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Saturday 28 May 2005
At the table Memorial Day, Monday May 30: Mira Rodwan, Mike Murphy, David Rosenberg, Vlasta Molak, Alan Bern, Ellen Bierhorst.
On Memorial Day we had the smallest pot luck turn-out in years, and it was extremely fine. We told personal stories, starting from the reflection that Memorial Day or "Decoration Day" used to be about going to the cemetery and cleaning up relatives' graves and decorating them. Remembering the dead. My mother died the week before Memorial Day in 1972, and I always remember her then. Extremely odd now to be almost ten years older than she was when she died. ... Mike Murphy talked about his father, Leo Murphy, a painter who taught at the Art Academy, and used to say "You can lead a horse to water but a bird in the hand is not worth crying over spilt milch." Leo raised 9 children in Claremont County, and was highly regarded as a portrait artist. Mira Rodwan talked about her Jewish grandmother, Bubbie Rose, who died in Mira's arms. Alan Bern's father was born Henry Agamemnon Bernstein in Besarabia (Moldavia), and was a promising violinist turned psychology professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. ... David Rosenberg spoke of his 5 generations of forbearers who ran a retail furniture business in Newport. Also of his mother's people who took part in the agrarian movement back to the land, becoming farmers in Washington state in the late 1800's. David told about his mother's uncle who discovered the blood thinner dycumerol when he investigated the deaths of cattle who had eaten fermented clover hay. Too bad David isn't collecting royalties from the sale of Cumadin. Vlasta Molak spoke of her early life in Croatia when it was part of Yugoslavia under Marshal Tito.
Someone brought up the plight of people who are "locked in", unable to communicate because of total paralysis, and yet mentally alive as evidenced by EEG.
Alan mentioned his belief that it takes an overheated narcissism, such as comes when parents dote on a child, in order to produce a great artist. Do you believe that's true? ... Alan also talked about learning to Scuba dive, and how you can take a "resort course" and be able to dive after only one day of training. The magic of Scuba diving. Made me want to do it.
Roy Euvrard sends a link to a NY Times article about European Jews, Intelligence, genetics, and certain inherited diseases like Tay-Sachs. Here's an excerpt:
In describing what they see as the result of the Ashkenazic mutations, the researchers cite the fact that Ashkenazi Jews make up 3 percent of the American population but won 27 percent of its Nobel prizes, and account for more than half of world chess champions. They say that the reason for this unusual record may be that differences in Ashkenazic and northern European I.Q. are not large at the average, where most people fall, but become more noticeable at the extremes; for people with an I.Q. over 140, the proportion is 4 per 1,000 among northern Europeans but 23 per 1,000 with Ashkenazim.And here's the link to the two page article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03gene.html?ex=1118462400&en=2c0156a0fd99dc64&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Roy thinks it might make an interesting table topic. Take a look.
Bring your tastiest dish and thoughts to the table Monday. Roxanne Qualls will be joining us, and we'd love her to come back often. If we have more than 14, remember that we have a card table and many folding chairs around the room. Also... if you get out a folding chair, would you please put it back when you leave?
Hugs,
ellen
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Announcements:
6/6
Help Salonista Elizabeth Motter to lobby Ohio Sen. Voinovich
re. Darfur
Hello all,
I have set up a constituent's meeting with Voinovich's aide for Monday,
June 6th at 12:30 p.m., concerning the crisis in Darfur. Please see
attachment below for the letter accompanying the meeting request.
If you would like to join us, please contact me and I will provide you
with the particulars. Remember, you must be a constituent (any Ohio registered voter)!
If you cannot join us, I hope you will sign two on-line petitions which
I have created, one for Senator DeWine and one for Senator Voinovich,
and pass them along to your contacts (who must also be constituents).
Please note: I would like to get as many "signatures" as possible by
Monday's meeting, and I can assure you that you will not be spammed by
providing the information requested on the petition form. I required
city and state categories when I created the petition, simply to verify
the status of signatories as constituents, but those particulars will
not be viewable to others. There is an option to sign anonymously as
well:
Petition for Senator Voinovich:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/432872050
Petition for Senator DeWine:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/901471844
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Motter
513-591-1407
6/2- 6/11
Irreverent, talented Doc. Debbi Silverman
presents musical show on health care at
GABRIEL'S CORNER, 1425 SYCAMORE (at Liberty).
Our five performances are:
- Thurs. 6/2 at 7:30 pm
- Mon. 6/6 at 7:30 pm
- Weds. 6/8 at 9:00 pm
- Fri. 6/10 at 7:00 pm
- Sat. 6/11 at 4:30 pm
I hope to use the show as a platform to educate the public (a little bit!) about some of the issues; & if time allows, as a springboard for discussion, to initiate dialog after the show. Hope to see you there!
- "Dr. Debbi" Silverman
Tri-State Treasures
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Tri-State Treasures - General:
Write to Support the Cincinnati Riverfront Trail: Senator Voinovich is on the Joint Committee of the House & Senate drafting a compromise transportation bill. He needs to know that you support sustaining the $2M ear mark initiated by former Representative Rob Portman for the Cincinnati Riverfront Trail. This 6-mile trail will connect the central Riverfront Park & the Lunken Airport Trail. Please consider contacting Senator Voinovich today by mail, phone, fax, or email: The Honorable George V. Voinovich, 524 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; tel: 202.224.3315; fax: 202.228.1382; email web form: www.voinovich.senate.gov. More info about the Cincinnati Riverfront Trail from the Ohio River Way @ 513.723.1916, pztimm@ohioriverway.org, & www.ohioriverway.org.Tri-State Treasures - Specific:
<> Friday 3 June @ 9 PM: "Saving Jackie" by Selena Burks is an unflinching saga of two sisters weathering the tumult of their mother's spiral into & struggle out of drug addiction. As mother Jackie suffers the addiction, Burks' entire family overcomes past disappointment & strife to accept love & forgiveness. "Saving Jackie" is a postmodern Valentine written in reconciliation; a 35-minute "confrontational" documentary that premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
<> Friday 3 June @ 10 PM: "Prometheas' Visual Inversion: A Life Less Ordinary" by Una-Kariim Cross is not about race, but rather illustrates & embraces the commonalities & differences among people who occupy the same social atmosphere of life. This 25-minute deftly edited film stitches together disparate human voices in a chorus of how life would sound if we all told the truth about entitlement & disenfranchisement.
<> Saturday 4 June @ 7:30 PM: "The Color of Justice: A History of Cincinnati's Race Riots From 1792 to 2001" by April L. Martin is shown for the first time in its entirety; only the first half of this riveting work has been publicly viewed in Cincinnati. Martin's 3-hour magnum opus details the city's long, stormy history of race riots beginning with 18th Century white riots & ending with the aftermath of the April 2001 Collaborative Agreement and the boycott.
