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Gantt Center To Honor Jeanne M. Brayboy At 32nd Jazzy Holiday Luncheon

By Laura Camilo / Qcitymetro

There are achievements born of calculated conceptions, rewards we reap that come to fruition through our deliberate plotting and planting of seeds. Then there are those fruits of our labors that blossom on vines whose growth we hadn’t foreseen. The most gratifying moments in life, it seems, are those which smack of that divine synthesis, when the strategic meets the synchronistic.

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Fri November 30, 2012

Guitarist Mickey Baker Dies; Had Hits In The '50s, Played On Hundreds Of Records

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Mickey Baker in Copenhagen in 1975.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Fri November 30, 2012 12:48 pm

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Mickey Baker, one half of the hit-making duo Mickey and Sylvia in the late '50s and an influential guitarist whose work can be heard on hundreds of records, has died at his home near Toulouse, France.

He was 87.

11:23 am

Fri November 30, 2012

Pop Culture Happy Hour: This Is Your Life, And TV Pool Knockouts

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Fortunately, Glen is back this week after two weeks away, and if you don't check out his mother's ceramic goose dressed up for Thanksgiving, you're just not living right.

11:13 am

Fri November 30, 2012

Dilworth Unveils Public Sculpture

By Briana Duggan

A new public art sculpture will be unveiled this weekend.

10:31 am

Fri November 30, 2012

Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week

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The New York Philharmonic performing at the current incarnation of Avery Fisher Hall in January 2011.

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Originally published on Mon December 3, 2012 12:08 pm

Lincoln Center and the New York Phil have confirmed plans for a (long, long overdue) major overhaul of 50-year-old Avery Fisher Hall that "aims to redefine what it means to be a concert hall at a time of challenging orchestra economics and changing audience habits." This will be the third attempt at addressing the venue's acoustical challenges.

9:56 am

Fri November 30, 2012

Mark Rice-Ko: Where Food and Rothko Meet In Delicious Harmony

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Chef/Stylist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves create an interpretation of Mark Rothko's paintings using colored rice.

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One of Levin's greatest challenge is mixing food colors to match Rothko's original work. This image displays the food color palette used to dye the rice.

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Getting the edges to feather as seen in Rothko's original work was a challenge for Levin.

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It took Levin and Hargreaves anywhere between 2 to 3 hours to complete each piece of rice art.

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Levin worked on a project about gradient food dye using several kinds of foods like bananas and rice. It is during this time where she and photographer Henry Hargreaves came up with the idea of doing an interpretation of some of Mark Rothko's paintings using rice.

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The outcome of her work: Levin now owns many Ziploc bags filled with colored rice, about two 25 pound bags, which she plans to use for cooking meals with friends.

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Molds were used to shape the different sized rectangles and to keep separate the colored rice.

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After coloring, styling and photographing the rice, chef and food stylist Caitlin Levin made coconut rice. "It taste the same," she says.

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Chef/stylist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves do an interpretation of Mark Rothko's paintings using colored rice. Left, Levin's design, right, the original painting titled White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) by Mark Rothko as seen at Sotheby's auction house in New York.

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"We do these projects out of love for creating beautiful or interesting work out of a medium that is unexpected," Levin says.

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Originally published on Tue December 4, 2012 8:36 am

Back in 1958, when Mark Rothko was commissioned to do a series of murals for The Four Seasons restaurant in New York — a place he believed was "where the richest bastards in New York will come to feed and show off" — his acceptance of the assignment was subversive at best. He hoped his art would "ruin the appetite of every son of a [beep] who ever eats in that room," according to a Harper's magazine article, "Mark Rothko: Portrait Of The Artist As An Angry Man."

9:03 am

Fri November 30, 2012

NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of November 29, 2012

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David Nasaw's The Patriarch offers insight into the life of Joseph P. Kennedy. It debuts at No. 12.

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