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Christine Palamidessi

I make art, teach yoga, and write; I'm very happy to connect with spiritual healers who create beauty, art and write.

IN THE GARDEN OF PAPA SANTUZZU

Sicilian American literature. Review of Tony Ardizzone's novel, In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu.

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My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community

Italian Americans and Yesterday’s Greenwich Village Memoir reveals gone but not forgotten era

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Interviewing Dario Fo: 1997 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

Christine Palamidessi Moore posts blog about interviewing with Dario Fo in the 80s...before he decided to run for mayor of Milan.

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Cobra in the Bathroom: Scariest thing that could happen to you

Tonight and every night check around the bathtub for cobras before taking a bath: Jim Corbett's life-and-death struggle with a big snake in a locked room.

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New York City: March 2009

Writer Christine Palamidessi Moore experienced NYC as a dragon--belly Times Square, head bombed and blinded. Lunch at B. Smith's with her 90-year old mother-in-law.

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IYENGAR YOGA AND THE SACRUM: a mind-blowing epiphany

An epiphany: Getting down in forward bend without rounding the shoulder has a lot to do with fifth sacral vertebrae.

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THE VIRGIN KNOWS reviewed

Library Thing review of art theft, transatlantic, sibling rivalry thriller The Virgin KNows

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Michael Powell Film Festival: Falling into the Widening Gyre

Michael Powell film's reviewed within the visual and psychological phenomena of a vortex.

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My Brother is an Only Child:AMERICANS DON’T MAKE FILMS LIKE THIS

Unlike American films that uphold privilege, MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD explores politics, conflicts and terrorism within a Italian family and within the country itself.

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Buddhist Self-Help: Going to Pieces without Falling Apart

Self-help genre: books now cite Buddhist beliefs.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH EMILE DE ANTONIO

Christine Palamidessi Moore's interviews with leftist filmmaker Emile De Antonio.

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Ugetsu: a Yin Yang Film

Review of celebrated Japanese film Ugetsu from yin /yang point of view.

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Would You Recognize the Violinist in Your Metro??

what happened when acclaimed classical violinist Joshua Bell went incognito one cold winter morning to play for tips on a subway platform in Washington, D.C.

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The Fiddle Case by Christine Palamidessi Moore

Preview review by MARIE SACCOMANDO COPPOLA, for Christine Palamidessi Moore's new book The Fiddle Case.

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Love Story Jeans? How About Snow on the Love Story House

Love Story jeans named after a 70's movie; picture of the Love Story house.

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Love Story Jeans? Here’s the Love Story House

2009 snow scene of the 1970 hit movie Love Story film location which starred Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neill.

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René Groebli at Howard Greenberg Gallery

René Groebli published the landmark and influential photo-essay « Rail Magic » which critics today consider to be a unique and brilliant innovation of style and form. Susan May Tell and Christine Palamidessi visit his "Eye of Love" photo show at Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC.

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New York’s West Village

What's changed, what's stayed the same in a corner of the West Village.

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Yoga Teachers Can Change Your Life

Tons of people can say yoga changed their lives; half as many can credit their yoga teacher. Some are good, some great, others extraordinary and gifted. Karin Stephan was the jewel of a teacher strewn in my path. A sapphire? ... Continue Reading →

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Ad Reinhardt at Pace Wildenstein Gallery

Reinhardt was an abstract painter, active in New York between the 30s and 60s, during the abstract expressionist movement. He is best known for his “black paintings,”which are not black when you stand upclose and look at the brush strokes.

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The Czech Republic Is the Star of this Film

Review of epic Czech film: female represents the state.

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Woodstock Update: Tinkering on Tinker

Palamidessi Moore writes about how things are the same and different in Woodstock.

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Levon Helm: Bending Time on the Road to Woodstock

Watching Levon Helm's--and our own--aging, appreciating music, loving husband, friends & music.

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Amelia Earhart, Hillary Swank & Wild Dreams (10/23/08)

Little known facts about Amelia Earhart in Medford Massachusetts.

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Peter Simon’s I and Eye & Squirrel Hill (from 10/15/08)

Photographer Peter Simon’s I and Eye is a terrific memoir of hippie time and ideals as they intersect with power, money, marketing and the infrastructure of capitalist gain. In particular, the last chapter calls it home: he compares freewheeling picture... Continue Reading →

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MODIGLIANI SAID SAVE YOUR MONEY (from 10/8/08)

Nobel prize winner gave sensible advice about money.

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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI FILM: Teorema (from 10/7/08)

Teorema, the only commercial film Pasolini made, exhibits "British-ness" in its style and stars and Italian sexuality.

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Badal Roy Was in Cambridge ( from 9/29/08)

WE SAW HIM ON SATURDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27 Badal Roy & Tablas HE PLAYED SEVENTEEN ON THE TABLAS 1-2-3-4   / 1-2-3-4   / 1-2   /1-2-3-4   /1-2-3 THE MUSIC WAS WAS AMAZING!!!!! Roy performed with Keyboard player Dave Bryant and Bassist Mike... Continue Reading →

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A New Brand of Sassoon (from 9/26/08)

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”--Gore Vidal A while back, Gore Vidal appeared on the Ali G show. Topics moved from Moses to U.S. Constitution, and then to hair products. “You are the Vidal, aren’t you?” It... Continue Reading →

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