$12 Friday; $10 Saturday; $20 for both nights; available at the door only. At The Greenwich, 2440 Gilbert Avenue, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, OH 45206, 513.221.1151. More info @ 513.289.5715, kwilson@citybeat.com, blk_eyedsusans@yahoo.com, savingjackie@yahoo.com, colorofjustice@yahoo.com, & unakariim@yahoo.com.
University Club Spring Art Show of Eight Temperaments [Through - June 14]: Featuring a variety of styles presented by eight of the city's top classical realists: Jeff Gandert, Sam Knecht, Alan Larkin, Richard Luschek, Carolyn Manto, Clem Robbins, & Carl Samson. At University Club, 401 East 4th Street, Downtown Cincinnati near the Taft Museum , OH 45202. Open 7 days a week; recommended to call first (513.721.2600). More info @ 513.721.2600 & richard_luschek@yahoo.com, & www.uclubcincinnati.com.
HUGE O'Bryonville Animal Rescue Garage Sale [Friday-Sunday 3-5 June @ times listed below]: A huge, multi-donor garage sale with tons of great items available: furniture, paintings, CD's, DVD¹s, video games, movies, antiques, small appliances, jewelry, toys, assorted knick-knacks & gadgets, sports & fitness equipment, tons of great bake sale items, & so much more. The O.A.R. Garage Sale is one of the most important fund raising events of the year for this organization that has helped save & find good homes for more than 1000 cats & kittens. They will have an info at the sale about the organization. Please consider attending, volunteering, and/or donating items. Donations should be received by May 31 to allow time to price items. Friday 3 June @ 9AM-1PM, Saturday 4 June @ 7AM-4PM, & Sunday 5 June @ 9AM-2PM. At 8041 Startinggate Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45249. More info about donating items & baked goods, volunteering, & general info @ 513.871.PAWS, bjohnston@fuse.net, & www.theanimalrescue.com/sale.html.
Dr. Debbi¹s Musical Medicine Show: A Parody of Healthcare in Cincinnati & America [June 2, 6, 8, 10, & 11]: A thigh-slapping, 1-woman musical spoof that takes a light-hearted look at pressing healthcare issues - written & performed by Cincinnati¹s own Singing Doctor. Debbi Silverman, MD, is a Board-certified family physician who has done theater, music, comedy, dialects, & hats since grade school. Her first parodies spoofed school organizations & events. Her performances range from folksinging guitarist to Broadway musicals to professional acting. In creating this show, she has finally combined her two great passions: music & medicine. Accompanist Mitch Liberman, who has been playing piano for over 40 years & creates all his own arrangements, has teamed up with Dr. Silverman for 4 years ago. Thursday 2 June @ 7:30 PM, Monday 6 June @ 7:30 PM, Wednesday 8 June @ 9 PM, Friday 10 June @ 7 PM, & Saturday 11 June @ 4:30 PM. At Gabriel's Corner, 1425 Sycamore Avenue @ Liberty, Over The Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.621.2787 & www.cincyfringe.com.
Usui Reiki Levels I & II Training [Registration discount before June 3; register before June 17]. Introduction & initiation to the first & second level of this hands-on healing system Saturday-Sunday 25-26 June @ 9AM-5PM. Each class includes lecture, demonstration & practice. No experience required for Level I. Learn to give treatments to self & others & to be able to do powerful distance healing. Classes are approved for 8 hours each day for nurses. Attend one or both days. Registration: Level I is $125 on Saturday 25 June; Level II is $175 on Sunday 26 June. Pre-registration with $50 deposit for each level is required by June 17. Discount if registered & paid by June 3. At WholeCare, 4434 Carver Woods Drive, Blue Ash, OH. More info and registration: JoAnn Utley @ 502.777.3865 & jutley5122@bellsouth.net.
Jazz in the Garden [Saturday 4 June @ 7 PM]: Music is back @ Mecklenburg Gardens. Join Billy Larkin (keyboards & vocals) & Eugene Goss (vocals & percussion) as TRIAGE performs on selected nights; check the website for dates & times. Triage is a musical journey through sonic landscapes. Performing original music through composition, improvisation, & imaginative arrangements, Triage re-invents itself with every song. Enjoy the unique musical experience that is Triage in a remarkable setting under the vines & the moon & the stars. More info @ 513.221.5353, bilarky@fuse.net, & www.billylarkin.com.
The Tuner - a Musical Prophecy in Seven Scenes for Vocalist, Actors & Musicians [Saturday 4 June @ 7:30 PM]: World premiere by Cincinnati composer Frank Proto in an open "run-through" performance. Free Admission. Carmen Balthrop, voice; Rick VanMatre, saxophones & clarinet; Frank Proto, double bass; Reginald Willis, actor. Music by Frank Proto; Text by John Chenault; Directed by Charles Holmond. At St. John's Unitarian Church, 320 Resor Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ vanmatre@cinci.rr.com.
Over-the-Rhine Summer Tour of Homes [Sunday 5 June @ noon-5:30 PM]: A self-guided walking tour of gorgeous 25 single-family homes, condominiums, and apartments in historic Over-the-Rhine. There will be free, designated shuttle buses to the various locations. Admission to the tour is $10 with proceeds benefiting the Over-the-Rhine Foundation. Many restaurants & retail businesses will be open. Buy tickets at Emery Center Apartments, 100 East Central Parkway @ Walnut, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Sponsored by the Fifth Third Bank. More info @ 513.721.1317, otrfoundation@aol.com, & www.irhine.com/index.jsp?page=home_otrtour052304.
Mike Wade Sextet @ Sunday Jazz Brunch @ The Parktown Café [Sunday 5 June @ 4-8 PM]: Enjoy the best jazz in town with friends - old & new - in a comfortable, relaxing, authentic West End environment. $5 admission buys the jazz & buffet. Parktown Café, 1726 Linn Street near Findlay Market, Cincinnati, OH, 45214. More info at 513.621.5683 & www.jazzincincy.com.
Exploring the Book: Innovative Structures with Book Artist Peter Thomas [Sunday 5 June @ 10 AM - 4 PM]: This class will teach basic bookbinding skills while introducing participants to new & innovative book structures which have been developed or explored by the instructor. All projects will have handouts with directions on how to make the book structure, taken from the instructor's book "More Making Books By Hand." AM coffee available; bring your lunch or use near-by fast-food restaurants. Sponsored by Book Works 6 the Cincinnati Book Arts Society. Class Fee (includes $10 materials): CBAS members $55; non-members $65. In the Dorothy Meyer Ziv Art Building, room 106, College of Mt. St. Joseph, 5701 Delhi Road, Cincinnati, OH 45233. Peter's work is at: peteranddonna@cruzio.com. More info & registration @ 859.269.6057 & bookhart@insightbb.com. More info about the instructor @ http://members.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/.
