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Mark Twain in Love
A chance encounter on a New Orleans dock in 1858 haunted the writer for the rest of his life
- By Ron Powers
- Illustration by Jody Hewgill
- Smithsonian magazine, May 2010, Subscribe
On an empyreal spring evening in 1858, with the oleander in bloom upriver and early jasmine scenting the wind, the steersman for the Mississippi steamboat Pennsylvania, a bookish 22-year-old named Sam Clemens, guided the massive packet into the docks under the winking gaslights of New Orleans. As the Pennsylvania berthed, Clemens glanced to his side and recognized the adjacent craft, the John J. Roe.
Perhaps recalling his many happy assignments steering the Roe, the young apprentice pilot leapt spontaneously onto the freighter's deck. He was amiably shaking the hands of his former mates when he froze, transfixed by the sight of a slight figure in a white frock and braids: a girl not yet on the cusp of womanhood who would forever after haunt his dreams and shape his literature.
Mark Twain's description, written years later, of the girl as she emerged from the jumble of deckhands, leaves no doubt as to the spell she cast on him. "Now, out of their midst, floating upon my enchanted vision, came that slip of a girl of whom I have spoken...a frank and simple and winsome child who had never been away from home in her life before." She had, the author continued, "brought with her to these distant regions the freshness and the fragrance of her own prairies."
The winsome child's name was Laura Wright. She was only 14, perhaps not quite, on that antebellum May evening, enjoying a river excursion in the care of her uncle, William C. Youngblood, who sometimes piloted the Roe. Her family hailed from Warsaw, Missouri, an inland hamlet some 200 miles west of St. Louis.
She surely could never have imagined the import of that excursion. In this centenary year of Mark Twain's death, it may seem that literary detectives have long since ransacked nearly every aspect of his life and works. Yet Laura Wright remains among the final enigmas associated with him. Only one faded photograph of her is known to exist. All but a few fragmentary episodes of her own long life remain unchronicled. Mark Twain's references to her are, for the most part, cryptic and tinged with mysticism. Their encounter in New Orleans spanned but parts of three days; they met only once after that, in a brief and thwarted courting call that Sam paid two years later in 1860.
Yet in a powerful, psychic sense, they never parted. In 1898, Mark Twain,at the time living in Vienna with his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens (Livy), and daughters Susy, Clara and Jean, finally unburdened himself of Laura Wright's impact on him. In a lengthy essay entitled "My Platonic Sweetheart," published posthumously in 1912, he described a protracted and obsessive recurring dream. A young woman appeared, with differing features and names, but always under the guise of the same benevolent, adoring persona. Mark Twain and the mysterious apparition floated hand in hand over cities and continents, spoke a language known only to themselves ("Rax oha tal"), and comforted each other with a love more rarefied than between brother and sister, yet not specifically erotic. Mark Twain did not supply the specter's real-life name, but scholar Howard Baetzhold has pieced together overwhelming evidence that the figure in the dream is Laura.
The Platonic Sweetheart gazes out at us today, Mona Lisa-like, from her repose inside the fecund dream world of the man who redefined American literature. But how significant was Laura Wright's influence on Mark Twain, both as an object of affection and as a muse? Mark Twain took the answers to these questions with him when he joined the arc of Halley's comet at Redding, Connecticut, on April 21, 1910. Yet Baetzhold's investigations—not to mention Mark Twain's own writings—have generated powerful evidence that the effect of this nearly forgotten figure was profound.
Certainly Mark Twain's obsession arose instantaneously. In his posthumously published Autobiography he recalled losing no time declaring the young girl to be his "instantly elected sweetheart" and hovering no more than four inches from her elbow ("during our waking hours," the Autobiography primly stipulated) for the ensuing three days. Perhaps he escorted her along the colorful French market or danced the schottische on the deck of the Roe. The two talked and talked, their conversations drifting unrecorded into the ether.
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Just was looking this up trying to find a picture of Laura and looky here; the man who wrote the play "Sam and Laura" wrote this article for the Smithsonian! Thanks for writing the play giving me and giving me a fun time playing Sam!
Posted by Cyrus Crane facebook.com/CyrusCrane on October 31,2011 | 07:33 PM
To get a better feel of the times I suggest you read: "Beyond the Blue and the Gray."
It's available free online at Helium.com
Posted by Robert Burns on June 19,2011 | 09:08 PM
Somehow, I feel wonderful and disgusted at the same time. Mark Twain sounds like a very selfish man. I know his writings are top quality, but how does that relate to his personal life? Does his writings even reflect that reality? -Disgruntled English major
Posted by Catherine B on April 27,2011 | 06:43 AM
Laura M Wright was the sister of my great-grandfather, Marshall P. Wright. They were the children of Circuit Judge Foster Peletier Wright. I have heard this story all my life and am proud to see it in print. Thank you!
Posted by Dennis Charles Sutherland on December 27,2010 | 03:49 PM
CORRECTION: The Framingham Mass play is Sunday October 24 at 2pm
In addition Mr Powers will do a talk and Mark Twain-A Life book signing at Barnes and Noble in Framingham on Friday October 22 at 7pm
Posted by David Hornfischer on September 18,2010 | 03:35 PM
The exciting new play is being done on October 20th at 2pm in Massachusetts as a staged reading at the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham MA about 20 miles west of Boston.
