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September 26, 2012
Writing Wednesday: Why I’m Tweeting and Posting on Facebook
I have a nifty little free newsletter that you can sign up for over there on the right-hand column of this blog à. All you have to do is type in your email address, and you’ll automatically receive notification whenever I post a new blog entry. Those who are signed up for my free newsletter [...]

Published on September 26, 2012 03:00
September 24, 2012
Foreign Film Titles of On the Road
The other day I was editing a book that mentioned an 80s movie. This particular book happened to have been translated into English, though, and the title of the movie was botched! The tricky thing with translation work is that there are multiple words that mean similar things and sometimes the literal translation isn’t correct. [...]

Published on September 24, 2012 03:00
September 21, 2012
Greek American Fashion Week: Timothy George
The Greek American Fashion Week Show concluded with the Spring/Summer 2013 collection by Timothy George. Learning through apprenticeships at highly respected garment factories, George debuted work that was pure luxury. His designs looked expensive both in materials used and cuts. George used beautiful French and Italian fabric. The most stunning fabric was [...]

Published on September 21, 2012 03:00
September 20, 2012
Greek American Fashion Week: Angelo Lambrou
Of the four designers showing their Spring/Summer 2013 collections at the Greek American Fashion Week Show, only Angelo Lambrou debuted a wedding gown. The fashion show’s founder and emcee Maria Pardalis, who looked gorgeous in one of Lambrou’s dresses (see pic here), described Lambrou’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection as “African tribal bridal.” The all-white wedding gown [...]

Published on September 20, 2012 03:00
September 19, 2012
Video from Collaboration with Jazz Musician David Amram
This is the video from my collaborative reading with David Amram at Cornelia Street Cafe on Labor Day. If you missed my full recap, you can read it here. In the video you’ll hear me reading a section on Jack Kerouac’s time in Mexico, which gives some perspective on Kerouac’s faith, his sensitivity toward [...]

Published on September 19, 2012 03:00
September 18, 2012
Greek American Fashion Week: ENOE ME by Lia Kastanidi
I’m one of those people who obsesses over fashion magazines from abroad, always requesting that anyone returning from Greece brings me the latest hot issue from the newsstand. If you happened to catch the May 2012 issue of Greek Vogue you would’ve seen the feature on ENOE ME‘s Lia Kastanidi in it. From the [...]

Published on September 18, 2012 03:00
September 17, 2012
Greek American Fashion Week: Tatiana Raftis Spring/Summer 2013
The first collection to hit the runway at the Greek American Fashion Week Show was one of New York’s own — the Astoria, Queens, born Tatiana Raftis, whose parents hail from Greece and Cyprus. Raftis studied evening-wear design at FIT, The Fashion Institute of Technology, here in New York, and her Spring/Summer 2013 collection boasted [...]

Published on September 17, 2012 03:00
September 14, 2012
Greek American Fashion Week Show Recap
Gate-crashing fashionistas had no luck sneaking into the first Greek American Fashion Week Show, which kicked off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. The hot-ticket event was completely sold out well in advance of its September 7, 2012, date, and the security at the Midtown Loft & Terrace was tight. After all, some of [...]

Published on September 14, 2012 03:00
September 13, 2012
Clip: Letter to the Editor Published in Orion
I left a comment on an article on Orion‘s website a while back and one of the editors contacted me to see if they could reprint it in the print edition of their magazine. Of course I said yes! I love the articles in Orion. My comment is now in the letters to the editor [...]

Published on September 13, 2012 03:00
September 12, 2012
Clip: Fall for Art This Autumn
[image: Yayoi Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.] My round up of great art to see this autumn is up on Burnside! What did I miss?? Filed under: Clips Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, museum, visual art

Published on September 12, 2012 03:00