Jesus & Nonviolence - a Film & Discussion Series [Sunday 5 June @ 7 PM & the following 5 Sundays]: This 6-film series will illustrate how the nonviolent teachings & life of a first century Jew influenced the nonviolent actions of the 20th century, & how we can follow the path of nonviolent action. Each Sunday will feature one of the 30-minute films followed by discussion, & readings for the next week. The series tells one of humanity's most important & least understood stories - how, during a century of extreme violence, millions chose to battle brutality & oppression with nonviolent weapons - and won. "These are powerful stories, about truth overcoming lies, love dissolving evil, & life eclipsing death," said former president Jimmy Carter of the documentary. The films draw on stunning archival footage & interviews with witnesses, survivors, & unsung heroes who contributed to these century-changing events. The stories: 1) The 1960 Nashville, TN, campaign to desegregate the city's downtown district, which was emblematic of the American civil rights movement & became what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the model of the movement." 2) Mohandas Gandhi's Salt March of 1930 during which he enjoined Indians to protest the British salt monopoly - a turning point in the movement that paved the way for India's independence from Britain. 3) The consumer boycott campaign against apartheid in the black townships of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa in the mid 1980s, led by the young activist Mkhuseli Jack. 4) The courage & endurance of Denmark's citizens resistance movement during the 5-year Nazi occupation of World War II to commit sabotage & stage general strikes & rescue nearly all the country's 7000 Jews from the Holocaust. 5) The 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike that won Poles the right to have free trade unions, launched the Solidarity movement & catapulted Lech Walesa, on a path to leadership, a Nobel Peace Prize, & the fall of communism in Poland. 6) The national protest days led by Chilean copper miners in 1983, which overcame a decade of paralyzing fear, showed that public opposition to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet was possible, & signaled the start of a nonviolent democratic opposition. Free & open to all thoughts & ideas; local leaders from all faiths have been invited. At All Saints Episcopal Church, 6301 Parkman Place, Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH, 45213. More info & directions @ 513.531.6333, therevken@yahoo.com, www.allsaintscincinnati.org, & www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/.
Film: The Color of Justice [Monday 6 June @ 7 PM]: The next Neighbor to Neighbor meeting for residents of Pleasant Ridge, Kennedy Heights, Silverton, & other nearby areas features April L. Martin presenting her full-length film ³The Color of Justice,² a documentary tracing the history of racism, racial riots, & the City¹s efforts at reconciliation. Ms. Martin hopes to enter her film in the Sundance Film Festival. To help with those expenses, a free-will offering will be collected. In Judd Hall on the lower level of the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, 5950 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, OH 45213. More info @ 513.891.1373 & GRSnouffer@cinci.rr.com.
Film Premiere: Tattered Angel [Monday 6 June]: A few tickets remain for the special cast & crew screening of "Tattered Angel" at Newport-on-the-Levee. This will be the first time the film will have been shown publicly. The film was shot entirely around Greater Cincinnati, and co-stars Lynda Carter, Kirk Baltz, Susan Floyd, Roy Lee Jones, & Bob Elkins. All are expected to attend. The film is about the search for a missing girl; about pain, triumph, & redemption. The film was written by & stars Duffy Hudson, & directed by Will Benson; both from Cincinnati. It will be entered in film festivals, & is expected to be picked up for theatrical distribution. A pre-screening party will begin at Jeff Ruby's Tropicana @ 5 PM, followed by the screening @ 7 PM at the AMC Theatres @ 7 PM, and a post-screening party @ 9:30-midnight at Bar Louie (all at Newport Levee). Some proceeds from the party & screening will go to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which cooperated with the production. More info at www.tatteredangel.com.
Express Your "Selves" @ Duality: An All-Night 2-Tier Party [Tuesday 7 June @ 6 PM - 2 AM]: Media Bridges needs your support at a fundraiser to continue offering quality programs for youth 8-18, school outreaches, & media literacy seminars. Free appetizers, music, video art, & lots of great prizes. Features free appetizers, music by Jekyll & Hyde's resident DJ, dancing, media "surroundart," psychic readings, drink specials, & a "Hyde" & Seek Treasure Hunt & Raffle. Prizes include passes to the Midpoint Music Festival, Pilates sessions, & an Aveda Fredric's gift basket. This will be a great mid-week event to let you relax, mingle with other Media Bridges' supporters, and benefit a great cause. Admission is $5; all proceeds go to benefit our youth programs. At Jekyll & Hyde's, 1140 Main Street, Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.651.4171, sara@mediabridges.org, www.mediabridges.org.
Molecular & Cellular Cognition Studies of How We Learn & Remember [Thursday 9 June @ 4 PM]: You are cordially invited to attend a free lecture by Alcino Silva, Ph.D., from the Department of Neurobiology, UCLA Medical Center. The SilvaLab is studying the molecular, cellular, & circuit processes that underlie the encoding, storage, & recall of information in the brain. They are interested in understanding the mechanisms which underlie cognitive deficits, such as those associated with aging, schizophrenia, & Neurofibromatosis type I. This field of study is called Molecular & Cellular Cognition. This annual lectureship series is Sponsored by the D.L. Kline Neuroscience Fund [www.dlkneuroscience.org] created support the interdisciplinary approach to the study of the brain. At Rievescel Auditorium in the Vontz Center, University of Cincinnati, 3125 Eden Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45267. More info @ 513.556.6336, bicklejw@email.uc.edu, www.silvalab.com.
Bass Player's Ball Legends Tour [Friday 10 June @ 8 PM]: Masters of funky jazz/R&B and smooth jazz will light up the stage with electrifying music. Michael Henderson, Marion Meadows, George Johnson, Sir Nose (Rodney Trotter), and Reggie & Vincent Calloway perform their "Bass Player's Ball Legends Tour." Admission $30-40. At the Newport Syndicate, 18 East 5th Street, Newport, KY 41017. More info @ 859.491.8000, waltb31@fuse.net, & www.jazzincincy.com.
Healing From The Heart: FourWinds Academy¹s 3rd Annual Summer Residential [Friday-Sunday 10-12 June]: This event is both a retreat & a conference - a place to look inward, learn skills, & grow. Some of Cincinnati¹s finest healers & intuitives will bring a weekend of healing for heart & soul. 3-day, 2-day, 1-day, 1/2-day options are available. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced practitioner, this conference is designed to provide a powerful personal experience. At Grailville Conference Center, Loveland, OH. More info @ 513-542-4400, info@4windsacademy.org, & www.4windsacademy.org.