Renowned storyteller Libby Franck has been cast to play Laura and the rest of the troupe is being assembled by the Amazing Theater company now (Mid August).
Web site http://www.amazingthings.org/frontpage2.asp?DC_ID=1549
begins to tell the story and more about the Amazing Things Arts Center.
The Center is working on ideas to turn this into a major event and welcomes comments and suggestions. 508 405 2787
Posted by Dave Hornfischer on August 19,2010 | 07:56 PM
My father worked as one of the last roving photographers of the Keystone View Company of Meadville PA.
During his time there he printed a photo of (Mark Twain facing left in front of a window) from their archive of negatives.
For many years it hung on our living room wall and then was given to my uncle after he had admired it.
Some years after my uncle passed away I asked my aunt if I might have it.
I kind of thought that picture may have been lost in the thousands of negatives that made up the Keystone View collection.
I was surprised to see it featured in your wonderful article on Mark Twain in the May 2010 issue.
Postscript: The photo is credited to Underwood & Underwood, Keystone View purchased their stock of negatives in the early 1900s.
Posted by Larry Lowe on June 24,2010 | 08:19 PM
How utterly divine and sadly wonderful..my heart feels wounded.
Thank you
Posted by RockyMissouri on May 25,2010 | 12:15 AM
I wonder why Elmira appealed to him?
He could have just as easily lived in Horseheads.
Posted by wsburrows on May 23,2010 | 06:45 PM
Can anybody resume the story please?
Posted by Paulo on May 17,2010 | 05:21 PM
The Samuel Clemens story here in the Bronx was that he lived for awhile at Wave Hill, today a cultural performance place and center for horticulture in Riverdale. I once mapped its trees to update its maps. The story was that Samuel Clemens kept a tree-house there for interviews with press, eventually beyond his means. Perhaps it was over litigation over "The Prince and the Pauper" later required reading in NYC. Wave Hill later had resident Arturo Toscanini, composer and conductor of the NBC Orchestra, and later the British Embassy compound. A young JFK lived in Riverdale until the market crashed and his dad moved away from investing in the "talkies" in NYC. Open to the public, it is a fine place to stand where he once sometimes stood on the ground, if not in a tree.
Posted by George Myers on May 16,2010 | 10:07 PM
In my travels I also made sure to visit Mark Twain places. We went to Elmira, NY to see his grave. I visited the Nook Farm cabin that he wrote in. In Hartford, CT we toured his lovely house. In Natchez, MS we went down to Natchez Under the Hill and I put my hand in the Mississippi. We went to Marietta, OH where his sister lived. Marietta is a lovely place. The riverboats stop there once or twice a year. In New Orleans, LA we took a river tour on the Natchez, a paddle boat which draws visitors by playing the calliope. We went to the back to watch the paddles turn and got sprayed with mist. It was lovely.
Posted by ibivi on May 13,2010 | 05:39 PM
Re death of Henry Clemens:
Ron Powers wrote ( May, p80): "It took the badly burned Henry a week to die."
Mark Twain wrote (Autobiography vol. 1, page 311) "[Doctor Peyton] told me that Henry was out of danger and would get well. Then he said, 'At midnight these poor fellows lying here and there and all over this place will begin to mourn and mutter and lament and make outcries, and if this commotion should disturb Henry it will be bad for him; therefore ask the physicians on watch to give him an eighth of a grain of morphine, but this is not to be done unless Henry shall show signs that he is disturbed.'"
"Oh, well, never mind the rest of it. The physicians on watch were young fellows hardly out of the medical college, and they made a mistake – they had no way of measuring the eighth of a grain of morphine, so they guessed at it and gave him a vast quantity heaped on the edge of a knife blade, and the fatal effects were soon apparent. I think he died about dawn, I don't remember as to that."
Posted by Tom Hahs on May 9,2010 | 03:38 PM
Great article. I have Mr. Powers' biography of Mark Twain and after a lifetime of enjoying Twain's work the additional insights in the biography gave me fresh inspiration to go back and explore anew works like Pudd'nhead Wilson, Life on the Mississippi and the wonderful Autobiography (edited by Charles Neider). Thank you Mr. Powers for one more look into the life and soul of the man whose "Rules Governing the Literary Arts" hangs above my desk, guiding me to never, ever write like James Fenimore Cooper.
Posted by Alan Hutcheson on May 7,2010 | 04:25 PM
Thank you for this first-rate, fresh, insightful article. I've referenced it in my own mini-essay on Twain, posted here:
Posted by Robert on May 2,2010 | 02:35 PM
Thank you for this article. I'd heard about Laura vaguely and was under the impression she died young. Now I know it was the romance that died young - yet never did.
