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Admitted into Rutgers Nursing 2012 transfer student
- 3Jun 14, '12 by whattodo4Cheers, recieved email today informing me that I have been admitted into Rutgers Newark college of nursing for fall 2012. This is the regular program not the accelerated. I am Rutgers grad (2008) and in the interim went to Kean for about a year and this past year have been completing some prereqs at Rutgers and Essex County college. I applied as a school-school transfer student. I believe I will start at the sophmore level but I will double check that.
Now to those who are consdering applying to rutgers whether you are a rutgers student already, community college student, out of state student etc... and you are wondering "are my grades good enough, gpa etc... let me share what I have heard/know my own expereince
I am told that getting into Nursing program at Rutgers, whether out of highschool, transfer student etc... is competitve and with more and more people wanting to study nursing I am not that suprsied. Now if you check the Nursing Website it says you need a GPA of 3.3, if you get the actual paper brouchers about transfering into the Nursing program it says you need a 3.0 So clearly it is somewhere between 3.0 and 3.3 However upon talking to people who transfered into the Nursing program there gpa was about 3.7+ , I was told by them that Rutgers will not consider you if your gpa is less than 3.5 My gpa is 3.3 .... just 3.3 So if your gpa is not 3.7 and you feel despair, I would still apply anyway you never know.
So what got me in- my gpa isn't 3.7+ so there must be something else
-There is an essay portion of the application, I do feel like I wrote a strong essay
- I indidcated my passion. That I am taking the prereqs, I will continue to finish up the prereqs over the summer. Overall I indicated that I really wanted to be a nurse
- I currently volunteer at a hospital and I am a volunteer EMT-did that push the application into the yes catgory? I don't know but maybe
-Former student- Is there an edge for a rutgers grad returning back to school to pursue nursing? I don't think so, I believe rutgers does not give prefernce to what college you went to but something to throw out there
Like many of you applying to nursing school I am nervous as heck. My gpa is nowhere near the 3.7,3.8 etc... so my hopes for rutgers where not that high, but I did get in. Perhaps there is some truth to "gpa is not everything"
So what is the point of this post? To give hope, to simply keep applying. I did not put all my eggs in the rutgers basket I applied to many 4 year and 2 year programs. My grades in prereqs thus far- B's, nothing but B's I have not gotten an "A" in science since 2005. So hope, all I am saying to those out there who are not acing every prereqs and holding the 4.0 do not give up on nursing school, you have to try
- 0Jun 14, '12 by LB_RN2BOH CONGRATS!!!!!! I AM SOO HAPPY FOR YOU!! I just graduated with my AS from Essex County College with a 3.33 also but when I went on the Rutgers website is said in bold letters Rutger is not accepting nursing applications at this time! My heart broke!! How did you do it?? When did you apply???? Instead I got accepted into Farleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck which is a bit of a drive as you can imagine! So along with the long commute Farleigh comes with a heavy price tag of $60,000 for just 2 years !
- 1Jun 14, '12 by whattodo4Thank you,
First off grats on getting your AS from essex, essex is one of the schools I really want to complete my nursing.
I applied as a college transfer to transfer student the deadline to apply was June 1st, feb-june 1st, and you find out before june 30th if you are in or out. I also know that Rutgers only admits once for the fall semster, there is no admittence for the spring semster. I myself applied in March, found out today June 14. Addtionally I am not sure if Rutgers is accepting transfer students from other schools.
I would call up Rutgers and ask, make sure they know you have your RN. If that does not work go in person, myself I could never really get an anwser by calling. Just walk into the nursing dept. (Smith Hall) and ask, that is the best way.
- 1Jun 15, '12 by vickie3289Hi! our grads are having a much easier time transfering to New Jersey City University (which the students call ECC-East) and Kean. both are much cheaper than Rutgers or Fairleigh or Felician- and better about # of credits awarded in transfer and a bit easier with the GPA requirements. I am a faculty member at Essex.
- 0Jun 15, '12 by LB_RN2BQuote from vickie3289Hi! our grads are having a much easier time transfering to New Jersey City University (which the students call ECC-East) and Kean. both are much cheaper than Rutgers or Fairleigh or Felician- and better about # of credits awarded in transfer and a bit easier with the GPA requirements. I am a faculty member at Essex.
Is it true that you have to have your RN license or a bachelors to be accepted into Kean and NJU????
The cost of Farleigh is ridiculous!! Just graduated this may from ECC with just a AS.
- 0Jun 15, '12 by FlareCongrats! That was my alma mater. Assuming you still need to take Statictics to get your BSN, see if you can get Professor ***** - he was my savior for that class! (granted, that was quite a few moons ago - he may be on to bigger and better things!)Last edit by tnbutterfly on Jun 15, '12 : Reason: Please do not post names of professors
- 1Jun 15, '12 by love_RUI found out yesterday that I got into the Nursing Program at Rutgers & I can't wait to start. I transferred to Rutgers last fall from Middlesex County College and was considered an Allied Health Major in the College of Arts & Sciences (since you cannot transfer straight into the nursing program from another college, you use to be able to do that, but not anymore. I heard the number of applicants from students trying to transfer into to Rutgers was out of this world! either way I'm happy they limited it to just Rutgers students, it evens the playing field a little; so much appreciated Rutgers) but in order to be considered you need 24 Rutgers credits to even apply (which takes about a year) I did finished that then did the school to school transfer application to get into the College of Nursing. I definitely think the school is competitive and for good reason; all professionals are for the most part. You want the cream of crop; not someone who fails their prerequisites. I hope this helps someone, I had doubts about whether I would get in or not & I did. So don't be discouraged by the number of applicants that may or may not apply; just do your best & apply!you never know what will happen best of luck !!!
- 0Jun 15, '12 by tnbutterfly, BSN, RN AdminMoved to New Jersey State Nursing Programs for more response from some of our NJ members.


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It was Sept. 15 and Carolina had just lost to Buffalo. The Panthers allowed a rookie quarterback with no timeouts to beat them with a game-winning drive. Fans in Buffalo's Ralph Wilson Stadium jumped and yelled, spontaneous and loud.
Fans in the Carolinas waited for next year. Their team again was 0-2, again had lost to a lesser team, and head coach Ron Rivera again had drawn in and played safe when a bold move could have won.
It was tough, on that day and in that place, to envision fans of the Panthers becoming thrilled about their team this season or perhaps any season.
But this is Bank of America Stadium on Sunday after Carolina's aggravating, emotional and absolutely thrilling 17-13 victory against New Orleans.
As Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400" pours out of the stadium's speakers, fans dance. Soaked from the monsoon that drenched them earlier, they jump with their hands in the air, finally accepting what they have seen.
What they've seen, from an offense that had not converted a third down (the Panthers were 0 for 9) all afternoon, was a finish already part of Carolina lore.
Trailing 13-10, the Panthers begin their final drive from their 35 with 55 seconds remaining. Cam Newton hits receiver Ted Ginn Jr. for 37 yards, hits tight end Greg Olsen for 14 yards and, with 23 seconds remaining, hits Domenik Hixon for 14 yards and the game-winning touchdown.
The victory means the Panthers are in the playoffs for the first time since 2008. If they beat Atlanta in Atlanta in their final regular season game Sunday, they win the NFC South. Their reward will be a first-round bye and a second-round playoff game in Charlotte Jan. 11 or 12.
"The way we are winning games is a beautiful thing," says safety Mike Mitchell.
When Sunday's result becomes official, Mitchell sprints to the west end of the field and decides, on the fly, to throw his helmet into the bleachers. He fails.
"I was like 20 yards away," says Mitchell. "I obviously need to lift some weights. My shoulder was bothering me a little bit. I need to get stronger."
Did you pick the helmet up and throw it again?
"I forgot about it," says Mitchell. "It's probably still laying there."
Olsen runs onto the field with both arms in the air. Ginn skips off the field into the tunnel like a kid playing a game. Center Ryan Kalil pumps his fist.
"I think the moral of the story is that we came through when we needed to come through and that's what good teams do," says Kalil. "They win when they have to win. At the end we did a great job of being at our best when our best was needed. I wish we didn't have to make it so hard on ourselves. But I guess we gave everybody an entertaining game."
Head coach Ron Rivera responds the way he always does. He shakes the hand of the opposing coach and he looks into the crowd for his wife, Stephanie.
"She's a big part of it for me," Rivera says.
After the Buffalo loss, Rivera's job was in jeopardy. This isn't speculation.
He wasn't going to be fired during the season. But this is his third season as a head coach, and unless the Panthers made the playoffs for the first time in his tenure, or at least made a run at the playoffs, Rivera was out.
Now he's a candidate, perhaps the leading candidate, for Coach of the Year.
Rivera won't say he is a candidate. He won't say, "I told you so." He won't say that, after the Buffalo loss, fans and media were wrong to doubt him.
What Rivera says is: "It's been three seasons. You would like to believe this is where you need to be. I like to think we're headed in that direction."
Despite Carolina's fast finish, the Panthers gained only 222 yards Sunday and gave up 365.
Good teams win when they aren't at their best. The Panthers weren't at their best, at least offensively, Sunday.
"That's what's exciting about this," Rivera says. "Sometimes you feel like maybe it's finally coming. Maybe you play well on defense and don't play well on offense. Maybe you play well on offense and not on defense. When you still win, you're right – we are a good team."
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Pine Street Church founded and funds its Off Broadway School of Fine Arts (SoFA) as a service of community enrichment. SoFA is an extracurricular fine arts instruction program for students of all abilities. Through making arts education accessible to students of all ages and in all walks of life, our goal is to see creativity and self expression be a formative part of the lives of all of our students. In events, lessons, and classes at SoFA, students and audiences may explore music of a variety of cultures, religious backgrounds, languages, and genres. Fine arts programming at SoFA is not religiously affiliated.
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"My experience with voice at the Off Broadway School of Fine Arts has been the perfect fit! My instructor is extremely knowledgeable , enthusiastic, encouraging and humble. I have had both individual and group lessons at SoFA, and feel it is a safe place for each person to sing and learn...and have fun! If you have ANY interest in singing, the instructors here are a "must see"!
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The Partridge Family does a show at a large amusement park in Cincinnati, after which they spend the day as visitors in the park, enjoying all the rides. That is, everyone but Keith who is afraid of heights and gets sick on every ride, including the merry-go-round. When they are informed that a public relations man is coming to show them around, Keith bows out, feeling sick. When the PR man turns out to be very attractive, 30-year old Audrey Parsons, Keith makes a miraculous recovery. Keith then falls madly in love with Audrey, trying his best to impress her, but succeeding only in making a fool of himself. When Shirley tries to tell Keith that he is too young for Audrey, he won't listen. Danny decides to help Keith by making him realize that he hasn't got a chance, which he will do by making Audrey fall in love with him. When Keith tries to get a date with Audrey he finds she already has a date -- with Danny! The three of them spend the day going on rides. The day ends with Keith getting sick and Danny falling in love with Miss Parsons. Keith thinks Danny is behaving foolishly because he is too young and then realizes that he had behaved the same way. When Audrey turns down Danny's request for a date, he is finished with women. The show ends with Reuben trying to get a date with Audrey.
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Finally, and since the work schedule permits, I will get to spend the next week or so whizzing around Italy. Of course I am looking forward to getting back, delighted in fact to be heading once more to my most favourite country.
On that I must thank Lorenzo Zachetti for forwarding the following link. It made me smile, but it has more than amount of truth about it also.
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With many people I know heading to Taormina over the next weeks and months, it means that I am often being asked to recommend fave restaurants etc. Of course the team at the reception in any hotel, including Hotel Villa Angela, can give a more thorough low down than I can, especially as according to Tripadvisor there are currently 206 restaurants operating in what is after a very small town. Albeit one that is full of hungry tourists during the busy summer months.
And so with cards on the table…
Although delighted to be touring Europe at the moment, banging out our music, loud and proud, in myriad towns and cities as we go. I suspect you'd forgive me if I occasionally find myself hankering after the chance to be back in Taormina, where without doubt I would be blissfully enjoying the quiet and stillness that I associate with my early morning swims near Isola Bella…Read more
I am sure that most people given the experience of open air cinemas like them as much as I do. However due to the erratic weather we have in the UK, yes even in summer, they are very rare as you can imagine…Read more
Opening its doors after the usual winter closure, Hotel Villa Angela will this week again be welcoming guests from all over as they arrive in Taormina .
