Parlor Jazz at Marjorie Eliot's, Harlem, New York

Every Sunday  3:00pm - 5:30 pm for more than a decade, rain or shine, with no vacations, a jazz concert has taken place in the parlor of Marjorie Eliot's home on what she calls the northern tip of Harlem. Her weekly free concerts in the living room of her apartment are legendary in Harlem and an institution for jazz lovers citywide.

The concert is FREE, though donations are appreciated. Don't miss it!  NYC Full of surprises!

555 Edgecombe Ave, Apt. 3F, New York, NY 10032.

Easter Island Heads....Have Bodies!

The Easter Island heads have bodies! It's not known exactly why the bodies were buried or if they are buried on purpose. The figures were carved between years 1250 and 1500 by the Rapa Nui people. Archaeologists have documented 887 of the massive sculptures, known as moai, carved on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island. The Easter Island bodies were news to us, but apparently archaeological research on the island located 2,000 miles west of Chile began over century ago, in 1914.

Photo: courtesy the Easter Island Statue Project.

Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980

Don't miss this great exhibition at MoMA, New York. Only two weeks left - on view until July 19, 2015. 

“Latin America in Construction” recalls a not-so-distant time when architects and governments together dreamed big about changing the world for the better. From Cuba to Chile, Mexico to Argentina, cities in the region boomed. The task of providing everybody with homes ultimately proved unmanageable: proliferating slums outpaced new construction; poverty rose. By the 1980s, a pitiless neoliberalism swept aside much of the abiding faith in public largess and its social agenda. 

Even so, what got built through the 1970s in places like Havana and Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Lima included some of the most inspired architecture of the modern age. The show is an eye-opener, rectifying a long-skewed, Eurocentric worldview, shedding light on a period neglected for generations outside the region. It’s the sort of exhibition MoMA still does best." NYTimes Review