Posted by Shir-El on April 30,2010 | 10:56 AM
Thanks for the great article about Mark Twain. I have had the pleasure of many Saturdays in Hannibal; thinking of Tom painting his fence- remembering as a teen learning the origin or "Mark Twain"- growing up in St. Louis on the mighty Mississippi and longing for a thrill like riverboating down her to New Orleans! I had never heard of Laura, though I have read "My Platonic Sweetheart". We really missed out. I'd trade Google, Droids and IPads for a steamboat ride anyday!
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Participants were picked up by police and dropped off at the restaurant where they were booked and put behind bars. Each "jailbird" attempted to raise the $1,600 bail by calling on friends and family to donate.
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11-year-old Kaleb Kimbro of Shamrock is affected by the disease. He is this year's Texas Ambassador for the association and was at the restaurant talking to "jailbirds" about the importance of "posting bail." He's been to MDA camp a couple times and looks forward to going again.
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Our theme for 2012-2013 will be Strengthening Our Legacy With Building Blocks For Tomorrow's Success.
Join as we work together to enhance community building through social, cultural, and service opportunities. We will Strengthen our Legacy by sharing our varied interests and attending the many special lectures and presentations offered while enjoying Baylor's rich Christian heritage and traditions of giving back to the community and to our students through scholarship. Come as often as you wish, and bring guests.
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Judy Maggard, chair of the Scholarship Committee with committee members, Shelley Brooks, Kathy Hillman, Carol McCulloch and Jeanette Rudd are pleased to announce the selection of Amber Reese, a junior psychology major from Abilene, Texas to receive the Baylor Round Table Scholarship for 2013-2014.
Amber is an outstanding student in the classroom and is involved in Best Buddies, Up Til Dawn, Baylor Buddies, Phi Theta and the National Society for Collegiate Scholars. She has spent the spring 2013 semester studying in the Netherlands with the Baylor in Maastricht program.
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The -- campaign promise -- President Obama made back in 2008 with closing gitmo.
Not so much and you think the media is giving him something of apostle that.
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We saw the news that he was -- orientation the dignitary who's there who's overseeing its closure and you know -- essentially that is giving up.
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Criticism over Guantanamo Bay.
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At the age of 89, our dearest mother was reunited with her husband, Marvin J. Mortensen and her daughter Sally Wight after being separated in death for over 24 years.
She was born on May 26, 1923 in Salt Lake City, to Axel Wilhelm Lubbers and Ingrid Ida Christina Langstead Pedersen, who were new immigrants from Copenhagen, Denmark. She was the mother of Beverly Pridgen (Randy), Gail Winegar (Dee), Judi Haslam (Scott), Marvin J. Mortensen Jr. (Tracy), Ruth Randall (Brad), Jane Woodland (Lynn) and Sally Wight (DeOrr). She was the grandmother of 39, and great-grandmother of 67. She is survived by her brother, Joseph Lubbers.
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JOIE SCHOONOVER has transformed dining services at the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, by:
• SPEARHEADING the construction and opening of two major facilities, both of which opened this year, while simultaneously working on three more construction projects
• CHANGING the department's foodservice systems to adapt to the needs of the department's new operations
• LEADING a major staff restructuring, which decreased the number of layers of people between Schoonover and her managers
• IMPROVING purchasing practices by combining vendor contracts and implementing a cycle menu, which helped forecast ordering more accurately
Joie Schoonover, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJoie Schoonover has been a busy woman. In just four years as director of dining and culinary services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Schoonover basically has reinvented the foodservice program. She led a team that opened two major projects this year, while simultaneously planning three more renovations. The department also completely changed its management structure and revised operational systems such as inventory and purchasing. Looking back, Schoonover acknowledges, "There's not much that's the same as it was four years ago."
Patrick Pawelski, unit manager, says he thinks it is Schoonover's ability to make all employees feel empowered that has led to the department's success.
"She believes in allowing her staff to make tough decisions," Pawelski says. "The amount of planning and work that was involved [in opening the new facilities] was unreal. I don't know too many people who could have stayed sane, functional and dependable throughout this entire process, but she did."
New spaces: Opening two major facilities at the same time is something other directors might find daunting, but Schoonover was not only able to open the two locations, she was able to keep things on track for the opening of three more operations in the next two years. The two new marketplaces are Gordon Dining and Events Center and the Four Lakes Market at Dejope Hall. Gordon also houses meeting space and the department's central production with a cook-chill area and bakery.
Each facility offers a variety of the department's self-branded concepts. Gordon features a marketplace comprising Bean & Creamery (coffee and ice cream), Flamingo Run (c-store), Capital City Pizza, Buona Cucina (pasta and Italian entrées), Fired Up (grill), Global Kitchen (international fare), Que Rico (Tex-Mex), 1849 (comfort foods), Delicious (deli), Great Greens (fresh salads and soups), Buckingham Bakery (desserts) and Eggcetera (all-day breakfast).
Four Lakes has a number of the same concepts, as well as Maki Mono, which offers noodle bowls and sushi. Despite some similarities in food offerings, the two locations have two distinct atmospheres.
"For Gordon, we really wanted it to be a place where students could hang out," Schoonover says. "It has an urban kind of feel to it. There is a two-story fireplace, and one wall is two stories of glass that will eventually overlook a green space. The feel at Four Lakes is very serene and quiet."
