MARGARET KEANE 1/3 – She created a unique, popular artistic aesthetic during the 1960s, though unknown to the public for some time. She was born on September day in 1927 in Nashville (Tennessee). She immersed herself in art from an early age, and had a penchant for creating characters with large, looming eyes, her distinctive way to paintin of large-eyed …
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INNER LANDSCAPES – California
MIDDLESEX – Novel by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
He knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American novelist, and was born in Detroit, to a father of Greek descent He attended Grosse Pointe’s private University Liggett School and took his undergraduate degree at Brown University. From 1999 to 2004, Eugenides lived in Berlin, Germany, where he moved after …
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FLYING AT FORTY – Poem by Erica Jong You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids gnaw on bubble gum, who married disastrously not once but three times, yet have a lovely daughter, I would not undo for all the dope in California. Fear was my element, fear my contagion. I swam in it, …
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Arielle – California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvUjZ0xDQY Teaser California Sounds – Stevie Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnuPIXLJ8Y Relaxing 3 Hour Video of California Ocean Waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmPzbZVUp3g OC California Music + Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjoUUR2l8k
Read More »EATING, LIKE IN A FILM – 87 Aquarium Way, Long Beach / California
Visiting the viewing deck of Santa Monica, after filling our eyes with the color of the Ocean Avenue gardens, we were hungry, hungry for shrimp and prawns. The good reviews featured (along the renowned fame due to the film), they were led up to the number 87 Aquarium Way (Long Beach, California). Shrimp and fresh fish, are the dishes that …
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United States, California, western Los Angeles County, Santa Monica. The city (named after the Christian saint, Monica), situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles. Santa Monica had become a famed resort town by the early 20th century, but was long inhabited by the Tongva people, and was called Kecheek in …
Read More »READY FOR THE BIG ADVENTURE – Choose your kicks on Route 66
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »DEVELOPING HIS OWN EXCELLENT EYE FOR COLOR – Saturnino Herran, the early extinguished brightness
SATURNINO HERRAN 1/3 – His work was part of a movement called “syntheticism”, of which he was the best representative. Though he died at 31 years old, his legacy is solid. The only child of a Mexican father and a French Swiss mother, he was born in Aguascalientes on a July day, in 1887. He showed early talent and at …
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MEXICAN ADVENTURE TOUR
Visit the ancient Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, have a guided tour of the ancient site of Teotihuacan, stroll around Monte Albán, the holy city of the ancient Zapotecs then explore the Mayan ruins at Palenque and climb the pyramid at the huge Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. A Mexico adventure tour will show all the amazing scenic sights of this …
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Mexico Cultural Dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhmr3vqyNv4 Mexican Music Festival / Songs and Dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIDSd5Pbk28 Mariachi Los Camperos- Popurri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9KQbbheFcM Mexican Pop Singer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZDV8L2T7gM
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THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ – Romance by Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes was born in a November day, in 1928. Mexican novelist (short-story writer, playwright, critic, and diplomat), he traveled with his family in North and South America and in Europe. As a young man, he studied law at the University of Mexico in Mexico City and later attended the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva. Rebelling against his …
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