CCM Hosts Music05: A Festival Of New Music [Sunday - Sunday 11-19 June]: FREE ADMISSION. The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music presents Music05, a unique, intensive 9-day festival of new music. CCM faculty & guest artists will be joined by internationally recognized composers Moritz Eggert, Frederic Rzewski, & Michael Torke for concerts, master classes, & seminars featuring new music from around the world. Chamber works by young composers, both students & professionals, will be rehearsed, performed, & recorded under the guidance of the guest artists. Concurrently the participants & guest artists will prepare & perform 20th-century chamber music classics. Works will also be performed in a series of evening concerts, which are free & open to the public. All concerts are at the Robert J. Werner Recital Hall in the northernmost part of the Mary Emery Hall, UC West Campus, Cincinnati, OH 45221. A complete concert schedule, bios, directions, & more info @ 513.556.9198, joel.hoffman@uc.edu, & www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx.
Paint the Town [Saturday 11 June @ 8 AM - 4 PM]: Have a good time while helping others; a 4-year-old organization helps needy families when 100s of volunteers scrape & paint the outside of their houses. This is the 4th installation of Paint the Town, Give Back Cincinnati¹s largest annual event, which has increased the stakes this year by selecting more than 20 wonderful homes. As in previous years, they will update the exterior of the home with a fresh coat of paint. It's amazing what a dedicated group of volunteers can accomplish in one afternoon. Go to www.givebackcincinnati.org/events_details.asp?EventID=1005 to RSVP for this event. More info @ www.givebackcincinnati.org.
Northside Art Sale [Saturday 11 June @ 10 AM - 4 PM]: Featuring work from Cincinnati area artists: painters, photographers, jewelry, pottery, & much more. This event leads into Pride Festival at Hoffner Park on June 11th & 12th. As soon as the Art Sale ends, events, music, food, & more great vendors will open up at Hoffner Park. Make a day & night of it in Northside. On or Off the Avenue: Sunny = On Hamilton Avenue along the Northside Business District; Rainy = at the Off The Avenue Studios at 1546 Knowlton Avenue (just off Hamilton behind the Provident Bank). More info about the Sale and artist registration from Leslie or Kate @ 513.591.2547, alis_boutique2@fuse.net, or visit the web at www.northside.net.
Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade [Sunday 12 June starting @ 1 PM]: The 2005 Parade - Pride is Alive - will start at 1 PM at Burnet Woods, travel down Clifton & Ludlow Avenues into Northside, continue up Hamilton Avenue through the heart of the Northside business district, and turn onto Chase Avenue to end at Chase Elementary School. Parade organizers hope the extended route will benefit Northside businesses. No fee for Marching Units. Bring family & friends to join the community in thanking the City of Cincinnati for repealing Article XII. Experience the fun & friendship, the serious & silly, the music & mayhem. More info @ 513.362.2811, rrigby@lascinti.org, www.prideisalive.com.
Discussing the Life of Rachel Carson [Tuesday 14 June @ 7 PM]: The Mercantile Library invites you to attend the 2005 Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture on the life of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" did more than any single publication to awaken the world to the dangers of environmental poisoning and led to the creation of the modern environmental movement in the U.S. Dr. Linda Lear, Senior Research Scholar of History at University of Maryland and Research Professor of Environmental History at George Washington University, is the author of the acclaimed biography "Carson: Witness for Nature," numerous articles on Carson and the politics of pesticides, and is the editor of the anthology "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson." She has also written the introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of "Silent Spring." Dr. Lear's lecture will bring this important historic figure to life. Each year, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture features a writer who in the tradition of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "wrote or writes to change the world." $20 Mercantile Library members; $25 nonmembers; group discounts available. Wine & hors d'oeuvres buffet. At the Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info and RSVP @ 513.621.0717 & nolanarts@fuse.net. More info @ www.mercantilelibrary.com.
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6/10
Gay Pride Events in June
June 10, 11, 12
Rally at Hoffner Park, Northside
And Parade.
For details: http://www.prideisalive.com
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6/12/05
Join Joy on Bikes at the Gay Pride Parade
Join me with your bike for this annual fun. Look for me at the gazebo (In Burnet Woods) after noon. It's all downhill.
joy
Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade [Sunday 12 June starting @ 1 PM]: The 2005 Parade - Pride is Alive - will start at 1 PM at Burnet Woods, travel down Clifton & Ludlow Avenues into Northside, continue up Hamilton Avenue through the heart of the Northside business district, and turn onto Chase Avenue to end at Chase Elementary School. Parade organizers hope the extended route will benefit Northside businesses. No fee for Marching Units. Bring family & friends to join the community in thanking the City of Cincinnati for repealing Article XII. Experience the fun & friendship, the serious & silly, the music & mayhem. More info @ 513.362.2811, rrigby@lascinti.org, http://www.prideisalive.com/.
ps One of my favorites, Disappear Fear, is performing Saturday night June 11. (at Hoffner Park, Northside)
6/2-11
See Health Care Musical Parody at Gabriel's Corner
with Dr. Debbi Silverman
Dear friends, colleagues, associates,
I'm thrilled to share the exciting news that my (Debbi's) original musical parody has been accepted in this year's FRINGE FESTIVAL, the downtown festival of visual & performing arts!! My solo production, with keyboard accompanist Mitch Liberman, is one of 28 selected for this 2nd annual Fringe Festival.
Here's the latest update on "Dr. Debbi's Musical Medicine Show: A Parody of Healthcare in Cinti & America." We've got DATES (5 of them) & TIMES now (on the bottom of the 2-page letterhead promo, too, attached):
· Thurs. 6/2 at 7:30 pm
· Mon. 6/6 at 7:30 pm
· Weds. 6/8 at 9:00 pm
· Fri. 6/10 at 7:00 pm
· Sat. 6/11 at 4:30 pm
Our location will be GABRIEL'S CORNER, 1425 SYCAMORE (at Liberty).
Full details are in the Program Guide inside this week's CityBeat Magazine!
I hope to use the show as a platform to educate the public (a little bit!) about some of the issues; & if time allows, as a springboard for discussion, to initiate dialog after the show.
A $2 Fringe "button pass" gets you FREE admission to ALL film showings & art exhibits in the Festival, plus $2 OFF EVERY show ticket ($10 instead of $12). They also have "multi-passes" - discount punch cards that can be used by multiple people for one or more shows.
The web site ( www.cincyfringe.com <http://www.cincyfringe.com/> ) has a link to Rick Pender's article in CityBeat, with brief descriptions of all the shows. (Mine is probably the most "family-friendly" show in the festival!) This show has been performed for the Academy of Medicine, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, & Westwood Kiwanis, with future bookings coming in from throughout Ohio & the region! These 5 Fringe shows are the only public performances scheduled.
