Friday, August 31, 2012

Words of Orhan Pamuk, a Nobel Laureate in Literature

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For me, a good day is a day like any other, when I have written one page well. Except for the hours I spend writing, life seems to me to be...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

RISD Museum

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For a forthcoming installment in The Providence Journal's year-long (and already award-winning ) series about the economy, Reinvent Rhod...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Bella-Day!

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On her very last day of summer vacation, Yolanda and I treated Bella to a very fine day. A nail salon, lunch, movie, walk with Cooper and mo...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Sakonnet Vineyards, Aug. 19, 2012

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The sky threatened but never rained, and we spent a fine afternoon in a beautiful place: Sakonnet Vineyards, Little Compton, R.I. We roamed,...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

A children's story, written long ago...

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 My recent discovery of digital data that I thought had been forever lost has been like Christmas for me. I'm still opening presents! ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Grand Prize, Best Short, RI Film Fest

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And the winner is ASAD , described by the filmmakers as a "coming-of-age fable" about a Somali boy, shot with a cast of Somali ref...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Manhattan, mid-day, Monday, August 13, 2012

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Scenes of Manhattan, on a walk from Penn Station to 50th... Garment District. Times Square, west view. View looking downtown ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Film Fest features documentaries

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The 2012 Rhode Island International Film festival continued Saturday with screenings of three feature-length documentaries, including the Pr...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Opening Night, 2012 R.I. Film Festival. Fun!

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A fine evening Tuesday at the opening of the 2012 Rhode Island International Film Festival, six days of screenings, discussions and get-toge...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

RIP, Mark O'Donnell

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 Mark O'Donnell, who won a Tony Award for his musical adaptation of the Movie Hairspray, among other artistic achievements, died Monday...
Sunday, August 5, 2012

Join Us During Film Festival Week!

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Please join me and the rest of The Providence Journal filmmakers, photographers and editors at the Rhode Island International Film Festiva...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Associated Press honors Journal

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Congratulations to the many staff editors, photographers and writers at The Providence Journal who together won 19 awards in the 2012 New En...
Friday, July 27, 2012

'A Universe of Stories,' Providence Journal promo short for Film Festival

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The rough cut is now a final cut, and posted on the Rhode Island International Film Festival site.  This is the short I mentioned in an...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Frank Beazley laid to rest

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Photo by Katy Miller After a funeral Mass in the Zambarano Hospital chapel that drew an overflow crowd of more than 200 -- and featur...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

'The Age of Miracles': Must-read

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  My review in this past Sunday Providence Journal of this summer's smash debut novel, The Age of Miracles. Here's the Amazon page....
Monday, July 23, 2012

Video of Frank on his 82d birthday: Dec. 13, 2012

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As far as I know, this is the final film of Frank, at Zambarano, celebrating his 82 birthday. He loved that hat! "Every Christmas, I p...