Schoonover says managing two projects simultaneously meant that staff couldn't consider each location individually. They had to look at what it was going to take to execute both. At the same time, the department had to be cognizant of three other projects coming down the road. So how did they do it? Staff involvement and buy-in was key.
"We had our full-time staff reviewing the plans while we were designing things, trying to get their buy-in, but seeing really is believing," Schoonover says. "Each management team had to be engaged with its whole staff to run its project because I can't run five projects. We spent three hours each week doing planning. Then our staff meeting was two hours the next day. I think that's why the opening has been successful. The other projects coming up are much smaller, so the staff had the opportunity to learn from the larger projects."
Those other projects include Carson's, which is a gut renovation of a building built in the 1920s. That project will reopen in June 2013 with concepts similar to Gordon and Four Lakes and an atmosphere that takes its cues from the history of the building. Schoonover says by January 2014 all of the department's locations will either be new or remodeled.
"I didn't get here and say we need all these new facilities," Schoonover says. "I was fortunate that I inherited a very strong structure. University Housing has always done a great job of planning around the master plan. I walked in and got to execute those plans."
Revising systems: Schoonover hasn't just been busy building. Many other operational changes had to be made to aid in the transition to these new facilities.
"First, we changed our inventory methods," Schoonover says. "We now take a weekly inventory versus monthly. We're also more accurate in counting everything during inventory. If you count things correctly, then you are not over-ordering or wasting food."
The department also started using forecast-based purchasing. Schoonover says that was only possible because the department implemented a cycle menu, allowing it to forecast orders more accurately.
"When you don't have [a cycle menu], you don't have a purchasing history to compare to," Schoonover says. "That makes it really difficult to place accurate orders. We used to place orders 10 days in advance. I've been doing this a long time and I had never heard of placing orders 10 days out, so I knew that had to change. We were able to reduce that time to ordering today for tomorrow. Some items have to be ordered two days in advance. But by using the cycle menu forecast and working with our prime vendor's online warehouse, we were able to reduce the amount of time our managers spent on ordering."
Entering into a new prime vendor contract also helped streamline purchasing. Schoonover says the department used to have a lot of contracts aside from the prime vendor agreement. Some of those were combined into the prime vendor contract. Another time-saving switch: hiring an outside vendor to select the product mix for the campus c-stores. Because this vendor's primary focus is c-stores, it can do a product plan for the department.
Other changes included moving to cook-chill preparation for items like soups, taco meat and pasta sauce, which allows the department to offer a wider variety of menu options.
"When I got here the staff just didn't know any different," Schoonover says. "I have a lot of longevity in my staff. They knew things needed to be different, but they didn't know how to fix it. We've been able to fix those things, and it's made our department more efficient."
As a result of these system changes, the department was able to avoid an overall price increase for four years. The dining plan is à la carte with a membership fee, which Schoonover says basically covers overhead costs. While the overhead price has increased in the past four years, the department hasn't done a blanket price increase.
Staff structure: When Schoonover came to Wisconsin in 2008—after stints at the University of Iowa, the University of Missouri, Knox College and University of Wisconsin, Platteville—she noticed there were a lot of layers in the department's management structure, which didn't jibe with her management style.
"I'm definitely not a hierarchical manager," Schoonover says. "I brought in Julaine [Kiehn] and Jim Korner as consultants and we interviewed the management team to develop a new structure that would make sense for these new buildings. At one point, if you went from an assistant manager to me [there were] like six layers. Now it's assistant manger, unit manager and me."
As part of the process, the managers talked with the HR director and Schoonover, which gave them the opportunity to tell upper management what they'd like to be doing and where.
"We were able to move people where it made the most sense," Schoonover says. "The full-time staff had the opportunity to tell us—if their position was going to exist in the new structure—if they wanted to stay where they were. If their position didn't exist in the new structure, they could interview for a different position equal to their level or apply as a candidate for promotion. Now we have more managers out on the floor. There were previously 120 positions including managers—now there are 136."
Brad Krakow, project manager for The CBORD Group, Inc., who worked with Schoonover on improving the department's ordering process and menu forecasting, says the transformation that Schoonover has managed during her tenure is staggering.
"Reorganizing her entire professional staffing structure is just [one] multi-year Joie-driven initiative that she supported with both internal and external expertise," Krakow says. "She presented and sold a vision of professionalism and an outcome of excellence and did not let it go. All of Joie's efforts represent careers for some foodservice directors. Joie is just getting started."


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Boston issues 6,900 parking tickets, tows 650 cars, hands out at least $25,650 in snow removal fines
About 6,900 parking tickets have been issued and more than 650 vehicles towed in Boston since the past weekends snowstorm hit. And, city officials have issued more than 500 to property owners who failed to adequately clear sidewalks or who put snow on city streets and sidewalks.
The parking tickets, which range from $15 to $120 depending on the infraction, represent at least $103,380 in fines handed out between Friday and Tuesday. The tows, which are done by private companies and generally cost an additional $100 to $150, represent at least $66,300 charged to Boston drivers during that span.
The snow removal-related citations, which cost between $50 and $300 each depending on the violation, represent at least $25,650 in fines handed out between Saturday and Tuesday morning.