The acts that get the most votes from their audiences will be awarded a BONUS performance on Sun., June 12. I'll be delighted if you can attend one of the shows! (And please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!) Come support us & help us launch this show to regional (&--who knows?-national!) fame! Take a break, come on down for some wholehearted fun entertainment & have a laugh! Thanks!
"Tremendous! Very creativeŠvery cleverŠvery entertaining!"
Dr. William Gerhardt, Professor of Pediatrics, CCHMC
"I commend the sweeping entertainment of your hilarious 'Medicine Show.' Šbubbles with your infectious energyŠexuberanceŠand love for the articulated lyric."
--Roger C. Miller, local editor and columnist; playwright, composer and lyricist
6/10, 11 Ellen B. and Alan B. will be in attendance on Friday. Join us!
Choreographers Without Companies
at the Aronoff Center
Friday June 10, Saturday June 11 at 8:30
Including original dance and music by Fanchon and Bonia Shur
plus six other choreographers
DON'T MISS THIS! Call now, it's going to sell out
621-2787 or www.cincinnatiarts.org
Tickets $25 Adult $15 Student/Senior
6/11
Thanks, Heather Sturgill, for sending this:
Northside Art Sale
On or Off the Avenue
Sunny- On Hamilton Ave. in the Northside Business District
Rainy- at Off the Avenue Studios on Knowlton (Just off Hamilton behind the Provident Bank)
June 11th 10am - 4pm
Featuring work from Cincinnati area artists.
Painters, Photographers, Jewelry, Pottery, and Much More!!!!!!
This event leads into Pride Festival at Hoffner Park June 11th and 12th. As soon as the Art Sale ends - events, music, food and more great vendors will open up at Hoffner Park. Make a day and night of it in Northside!!!!
Artists interested in showing work please contact Leslie or Kate at 513-591-2547, visit the web at www.northside.net , or e-mail alis_boutique2@fuse.net
6/11-19
Free music festival
CCM Hosts Music05: A Festival Of New Music
The nine-day event features concerts, master classes, guest artists and composers and concludes with a performance by eighth blackbird.
By: Abby Otting <mailto:abigail.otting@uc.edu>
Phone: (513) 556-2683
Other Contact: Carrie Throm <mailto:carrie.throm@uc.edu>
Other Contact Phone: (513) 556-9485
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music presents Music05, <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/index.html> a unique, intensive nine-day festival of new music, June 11-19. Several CCM faculty and guest artists will be joined by internationally recognized composers Moritz Eggert, <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/eggert.html> Frederic Rzewski <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/rzewski.html> and Michael Torke <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/torke.html> , for concerts, master classes and seminars featuring new music from around the world. Selected chamber works by young composers, both students and professionals, will be rehearsed, performed and recorded under the guidance of the guest artists. Concurrently the participants and guest artists will prepare and perform 20th-century chamber music classics. The works will also be performed in a series of evening concerts, which are free and open to the public. A complete concert schedule is attached.
"Music05 is a great way to take the temperature of new music in America and Europe today," says Artistic Director Joel Hoffman (friend and invisible salonista--ellen). He describes visiting composer Moritz Eggert as "an extraordinary young German composer who plays the entire piano, not just the keyboard," Frederic Rzewski as "one of the great figures in American music," and Michael Torke as a "pioneer in the 1990s fusion of pop and classical music."
Joel Hoffman will be joined by CCM faculty members Lee Fiser and Allen Otte for the festival. Guest artists include Emanuele Arciuli, piano; Gao Ping, piano/composition; Laura Rosky-Santoni, violin; Dorotea Vismara Hoffman, viola (another invisible salonista...ellen); Michael Kugel, viola; Nikola Ruzevic, cello;
(Lloyd house housemate and faithful salonista) Alan Bern, improvisation; (If you haven't heard Alan improvise, you will be amazed! ellen)
Toby Hoffman, conductor; premier new music group eighth blackbird; and the Amernet String Quartet.
Performance highlights of the festival include presentations of the Carter 5th Quartet, a new piece by Frederic Rzewski commissioned by Music05, Adjustable Wrench by Michael Torke, Hammerklavier by Mortiz Eggert, a new piano work, American Berserk by John Adams and Each for Himself ? by Joel Hoffman.
A competition for short compositions for three instruments is also part of the festival. Accent05, which runs in conjunction with Music05, is a music day camp for young musicians promoting in-depth study of musical language and performance techniques. The competition is part of both Music05 and Accent05, and winning compositions will be performed on June 17.
As part of the Music05 concerts, eighth blackbird <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/8bb.html> will perform June 19 at 8 p.m. Regarded as one of the premier new music groups in the world, eighth blackbird has established a reputation for its provocative and engaging performances. The winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, where they were the first contemporary ensemble to win first prize, the group is also a three-time recipient of the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Other awards include top prizes at the Fischoff and Coleman National Chamber Music Competitions. The group has been featured on CBS' "Sunday Morning" and was the subject of a profile in The New York Times. The ensemble is currently in residence at the University of Richmond in Virginia and the University of Chicago.
Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Frederic Rzewksi <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/rzewski.html> studied with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities. In 1960 he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and began a career as a performer of new piano music. In Rome in the mid-60s, together with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, he formed the Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) group, which quickly became known for its pioneering work in live electronics and improvisation. A professor of composition from 1977-2002 at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liege, Belgium, he has taught at numerous other institutions including CCM. Rzewski will perform his music at the June 15 concert at 8 p.m.
Composer Michael Torke practically defined post-Minimalism, a music in which eclectic young composers utilize the repetitive structures of a previous generation to incorporate musical techniques from both the classical tradition and the contemporary pop world. Torke left graduate study at Yale to begin a professional career in New York City, where he was soon signed by Boosey and Hawkes, became an exclusive recording artist with Argo/Decca Records, and began his five-year collaboration with Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet. Highlights since then include music for the Olympics and Disney as well as Strawberry Fields, a one act opera with a libretto by A. R. Gurney and part of the trilogy Central Park, commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, and PBS' Great Performances, the broadcast of which was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 1998 Torke was appointed the first associate composer of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Torke's music will be performed June 18 at 8 p.m.
