Mid-Winter Notes from The Kitchen Sisterhood

Dear Friends,

Many new projects, undertakings and celebrations have recently come to our attention. We pass some of the most compelling along for your contemplation.

Check it out, Lock it down, Davia & Nikki

Books. Lots of Books

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontline of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein From Seed to Skillet by Jimmy Williams and Susan Heeger Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads & Beyond by Chris Strachwitz & Adam Machado High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica Harris Infinite Cities: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit Reality Is Broken: Why Game Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax by John Szwed

Exhibits & Shows

Arhoolie Records 50th Anniv. Celebration: Concerts, Panels, Street Parade. Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, Feb 4-6 Paul Bowles Centennial Celebration, UC Santa Cruz, Feb 4-6 Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Zach Theatre, Austin, TX, Jan 25-Mar 13 Balenciaga: Spanish Master. A Retrospective at Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, NYC, through Feb 19

Radio

Horses, Unicorns & Dolphins: A New Hidden World of Girls on All Things Considered in February American Routes with host Nick Spitzer 99% Invisible: Activity that Shapes the Design of Our World. Produced by Roman Mars on KALW Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound. With Ira Glass, The Kitchen Sisters & Jay Allison

Girls On Our Turntable

Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record Lia Ices – Grown Unknown Mountain Man – Made the Harbor Oum Kalthoum. A Voice Like Egypt

Movies

True Grit (The Hidden World of Mattie Ross) – The Coen Brothers Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology – Tiffany Shlain Deep Down: A Story from the Heart of Coal Country – Jen Gilomen & Sally Rubin

Photography

Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish – Deborah Luster, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, 1/6-2/5 Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture – Roberta Price The Julie Project – Darcy Padilla

Broadway/Theatre

The Wooster Group's version of Tennesee Williams' Vieux Carre, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Feb 2-27 Million Dollar Quartet, the Nederlander Theatre, NYC (The legacy of Sam Phillips lives on) Ruined at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Feb 25-Apr 10

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