If you get a ticket, its a wake-up call that you dropped the ball on your responsibility, said Bryan Glascock, commissioner of the citys Inspectional Services Department, which oversees Bostons snow removal rules. Its been long enough now since the storm ended. Theres no excuse for it this late in the game.
If everybody just took responsibility for their own little corner of the world, wed have this thing licked, he added. The main message were trying to get out to folks is to clear your sidewalks and dont push the snow back out into the streets, that doesnt help it just makes things worse.
In Boston, putting snow, slush or ice onto city streets or sidewalks whether by shoveling, plowing, throwing, or any other means is banned by law and can lead to fines.
Property and business owners are also required to clear paths that are at least 42 inches wide along any adjacent sidewalk or handicap ramp within three hours after a snowstorm ends. If a storm ends overnight, paths must be cleared within three hours from sunrise.
Youre walking along great and all of a sudden you come to one building 50 feet or so and its not cleared and you have to try to get around it and go into the street, said Glascock.
The thing we all dread is if someone is forced to walk into the street and gets clipped by a car or a senior citizen slips and falls on the ice, he continued. Thats the stuff we really hate to hear about.
The citys Code Enforcement Police Chief Michael Mackan said that he and his staff of about 16 officers use discretion when writing citations and that they are not trying to hit any sort of fine quota.
Its about changing peoples habits, he said. You dont write as many tickets as you might think. A lot of times we catch people in the act and given them a chance to correct their actions. A little verbal warning from an officer in uniform goes a long way.
The department will continue to work on snow-related issues and issue fines as warranted until it addresses all of the 600-plus complaints received for uncleared sidewalks and for people putting snow onto streets and sidewalks, Mackan said. About 350 of the complaints about 300 of which were for inadequately cleared sidewalks had been resolved as of Tuesday morning.
People are not shy about calling in and thats a good thing because it helps us find out where to go, said Glascock.
But it takes time, he added. Were doing fairly well.
He expressed thanks to some residents and property owners who have resolved complaints by shoveling and snow blowing problems areas themselves.
In addition to asking Bostonians to follow city laws for safetys sake and to avoid fines, the department is also asking residents and property owners to clear nearby fire hydrants as well as catch basins and storm drains, which when clogged can cause large puddles to form.
Mackan said that, generally, the city is getting better and better with each storm at following snow removal-related rules. He said he is also seeing residents band together more and more to help shovel out other neighbors, particularly seniors and people with disabilities.
A storm this large and the timing of it really brings the neighborhood together, he said. Its a good community builder, a storm like this.
The storm's heavy snowfall has also created parking problems.
Boston Police issued 3,349 parking tickets and had 568 vehicles towed between Friday and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca said.
In addition, the Boston Transportation Department issued 3,543 parking tickets and had 95 vehicles towed between Friday and 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, spokeswoman Tracey Ganiatsos said.
For more information, visit http://www.cityofboston.gov/snow/removal/snowremoval.asp.
Below is a list, sorted by city ward, of fines issued for uncleared sidewalks and improper snow removal. Some wards include multiple neighborhoods and some neighborhoods split by multiple wards. To see a map of the citys wards, click here:
Ward 1 East Boston 22
Ward 2 Charlestown 17
Ward 3 North End, West End, Financial District, Chinatown 23
Ward 4 Fenway, South End, Back Bay 13
Ward 5 Back Bay, Beacon Hill 44
Ward 6 South Boston 20
Ward 7 South Boston, Dorchester 26
Ward 8 South End, Roxbury 36
Ward 9 South End, Roxbury 11
Ward 10 Mission Hill 36
Ward 11 Roxbury, Jamaica Plain 18
Ward 12 Roxbury 8
Ward 13 Dorchester (Savin Hill) 21
Ward 14 North Dorchester, Mattapan 10
Ward 15 Dorchester (Meeting House Hill) 23
Ward 16 Dorchester (Neponset, Cedar Grove) 15
Ward 17 Dorchester (Lower Mills) 20
Ward 18 Hyde Park, Mattapan 50
Ward 19 Jamaica Plain, Roslindale 10
Ward 20 West Roxbury, Roslindale 14
Ward 21 Allston-Brighton 29
Ward 22 Allston-Brighton 47
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The newly renamed Washington National Opera
returned to the recently renovated Kennedy Center Opera House with a new production of
Giacomo Puccinis Manon Lescaut, the opera
that launched Puccinis career. With prestigious starsVeronica Villarroel
(Manon), Franco Farina (Des Grieux) and Placido Domingo conductingand magnificent
sets and staging effects, Washington National Opera has come home in grand style.
Puccinis opera, based on Abbe Antoine-François Prevosts
novel LHistoire du
Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, is set in France a few years before the
French Revolution. It tells the story of a young girl diverted from a convent life by two
polar-opposite suitors. Assigned by their father to escort Manon to a convent, brother
Lescaut (Roberto Servile), known only by his last name, takes time out to indulge in women
and cards. Meanwhile, Manon meets the poet Renato de Grieux who instantly falls in love
and persuades her that a convent life would waste her beauty and her life. Simultaneously,
the kings tax collector Geronte de Revoir (William Parcher), a filthy rich dirty old
man, plots to kidnap Manon.