Composer and pianist Moritz Eggert's <http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/eggert.html> work includes operas and works for dance and music theater, often with unusual performance elements. In 1996 he presented the complete works for piano solo by Hans Werner Henze for the first time in one concert, a program that he continues to play with great success. He was the first winner of CCM's Zemlinsky Prize, and in 1989 he was a prizewinner at the International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Contemporary Music. His concert-length cycle for piano solo, Haemmerklavier, is among his best-known works and has been performed around the world. Among his recent works are the concert-length cycle for voice and piano Neue Dichter Lieben featuring 20 love poems by contemporary German poets, and the orchestra piece Number Nine IV: Scapa Flow. Other recent premieres include the children's opera Dr. Booger's Scary Scheme for the opera Frankfurt am Main. In June 2004 his newest large-scale opera The Snail premiered. Currently he is working on a double bass concerto for the award-winning "Junges Klangforum Mitte Europas," and a huge "soccer oratorio" for the Ruhrtriennale 2005 and the Soccer World Championship 2006. Eggert's music will be performed June 18 at 8 p.m.
All Music05 performances will be held in Werner Recital Hall on the UC campus and are FREE and open to the public. Parking is available for all performances in the CCM garage. For more information go to Music05's website, ccm.uc.edu/musicx
Music05 Concert Schedule
All concerts are FREE and open to the public. Schedule is subject to change. Go to ccm.uc.edu/musicx for the most up-to-date concert information. All concerts are in Robert J. Werner Recital Hall on the UC campus.
Music by young composers from around the United States
June 11-19, 6 p.m. daily
Cincinnati Composers Plus
Saturday, June 11, 8 p.m.
Emanuele Arciuli, piano
Sunday, June 12, 8 p.m.
Michael Kugel, viola and Nikola Ruzevic, cello
Monday, June 13, 8 p.m.
Amernet String Quartet
Tuesday, June 14, 8 p.m.
Frederic Rzewski plays Frederic Rzewski
Wednesday, June 15, 8 p.m.
Gao Ping, piano
Thursday, June 16, 8 p.m.
Music of Moritz Eggert
Friday, June 17, 8 p.m.
Music of Michael Torke
Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.
eighth blackbird
Sunday, June 19, 8 p.m.
6/14/05
Vote Progressive Dem. Candidate Dist. 2 U.S. Congress
Victoria Wulsin
(I made a $20 contribution...big for me...and will get a t shirt. Plan to wear it. She looks v. good. Ellen.)
Subject: June 14 Add a progressive to Congress Vote for Dr. Victoria WULSIN
We have an opportunity to elect a progressive Democrat to Congress (for the seat that Rob Portman vacated).
Dr. Victoria WULSIN is for health care for all, a secure social security, tax fairness, jobs, a responsible budget, women's rights, and alternatives to war. She has experience on the county, national, and international levels. We need her, Congress needs her, our country needs her.
She's for OUR better future. Go with WULSIN for Congress. You won't regret it.
To learn more about her campaign, visit her website at www.wulsin4congress.us <http://www.wulsin4congress.us>
Then vote for Dr. Victoria WULSIN in the Democratic party primary election on Tuesday, June 14. (District 2 is everybody East of Vine Street.)
Whether or not you're in the district---
Please volunteer to work on her campaign
Please contribute to her campaign
Please spread the word. Tell all your friends, relatives, and neighbors who live in Ohio Congressional District 2 to vote for Dr. Victoria WULSIN for Congress.
Thanks.
Caeli Good
6/4
Calling All Jews: Barbara Glueck
Invites You to Online Survey
Only 10 minutes
Hello,
I'm participating in an important study on American Jewish life and I'd like
to ask you to join me by completing a confidential online survey. What
would you change about synagogue services to make them more appealing? If
you could create one new program or service targeted toward Jews, what would
it be? These are some of the questions being asked to learn what new
programs and services might better meet the needs of today's diverse Jewish
population.
The ten-minute survey is being led by a researcher I know, Mark Rothschild,
and is being sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-University of Cincinnati
Ethics Center. The survey is anonymous-no one will ever contact you without
your explicit permission. I believe the study is important (and there's
even a chance to win some free Starbucks gift certificates). Most
importantly, the results may have a significant impact on the development of
some creative new ideas. We can also see the results when the study is
complete.
I've cc'd the principal researcher, Mark Rothschild, on this message so he
can have a rough count of how many people received this survey invitation.
Again, you can be assured that no one associated with this study will ever
contact you without your permission.
Here's the link for you to use by June 15:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224CSMCDPM2
If you have any questions or comments, please give Mark Rothschild a call at
(513) 477- 8218 or email him at mrothschild@huc.edu
Thanks so much!
Barbara Glueck
Executive Director
American Jewish Committee
Cincinnati Chapter
cincinnati@ajc.org
513.621.4020
5/21
Sacred Retreat Weekend
June 17-19
At Three Waters Sanctuary
(at Natural Bridge/Red River Gorge, Slade, KY)
with Alan Hundley and friends
Take a weekend escape from the demands of daily life.
Realign with your inner self.
Celebrate the sacredness and majesty
of the natural world.
Three Waters Sanctuary is a retreat center for small intimate groups.
Surrounded by national forest, it is situated in the foothills
of the Appalachian Mountains across the road from
Natural Bridge State Park. Travel time from Cincinnati or Louisville
is a little over 2 hours, and just one hour east of Lexington.
€Meditation & Qigong with Alan Hundley
€Anusara-inspired Yoga with Karen Berger
€Circle Council and Fire Ceremony led by Kathleen Matthews
€Evening Soaks in the Cedar Hot Tub and/or Sauna
€Guided hikes
€Time for reading, relaxation, swimming in the pond
Fee for the weekend:
$235
(if we receive your non-refundable deposit of $50 before June 1. $250 after June 1.)
To reserve a spot, please mail a check payable to
Three Waters LLC for $50 to:
Three Waters LLC
Sacred Retreat Weekend
12 Burton Woods Ln.
Cincinnati, OH 45229
Weekends are limited to 10. Please register early to insure your spot.
Fee includes all of the above and all delicious organic meals prepared on site.
Meals provided include Friday dinner, Sat. breakfast/lunch/dinner and Sunday breakfast/lunch.
Questions about registration or the facility
can be directed to Alan Hundley
(513) 281-8606
ahundley@fuse.net
Lodging off-site at surrounding locations. Very reasonable rates.
Contact Alan Hundley at (513)281-8606 for more information.
Private sessions available for an additional fee:
Massage with Brenda Ghantous
Acupuncture with Kathleen Matthews
Integrative Body Work with Alan Hundley
Private Yoga Sessions with Karen Berger
Treat yourself. Please join us.
For more information about Three Waters, check out the website at
http://www.threewaters.com/retreat_center.htm
June 25 Sat.
Free Talk: Introduction to Homeophthy
Shirley Reischman
Cincinnati's only Classically Trained Homeopath
Saturday, June 25 1:00 - 3:00 pm.
