
Guess Who?
The Three Burials of Melqiadas Estrada
In Her Shoes
The Beautiful Country
Free Enterprise
Looking for Kitty
Little Miss Sunshine
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Pure Movement Class [Mondays @ 6:30- 8PM & Wednesdays @ 9:30- 11AM]: Fanchon Shur, Growth In Motion master teacher, guides us to a sense of freedom, strength, flexibility, & expression. Classes offer personal attention to individual alignment for authentic creativity. Four classes for $48 (or $12 per class). Individual classes for $20. First class is free for new students. At 4019 Red Bud Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229. More info @ 513- 221- 3222, fanchon@growthinmotion.org, & www.growthinmotion.org.
French Summer Camp: French Institute Alliance Française would like to open a summer camp during the summer of 2008 for children with activities in French. A few parents have expressed interest. If you are interested by this project, please contact Alix Pitra, Director of the Institute @ 513.293.2948 & afschool@france-cincinnati.com.
Creations Cooking Classes @ the Midwest Culinary Institute [April & May]: Embrace the season. Get your kids & teenagers in the kitchen. Explore the world, savor wine, chocolate, & much more. And do it in MCI’s state-of-the-art kitchens side-by-side with faculty chefs & chefs from some of your favorite restaurants. All cooking classes are hands-on, not just demonstrations. Go online to see MCI's many classes. At Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, 3520 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info & registration @ 513.569.1643, http://culinary.cincinnatistate.edu/Events/Events.htm.
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Beauty Matters Art Show Opening @ United Way [Thursday 27 March @ 5:30-7:00 PM]: United Way invites you to its 2008 Beauty Matters art show. Curated by Danny Brown, the show features the work of 22 acclaimed area artists, working in several media. Many of the artists represented in the show will be attending. The exhibit continues thru Friday 25 April. A portion of all sales benefits this year's United Way Campaign, courtesy of the artists. At United Way, 2400 Reading Road, Uptown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info from Deby Davis @ 513.762.7225.
Man of La Mancha [Thursday 27 March - Sunday 13 April @ 8 PM (Wed-Sat) & 2 PM (Sun)]: This play-within-a-play brings Cervantes' "Don Quixote” to life. A dying old man conceives a strange, comic, & romantic quest “to become a knight errant & sally forth into the world to right all wrongs.” Having dubbed himself the noble name Don Quixote de La Mancha, he needs only his mighty (rusty) sword, his trusty (skeptical) vassal, & his one true love (a bitter prostitute named Aldonza) to perform his deeds. The songs - It's All the Same, Dulcinea, I'm Only Thinking of Him, Little Bird, I Really Like Him and The Impossible Dream, remain in your thoughts & soul long after the show. Tickets are $2 for adults, $19 for seniors & students. At Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45238. More info & tix @ 513.241.6550, jenniferperrino@covedalecenter.com, & www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com.
War & Trauma [Friday 28 March @ 7 PM]: Second in a 4-part film & book discussion series examines the psychological effects of war. This installment is “Coal Black Horse," a novel by Robert Olmstead, discussed by Mary Fredrickson, PhD, Professor of American History at Miami University. This program is an “On the Same Page” event co-sponsored by Cincinnati Public Library. Moderator, Jacob D. Lindy, MD, Psychoanalyst, past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies & clinical professor of psychiatry at UC College of Medicine. Presented by the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought. Wine & cheese reception @ 6:30 PM. Free for members, $5 for non-members. At the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, 3001 Highland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45219. More info & reservations @ 513.531.0415 & assnpsathought@aol.com.
Our Satin Dolls: Legendary Divas of Jazz [Friday-Sunday 28-30 March @ 7:30PM (Fri), 2 & 7:30PM (Sat), & 4PM (Sun)]: A captivating performance of Cincinnati Black Theatre Company jazz vocalists & performers present amazing interpretations of legendary greats. Be transported back to an era with the mix of brilliant music & humor. A musical portrait of the life & times of some of the greatest women of Jazz; the music, drama, & legacy of Billie, Ella, & Sarah; their history, impact, & contributions on the world of Jazz. Tickets are $20; group rates available. At the New Woodward Theater, Woodward Career Technical High School, 7005 Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH 45237. More info @ 513.241.6060, dsherman@cincyblacktheatre.com, cbtcsherman@hotmail.com, & www.cincyblacktheatre.com.
