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ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR FOR THE WEEKEND OF July 18-21 SPONSORED BY GULF COAST AUTOPLEX AT 407 SHANKLAND AVENUE IN JENNINGS THURSDAY: COWBOYS NIGHT CLUB, LAF-DUSTIN SONNIER & 6 PACK PONT BREAUX'S RESTAURANT, BREAUX BRIDGE-LEE BENOIT FRIDAY: COWBOY'S NIGHT CLUB, LAF-JARYD LANE PONT BREAUX'S RESTAURANT, BREAUX BRIDGE- LEE BENOIT McGEE'S LANDING, HENDERSON-GUMBO JET FIELD OF DREAMS, BROUSSARD-DAMON […]
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Vermilionville's Weekly Sunday Dance
Dance the afternoon away from 1-4PM on July 21st with Goldman Thibodeaux and the Lawtell Playboys at Vermilionville's weekly Sunday Dance in Lafayette. Refreshments will be available for this smoke-free all ages show at Vermilionville's Performance Center. Admission is $5 for the dance only. For more information visit www.vermilionville.org
Rendez-Vous Des Cajuns Live at the Liberty Theater
Rendez-Vous Des Cajuns live at the Liberty Theater in Downtown Eunice is every Saturday Night from 6-7:30PM. Performing on July 20th is Rachel Wilson and Cajun Express. Admission is $5. For details or a schedule call (337) 457-7389 or visit www.eunice-la.com
The Tortoise Versus The Hare
A fresh look at a favorite story comes to the Town of Washington on Saturday, July 20 when the Missoula Children's Theatre and more than 50 local students present "The Tortoise Versus The Hare." This original musical adaptation of the classic fable will be presented at the Washington Community Center at 3PM and at 5:30PM. […]
St. Bridget's Parish Fais Do Do
St. Bridget's Parish Fais Do Do is Saturday, July 20th from Noon until 10PM. They'll have BBQ burgers and a sweet shop. Goodies will be sold in the church hall. Live music is from 4-10PM. Food and adult beverages will be sold. No ice chests allowed. The Fais Do Do will be held on the […]


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In this week's review of the Libre eBook Reader Pro, the bottom line is that its a good, cheaper e-reader alternative -- that is, if you don't mind it lacks some of the top-of-the-line features, like downloading books over Wi-Fi and being able to subscribe to newspapers and magazines.
You can read my full list of ups and downs in today's print review. The price ranges online, usually around $120, but my contact for the Libre said the price is going down to $99.99 this week at Borders stores. I saw it for $99 last week at Dell.com, but now Dell has jacked it back up to $150.

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I'm so very excited! I grew up with huge gardens, but I've never had one that was completely of my design, my choice of vegetables, and completely my responsibility. Hooray!
I'm starting out with a rectangular plot. There will be four varieties of heirloom tomatoes running in two rows from north to south taking up the entire west side of the garden area, with a total of 20 plants. I plan on using the Florida weave staking technique. I've built two 4 feet by 4 feet raised beds, and have placed those in the south-east corner. I have very limited time to work on this, so I just got the garden tilled, leveled the box area as well as I could, and put the boxes directly on top of the regular soil (I do have good soil to start with), and then filled the box with organic top soil and organic peat. I would have rather had the time to sift the soil and do the rest of the stuff talked about in the SFG book, but I have a 2 year old and another on the way, and I'm doing this all myself, so I just don't have time. I've read that I can continue to build the soil from "the top down", so that is what I'm hoping will work for me! One of those beds (the northern one) will be a modified three-sisters planting, with corn, beans, and squash. The squash will all be in a row on the eastern side of the bed, and will go up a cattle panel trellis, which will end outside of the garden (arching over the exterior walkway). The corn and beans will be in the remaining 3x4 space, intermixed to replace nitrogen for next year's crop. The southern bed will contain lettuce, carrots, eggplant, cucumbers, and potatoes. The cucumbers will take the southern row, and will also follow a cattle panel over the walkway and out of the garden. Three more cattle panel trellis will be installed around the property (I have 3 acres), and each one will have it's own type of melon. Two trellis will have watermelons, and one will have a breakfast melon (for lack of a better term). In the north east corner, there is a large, un-tillable (? well, that is what the guy who tilled it said - he said