Wild Oats Market
Rookwood Shopping Center, Edwards and Madison Road
Hyde park/Norwood
Pre registration is necessary as seating is limited. Call 531 8015 to register, or you can sign up at Wild Oats.
Shirley's talk is fascinating, informative, clear, authoritative. AND if you attend the lecture, she will give you a $100 discount off an initial consultation (such a deal!).
I have been under Shirley's care since July 2004 and I am thrilled with the results. Am jogging again after arthritic knees told me fifteen years ago that I would never jog again. Much peppier and happier this winter. This is the berries! ellen
7/8
Paddlefest 2005
The largest canoe and kayak festival in the Midwest,
On the Ohio River
Friday July 3:00pm (four Seasons Marina, Kellogg Ave.) Free Admission, Saturday 8:30 - 1:00 pm 6 mile paddle race
http://www.OhioRiverWay.org
Register to race, or just come and watch. You can rent a canoe, but reserve it at website above. Hundreds of canoe and kayak paddlers. See you there!
July 8 - 10, 2005
EarthSpirit Rising:Summer Conference
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
(This is a national, important Eco Conference put on each year by our own IMAGO, that fab. movement up on Enright in Price Hill founded decades ago by the Shenks, Jim and Eileen. Last year it was in the Carolinas. This year it is right here. I will be leading one of the discussion groups on Saturday evening on how to build community in your own locale. See, people will be coming from all over the country and abroad for this. I will talk about building the salon. So this is a great opportunity to attend a great conference. Check out the stars who will be giving keynotes! See below. ellen)
EarthSpirit Rising:
A Conference on Ecology, Spirituality, and Community
All the details are on the web at: http://Earthspiritrising.org
A Council of Earth Elders follows the conference
All the details are on the web at: http://Earthspiritrising.org
For a conference brochure, registration or more information:
E-mail - earthspiritrising@imagoearth.org
Phone - 513-921-5124
Mail - EarthSpirit Rising 700 Enright Ave Cincinnati Ohio 45205
July
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2005
A fascinating spiritual journey in Israel this summer: Rabbi Natan Ofir is a marvelous teacher of Kabbalah. Met him in Jerusalem in '96. ellen
Dear Ellen,
Here is yet another reason to visit Israel this summer.
Enclosed is a description of a program slated to take place in Jerusalem at Yakar (where I direct my Beit Midrash Meorot Program). Do you think that your friends would be interested?
Natan
Jerusalem Summer Intensive
Kabbalah & Mystical Experience in Judaism
July 3-22, 2005
Sponsored by Tiferet Institute for Integral Kabbalistic Spirituality and
Ruach: A New Center for Spirituality and Learning, Siegal College
~
Two Core Courses & Special Evening Programs
Kabbalah & God: A Text-Based Introduction
Rabbi Yakov Travis, Ph.D.
Director, Ruach: A New Center for Spirituality and Learning, Siegal College
Mystical Experience in Judaism: Techniques & Testimonies
Rabbi Eliezer Shore, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, BIU
Each Course includes thirteen sessions comprised of a 2 hour academic seminar and 1.5 hour ³Beit Midrash² session devoted to studying the primary sources necessary for the seminar, in English translations, with original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for advanced students. Participants are expected to take both courses, but may enroll in only one, with permission.
Special Evening Programs include lectures by leading scholars, meetings with spiritual guides and mystics, experiential workshops, and evenings of spiritual music and song. Several day-tours to relevant sites will also be offered.
· Six transferable credits (Graduate & Undergraduate Level). Non-credit option.
· Different tracks for students of varying Judaica knowledge and textual skills.
· Open to men and women of all ages.
LOCATION: Yakar Center, Rechov HaLamed Heh 10, Jerusalem
COST: Program $750 Academic credit $500 (per credit hour)
Room and board provided upon request for additional fee.
· Scholarships and financial aid available to qualified students.
For more information, list of speakers, or to apply, visit www.siegalcollege.edu/spirituality
Accredited by Siegal College - an emerging leader in Judaic Studies, with over 100 students enrolled in graduate degree programs. Siegal College is chartered by the State of Ohio to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Universities and is a member of the Association of Institutions of Higher Learning for Jewish Education.
Huge March in Washington
against war in Iraq
Sept. 24
ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545
To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email
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Hold Bush & Congress Accountable for the Deaths, the Destruction,
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2005
the Lies, and the Toll on Our Communities
END THE WAR ON IRAQ - BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
Leave no bases behind - End the corporate occupation of Iraq
Stop bankrupting our communities - No military recruitment in our schools
Sat., 9/24 - Massive March, Rally & Festival
Sun., 9/25 - Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., 9/26 - Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
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More than two years after the illegal and immoral U.S. invasion of Iraq, the nightmare continues. More than 1600 U.S. soldiers have died, at least another 15,000 have been wounded; even the most conservative estimates of Iraqi deaths number in the tens of thousands. Iraq, a once sovereign nation, now lies in ruins under the military and corporate occupation of the United States; U.S. promises to rebuild have not been kept and Iraqis still lack food, water, electricity, and other basic needs. ....
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A r t i c l e s
6/4/05 fascinating list of "harmful" books. Have you been "harmed" by all of these? I stand in need of some of this harm. ellen
Conservatives List
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative News Weekly
Posted May 31, 2005
HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.
1. The Communist Manifesto
Authors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
Publication date: 1848
Score: 74
Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism. Engels was the original limousine leftist: A wealthy textile heir, he financed Marx for much of his life. In 1848, the two co-authored The Communist Manifesto as a platform for a group they belonged to called the Communist League. The Manifesto envisions history as a class struggle between oppressed workers and oppressive owners, calling for a workers¹ revolution so property, family and nation-states can be abolished and a proletarian Utopia established. The Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice.
2. Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler
Publication date: 1925-26
Score: 41
Summary: Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was initially published in two parts in 1925 and 1926 after Hitler was imprisoned for leading Nazi Brown Shirts in the so-called ³Beer Hall Putsch² that tried to overthrow the Bavarian government. Here Hitler explained his racist, anti-Semitic vision for Germany, laying out a Nazi program pointing directly to World War II and the Holocaust. He envisioned the mass murder of Jews, and a war against France to precede a war against Russia to carve out ³lebensraum² (³living room²) for Germans in Eastern Europe. The book was originally ignored. But not after Hitler rose to power. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, there were 10 million copies in circulation by 1945.
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
Author: Mao Zedong
Publication date: 1966
Score: 38
Summary: Mao, who died in 1976, was the leader of the Red Army in the fight for control of China against the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and after World War II. Victorious, in 1949, he founded the People¹s Republic of China, enslaving the world¹s most populous nation in communism. In 1966, he published Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, otherwise known as The Little Red Book, as a tool in the ³Cultural Revolution² he launched to push the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese society back in his ideological direction. Aided by compulsory distribution in China, billions were printed. Western leftists were enamored with its Marxist anti-Americanism. ³It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism,² wrote Mao.
