Mid-Week Libation: This Night Could Last Forever

Sonia Manzano reading Nuyorican poetry! Wisdom from Jan Morris! Judy-Lynn del Rey: The Galaxy Gal! R&R's Late-Night Playlist! A dynamic natural wine from Beaujolais! Paintings from ancient Peru!

Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!

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Beloved Actor, Screenwriter & Author Sonia Manzano—perhaps best known as Sesame Street’s Maria—Reads 2 Nuyorican Poems in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month!

What better way to celebrate Hispanic & Latino/Latinx/Latine Heritage Month than with a gorgeous pair of poetry readings from Sonia Manzano? These wonderful videos, featuring poems by Victor Hernández Cruz and Pedro Pietri, were released by Library of America to herald the publication of a new book, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González.

• For more great videos and poems, check out: A Tremendous Continental Mixturao: Celebrating Latino Poetry (via Library of America)

• Purchase Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology here:

Purchase here.

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R&R’s Playlist of the Week: This Night Could Last Forever (Featuring Sarah Vaughan, Mick Harvey, Beth Gibbons, Brian Eno, Florence + the Machine & More!)

Also featuring the hauntingly beautiful song, “Kangaroo” (written by Alex Chilton and performed by Cinder from Cindytalk), from the iconic album by This Mortal Coil — It'll End in Tears (one of our household’s favorite albums of all time), which was released 40 years ago this month!

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Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Domaine Lapierre Morgon (Beaujolais, France)

“It was he [Marcel Lapierre] who, upon the advent of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the 1950s, first spoke out for “natural wine,” harkening back to the traditional methods of the Beaujolais. Joined by local vignerons Guy Breton, Jean-Paul Thévenet, and Jean Foillard, Marcel spearheaded a group that soon took up the torch of this movement. Kermit dubbed this clan the Gang of Four, and the name has stuck ever since. These rebels called for a return to the old practices of viticulture and vinification: starting with old vines, never using synthetic herbicides or pesticides, harvesting late, rigorously sorting to remove all but the healthiest grapes, adding minimal doses of sulfur dioxide or none at all, and disdaining chaptalization.” [Source: kermitlynch.com]

Purchase via Wine-Searcher or Vivino

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Fascinating Archaeological Discovery: An Ancient Peruvian Site Reveals a Remarkable Painted Throne Room (via Colossal)

“Between about 350 and 850 C.E., a society known as the Moche thrived in the coastal valleys of northern Peru. Pañamarca, in the Nepeña Valley, is the southernmost center of the Moche culture and the site of a remarkable series of recent archaeological discoveries, including the latest: a monumental pillared hall with vibrantly painted walls.” [Source]

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• Read the full article here: An Ancient Peruvian Site Reveals a Remarkable Painted Throne Room (via Colossal)

• Official Site of the Pañamarca Digital Project / Instagram

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Short Documentary: How Judy-Lynn del Rey Shaped Sci-fi and Fantasy as We Know It Today (via PBS American Masters)

“The story of a woman with dwarfism who revolutionized the world of science fiction by editing and publishing books from sci-fi writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and George Lucas’ Star Wars in novel form.” [Source]

• Watch Judy-Lynn del Rey: The Galaxy Gal at PBS.org!

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Interesting Artists Born Today: October 3rd

Visual Artists:

Today is the birthday of Henri Rouart, Hans Thoma, Alfred Roller, Charles Ricketts, Edith Smith, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, Arnold Lyongrün, Oscar E. Berninghaus, Boris Anisfeld, Thea Proctor, Modesto Delgado Rodas, Teuane Tibbo, Alice Prin, Walter Thomas Monnington, Alex Raymond, Harold Lehman, Liam O'Gallagher, Eugenio Cruz Vargas, François Arnal, Ramona Fradon, Ibrahim Shahda, Dadamaino, Pedro Cervantes, George O. Jackson Jr., Irene Rousseau, Robert Meyer, Donna Karan, Annie Leibovitz, Whitfield Lovell, Joe Sacco and Katharina Grosse!

Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:

Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Montagu, Marcos Sastre, Amalie Struve, Mattie Griffith Browne, A. E. Waite, Swami Abhedananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Wallace Stevens, Fritz Eberhard, Kim Dong-in, Leela Roy, Roy Campbell, Graham Greene, Fumiko Enchi, Jack Finney, Chuck Williams, Edmund Crispin, Gilbert Simondon, Sitor Situmorang, Jan Morris, Ron Offen, John Sinclair, Franklin Rosemont, Abdulah Sidran, Vernor Vinge, Achmat Dangor, Claudia Allen, Assotto Saint, Maria Ressa, Lilah Sturges and Melissa Harris-Perry!

Musicians & Composers:

Today is the birthday of John W. Duarte, Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, Kenneth Leighton, Howard Roberts, Phill Niblock, Lolly Vegas, Don McLean, Richard Hell, Mike Rutherford, Sting, Philip Oakey, Freddie Jackson, Django Bates, Sigtryggur Baldursson, Gillian Welch, Tiffany, John Daversa, Lene Nystrøm, Ayumi Hamasaki and Brittany Howard!

Film/TV/Stage:

Today is the birthday of Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, Nicolai Poliakoff, Shirley Clarke, Tapan Sinha, Moses Gunn, Robin Hardy, Waheed Murad, Avery Brooks, Persis Khambatta, Ian McNeice, Lorraine Bracco, Maribel Verdú, Efren Ramirez, Michelle Krusiec and Trace Lysette!

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This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Jan Morris (October 2, 1926 – November 20, 2020)

“I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.” — Jan Morris

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