there were too many rocks) area, and it was only tilled down about 2-3 inches. I'm going to plant that entire area with Bee's Friend flowers, picking out the rocks as I go. I'm planning to save those seeds from this year, and then cover crop half of that area with winter rye. Then, next spring, I'll try to till the winter rye area under again, but leave half the area to replant the Bee's Friend flowers. I hope to eventually put three more 4x4 boxes in the north east side, and move the Bee's flowers to outside the garden area. Additionally, I'm hoping to build a top-bar hive this winter, and get a swarm of honeybees next spring to help pollination. Finally, I'm keeping an eye out for a bottomless metal water trough to use for my compost bin. Here's a list of what I'm growing. All of them are heirloom, and I got all of them from Seed Savers. Bean -Climbing French
Ok, that was a really long post. I'm so excited to get this going, and I hope to post lots of pictures to document the progress! |
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by marzy_the_gardener 5 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 21, 10 at 11:10
Thats a big garden you're putting together. Sounds like its gonna be awesome! Am looking forward to seeing pix. |
- Posted by dirtroadmama (My Page) on Mon, Apr 26, 10 at 14:16
Thanks, marzy! I've changed my mind about trying the Florida weave. I'm concerned that it might take a lot more monitoring to make sure it all stays enclosed. So, my second idea was to get cattle panels, and use those as row trellises, and just keep on pushing the vines back and forth through the openings. But, then I thought about the size of the panels (four feet high), and thought about how big indeterminates can get, and thought I'd have to stack two panels to get them up to 8 feet, which means 10 foot t-posts and monster supports so it won't blow over. A 8x16 foot space presented to prairie winds... yeah, that sounds secure! So, here is my new plan. I'm going to put the tomatoes in two rows of 10. There will be 5 arched cattle panels, making a long tunnel of arches. There will be 4 plants per arch; two on each side. This will give the benefit of 8 feet of growing height per plant, while presenting only 4x8 feet of wind barrier per panel. I haven't managed to figure how much space I'll have underneath each arch. If there is enough room, I thought that might be the ideal location for lettuce, carrot, and spinach crops. The shade that will occur during the hottest part of the year might enlarge the growing season. It's been raining all weekend, and we're due for more rain all week. *sighs* So it's going to be a while before I can get all my arches set up in the garden. There are supposed to be a couple of clear days this week, so I'm hoping I can get the three melon panels set up, since those are going out in the field, and not in the tilled up garden. |
- Posted by dirtroadmama (My Page) on Thu, May 6, 10 at 23:01
I have lots of pictures up in my thread over at the new gardener's forum. :) |
- Posted by organicislandfarmer 9 Brevard, FL (My Page) on Sat, May 8, 10 at 8:25
The florida weave is not time consuming and works great for rows. Once its up you add more lines as it grows. I use tomato cages myself cause I am a container grower, not a row grower. |
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Critical Round-Up: Reaction to the Folk Art Museum's Demolition, MoMA's Expansion
The flurry of criticism that erupted when MoMA announced its plans to demolish the American Folk Art Museum (in its new plans for expansion, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro) has yet to settle. After the break, we offer a more complete round-up of the critics' reactions – including Paul Goldberger's of Vanity Fair, Michael Kimmelman's for The New York Times, and more…
YAP 2013: bam! Debuts 'He' at MAXXI
He has made his debut in the MAXXI piazza. As the winner of the Young Architects Program (YAP) in Rome, Turin-based studio Bam! Bottega di Architettura metropolitan has transformed the concrete facade of the Zaha Hadid-designed museum into a visual spectacular with the installation of a yellow, translucent and aerostatic prism.
MoMA Enlists Six Architect Teams to Develop Proposals for Expanding Megacities
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has collaborated with Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) to launch a 14-month initiative that will examine new architectural possibilities that address the rapid and uneven growth of six global metropolises: New York, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Lagos, Hong Kong, and Istanbul.
