The Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series will feature violinist Madalyn Parnas and cellist Cicely Parnas in a 7:30 p.m. concert April 6 in Sheldon Hall ballroom, with a preconcert talk scheduled for 7. The sisters then will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 7 in the LaVeck Concert Series in Pulaski.
There are many interesting places to visit in Vietnam and one of the most colorful places is the Cao Dai temple not far from Saigon. Cao Dai is a religion that was founded in southern Vietnam in 1926 mixing ideas from many other religions. Cao Dai draws upon ideas from Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity. Its saints includes such diverse figures as the Buddha, Confucius, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo and Sun Yat-sen.
Cookbooks are one of the most popular selling genres and now people can turn to the internet for recipes plus we all have family recipes. But, the best way to learn a new recipe is to take a cooking class. John and I have enjoyed cooking classes in several countries and we always learn more than something new to cook. When John and I were in Seoul, Korea, we took a cooking class at O’ngo Food Communications.
Nicaragua is the new Central American hot spot. Costa Rica has been done, so now people are looking for a new tropical adventure that is unspoiled. Nicaragua has a coast on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans offering visitors beaches, rainforest, history, colorful culture and adventure.
When Mitch Albom returns to visit with his former professor, Murray Schwartz, he has no idea that one conversation on a Tuesday afternoon will lead to a long series of life lessons at the hand of his old, now dying professor.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performances March 4, 5, 11 and 12 and 2 p.m. March 13 in the college’s Hewitt ballroom are available at all SUNY Oswego box offices, online at tickets.oswego.edu or by calling 315-312-2141.
John and I arrived in Nicaragua late in the afternoon and so we stayed at the Las Mercedes Best Western Hotel which is across from the airport. The hotel provides free transportation but it is walkable from the airport. Ometepe Island, located in Lake Nicaragua, is one of the world’s largest freshwater islands. The island was formed thousands of years ago when sand accumulated creating an isthmus between the two volcanoes. Only the Conception Volcano is active.
“The Mousetrap,” SUNY Oswego’s student honors production opening March 4, offers a character-driven play populated with legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie’s delicious inn full of quirky characters, and the driven actors portraying them. The players take the stage for a preview at 7:30 p.m. March 3, and then for the run of the play at 7:30 p.m. March 4, 5, 11 and 12, with a finale at 2 p.m. March 13 in Hewitt ballroom.
Larry Grenadier, one of contemporary jazz’s most accomplished and in-demand bassists, will play with the Oswego Jazz Project – and in three duets with SUNY Oswego’s own award-winning upright bassist Danny Ziemann — at 7:30 p.m. March 9, in Sheldon Hall ballroom. A pre-concert talk for the Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series performance is scheduled for 7 p.m.
If the global warming progresses as some predict the oceans will rise significantly and possibly 1,500 years from now the cities and localities we know today may be under water. Seems impossible but I imagine the Mayans never thought their flourishing world would one day be overtaken by the jungle. Copan is just one of the great Mayan cities with pyramids, temples, and where art flourished.
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