Name: Terence Clarke
Dateline: San Francisco, California
Weblog: www.redroom.com
Articles: 52
First Published: Monday, August 13, 2007
Last Published: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Currently listing articles 52-1:
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Sundance Cinemas: Robert Redford's New Way Of Going To The Movies— Popcorn and not much else just doesn't cut it any more.
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Velázquez and the Soul of Juan de Pareja— Velázquez's masterpiece: The slave, and what his master saw.
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New "Nuevo Tango" Sacrifices Tradition and Grace— The women want to appear hip and current, but their partners are hurting them with what they’re doing. It’s nuevo, but not tango.
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The Great Cafés: Cafe Impresso at El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires— This café immediately fits the bill for the basics of a great café: history, theater, Tango, fine books, and great coffee.
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Movie Review: There Will Be Blood— The Best Actor in thrall to a squandered story.
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Baseball, Poetry, and Nicaragua— They are all the same.
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From Bloggerish to Gibberish— Many blogs are more like random momentary conversation that goes nowhere, or at least not far.
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The Great Cafés: Confitería Ideal, Buenos Aires— For the essence of tango, you can do no better.
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Book Review: Fashion - A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, edited by The Kyoto Costume Institute— Think that fashion has gone the way of all flesh? Take a look at these books.
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Felipe and I— Will the Atlantic wait for me?
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Book Review: Memory of Fire Trilogy by Eduardo Galeano— For me, the most emotionally truthful take on the history of South America that's ever been written.
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Max, Tango, and The Spanish Language— If your Spanish needs a little help, try dancing the tango.
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Big Nose in Buenos Aires— If you want a taxi, find this man.
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Pablo Neruda's 100 Sonnets of Love: 1 (A Translation)
— In translating Neruda's poems, I was mindful of how each of his sonnets is an unruly flame, moving the way the emotions so often do.
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Movie Review: Pépé Le Moko and The Battle of Algiers— The two best films ever made about The Casbah also happen to be two of the best films ever made.
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Horacio Ferrer: The Essence of Tango, Part Two — You may not have heard of him, but more "tanguero" than this man you cannot get.
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Horacio Ferrer: The Essence of Tango, Part One
— You may not have heard of him, but more "tanguero" than this man you cannot get.
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Hemingway, Fame, and Failure— How's that novel of yours coming along?
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Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective— What you see is what you see.
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Hugh Grant, Andy Warhol and $21 million— In Warhol’s case, all his art could be called “minor”.
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Exhibition Review: The Age of Rembrandt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City— If you savor Dutch 17th century art, this is a must-see.
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Kara Walker at the Whitney Museum of American Art— Don’t get excited if you really love the Old South.
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Gerda Taro: A Woman, A War, A Rediscovered Photographer— Taro’s fame was swept aside by WW II and Robert Capa’s ascendancy as the emblematic war photographer. The International Center of Photography rights that wrong.
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Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
— An exhibit at The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
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The Great Cafés: Sabrett, New York City— Where West meets East, outside.
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Interview: Nancy Jo Johnson — The Escape of Children from Tibet — A renowned photographer talks about a little-known and very dangerous pilgrimage.
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There is Life in Inanimate Objects— That is, if you're a novelist.
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Tangos for Evita— How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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A Few Things For Breakfast in New York City— The scones are good, but don't forget your riding crop.
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How to Walk, How to Tango
— You must know the first before you can do the second.
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The Great Cafés: Café Sabarsky, The Neue Galerie, New York City— Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Astor, a terrific party, and Gustav Klimt.
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"Howl," Your Morals, and the FCC— Will your mind be poisoned by a poem?
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Book Review: Fashion, Fine Shoulders and Poiret at the Metropolitan Museum of Art— The man who "dethroned the primacy and destabilized the paradigm of Western fashion."
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Globalization?— May not be a bad thing, especially if it works on your feelings.
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Kitty Margolis: The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer, Part 4— Part four of a four-part series.
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Interview: Kitty Margolis, The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer, Part 3— Part 3 of a 4-part interview series.
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Interview: Kitty Margolis, The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer, Part 2
— Part two of a four-part interview series.
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The Great Cafés: Caffé Trieste, San Francisco
— A writer reflects on coffee, obscenity, and Allen Ginsberg.
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Kitty Margolis: The Heart And Soul Of A Jazz Singer (Part 1)
— Part one of a four-part interview series.
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Tango, Fine Spanish Wine, and Carlos Gavito— With this maestro, you got all these things - and more.
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The Greatest Maestro of Tango in The World
— If you want to learn – to really learn — you’d better go to Gustavo Naveira.
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Through the Eyes of the Sculptures in Central Park: September 11— Shakespeare seeks the right words for his valiant hero’s worry that this world is not a safe place for those who would protect good people.
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Religious Strife— Really the whole thing is just a myth.
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The Great Iraq War Novel— It will come, and it will tell us the truth.
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Exhibit Review: Richard Serra at MOMA, New York— Eventually some artists find what matters.
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The Sweep of A Delicate Toe: The Story of Comme il Faut Shoes— Two women — with feet that once hurt them badly — design and sell the most elegant dance shoes in the world.
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The Great Cafés: Cafe Tortoni, Buenos Aires— You can find in this café the entire city of Buenos Aires...
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The Troubles: Peace and the Future of Irish Writing— Is Irish writing in danger for its life?
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The Spanish Civil War— Or at least the part of it that was fought in the kitchen...
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Three Women of Tango
— Some seek unhappiness in love.
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Book Review: The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto— Had things gone differently, we’d be having more Dutch treats.
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The Great Cafés— There are some that simply transcend the very idea of a cafe.
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