4. The Kinsey Report
Author: Alfred Kinsey
Publication date: 1948
Score: 37
Summary: Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University who, in 1948, published a study called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as The Kinsey Report. Five years later, he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. The reports were designed to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy. ³Kinsey¹s initial report, released in 1948 . . . stunned the nation by saying that American men were so sexually wild that 95% of them could be accused of some kind of sexual offense under 1940s laws,² the Washington Times reported last year when a movie on Kinsey was released. ³The report included reports of sexual activity by boys--even babies--and said that 37% of adult males had had at least one homosexual experience. . . . The 1953 book also included reports of sexual activity involving girls younger than age 4, and suggested that sex between adults and children could be beneficial.²
5. Democracy and Education
Author: John Dewey
Publication date: 1916
Score: 36
Summary: John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a ³progressive² philosopher and leading advocate for secular humanism in American life, who taught at the University of Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and encouraged the teaching of thinking ³skills² instead. His views had great influence on the direction of American education--particularly in public schools--and helped nurture the Clinton generation.
6. Das Kapital
Author: Karl Marx
Publication date: 1867-1894
Score: 31
Summary: Marx died after publishing a first volume of this massive book, after which his benefactor Engels edited and published two additional volumes that Marx had drafted. Das Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square hole of Marx¹s materialistic theory of history, portraying capitalism as an ugly phase in the development of human society in which capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the greatest possible profits. Marx theorized that the inevitable eventual outcome would be global proletarian revolution. He could not have predicted 21st Century America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and representative government that people the world over envy and seek to emulate.
7. The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty Friedan
Publication date: 1963
Score: 30
Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in 1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life in ³a comfortable concentration camp²--a role that degraded women and denied them true fulfillment in life. She later became founding president of the National Organization for Women. Her original vocation, tellingly, was not stay-at-home motherhood but left-wing journalism. As David Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to David): The author documents that ³Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America¹s Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley¹s radiation lab with J. Robert Oppenheimer.²
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy
Author: Auguste Comte
Publication date: 1830-1842
Score: 28
Summary: Comte, the product of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French Revolution, turned his back on his political and cultural heritage, announcing as a teenager, ³I have naturally ceased to believe in God.² Later, in the six volumes of The Course of Positive Philosophy, he coined the term ³sociology.² He did so while theorizing that the human mind had developed beyond ³theology² (a belief that there is a God who governs the universe), through ³metaphysics² (in this case defined as the French revolutionaries¹ reliance on abstract assertions of ³rights² without a God), to ³positivism,² in which man alone, through scientific observation, could determine the way things ought to be.
9. Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Freidrich Nietzsche
Publication date: 1886
Score: 28
Summary: An oft-scribbled bit of college-campus graffiti says: ³ŒGod is dead¹--Nietzsche² followed by ³ŒNietzsche is dead¹--God.² Nietzsche¹s profession that ³God is dead² appeared in his 1882 book, The Gay Science, but under-girded the basic theme of Beyond Good and Evil, which was published four years later. Here Nietzsche argued that men are driven by an amoral ³Will to Power,² and that superior men will sweep aside religiously inspired moral rules, which he deemed as artificial as any other moral rules, to craft whatever rules would help them dominate the world around them. ³Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one¹s own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation,² he wrote. The Nazis loved Nietzsche.
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Author: John Maynard Keynes
Publication date: 1936
Score: 23
Summary: Keynes was a member of the British elite--educated at Eton and Cambridge--who as a liberal Cambridge economics professor wrote General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in the midst of the Great Depression. The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.
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Honorable Mention
These books won votes from two or more judges:
The Population Bomb
by Paul Ehrlich
Score: 22
What Is To Be Done
by V.I. Lenin
Score: 20
Authoritarian Personality
by Theodor Adorno
Score: 19
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Score: 18
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
by B.F. Skinner
Score: 18
Reflections on Violence
by Georges Sorel
Score: 18
The Promise of American Life
by Herbert Croly
Score: 17
Origin of the Species
by Charles Darwin
Score: 17
Madness and Civilization
by Michel Foucault
Score: 12
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
by Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Score: 12
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
Score: 11
Unsafe at Any Speed
by Ralph Nader
Score: 11
Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
Score: 10
Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci
Score: 10
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Score: 9
Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Score: 9
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud
Score: 9
The Greening of America
by Charles Reich
Score: 9
The Limits to Growth
by Club of Rome
Score: 4
Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
Score: 2
The Judges
These 15 scholars and public policy leaders served as judges in selecting the Ten Most Harmful Books.
Arnold Beichman
Research Fellow
Hoover Institution
Prof. Brad Birzer
Hillsdale College
Harry Crocker
Vice President & Executive Editor
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Prof. Marshall DeRosa
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Don Devine
Second Vice Chairman
American Conservative Union
Prof. Robert George
Princeton University
Prof. Paul Gottfried
Elizabethtown College
Prof. William Anthony Hay
Mississippi State University
Herb London
President
Hudson Institute
Prof. Mark Malvasi
Randolph-Macon College
Douglas Minson
Associate Rector
The Witherspoon Fellowships
Prof. Mark Molesky
Seton Hall University
Prof. Stephen Presser
Northwestern University
5/31
Jeanette Raichyk (alt. energy group; homeschool mom.)
responds re. DISCIPLINE OF CHILDREN
Thanks Jeanette for your response. e.
Gee Ellen, don't know what to believe in this week's post. Skipped over the child "discipline" stuff, figuring it was only going to ignite a flaming repost about adult chauvinism and arrogance in assuming they know so much better than children. When children can "discipline" their parents for misdeeds in handling their child, then the balance would at least be even. Adults could learn to live better from their children if they only respected wisdom.
Oh, and though I'm sure we'd be hugely better off being vegetarian, I have never seen the foundation numbers to justify that claim that we'd save half our oil imports. I don't suppose Mike gave you the scoop on those calculations.
Jeanette
6/4
re: Downing Street Memo
From Elizabeth Motter
Hello all,
Please check out this article by Conyers. There's a link toward the end
that takes you to a letter you can sign, showing support for Conyer's
effort to demand full disclosure from the administration about
intelligence flaw leading into the war on Iraq, as recorded in the
"Downing Street Memo."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0528-26.htm
6/4
I wanted to draw your attention to this specific article which is very good.
An Urgent Case For Fixing Health Care
By David S. Broderhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/27/AR2005052701283.html
Caeli M. Good
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