There are many advantages to having locally-owned businesses in the neighborhood, but one advantage that perhaps I don't mention often enough is how delightful it is to strike up a conversation with the shopkeeper. Last fall (this post has been a long time coming) I stopped in to Big Sleep Books with my visiting sisters-in-law….
Category: Books, Dance, Music, Theater
“Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker” draws a huge crowd
This isn't the first time I've started a post with the words: "It was standing-room only at Left Bank Books…" Last evening's reading by best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini (in red above) warrants the same opening lines. The crowd of over 100 people bought all 50 copies of her book, Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker (more will be…
Second Presbyterian refits its pipes
Last May I posted a story about the food pantry at Second Presbyterian Church in which I mentioned the start of an interior renovation of the Romanesque Revival structure on Westminster at Taylor. The first phase of the project has now been completed on the sanctuary. The restoration involved extensive plastering, painting, and renovation of…