Amazingly for those involved, a whole decade has now whizzed by since VA first opened those same doors, back in April, 2004. To say that we are delighted to have hosted thousands of contented guests ever since would be a huge understatement, and all credit goes to the staff and all of those who have worked on our behalf throughout this first decade…Read more
Many who stay with us at Hotel Villa Angela also like to make day trips to various other places of interest that are near. Among the many, a trip to Caltagirone is one of the most popular, it was also one of the first places that I visited way back when I was first getting to know this part of the world…Read more
Spring Break, and I am for fortunate enough to be in Sicily for a few days. April and May in various ways are among my favourite months in Taormina, although that said – any time of year in this town has it's highlights…Read more
The joys of last summer spent mostly in Taormina may still be very fresh in my mind, but it won't be quite as leisurely this year seeing as Simple Minds are set to have their busiest summer touring schedule in the longest while…Read more
It will be a few weeks yet before I get back to Taormina, but it will be worth the wait as always. Especially as anytime now the landscape will be dotted with the colours of Spring, and wildflowers etc start popping up everywhere on the horizon…Read more
Carnival in Venice is quite an unforgettable experience as I am sure anyone who has experienced it will testify. However, it is also very good to see that the lesser known Carnevale in Sicily – specifically in Acireale – has been highlighted as one of the best…Read more
More than any other that I know, Taormina Cats seem to have their own agenda. In someways I'd compare them to the monkeys of Ubud, and if you have ever been there you will know exactly what I mean. The cats here seem to rule the town, eyeing you up and down quizzically, almost asking what right do you have to be there…Read more
Even after nearly 30 years of visiting, I still get the most pleasurable feeling whenever I am packing my bags to go to Taormina. Packing the bags to leave however, as always is a regrettable task. Especially in my case, when many of the visits are much too fleeting. The departures, as we make…Read more
I am so looking forward to returning to Taormina next week. The town has a very different character in the early months of the year, much different from when I left in mid August.
Not quite desolate, but on some days it can feel a little like I have the town to myself. Blue sky days are common enough in January,while the air is sweet, crisp and clean. Meanwhile at Villa Angela, refurbishments are underway, and the bookings for this season are already filling up…Read more
Shot dreamily in director Giussepe Tornatore's hometown Bagheria, Sicily, as well as Cefalù on the island's Tyrrhenian Sea. Although ranked rather impressively at No 27 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema", I would easily put Cinema Paradiso in my own top 10. Especially so after recently seeing the lengthier director's cut, and more so after being further delighted to find that the music of Simple Minds features albeit fleetingly in the background of one scene. (Not that that factor improves the movie to any degree, but it gave me a helluva kick all the same. Forgive me!)Read more
It is a foggy and almost freezing night in Berlin, but I have just enjoyed a night time walk through part of this wondrous city all the same. As always on these walks, I am accompanied by whatever music is on my iPod. Tonight the music was by Patti Smith and really – it sounded better than ever…Read more
Although I am currently on another continent, I am nevertheless always in contact with what is going on in Taormina.
This last week the chat has been about the spectacular scenes as nearby Mount Etna erupts once again. On a much bigger scale, global media sources reported that the recent eruption which began on Saturday night and had already levelled off by evening on Sunday…Read more
Greetings from South Africa, the latest destination on the current Simple Minds tour. For the curious, we are more than well looked after on tour, and almost every whim is taken care of to be frank. Particularly so in matters of eating. The world is full of great restaurants after all, even if we rarely have time to check them out .In general. I tend to stick with mostly fresh, uncooked food, particularly on gig days…Read more
I am very much enjoying TV Chef Anthony Bourdains current CNN shows, particularly those the feature the mystery that is so much a part of Sicily….Read more
It may be true that physically I am currently thousands of miles away, on another continent entirely. Nevertheless, the last two weeks of October are among my most favourite times to be in Taormina, and I can imagine the scenes…Read more
Francesca V. Mignosa, M.A., was born and raised in Augusta, Sicily and moved to the USA in 1997. Through the years, she has covered the roles of Editor, Journalist, Screenwriter along with the teaching of Creative Writing…Read more
"Dolphins in Sicily? Where can I find them?" Asked my Irish friend, a dolphin lover and regular visitor to Dingle in the late '80′s. In doing so, she even got to swim with "Fungie" the famous little dolphin who brought so many tourists to the Peninsula.Read more
Sicily is the key to Italy, as Goethe wrote. In that case if there is one novel that could be the key to Sicily, it is surely: "The Leopard," Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. A timeless tale of the decline and fall of the house of Salina, a family of Sicilian aristocrats.
E.M. Forster, an early admirer, "has made me realize how many ways there are of being alive, how many doors there are, close to one, which someone else's touch may open."Read more
With all I have on at the moment, it is a little strange to feel that there is still time to miss somethings. The weeks ahead will find me in Brazil, Canada, USA, UK, and some of Europe's capital cities. It is a blessed life. But…amongst all this movement and excitement…Read more
Although not a fan in particular of any of the teams, I am a fan of Italian football. That interest really goes back to the late '80′s initially, when on a number of ocassions I visited the SanSiro stadium in Milan to watch what for me is still one of the best teams ever – AC Milan…Read more
Many will have been hugely saddened by the recent media coverage of the boat carrying as many as 500 Eritreans, that tragically sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa. Situated some 170 km from the Sicilian mainland, over the last decade Lampedusa has become almost the main transit point for immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, desperate to enter Europe.Read more
"The Mafia Stole My Guitar" sang the truly great Alex Harvey back in the late 70′s.
Whether they did or not I could not say, particularly as Alex was known for his mischief making stories and songs. More is the chance however that the "Mafia" Harvey denounces, would not have been the much feared (and parodied) Sicilian Cosa Nosta…Read more
From UK to Sicily by train? Yes, that is precisely what my friends Robert and Liz did earlier this year. It is something I can barely imagine doing, even though I did enjoy some good train journeys while visiting Russia last year. Stopping at Paris, Turin, Naples, before arriving at the little Taormina/Giardini Naxos station that sits at the bottom of the road leading all the way up to Hotel Villa Angela…Read more
Some quotes I cannot resist, especially when I feel that they are aligned to my own experience…Read more
Everyone knows that the bagel is the archetypal New York item of food. Both fast and delicious, one or two of them will almost certainly be sampled by yours truly on my upcoming visit to NYC.
Likewise, most will know that the particular bagel – style of bread roll has Eastern European roots, then transported to worldwide popularity as part of the rich culture that belongs to the widespread Jewish diaspora.
"Salvatore had been baking bread for twenty of his twenty-eight years. As a boy he had loved the oven work first and kneading last. Fires were always dangerous. To work with fire you had to have a lot of experience. Pass the material through it just right or you were stopped…Read more
I have a fantasy. Within it, I know how to paint, to do impressive watercolours especially. But writing songs is instead a challenge that is in truth satisfying enough, at least for the moment.
Nothing can stop the fantasy however, and as I travel around I make a mental list of places that I determine to one day return to with a little box of paints in hand.