Organized by Pedro Gadanho, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities enlists six interdisciplinary teams of international architecture and urbanism scholars, experts, and practitioners to participate in a series of workshops, with each team focusing on a specific city.
In Pursuit of Architecture: A Conference on Buildings and Ideas
To mark its 10th anniversary and 29th issue, Log presents In Pursuit of Architecture, a conference featuring recent built work selected from an open, international call for submissions. Join architects and critics for a daylong discussion of architectural ideas, what it takes to build them, and how we measure the cultural value of architecture.
Some of the offices that will be present include C+S architects, LAN, Neil M. Denari Architects, Preston Scott Cohen, Reiser + Umemoto, and UNStudio. For complete details, please click here.
Title: In Pursuit of Architecture: A conference on buildings and ideas
Website: http://www.anycorp.com/inpursuit/
Organizers: Log
From: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:00
Until: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:00
Venue: The Museum of Modern Art
Address: 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, USA
MoMA's Le Corbusier Exhibit is Must-See, Says Critic Alexandra Lange
Although critiquing the exhibit for some "critical flaws" – namely the choice of theme and the lack of explanatory text – Alexandra Lange's review for The New Yorker praises the MoMA's Le Corbusier exhibit, "An Atlas of Modern Landscapes," as a "must-see" thanks to its varied displays, which show "the terrific span of Le Corbusier's career in time, space, and scale [...] If current architects take anything from the exhibition [...] it should be the power of those big, gestural drawings, where visual and verbal argument vividly come together." Read the rest of Lange's critique at The New Yorker.
MoMA Releases First Storybook: "Young Frank, Architect"
Inspiring builders of all ages, MoMA has released their first storybook, following the adventures of a young, New York City architect and his architect grandfather: Young Frank and Old Frank. The creative pair – with matching bow ties, straw boater hats and, of course, Le Corbusier-inspired glasses – optimistically views the world as an endless supply of inspiration and possibilities. Everything, from macaroni to old boxes, inspires them to create – especially after discovering the works of Frank Gehry and Frank Lloyd Wright at The Museum of Modern Art. Young Frank, Architect was written by the renowned children's author and illustrator Frank Viva. More information can be found here on MoMA.
UMWELT Named 2013 Winner of YAP Constructo in Santiago
Santiago-based studio UMWELT (Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu) has been named as winner of the 2013 Young Architect's Program (YAP) in Chile. Their winning proposal, 'AMBIENT 35 60', which is scheduled for completion in March 2014, will occupy a 20 x 27 meter site in Santiago's Parque Araucano with a network of 35, climatically responsive spatial frames that will provide a 'container for artwork and events.'
More on 'AMBIENT 35 60' after the break…
SO? Celebrates the Opening of 'Sky Spotting Stop' in Istanbul
Though temporarily postponed due to the Gezi Park protests, SO? Architecture and Ideas has celebrated the opening of their winning entry – Sky Spotting Stop - for the 2013 Young Architects Program (YAP) at Istanbul Modern in Turkey. Offering refuge from the historic city's busy streets, the fragmented canopy of reflective circular discs invites visitors to "sit, rest, gather, play, or skyspot" while overlooking the mouth of the Bosphorus.
CODA's Skateboard Scrap 'Party Wall' Kickstarts MoMA's Summer Music Series
The Museum of Modern Art has kicked off the popular Warm Up Summer Music series in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 with the grand opening of Party Wall. The towering installation, designed by Ithaca-based studio CODA, was the winning proposal of the 14th annual Young Architects Program in which provides emerging architects a chance to construct an innovative project as long as shades, cools and seats visitors.
With a porous skin made of woven skateboard scraps, the experimental structure has successfully met the challenge by providing a shaded refuge for the crowds with refreshing cooling stations and detachable wooden seats.
See Party Wall in action after the break…
MoMA presents 'Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes'
The Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes exhibit at the MoMA opens on June 15th. The exhibit will be centered around Le Corbusier's worldview of architecture. It explores both his most famous architectural projects, as well as the means by which he was able to realize them. Through a collection of early watercolors, drawings and photographs, curator Jean-Louis Cohen provides a peak into Le Corbusier's journeys and developments as an architect, revealing how he explored the world and what he drew from his travels and observations.