Although Manon runs away with the poet, her brother predicts to the
foiled Geronte that she will come back to the tax collector because she will tire of the
poets poverty. Act II sees that prophesy realized and, in this production, presents
Gerontes financial status beyond wildest imagination with gargantuan cabinets
displaying his wealth. During a costume party, Villarroel as the bored Material Girl Manon appears inside one of
Gerontes huge and mirrored cabinets trying on various pieces of jewelry. Bird in the
gilded cage, she is addicted to the jewelry, repulsed by Gerontes attention, and
sorely misses des Grieux. Ever the enabler, Lescaut produces des Grieux and shortly
thereafter, Geronte walks in on the lovers and calls the police. The poet tries in vain to
hurry the girl out of the tax collectors palatial Parisian home, but Manon dallies
over what jewelry to take. Manon is arrested for prostitution and theft.
The poet follows the girl, who is imprisoned near the port of Le Havre
pending deportation to America. Failing with Lescaut to spring Manon from prison, des
Grieux begs the captain of the ship headed to a penal colony in Louisiana to let him
accompany Manon to America. The lovers escape and
find themselves on an American desert without water or shelter. She dies in his arms.
Except for some initial problems with sound projection over the full
and robust orchestration, all of the singers delivered the music in accomplished
performances. This opera puts huge demands on
the lead male role, des Grieux, who must sing frequently and whose arias often play in the
upper range of the tenor voice. Technically Franco Farina sings this demanding part well.
Still, the overall cast performances come up short because chemistry between the
characters never ignites.
The spark is particularly missed in Villarroel, who must first convince
the audience how young and foolish she is. Although Villarroel credibly portrays her love
for des Grieux and her suffering as she unwillingly dies in the American dessert, she
never anchors her character as an innocent and unsophisticated girl. The resulting gap in
the characterization gives Farina little to respond to. Manon is pretty, but is that
enough to make the poet so crazy that he says on two occasions that he will kill himself
and that he actually boards the prison ship with Manon to an unknown fate in America? This
girls story was also the inspiration of operas by Massenet and Henze which suggests
that Manon is a more compelling character than the one Villarroel realizes here.
And the spark is missing in other characters too. Roberto Servile as Lescaut misses an opportunity to
deepen the relationship with his sister. Does he produce des Grieux because he loves his
sister or because he wants to get her in trouble with the old tax collector? After all, he
seems to be shadowing her not just as her protector but also as a source of personal gain.
His body language and voice inflection didnt offer any nuance to suggest his
thoughts and motivations. The libretto doesnt reveal why Geronte is chasing after
this particular young woman, but Parcher's performance shows neither his yearning for the
girl nor his suffering as a result of falling for her.
The value in experiencing Manon
Lescaut, an opera that is not often produced, is that the audience gets an opportunity
to understand where Puccini started his hugely successful opera career. Stylistic
features, harmonies, phrasing and melodic lines in this opera reappear in La Boheme, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly. What is different about Washington National
Operas production of Manon Lescaut is that
stage director John Pascoe and Maestro Placido Domingo have moved the orchestral
intermezzo from its usual place between Acts II and III. In this production, the
intermezzo introduces Act IV. While the orchestra plays the intermezzo, a film of ocean
waves is projected on the stage set and just before the music finishes, an image of des
Grieux holding Manon in her tattered dress is superimposed on the roiling waves.
Psychologically, the relocated intermezzo coupled with the projected imagery successfully
gives the audience time to absorb the relationship between the lovers. Now if only the
lovers themselves would set the Opera House on fire!
Washington, DC, April 1, 2004 - Karren L. Alenier


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Gaucho Piccadilly 25 Swallow Street
- Venue phone:
020 7734 4040
- Venue website:
- Opening hours:
Meals served noon-10.30pm Mon, Sun; noon-11pm Tue-Sat
- Transport:
Tube: Piccadilly Circus tube
- Price:
Main courses £12.25-£37
Gaucho Piccadilly
- 25 Swallow Street
- www.gauchorestaurants.co.uk
- 51.509657,-0.138018
- 25 Swallow Street
Gaucho Piccadilly
Reviews & ratings
My family was in town yesterday and at midday I was asked to reserve a table for 7 on a Tuesday evening. My Dad was keen on a steakhouse, so I first checked the Guinea Grill, then Hawksmore then Goodmans, venues which I have greatly enjoyed in the past for both quality and atmosphere. Unfortunately, all three were full (and we checked various locations for both) so we settled for Gaucho on Swallow Street which was able to accomodate our group. On arrival we were taken to the top floor. On being seated about a round table, the first thing we noticed was that the lights were so dim that it was difficult to see each other, let alone read the menu. We asked to be moved to another table which, at 8pm, had a little more light coming through some slits in one of the windows whilst the sun was still up, but not enough for the older generation amongst our group to read to menu. Too add to our disappointment, the music was playing at a ridiculous volume; so loud in fact that most of us were unable to hear the waiter running us through the different kind of steaks. I asked for the music to be turned down a little, which, initially was done, but within 5 minutes it was turned up again. I asked again and again and again. One of the waiters claimed that "If we turn it down, you can hear people speak louder, so we turn it up". What????? At this stage I gave up. It was very upsetting to have to sit together at a family reunion and be unable to speak to anybody who was not immediately to your right or to your left; that is of course if you could recognise them in the dark. This was so very upsetting to us all. We should have been warned that this was going to be a nightclub. Believe me, I like nightclubs with dim lighting playing chillout beats 'Copacabana Deep' style mixed by DJs with names like Paulo Arruda whilst I line up the shots up on the bar and 'Hi-5' my pals, but this event was supposed to be a rare family get-together.