A Musical Celebration of an Extraordinary Life: Patricia A. Corbett [Saturday 29 March @ 11 AM]: A free, public event dedicated to the memory of philanthropist Patricia Corbett. Mrs. Corbett & her late husband J. Ralph Corbett were champions for performing arts in Cincinnati & among the city’s most generous arts supporters. Mrs. Corbett died 28 January 2008. This free concert allows people to celebrate Patricia Corbett & to say farewell. WGUC’s Naomi Lewin will host the concert. The program will include performances by Cincinnati Opera soprano Jane Jennings & tenor Mark Panuccio, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the May Festival Chorus, UC CCM’s 2008 musical theater senior class, members of NKU’s Azmari Quartet, & 2 groups from the SCPA. Conductors include Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Music Director Paavo Järvi, opera impresario & former May Festival Music Director Julius Rudel, & Cincinnati Ballet Music Director Carmon DeLeone. The free concert is made possible through the contributions of time & resources donated by the participating organizations & individuals. Free; tickets are not required. Doors open at 10 AM. In Music Hall, 1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.621.2787 & www.CincinnatiArts.org.
Learn to Speak French [registration is Saturday 29 March @ 11AM - 1PM]: Spring Session of the Alliance Institute begins March 31st. The French Institute of the Alliance Française of Cincinnati is now accepting registrations for the 2008 Spring session 2008 classes. At the Junior League Building, 3500 Delta Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45226. More info @ 513.293.2948, afschool@france-cincinnati.com, & www.france-cincinnati.com:80/af/menu_2_1_en.htm.
Recycling 101 [Saturday 29 March @ 10-11 AM]: Learn all there is to know about recycling in Hamilton County from the Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District. At Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & RSVP @ 513.721.7275 & info@parkandvine.com, & www.parkandvine.com.
Introductory Training Seminar with Heinz Stark [Sunday 30 March & Friday 4 April @ 9 AM - 6 PM]: Powerful soul level work with family systems dynamics pioneered by Bert Hellinger. Sponsored by Soul Solutions. At the Vernon Manor, 400 Oak Street, Cincinnati, OH 45219. More info @ 513.481.3080, enki@one.net, & www.soulsolutionshome.com.
Spring Art Classes [begin the week of 31 March]: The Kennedy Heights Arts Center is offering a variety of art, photography, & drama classes for adults & children. At Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 6546 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info about their class offerings @ 513.631.4278, ilene@kennedyarts.com, & www.kennedyarts.org.
Radio Interview with Kirtan Musician Dave Stringer [Tuesday 1 April @ 3:30 PM]: Kirtan is a form of bhakti yoga or devotional chanting that is gaining popularity inside & outside of yoga studios across the country. Dave Stringer, rock star in the kirtan genre, will be interviewed by Ron Esposito on his show "Waves of the New Age" on WAIF 88.3 FM; listen online @ www.waifstream.com.
Survival of a Human Spirit featuring Judith Meisel [Thursday 3 April @ 4:30 PM]: Holocaust survivor, retired educator, & civil rights activist, Judith Meisel, will discuss her life & answer questions following the screening of "Tak for Alt: the Survival of a Human Spirit." Winner of the Anti-Defamation League's Dore Shary Award, National Educational Media Network Gold Apple Award, & Judah Magnes Museum Jewish Video Award, "Tak for Alt" ["Thanks for Everything" in Danish] chronicles Meisel’s experiences from Eastern Europe to the Kovno ghetto, to the Stutthof concentration camp, to her liberation & recuperation in Denmark, to the US where she began to her life's work championing social justice & civil & human rights. Free. Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education. In 115 Shideler Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. More info or RSVP @ 513.487.3055, chhe@huc.edu, & www.holocaustandhumanity.org.
The Moses Code [Saturday 5 April @ 7:30 PM]: The Moses Code takes the important step of how we use the spiritual law to “give” from our soul, automatically attracting spiritual blessings into our lives. This major spiritual film release is being combined with a worldwide prayer vigil focused on shifting the planetary consciousness. Some of the best known spiritual teachers in the world join James Twyman in this film, offering tools on how to apply the Moses Code to your life. Speakers include Dr. Michael Beckwith, Gregg Braden, Neale Donald Walsch, Iyanla Vanzant, Sonia Choquette, & Debbie Ford. Tickets are $10. Presented by Conscious Choice Cinema. At New Thought Unity Center Sanctuary, 1401 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ 859.491.7885, silvorwing@aol.com, & www.ConsciousChoiceCinema.com.