Punta San Vigilio is on that list…Read more
At a guess, I would say that 80% of people who play live rock music wear the colour black while performing. If not, maybe some other dark tones. And look good it does too. Depending?
And yet for some reason I prefer to wear white in general. Why so? Well, apart from the fact it is easier to stand out in what are mostly blackened out venues, and what is the point of going on stage to "not be seen" after all?Read more
It has been a number of years since I was last in Lago Di Gardo, all of which gives me even more reason to look forward to my upcoming trip. It was a concert by Simple Minds that took me there originally, in doing so it meant that I was introduced to the then very young manager of the hotel in which we were staying. I have been good friends with Marco Casarola ever since, and his advice and in – put was helpful when we were first setting up Hotel Villa Angela.Read more
It is not exactly within walking distance from where we are at Hotel Villa Angela, that however does not mean that we cannot dream about the landscape of Tuscany.
Dreaming of course is one thing we all do naturally, whereas stargazing is something else entirely.Read more
The music critic, Paul Morley, got it right when he recently described why way and above being a pop star David Bowie was so much more to my generation.
"Bowie was a portal through which to learn about art, W. Burroughs, Brecht/Brel, decadence, Nietzsche, all things NYC and Warhol, T.S.Eliot, the list goes on and on."Read more
It is said that September is the month when the fruit from the carob tree falls to the ground in Sicily. I know this to be true from experience, as we are fortunate to have a grand old carob tree within the grounds at Hotel Villa Angela.
Thankfully now also a protected specie, these evergreens provide both shade and precious fruit. Much loved they are as a result.Read more
I must admit that although I have never managed to watch an episode the whole way through, that is more to do with having little time for watching TV, than any dislike. There can however be no denying the increasing worldwide popularity of the Italian TV detective series 'Inspector Montalbano…Read more
While in the process of buying the land on which Hotel Villa Angela is now situated, I was very interested to note the various family names of the previous owners that kept cropping up in the title deeds. Most surprisingly for me there were a few English, Scots and Welsh among them. Of course during the early 20th century the town became a colony of ex patriate artists, writers, and intellectuals.Read more
Like many so of his generation, my grandfather was in the British army during the 2nd World War. One of the many destinations he was in was Sicily. He always spoke with great affection for Italy and Italian people in general.Read more
In fitting with the subject, it will be little more than "a flying visit," but I hope to nevertheless find an hour or so free time while I am next in Washington. And if so, you can guarantee that I will be making my way to the National Air and Space Museum. Surely of interest anytime, my particular focus will be on the display "Leonardo da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds."Read more
Does anyone know whether Men Of The Cloth – a documentary film on Italian master tailors – made it to completion? I do hope so, especially after seeing the trailer clip that was being used to raise funds for the project.Read more
Like all singers who perform within an arduous touring schedule, I am always looking for natural products that will help soothe and even strengthen the voice. In the end, and after trying out so many "tips" passed on by generous and well meaning contacts, I now rely on three practices that seem to benefit me while working.Read more
"It's a long, long while from May to December, but the days grow short when you reach September" sings the wonderful Billie Holiday in September Song. An American Broadway standard written by Kurt Weil and Maxwell Anderson, the words may well have been written by the owners of the cafes, bars, restaurants and hotels of Taormina as this year's season enters its last phase.Read more
Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; later Greek tradition sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicilyand the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Italian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as a sea hazard located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa.Read more
The blogosphere is jam – packed with the thoughts and feelings of countless individuals who relate to Sicily and it's culture both past and present. My current fave is the New Jerseyite, Melanie Frazza, who surprisingly finds that as radical as her contemporary lifestyle might be, she has much more in common with her Sicilian grandparents than she and they may have previously imagined.Read more
While looking out some photos that I took during my stay at Villa Angela last October, I realised why it may be my favourite time of year in Sicily. Still vibrant, although obviously much quieter than in summer, the combination of the still fine weather, the empty beaches, and the town somehow having a more laid back feel, suited me to a "t". And I am not the only one, as friends of mine who have visited Villa Angela multiple times, always choose October as their month to visit.Read more
India apart, Sicily is probably the best place on earth for those who follow vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. The first reason is that thanks to the island's unique soil, many believe that there is no other place where natural produce tastes so delicious. For the record, I am one of those believers. The second reason coincides with the typical choices of the Sicilian kitchen, and the fact that so many of the dishes are free of both meat and fish.Read more
What for many, is The Greatest Voice In Music, has very deep roots in Sicily. I am of course referring to Frank Sinatra, singer, actor, and showman, but also son of Antonio Martino Sinatra, born in Lercara Friddi, in the Province of Palermo, Sicily.Read more
As already mentioned, at Villa Angela we are quite enthusiastic about the ever growing number of artworks displayed on the hotel walls.
This past summer the Scottish artist, Fiona Sutherland, stayed with us for a week. A first visit to Sicily for her, and although on holiday she continued working for some hours each day.The results of that will be highlighted in the near future.Read more
Sitting outside? Why is it that such a simple act can give me so much pleasure?
On a visit to my hometown of Glasgow recently, I of coursed dropped into the family home. As usual my father had made a great job of seeing to it that the garden was looking as well as ever, and that all else was spic and span.Read more
I recall that when the foundations of Hotel Villa Angela were being laid, that one or two of the workmen were encouraging me to join them in throwing in a few coins amongst the wet cement. The reasoning was that this gesture would secure good luck in financial terms for the future. I guess it symbolised planting the seeds of money – for which money would grow.Read more
Connoisseurs believe that Sicily's abundant fertile soil, which in eastern regions is mostly volcanic, produces some of the world's best olives. No finer testimony to that notion is the fact that even the ancient Athenians preferred Sicilian olive oil to their own.Read more
Broadcast a few years ago, but still available to listen to currently, I almost enjoyed listening to BBC Radio's programme on the all too elusive Sicilian Blood Orange, as I do when slowly sipping a glass of this mysterious, dark red, citrus juice.Read more
Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian composer. A child protege, born 3 November 1801, and native of Catania, Sicily, his most well known works are his greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi (1830), La sonnambula (1831), Norma (1831), Beatrice di Tenda (1833), and I puritani (1835). (Wikipedia)Read more
He was born Jack Hoggan and grew up in a mining village near Kirkcaldy,Scotland, and the chances are that his name means nothing to you. However after picking up a box of paints, changing his name to Jack Vettriano (The name comes from his mother's side of the family, who were Italian immigrants to Scotland)Read more
Born in italy in 1959, Fredi Macarini is only one of many Italian photographers that I admire currently. He began shooting as a six year old, using a medium format camera that was gifted to him by his father.Read more
While working on our new music, as I am currently with Simple Minds. I am usually thinking of who we would, or should, like to work with in terms of artwork,video's etc that would compliment our new music. Floria Sigismondi – born in Pescara, Italy – is undoubtedly an artist I would like to collaborate with. her work with both David Bowie and Cure, was startling indeed. First things first, though. We had better get on with finishing off the music!Read more
A fair number from our hometown, Glasgow, will this week be visiting the Duomo – Cathedral of Milan – as they arrive in Milan to watch the Champions League football match between Glasgow Celtic and AC Milan.
