EDITOR’S NOTE: The author just started a two year hitch in rural Paraguay. BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH Tesho* and I were sharing maté**, passing the guampa** back and forth in the shadows of the kitchen, an attached hut with a smoke-blackened thatch ceiling, an open fireplace and its ash-encrusted pots, and a wooden table that held a motley array of bowls, pans and enamel cups. “Santo***, you should make some mandio chiryry****,” he said. “Ok,” I said. “Are you going to eat it if I make it?” “Yea, I’m hungry,” he said. Mildly perplexed, I skipped out of the kitchen […]
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WORTH REPEATING: Being Tony Danza
[Illustration by OUTLINES INC] SALON: At a time when public schools are on the ropes, teachers unions are less popular than LeBron James, and everyone is waiting for a Superman to save our floundering education system, one man has accepted the challenge. Unfortunately, that man is Tony Danza. The 59-year-old actor brought his trademark mug — and a few TV cameras — to a year-long job teaching 10th-grade English at Northeast High School for an A&E reality show called “Teach” (Oct. 1, 10 p.m. EDT). The school is situated in a sprawling section of Philadelphia known locally as the Great […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Margot & The Nuclear So And Sos
BY PELLE GUNTHER After about an hour of driving around a rainy Philadelphia in a desperate effort to find affordable parking, I finally found a spot and ran several blocks through the pouring rain to the First Unitarian Church. Walking into the basement of the chapel I fully expected to be greeted by Margot’s traditional chamber pop line-up. Instead, a whole new Margot awaited inside. After starting their career as an orchestral chamber pop group with The Dust of Retreat, then wandering through some folksy melodies on Animal and Not Animal, the band who showed up last night were completely […]