Rumpelstiltskin [Saturday April 5 @ 11 AM]: Saturday Morning Children’s Series continues with a performance by Art Reach of Rumpelstiltskin. Enjoy this classic tale of the miller’s daughter, her boastful father, a handsome prince, & the ability to spin straw into gold. Discover the magic & wonder of one of the world’s best loved fairytales. Tickets are $7 for adults & $5 for children. At Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45238. More info & tix @ 513.241.6550, jenniferperrino@covedalecenter.com, & www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com.
Plein-Air Landscape Painting Class [10 Saturdays on 5 April - 7 June @ 10 AM - 1 PM]: Plein-Air is French for "in the open air.” Experience the pleasure of painting & seeing the world in a new way at various scenic parks around Cincinnati to learn to sketch & paint with oils. In case of rain, class will meet indoors or in parks with overhead cover. Details & directions to locations will be given in class. No experience necessary. Richard Luschek studied classical painting under Boston painter Paul Ingbretson for 3 years after earning his BFA degree with UC's DAAP program. In addition to working as an artist & maintaining his art studio, Richard has taught with the Art Academy of Cincinnati & teaches private classes in his studio. View his work @ www.richardluschek.com & http://richardluschek.blogspot.com/. Tuition is $199 for the 10-week class #3715-01; does not include supplies. List of supplies for the class @ www.uc.edu/ace/commu/PAINTING.mht. First class meets at artist's Eden Park studio, then at various parks. More info & register @ http://www.uc.edu/ace/noncreditreg/browseclasses.aspx?classid=_xx1, www.uc.edu/ace/noncreditreg/, richard_luschek@yahoo.com, & 513.479.3322.
MUSE - Cincinnati's Women's Choir [Saturday-Sunday 5-6 April @ 8 PM Sat & 3 PM Sun]: MUSE & their Artistic Director, Catherine Roma, present the 12th New Spirituals project - the 2nd concert series of the 25th Anniversary Season - & the premiere of Hope Come True by Dr. Rosephanye Powell, who will be in attendance. MUSE will also be joined by the Central State University Chorus with William Caldwell conducting. Grammy nominated vocalist, Linda Tillery, will join the CSU Chorus to perform concert sets & congregational singing. Ticket are $20 in advance & $25 at the door (sliding scale). At the House of Joy, 5910 Hamilton Avenue, College Hill, Cincinnati, OH 45224. More info, tix, location of tix outlets @ 513.221.1118 & www.musechoir.org.
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands [Tuesday 8 April @ 7 PM]: Robert Satloff is the director of the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy. In his recent book, Satloff seeks to answer the question “Was there an Arab Schindler?”. While Holocaust memorial institutions, such as Israel’s Yad Vashem, have honored more than 20,000 people for saving Jews during World War II, not a single Arab is listed among them. Satloff, one of America’s leading Middle East experts, was convinced that this wasn’t the full story. In response to Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab & Muslim worlds, Satloff set off on a quest to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, & their own history. Presented by The Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education. Free. At National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & RSVP @ 513.487.3055, sweiess@huc.edu, & www.holocaustandhumanity.edu.
Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
STIR International Happy Hour [2nd & 4th Wednesday of every month]: Different from other happy hours, STIR is smaller, more intimate, & Anne makes sure newcomers are introduced to the group. Sponsored by Xavier University's Intercultural Communication Group. At The Wine Cellar, 1101 Gregory Street, Mt Adams, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info from Anne Golden @ golden@xavier.edu.
Introductory Course on Buddhism [Saturdays in March & April @ 2 PM]: Gaden Samdrup Ling Buddhist Monastery is offering a 9-week introductory course on Buddhist philosophy & meditation. It will cover a wide array of subjects including compassion & bodhicitta, interdependence, karma, understanding sufferings, rebirth, the 3 poisons, meditation, & the nature of mind. The course will be very engaging, & will include assignments, discussion & sharing experiences. It will focus on how to incorporate Buddhist teachings into everyday lives to achieve peace & happiness. No previous knowledge of Buddhism is required. This course is part of Joyful Path 2008, a series of events to raise funds for our new monastery project. For this course, a suggested donation of $75 is requested, but not required. All are welcome; registration required; limited space. At GSL Monastery Gaden Samdrup Ling Monastery, 3046 Pavlova Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45251. More info @ 513.385.7116, gsl@ganden.org, & www.ganden.org.