Were it possible I too would have travelled to take in the game. In doing so I may well have made a pit – stop inside the cathedral…Read more
One of the many pleasures of walking in the countryside around Taormina is that I get the opportunity to see relatively up close an impressive array of birds – many of which I had never come across before elsewhere. To watch the hawks and eagles as they command the blue skies above gives a particular thrill. No more so than when it is the Bonelli's eagle.Read more
I collect vintage travel posters. It is something I started doing a number of years ago, and the connection makes sense in that whenever I am asked to define myself, it is the word "traveller" that immediately comes to me. I have after all, in one way or another, been traveling since the age of fifteen, and I still travel continuously both for work and pleasure.Read more
The kind of stunning exhibits than are normally found in the museums of Sicily, Florence, and Rome, might also be domiciled nearer your hometown than you think.
An amazing new book of photographs by Paul Koundounaris titled 'Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures And Spectacular Saints From The Catacombs' highlights a vast array of bejewelled skeletons, mostly discovered in Roman catacombs as far back as the 16th century,that were then secretly sent to towns in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as commanded by orders from the vatican.Read more
While planning Villa Angela, we decided to use as much local talent as possible.Starting with the architect, then following on through with the construction and interior design. In addition we looked to the local materials whenever possible, including ceramics, wood, iron etc.The same materials that they have used in Sicily throughout history in fact.Read more
So many historical people seemed to get by with limited amount of sleep. Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher reportedly slept less than five hours. (Some people I know wonder how MrsT could sleep at all? But that is another matter entirely.) A much gentler soul, Leonardo Da Vinci, apparently needed to sleep for only 15 minutes every four hours. If that is true I guess he need not have invested in pyjamas?Read more
On a recent visit to my hometown of Glasgow I was delighted to get a sneak preview inside the city's soon to be opened live concert venue, The Hydro.
Built on the banks of the River Clyde, it may have taken it's name from the ancient Greeks, there can however be little doubt that the superb modern design is based on a vision that comes straight out of Ancient Rome.Read more
As someone who is partial to wearing the odd tartan item I was really delighted to discover this impressive Italian tartan.Made all the more impressive when reading about the thinking behind the design.
Strangely enough, after years of looking for the perfect tartan scarf, I finally came across the item I was looking for. But who would have thought that a Scotsman would have to go all the way to Osaka, Japan, in order to find the right item of tartan?Read more
"As found everywhere in Sicily, cats of all sorts wandered wherever they chose, adding a sense of feline mystery to the place."
Catsnip was set up in 2002 following the discovery that the Sicilian method of controlling the population of feral cats in the mistaken belief this would 'solve' the problem was by killing them.Read more
"On one hand, we are extremely proud – on the other, we would have almost liked to keep the secret for us, if you know what I mean." Such was the reaction by locals to the news that a Sicilian beach had been voted the best in the world by on line travel site Tripadvisor. A reaction that I myself completely understand incidentally…Read more
Some images instantly ignite memories. While looking at this photo from a Palermo neighbourhood, I can easily recall our own family – pre washing machine – years, when as a toddler I would accompany my mother on "wash days" to the "steamie" as huge public wash houses were known. Back then, Women (and it was only women) went to the steamie in Glasgow, around once a week.Read more
"I don't understand it. Why do tourists always need a swimming pool—they have the deep blue sea. And here on the island, it is free for all!" Pippo growled, in a husky-voiced imitation of an outraged Sicilian.Read more
A veiled Sicilian actress awaits her cue in a classical Greek tragedy … Large, fertile, and at the center of the Mediterranean, Sicily has invariably been someone else's prize … The Greeks arrived in the eighth century B.C., establishing important colonies whose ruined temples and theaters remain some of the island's great tourist attractions.Read more
Shoveling Is Good for Speed. But Not for the Vest or the Tablecloth at Hotel Villa Angela…..Nevertheless all are welcome for lunch at our terrace restaurant……Including shovellers like me!Read more
It is possible that I am biased, after all there is one person above all who is responsible for introducing me to Sicily and that person is Antonio Chemi of La Botte Ristorante, Taormina. Not only did the Chemi family set me up in Taormina, making it possible for Hotel Villa Angela to come into being. They also fed and put a roof over my head during my first years of getting to know what life was like in Taormina.Read more
"Whenever one is in Italy, either one is conscious of the present, or of the Medieval influences, or of the far, mysterious gods of the early Mediterranean … Proserpine, or Pan, or even the strange "Gods" of the Etruscans." DH LawrenceRead more
Dionysius – The most Rock N Roll of all the Gods – might have been fun, on a good day. Whenever he was not busy drinking himself to death that is. But it is Philoxenus who makes me laugh.Read more
Is pizza healthy?
"Of course not , but I wish it was!" I can almost hear you reply.
Before you rush to the standard conclusion, you might want to consider the following, taken from a piece on the Mediterranean diet. More of which can be found on thebestofsicily.comRead more
So good is Scottish singer Liz Frazer's voice on her rendition of Tim Buckley's "Song To The Siren", that on more than one occasion I have had to suspend belief while listening to it. Likewise an amount of belief is naturally held back whenever we consider the myths and legends of very ancient times.Read more
Unfortunately and somewhat like my own hometown of Glasgow, Palermo also has to deal with a negative image that seemingly prolongs continually. Most people who hear of Palermo think immediately about the mafia, which although it most certainly exists, would never be experienced by the everyday tourist. Palermo nevertheless has much to offer to tourists who should never be alarmed by – an increasingly out of date – negative image of the city. But why take my word for it when you can read here the experience of Gary Drake – An American In Palermo.Read more
It is quite often at Hotel Villa Angela that I come across American guests who are in Sicily with the main aim of finding more about their heritage.
