Origin Patricia

Alleged admission, no arrest in ‘78 fire
Several days after one of the most tragic fires in the history of this blue-collar river city, the suspect behind the arson strolled into an annual clambake run by the very cops who wanted to see her in handcuffs. Virginia Gratto, then 29, had recently watched as her entire family — a husband and seven young children — were wiped out in a fast-moving fire that engulfed their Ontario Street …
Why Darwin Still Matters – Patricia Gowaty

American Complex $11.65 Jim Gailloreto’s Jazz String Quintet offers a perfect blend of classical music and jazz: structure and spontaneity. Inspired by sources as diverse as the horn quintets of Mozart and Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues, Gailloreto interweaves his own soprano saxophone with skilled modernist writing for string quartet. Through a grant from Chamber Music America’s New Works Program, Gailloreto presents here…

February 10, 1971 Patti Smith performs with guitarist Lenny Kaye for the first time at a poetry reading with musical accompaniment at St. Marks Church on New York’s Lower East Side. The concert is a true historical document and one of the most important events in the birth of punk rock! Track listing: 1. Intro (Anne Waldman) 2. Mack The Knife 3. Dedication 4. The Devil Has A Hangnail 5. The Wait For You 6. Oath 7. …

Secret Life of Ian Fleming Plot Synopsis: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies. As a womanizer and a hopeless romantic Fleming got himself expelled from Eton and other prestigious public schools before his mother, fed up, sent to work for Reuters,the news bureau. Whilst covering a show-trial of British…

In Country $3.55 Directors Sidney Lumet, Alan J. Pakula, Sydney Pollack, and Norman Jewison astutely documented the political pulse of the ’60s and ’70s with such films as Prince of the City, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, and In the Heat of the Night. Lumet and Jewison have carried their cinematic social consciousness into their past two decades of filmmaking as well. In Country (1989) is Jewiso…

Charlie Rose with Daniel Boulud; Gene Jankowski; Elaine Pagels; Patricia Harrison (July 4, 1995) $24.95 Renowned chef Daniel Boulud talks about his highly regarded restaurant Daniel and his thoughts on the art of cooking. Then, Gene Jankowski discusses his new book Television Today & Tomorrow: It Won’t Be What You Think, and offers his prognosis for the future of television. Next, religion scholar Elaine Pagels talks about her book The Origin of Satan. This is a follow up to Pagel’s 1979 book, The G…

Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language $9.54 Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces “niche” as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with “and”? Do you think British spellings are more “civilised” than the American versions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re myth-informed.     In Origins of the Specious, word mavens Patricia T. …

Point of Origin $9.99 When your everyday life is filled with death it’s easy to find yourself a little edgy. The audio version of Patricia Cornwell’s Point of Origin gives fans of her familiar heroine, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a little something extra, a chance to hear the deep hurt and burning cynicism of the chief medical examiner’s biting words. “You don’t put your hands inside their ruined bodies and touch and meas…

Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America’s House Museums $19.03 Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants’ daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Or…