My fiancée asked for a lemonade and it never arrived. My Dad had to wait for 10 minutes for mustard whilst his steak went cold. One would normally assume that a steakhouse, however posh, would offer to serve mustard with a steak. We ordered a second bottle of wine and had to wait for over 20 minutes; it only arrived when we asked the head waiter where it was. It was actually sitting on the bar. Pity we had finished our steaks when it arrived having had to drink water to wash down our steaks. On paying the bill, my sister told our waiter that we were dissatisfied with the service and would be reducing the (included) service charge from 10% to 5%. The waiter was apologetic, but it was JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
NEVER EVER book this venue if you want to enjoy somebody's company. DO bring your loud and rude broker pals here after 12 pints of Aspalls on a Thursday evening before hitting China White or Nam Long or a similar club you would only go to when drunk. The steaks are actually very good and the 'Copacabana Deep' beats will get your blood flowing as you prepare to misbehave later. As it is so dark nobody will be able to tell you have knocked back 12 pints of cider. And no one will know you are drunk as they will not be able to hear you.
DJ1 Thu Aug 15Rated as: 1/5 -
I cannot praise this restaurant enough, Brilliant food, Knowledgeable staff an excellent choice if anybody is celebrating a special occasion
Well Done Gaucho Piccadillyjean Johnson Sun Jul 28Rated as: 5/5 -
Gaucho is a name from South Argentina ..Patagonia in Paraguat there are not Gauchos.
Empandas are from Bolivia above not really Paraguayan ..
Paragauy has extrordinary meat ...However I think these restaurant concept is La pampa meat and guacho land , you may get into a good information since these is a mix concept of all .These will confuse readersjustina Thu Jun 27 -
Table for two at 7 pm
Moravansky Fri May 17 -
Gorgeous argentinian steak and staff can actually explain the menu and types of meat - impressive! Just a bit too dark, we couldn't see our food properly. Highly recommended.
Gabi Tue Oct 16 2012Rated as: 4/5 -
Shocking experience. Food was below average, main consisted of nothing but a steak with some salty chips, service was incredibly slow (we were waiting nearly an hour between courses), waiters were rude, they messed up our booking so we had to squeeze two extra people on the table, and to top it off we were then charged £90 each for food and service worth less than half of that. Will never eat there again.
Colin Mon Jul 9 2012 -
The service was very poor. I ordered medium rare, meat was overdone. very disappointed . would not recommend this branch.
Mitra Sat May 5 2012 -
Exquisite tasting food! Warm and inviting, friendly staff and brilliant service. Highly recommended 5/5
Zeph Mendoza Wed Oct 19 2011Rated as: 5/5 -
I live in Islington, and Bombay Lounge is my favourite Indian in the area. The food is very good, with a nice variety of specials as well as the classic curries. I particularly likenthe aubergine veggie special, and the duck curry adds a bit of variety to the usual lamb or chicken options. The service is always friendly and you always feel welcome, and price wise it is good value for money too.
Anastasia Sun Jul 3 2011Rated as: 4/5 -
Of all the Indian resturaunts I have had the pleasure of eating in, this is now my firm favourite. A warm welcome is gauranteed by the owner. Traditional home cooked Indian cuisine is on offer with spices blended to perfection to suit all tastes. Free from excessive oil and cooked as healthy as possible. 10 out of 10!
Mr Sibly Wed Jun 22 2011
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The hackers who sparked outages at Bank of America's website may have ties to Islamic terror group.
That's what -- com source close to the matter is confirming to the Fox Business Network.
Bank of America's website was ultimately down for several hours.
The source fox -- source suggests the attack could be related to the recent threats posted on the hacking web -- -- bin.
Bank of America hasn't commented on the possible leak but a spokesman did say and I quote.
I can tell you that we continuously take corrective measures to secure systems.
That's company.
Meantime the most -- West Virginia democratic senator Jay Rockefeller chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Reveal that he's written letters to every fortune 500 company asking each to describe.
How it handles security on line.
-- -- cyber -- -- technology analyst Morgan right hello Morgan.
I should good to see again so they I guess what they did was a denial of service attack on on on Bank of America which means you just keep.
Throw in stuff that it at the website so people just can't get in and out but nothing compromise in the way of money -- people's accounts are.
-- pretty close what they did is they attack the domain name the Bank of America so if you tried to log in using Bank of America you would you wouldn't get a response that.