At the start of the last century alone, over 100,000 Sicilians had crossed the ocean to begin new lives in America. Many settling principally in New York,Buffalo, Tampa, New Jersey, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans and Milwaukee.Read more
"Sicily is a stunning Mediterranean destination – and not least for its food. Monocle goes on a culinary tour of the island and drops in on a cooking school that promotes traditional food producers and seasonal recipes."
I really enjoyed looking at this short film made by Monocle magazine.Read more
I will always remember with great affection my father taking me on a regular Sunday visit to the Italian family – owned "Bluebird Cafe", that sat on the corner of our street in the southside of Glasgow. It was without doubt the highlight of the week for me as a kid, and I was delighted to recently discover that the cafe currently still exists.Read more
Was William Shakespeare a Sicilian? "Come again?" I hear you reply. Well, as outlandish as that may sound, a trawl around the search engines might convince you that there is some merit in the following theory. Either way "The Bard" saw fit to mention Sicily in more than a few of his works. So what was the connection all about and could it really have anything to do with the following?Read more
"There is no Boss of Bosses. I turned it down in front of everybody. If I ever change my mind, I will take the title. But it won't be up to you. Right now you work for me and I ain't in the mood to retire. Don't you ever let me hear this again, or I'll lose my temper."Read more
"The stations went by, one by one, little wooden cabins with the sun shining on the red caps of the station masters; and the forest opened and closed with prickly pears tall as forks, like cerulean stones. And whenever we saw anyone, a boy coming or going along the track picking the fruit crowned in thorns that grew like coral on the prickly pear plants, he would shout as the train went by…"Read more
Leonardo Sciascia, the great 20th-century Sicilian writer, declared that "Modican chocolate is unparalleled in savor, such that tasting it is like reaching the archetype, the absolute, and that chocolate produced elsewhere, even the most celebrated, is an adulteration, a corruption of the original."Read more
As a keen Glasgow Celtic fan I am always hoping that my football club gets Italian opposition whenever the draw comes round for the Champions League.
Apart from enjoying the thrill of seeing the cream of Serie A line up at Celtic Park, as we did last year when Juventus came to Glasgow. It also makes for good "banter" with my many Italian friends.Read more
From ancient times and leading up to this day, the market gardens of Palermo, Catania, and Messina still heave, jam-packed, with the fruits and fish of the Mediterranean.Read more
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold/And she's buying a stairway to heaven' sings Robert Plant in what is possibly"the most well known rock song of all time" – otherwise known as Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
I must confess that I prefer songs that are open to interpretation lyrically. Songs that let me decide which images and meaning fits best the atmosphere of the melody.Read more
Kraftwerk sowed the seeds for the rise of "electro" and in doing so influenced Simple Minds among so many other artists. But it was the classy Italian pop of Giorgio Moroder (see photo) that ensured dance music would dominate the charts towards the end of the 20th century. Thoroughly acclaimed for his work in reshaping electronic disco with his production of Donna Summer's I Feel Love . (In someways a prototype for the Minds "I Travel.")Read more
Can you imagine the scene? In 1998 a small fishing boat searching for prawns off Sicily's southwest coast suddenly found an ancient Greek bronze statue entangled in its worn nets. Almost entirely covered in barnacles and strings of seaweed, it emerged, head first, from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. From another time and from another world no doubt, it came crashing into the last years of the 20th century.Read more
As already mentioned, my favourite months in Taormina are possibly September/October. My favourite time of day at Hotel Villa Angela however, is definitely early morning, between 7 and 8 am. The hotel is still to come awake, breakfast is quietly being laid out in preparation of the early-bird guests. There is a stillness in the sweet air. To sit on the terrace at that moment, to read, or just think over things, as I often do, Gives me so much pleasure.Read more
September to mid October are probably my favourite months to be in Taormina. It is also the time when the grape harvest (La Vendemmia) takes place. More festival, than actual back breaking work, I have enjoyed taking part on various occasions over the years, whenever friends who's families owned land in the surrounding countryside would invite me to join them and their neighbours in the task of gathering the ripened fruit…Read more
"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything." GoetheRead more
…soon a saucer of green olives and anchovies was sitting on the table, and some bread, and some mineral water. A small woman with dark hair and dark eyes and precise features whirled up like a woodland bird. She perched lightly at the table and rattled off a long list of antipasti, first courses and second, and every single one of them came out of the sea. This was Palermo in the summer for you.
- Peter Robb, Midnight in SicilyRead more
What? Al Pacino ? Pacino who is one of the greatest actors of all time? Was at Hotel Villa Angela? Really?
Well, no! Not really. But he well might have been had we been opened around 30 years earlier than we when we did, back in 2004. And he would have been welcomed, as everyone is, you don't have to be a movie star after all to be met with typical warm hospitality that would be expected from a small Sicilian hotel like ours.Read more
As we all know, listening to music in this century is so different from the way we did in the last. That is thanks to Karlheinz Brandenburg, who often is cited as the inventor of the music format known as the mp3. Of course it was (music geek )Steve Jobs and his company that took the whole mp3 format to a level previously beyond imagination.Read more
"Every summer, it's on one specific day, where the light changes. Oh, I know that's not how it works, that the angle of the earth to the sun is constantly changing, but for some reason there's one specific day it becomes noticeable, and then you realise fall is coming." So recently wrote the music blogger Bob Lefsetz, only a few days after I felt the exact same thing.Read more
…The new football (soccer) season begins in Italy this weekend, all of which makes me happy as I am a fan of the Italian national competition that is known the world over as Serie A.
Our nearest local club is Catania, only 45 mins away from Taormina, and they will be Sicily's only representative in the championship this season…Read more
…I have only been away a few days but I have strong withdrawal symptoms, and Boy…do I miss it!
