Art to the Avenue

Written by Victoria Baker
Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:53

This year’s Art to the Avenue Festival, hosted by the Greenwich Arts Council, will take place from May 5-30. Participants will observe as Greenwich Avenue transforms itself into a strolling art gallery by placing art in shop windows throughout the month of May. The opening night festivities, hosted by the Greenwich Arts Council and replete with parties, food and entertainment, will take place on May 5 from 5:30-8 p.m. This year’s Art to the Avenue will be the biggest one ever with 135 artists exhibiting at 130 different locations. To purchase art call the Greenwich arts council at 203-862-6750.

Missing a beat

Written by Nicole Narea
Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:00

Biking my way through the network of highways that embroider the Mexico City landscape, I could feel my own insignificance amidst a population of 20 million. I found myself, like any other tourist, absorbed in the frenzy of one of the world’s largest metropolises. I was on spring break with my family and, predictably, we were lost.

We stopped to ask for directions at the gates of the Museum of Ecology where a policeman was stationed. He detected my mother’s Spanglish immediately and asked us where we were from — Los Estados Unidos. His face twisted into a grimace. He proceeded to grumble about news of corrupt U.S. immigration officials who were supplying Mexican drug cartels with weapons at the border and facilitating the illegal drug trade by accepting bribes, so he said. He glared at us as if we were to blame, as if our Americanism instantly destroyed all credibility. He raised his voice at my father, seemingly itching to initiate a fistfight. Unlike the concierge at our hotel, he was not obligated to engage in niceties, I realized.

Morphing into our mothers

Written by Joe Pisani
Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:00

Sometime around my 10th birthday, or maybe it was my second, my mother uttered a curse — it certainly wasn’t a compliment — that went something like this: “You’re just like your father!” I heard those words approximately 8,691 times until the day she died, and sometimes I still hear her saying them from the Great Beyond.

She sneered when she said them, often commenting on my behavior.

Maybe my dirty socks were under the bed: “You’re a slob just like your father.”

Or maybe I frittered away the money I made cutting lawns: “You’re a spendthrift just like your father.”

Or maybe I answered her back: “You’re nasty just like your father.”

All of which means to say I turned into my father even before I knew who my father was. I was guilty until proven innocent.

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Sneaker recycling celebrates sixth year

Written by Greenwich Post Staff
Thursday, 07 April 2011 14:30

The Greenwich Recycling Advisory Board has announced its fifth annual used sneaker collection, which is running through April 30.