You could actually type in -- IP address there there was a couple of other ways to get to it but they they elected to go after the most popular way to get to him which was through their domain name and that.
Prevented people from doing some other online banking.
Right Bank of America dot com but if you are going through an app on your iPad or your Droid or some run you can get it what what what is this connection and why is there -- thought that.
A terrorist organization would block one domain name.
Well you know you're talking about paste into that group was called is -- -- Alka -- I mean they're an offshoot Hamas there an armed group.
I think they lack the organic capability to what to do what they did was they took they they won the first -- marketing which is to generate awareness so you know.
Whether it's related to that are potentially Iran flexing a little bit of their cyber muscles.
We don't know but we do know even from the -- from 9/11 up until now financial institutions have been a key target.
For espionage for counterterrorism in four acts of terrorism.
So it's logical to assume that banks now are still remain targeted and it's ramping up and there was a threat against the New York Stock Exchange as well but apparently no problems there.
Now and actually some of these attacks are a little bit pedestrian I mean -- -- not -- I mean they were able to do.
That you deploy some candor majors shapes and traffic can get them back on line it's more of an annoyance right now.
But it does create a huge issue with trusted that system can't make it to my personal information is my banking.
Information been exposed -- so it does create a huge risk and a trust issue between bank.
In the consumers but -- -- because -- part of our job abusive things like this straight people should know and you tell me if I'm -- That there was a denial of service attack on Bank of America does not -- any way suggest that he -- -- was ever in any trouble.
Now and that's and that's that's the fact it it didn't get into the banking information but the problem is we start dealing in perception of somebody says hey we did this -- they put out a press release or they.
Post on -- spent people start reacting to perception not the actual facts and that's what the banks are trying to stop this.
Nothing really happened here it's just some intermittent outages and and -- back on -- now have some happens in a lot of parts of life Morgan right with a -- sir thank you.
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She´s dead, Jim.
I don´t care that he has two swearing ins but why the secrecy unless he´s got something to hide.
Doesn´t matter how many times he takes the Oath...
I suspect Obama won´t even bother about an oath in 2016. He will just declare himself dictator for life. Those black people who vote for democrats had better figure out that they are kept in poverty by democrats for the riches and power said dems gain by using them. It includes race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton and their ilk.
Let´s see, one on a Koran, one on "Rules for Radicals", one on the Manifesto...
Small, petty little man with a single talent ...... reading convincingly.His manipulators allow him this simple reward.Means nothing ...... to anyone else but him.I loathe this man more with every passing day.A disgrace in our face.
Why not 5? Then he can hod the record!
We may not know what crimes the Obama regime has committed in secret, but the truth will win out. And furthermore, his intentions and actions are plain to see. He may think in his demented way that his worship is genuine, and he is worthy of praise, but his legacy is already formed. He became Judas for all Americans, and sold us out to the global syndicate that wants to control the world for their own megalomaniac purposes. It probably won´t last any longer than Hitler´s , Stalin´s, Alexander´s, or Nepoleon´s. In the end they all used people, destroyed lives, and are all rotting in hell for eternity. Sorry about your luck, Barry Ohole.
Believe me, he´s long beaten the record for swearing-ats.
With his fingers crossed behind his back all four times.
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Thursday, July 02 2009, 12:26 PM
It's ok, you're still the cat's meow in my book...
Thursday, July 02 2009, 12:05 PM
Thanks for the reply dude.
I lust for the Dakine Nomad (in Black ChopShop). What are the chances I can see one of those babies up here?
Is stuff on hucknroll and realcyclist too hot to hit the odat sites?
We would be good buddies for a long time....
Thursday, July 02 2009, 10:54 AM
Are you out there anywhere friendo?
Friday, December 12 2008, 05:34 PM
sexcellent....I can dig that.
Friday, December 12 2008, 02:06 PM
Thanks. btw are there any BC.com coupon codes right now? I thought there was a 20% off somewhere but I cant seem to find it....
Friday, December 12 2008, 11:26 AM
Any idea what the split will take place?
Tuesday, December 09 2008, 10:52 PM
I commend you, Baron, for being honest.
Tuesday, December 09 2008, 01:35 PM
man i've wanted some carbon cages for weeks....
the zipp cages are s e x
Tuesday, December 09 2008, 01:26 PM
Yeah I've got it in maroon....not a wise choice for night riding....
Tuesday, November 25 2008, 12:30 PM
Thanks for the update...I gotta get my jabs in about the workstand from time to time though.....
Tuesday, November 25 2008, 11:50 AM
Ha! Yes! Finally someone understand me!
I (among others) still need a workstand btw...
Monday, November 24 2008, 07:47 PM
someone please buy all of these so we dont have to suffer through them anymore.....
Monday, November 24 2008, 02:23 PM
have any one of your wishes been granted today?
it seems like this ugly ass fox racing jersey has been up for half a day....yuck.
Friday, November 14 2008, 07:01 AM
not as elusive as bib tights...maybe as elusive as a workstand though...
Thursday, November 13 2008, 08:57 AM
if they had 'em in campy i would have made moves on these sexy pieces of aluminum....
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