I am talking about Granita, and I am particularly talking about the granita that is sold in BamBar – Taormina…
…However, unless you have experienced the thrill of zigzagging by scooter, around the backstreets, of a small, sunlit, Italian town. I would vouch that in one crucial way at least, you have never really experienced Italy as it it meant to be experienced. Italy at it's most quintessential in other words…Read more
Even when I am not in Sicily, I am often still thinking about the place. That is not only because of my involvement in Hotel Villa Angela, it is to do with the fact that I enjoy reading about Italy in all shape and forms, and about Sicily in particular.Read more
..I am due back in the UK. My destination is a recording studio where Simple Minds are continuing with what will hopefully be the last stages of recording a new album. Rarely am I unhappy to be at work…Read more
…I am never thrilled when preparing to leave Taormina, but how can I complain after such a full-on rest? In any case it is wonderful to know that the place awaits a return, and that after all these years it is really a kind of home from home…Read more
The 3 – 5 minute drive, depending on traffic, from the centre of Taormina and going up Via Leonardo Da Vinci to where Hotel Villa Angela is situated, can feel like a hair raising ride.Read more
What am I going to do? I am set on leaving Taormina later this week, but I am staring into a fridge that is full of local produce. Much more than I could ever get round to eating, much of it gifted by neighbours and friends. I see cheese and eggs that came from an estate near here.Read more
Do I speak Italian? Enough to make excuses, as I did recently with the local traffic police. They were quite rightly admonishing me for not wearing a helmet while careering around on a Vespa. Should you speak Italian before you come to Sicily?Read more
…I am in Taormina, and all is as it should be. Including sunrise of course. Ascending in stealth mode, as viewed from high up in Madonna Della Rocca, the morning sun seems almost shy to begin with. But then in a blink, it is like a ball of liquid copper, zooming over the heights of Calabria and shooting rays all along the eastern coast of Sicily. It is a must see show and it takes place at 06:12 am during this week of August…Read more
…My name is Jim Kerr. I was born in Glasgow, Scotland. I am a singer and songwriter with Simple Minds. I have been traveling in one way or another since the age of 13, when I first visited Italy on a school trip to the Adriatic Coast. In many ways Italy, and latterly Sicily in particular, have been an integral part of my life ever since….Read more


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which version of exchange and windows u r using and also if u can tell service packs u r using???
I have a hopefully easy to solve problem that I can't remember for the life of me how to resolve. I installed Microsoft Exchange onto a new server but installed it alongside our existing setup as an additional server.
The server was only ever used for testing purposes and never had any mailboxes or anything stored on it. Hence - when I was finished testing I simply reformatted the server.
Now the server still exists in Exchange System Manager as I never properly decomissioned it. Is there any way to easily get rid of it as it physically doesn't exist anymore.
which version of exchange and windows u r using and also if u can tell service packs u r using???
if current server is running perfectly and it just the icon which is showing then i guess just leave it as it is... otherwise its a good idea before decomissioning taking the server offline for few days....
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Bankruptcy just fell off today on EQ... Feb 1st. My score went up 40 points from 716 to 756... It is still on TU, but I am sure it will fall off soon too on that CA.
The BK fell off the last CA, TU.... today. But my credit score fell 13 points.... How the hell does that happen? same util as last report, not INQ or new credit... When it fell off EQ, my score went UP 40 pts....
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Wittgenstein's Searchlightby Levi Asher on Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:40 am
You may have heard about Wittgenstein's poker, or Wittgenstein's nephew or Wittgenstein's mistress or Wittgenstein's ladder. For some reason that I don't fully understand, people like to read books about Wittgenstein's stuff.
Well, it's fitting that Ludwig Wittgenstein shows up in a lot of postmodern novels and pop-culture texts, because he really is that good, and his works really are that relevant today. This enigmatic Jewish-Austrian-Catholic 20th Century philosopher and schoolteacher's fame has grown after his death to the extent that he is now widely regarded as the most important thinker of our age.
D. G. Myers' Last Month on Earthby Levi Asher on Thursday, October 9, 2014 09:25 pm
D. G. Myers, a celebrated literary critic, professor and blogger, died quietly of cancer in late September. For many like me who only knew D. G. Myers through his writings and online presence, his death was no surprise. We had read about it on A Commonplace Blog or in Time magazine, or in his much-praised podcast for the Library of Economics and Liberty just a few months before he died.
As his cancer worsened, D. G. Myers also expressed his feelings in occasional bursts on his beautiful Twitter account. Always a writer first, his tweets were unfailingly elegant, measured and dignified. Even when he could only manage bitter humor and wry regret for his family's shared suffering as he tweeted his way through chemotherapy during his last weeks on Earth:
Don Carpenter's Last Laughby Dan Barth on Thursday, August 28, 2014 05:27 pm
Don Carpenter was a writer's writer. Born in Berkeley, California in 1931, he grew up there and in Portland, Oregon, served in the Air Force during the Korean War, and returned to earn a B.S. from Portland State and an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State. In 1966 his first novel Hard Rain Falling was published to critical acclaim, and for the rest of his life he was a professional writer. He lived in Mill Valley, California and was part of a group of writers—Evan Connell, Curt Gentry, Leonard Gardner, Gina Berriault and others—who met regularly at the Book Depot there, and at the no name bar in Sausalito.
Carpenter was never as successful or celebrated as his good friend Richard Brautigan. His novels and short story collections were praised by critics and fellow writers but did not sell well. He found work in Hollywood as a screenwriter, most notably for an unproduced screenplay of Charles Bukowski's Post Office, and for Payday, starring Rip Torn as a country music singer. His novel about show business, A Couple of Comedians, was praised by Norman Mailer as "the best novel I've ever read about contemporary show biz." Anne Lamott dedicated her 1994 book Bird by Bird to Carpenter, and praised his then work in progress Fridays at Enrico's as a masterpiece in the making.
Philosophy Weekend: Nixon and Watergate and Vietnam and Our Capacity For Shared Delusionby Levi Asher on Saturday, August 9, 2014 11:11 am
"It was a lust for political power." - Bob Woodward
"There is no simple answer." - John Dean
President Richard Nixon, caught in a big lie, resigned in disgrace forty years ago. As we commemorate our shared memories of this astounding political scandal today, we are unwittingly basking in a new layer of delusion and willful untruth.
Yes, we conceal the truth today about Watergate, especially when we talk about the original motive for the crime, and when we try to analyze the lessons learned. I've enjoyed watching a couple of new television shows that interview the principals in the affair, but I can't help cringing at the level of voluntary obfuscation, of creative contextualizing. The gauze of popular self-delusion about Watergate does not serve a sinister political purpose but rather serves our need for comfortable conclusions, for meaningful metaphor (which may be meaningful even when it does not reveal a truth), for the dubious entertainment of banal psychobiography. It's easier to demonize Nixon than it is to realize that the disease that brought this President down is widely shared by others.
Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon and The Touchby Levi Asher on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 07:53 pm
Sure, every other obituary of 86-year-old Brooklyn novelist Daniel Keyes is going to talk about Flowers for Algernon. And, yeah, that was his best book. But I'm going to talk about The Touch, simply because I remember this novel well, and because nobody else is going to mention it.