More on 'Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes' after the break.
MoMA Selects Diller Scofidio + Renfro as Architect of the Folk Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art has commissioned Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) to design its controversial expansion that will overtake the former American Folk Art Museum in New York. This news comes after an intense backlash from prominent architects, preservationists and critics worldwide pressured MoMA to reconsider its decision to raze the iconic, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-design museum in order to make way for its new expansion.
In response, DS+R has requested that MoMA gives them the "time and latitude to carefully consider the entirety of the site, including the former American Folk Art Museum building, in devising an architectural solution to the inherent challenges of the project," as stated by Glenn D. Lowry, MoMA's director, in a memo sent on Thursday to his trustees and staff. He added, "We readily agreed to consider a range of options, and look forward to seeing their results."
More on the DS+R's commission and the fate of the Folk Museum after the break…
AD Interviews: Pedro Gadanho
Pedro Gadanho is a Portuguese architect, curator, teacher and writer, appointed as the Curator for Contemporary Architecture at the MoMA in January last year.
Pedro is a prolific writer, who uses a blog as a laboratory for his ideas about architecture and urbanism (sharing his views on the current states of cities and how architecture can transform them), and will surely have an impact on what the Department of Architecture of the Museum focuses on in the future.
During this past year Pedro has been involved in the YAP (Young Architects Program), a platform to discover young architects and foster new ideas through installations at the MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), the MAXXXI Museum (Rome, Italy), the Istanbul Modern Museum (Istanbul, Turkey) and with CONSTRUCTO (Santiago, Chile).
He also curated the exhibit "9 + 1 Ways of Being Political: 50 Years of Political Stances in Architecture and Urban Design" (open until Jun 9th, 2013; Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor), where his views of city and architecture come together in the form of a selection of fresh ideas and examples of architects who actively shaped our cities. The opening of the exhibit included the architectural performance "IKEA Disobedients" by Andres Jaque.
Pedro was also a jury for the 2013 Mies van der Rohe award.
In today's world, where we have access to everything at the the tip of our fingers, the role of the curator becomes more and more relevant for us to understand our new context.
You can follow Pedro on Twitter @pedrogadanho.
Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse Rooftop to Host Contemporary Art Center
When the gym and solarium on the 20-century's most famous rooftop terrace – elevated 18-stories above Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse - went up for sale in 2010, French designer Ito Morabito of Ora-ïto immediately jumped on the opportunity and purchased the space. With the support of the Foundation Le Corbusier, Ora-ïto initiated a campaign to restore the 1950's structure to its original state, by removing an addition that blocked the spaces 360-degree views of the city, and transform it into a contemporary art center, named the MAMO for "Marseille Modulor" – as a nod to New York's MOMA.
More about MAMO after the break…
MoMA: Applied Design
Design saturates every facet of our lives. As the new MoMA exhibition states: design is a fundamental tool in helping people respond to change. Applied Design, running from March 2nd to January 31st, focuses on the various means and methods by which we design and the product of those varied paths that lead to innovation.
SO? Wins YAP Istanbul Modern 2013
SO? Architecture and Ideas' Sky Spotting Stop has been announced as winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program (YAP) Istanbul Modern in Turkey. Similar to its counterparts - CODA's skateboard scrap Party Wall in New York and bam!'s buoyant installation He at MAXXI – the shady escape will be constructed in late June in the Istanbul Modern's courtyard, offering refuge from the busy streets of Istanbul while overlooking the mouth of the Bosphorus.
More on 'Sky Spotting Stop' after the break…
My Hair is at MoMA PS1 / TempAgency: Kutonotuk & mcdowellespinosa
"My Hair is at MoMA PS1″ is exactly what it sounds like. TempAgency, composed of architecture firms Kutonotuk and mcdowellespinosa, has designed an installation that uses human hair from hair salons and barbershops as architecture. The finalist for 2013 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program found inspiration in the material waste to develop a project of cultural and design significance. Join us after the break for more images.