Redtree Art Gallery [thru 3 April]: Evoke: A Group Exhibition. Works by talented local artists from the Cincinnati area evoke means to create anew, especially by means of the imagination. Artists Scott Stibich, Natalie PeGan, Joel Blazer, & Jim Crosser exhibit their expressive abstract paintings, drawings, & unique, modern furniture sculptures. At Redtree Gallery, 4409 Brazee Street, Oakley, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info @ 513.321.8733, mbusch@redtreegallery.net, & www.redtreegallery.net.
Projections: A Survey of Wall-Based Sculpture [thru Friday 4 April]: Manifest wanted to know what happens in a gallery when sculpture is denied its traditional place on the floor or a pedestal. Artists were invited to submit sculptural art that was not floor or pedestal based, pushing the boundaries of the general expectation regarding the weightiness of sculptures, so often seen as being earth-bound & gravity defined. The final selection brings 11 works by 9 artists from 9 states to Cincinnati. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
Selections From the 2007 International Drawing Annual [thru Friday 4 April]: This is the 3rd annual presentation of this exhibit, featuring 10 handpicked works representing 8 of the 48 finalists for the Third Annual iNDA exhibit-in-print competition. The exhibit is a sampling of the iNDA publication which will be available in June. The International Drawing Annual publication was conceived as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, & explore drawing as a rich & culturally significant art form through the pursuit of scholarly activities. The goal of the International Drawing Annual is to support the recognition, documentation, & publication of excellent, current, & relevant works of drawing in the US & beyond. All works included in each annual were made within the 3 years leading up to its publication. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206. More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
Qigong Class [thru Saturday 12 April @ 10-11:30 AM]: Qigong is a moving meditation—forerunner of Tai Chi—that helps you: balance your energy, strengthen your immune system, increase your flexibility, cleanse your energy meridians, achieve a peaceful mind state, & relax. $20 per class or $125 for all seven classes. Please preregister. Sponsored by Earth Energies Center. At 538 North Revere Road, Cincinnati, OH 45255. More info & registration @ 513.543.6500, MBNicholson@fuse.net, & www.BarbandMortNicholson.byregion.net.
Cincinnati Modern Architecture: Retrospective [thru Saturday 19 April]: Cincinnati Form Follows Function, the Queen City's 1st group devoted to the awareness, education, & preservation of modern design, presents this look back at some of the city's outstanding 20th century architectural treasures. At Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.721.7275, info@parkandvine.com, & www.parkandvine.com.
Miami University Italian-American Film Festival [Wednesdays thru – 30 April @ 7:30 PM]: Curated & presented by Professor Sante Matteo. Free & open to the public. In 102 Benton Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. This venue is a newly refurbished auditorium with very comfortable seating & convenient adjacent parking. It is on the north side of High Street (Route 27 N from Cincinnati) at the intersection of Tallawanda Street. More info & map @ matteos@muohio.edu & www.miami.muohio.edu/about_miami/campusmap/.
Apr 2: Little Caesar (1930, Mervyn LeRoy)
Apr 9: The Brotherhood (1968, Martin Ritt)
Apr 16: The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Apr 23: Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
Apr 30: The Sopranos (episodes from the TV series, David Chase)
Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum [thru Sunday 1 June]: Forty of the finest examples of 18th-20th century American quilts from the Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection are on exhibit. The Shelburne is a unique museum, located in Vermont, & founded by Electra Havemeyer Webb, heiress to the Domino Sugar fortune & a pioneering collector of American folk art. The exhibit also includes several dazzling art quilts by Terrie Hancock Mangat who, along with her sister, Becky Hancock, founded St. Theresa Textile Trove in 1994 in Over-the-Rhine (now located on Hamilton Avenue in College Hill). Also featured is a special gift shop connected to the exhibit featuring work of art quilter Leslie Alexandria, who also has 3 contemporary pieces on display in the Art Museum Library. At the Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.639.2995 & www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org (go to 'Exhibitions').
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Fabulous Film Festival [Friday 3 May @ 8 PM]: The first & best fabulous film festival in the city of Cincinnati will present live-action, documentary, & short films. Blah, blah, blah. Presented by Flicks R Us. Tickets are $8. At The Theatre, 111 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45200. More info @ 513.111.2222, info@filmfestival.com, & www.filmfestival.com.
The Lloyd House Salon (usually about 12 people) Meets on WEDNESDAYS at 5:45,
EVERY Wednesday, 52 WEEKS/YEAR come hell or high water, as my mother used to say.
We of the Lloyd House Salon gather in a spirit of
respect, sympathy and compassion for one another
in order to exchange ideas for our mutual pleasure and enlightenment.
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