As a lonely middle school kid, I was so desperate for good books that I would bottom-feed the local library stacks, looking for off-hit books by writers who were (I could already tell at my young age) literary one-hit wonders. This is why during the waning years of the Summer of Love and the waxing years of the Me Decade I read Love, Roger by Charles Webb (author of The Graduate), David Meyer is a Mother by Gail Parent (author of Sheila Levine), This Perfect Day by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby). And it's why I read The Touch by Daniel Keyes, author of the powerful Flowers for Algernon. I suppose I was also attracted to The Touch by the mod cover design, which reveals Daniel Keyes trying to reach a hip adult literary audience. That never quite happened, but we'll always have Flowers for Algernon.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Magdalena Riverby Levi Asher on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:45 pm
One Hundred Years of Solitude must be Gabriel Garcia Marquez's best title, and it's the book that made him famous all over the world. But I somehow neglected to finish that epic novel, and was more attracted instead to Love in the Time of Cholera, a book so good it would probably have made the Colombian author famous again if he hadn't been already. I also enjoyed Marquez's The General in His Labyrinth, and I wonder if I specially favor these two novels because they both employ a vivid setting: Colombia's Magdalena River.
I'm a fool for riparian literature, perhaps because rivers hold such great spiritual significance (from the Jordan to the Ganges), or because they work so well as metaphor, whether the characters are lazily floating downstream like Huck Finn or tensely steaming up against the current like Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. My fascination with rivers makes Love in the Time of Cholera a natural for me, since this novel is basically a happy Heart of Darkness with senior sex. The ever patient Florentino Ariza has waited an entire lifetime to lie in the arms of his beloved Fermina Daza, and after many decades he finally outlasts her husband and scores with her on a boat heading up the mighty Magdalena. (Ariza's patience is his one great power, a character trait so distinct it earned him a seat in my hypothetical literary poker tournament a few years ago).
The river is a constant presence in this novel. Early in the story, Ariza escapes his heartbreak by travelling up the river, where the beauty that surrounds him is disturbed by visions of the cholera epidemic currently gripping the land:
Updike on 43rd Streetby Levi Asher on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 08:24 pm
A literary biography ought to possess a voice and attitude that reflects and complements the literary voice and attitude of its subject. Leon Edel's life of Henry James is prim and probing, with an energy that gradually accumulates into stately magnificence. Gerald Nicosia's biography of Jack Kerouac is passionate, melancholy and fitful. This is how it should be, but this implicit rule must have been daunting to Adam Begley when he began writing Updike, the first comprehensive biography of the great fiction writer and critic John Updike, who died in 2009.
John Updike was, after all, one of the most confident and erudite prose stylists of his era, and an immensely likable writer. Fortunately, Adam Begley rises to the challenge in this enjoyable and perceptive biography, and while Begley doesn't attempt sentences of Updikian beauty and complexity, he does follow the master's lead in conjuring buoyant revelations from ordinary situations. Like a good Updike novel, this book captures the richness of one person's well-lived life.
The Great Lost Rock Memoir: Inside Out by Nick Masonby Levi Asher on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 04:17 pm
It's because I respect musicians who bravely venture into the dark literary territory of autobiography that I am so fascinated by musical memoirs. It's also why I'm sometimes critical of them. I have high standards regarding what a good memoir should be.
My standards are high but simple. An autobiography of a musician or any other artist must be written in a voice that feels distinct and artistic. It must tell a coherent story in chronological form. Most importantly, a good memoir must tell the truth.
On these terms, I criticized Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace for lacking story coherence, and for substituting undercooked present-tense for thoughtful past-tense. I knocked Steve Tyler's Does The Noise In My Head Bother You? for an inconsistent voice: the first few chapters about Steve's childhood and teenage years were very well written, but once Steve grew up and got famous the book shifted in tone to something like a People magazine interview about his rock star lifestyle. That ain't memoir.
Today I'm going to tell you about a memoir that I bet you never heard of, even though there's a good chance you dearly love the legendary rock band the author of this autobiography played drums for.
The Harriet Sagaby Levi Asher on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:18 am
It's probably the best tween book of the modern era; at least it's the best one I can think of. Well, hell, everybody loves Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, which was published fifty years ago this year.
The anniversary is already getting so much attention -- an event on March 15 at the 92nd Street Y on Harriet's own beloved Manhattan island featuring Gregory Maguire, Leonard Marcus and Rebecca Stead, a Booktrib appreciation featuring crime writers like Laura Lippman, Alafair Burke and Sarah Weinman -- that I almost want to skip mentioning it on Litkicks. Except for one thing: I love the book as much as everyone else. I can't not say so.
Harriet is about a churlish, opinionated 11-year-old who tears bravely through New York City's varied neighborhoods looking for trouble, and finally finds worse trouble than she ever wanted in the trivial atmosphere of her own schoolyard. I value the story for its emotional sophistication, its appreciation for the delicacy of a kid's emotional stability, and for the drama of the devastation that occurs when it breaks. The break in Harriet M. Welsch's swirling life of urban adventure occurs, of course, when her private notebook falls into someone else's hands. All the kids in her school read what she's written about them. The revelations hurt Harriet's own closest friends the worst, and Harriet is shocked to discover that even the dull kids in school that she never bothered to care about suddenly have the power to hurt her back, and badly.
Tolstoy Kept It Briefby Alex Strike on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 09:33 pm
(Here's a fresh perspective on a classic writer by Alex Strike, a blogger and an essay writing specialist who can be found on Lifehack, Twitter or Facebook.)
When Vladimir Nabokov read his lectures on literature, he closed all the curtains in the room to make it totally dark and started to speak.
"On the horizon of Russian literature, this is Gogol" -- and the small hall light flashed in the corner. "This is Chekhov" -- and one more star appeared on the ceiling. "This is Dostoevsky" -- Nabokov turned the light on here. "And this is Tolstoy!" The lecturer opened the curtains, and a bright blinding sunlight flooded the room.
Count Leo Tolstoy was the first writer who refused a copyright; he was an opponent of the Russian state system; he fulminated an anathema because he did not accept any religious authorities. He had refused the Nobel Prize, he hated money, and he always took the side of peasants. Many of his unique positions and practices are not known today.
He left us 165 000 sheets of manuscripts, 90 volumes of complete works, and 10 000 letters. He had been looking for the meaning of life and the universal happiness throughout his whole life, and he had found them in one word: kindness.
We all know Tolstoy as the author of long novels like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, which is why some do not realize that Tolstoy could write powerful short letters, stories, or novels. Indeed, his writings are filled with extremely long sentences and scrupulous levels of detail. Interestingly, his handwriting was often barely legible. The only person who could understand it was his wife, Sophia. She had to re-write War and Peace many times before Leo chose the final version to send to his editors. Here is the example of his handwriting:


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