Smile of the Week: Tap Dancing!
Posted on April 18, 2010 at 8:07 am
Thanks to my friend Bob Elisberg for recommending this sublime video!
Posted on April 18, 2010 at 8:07 am
Thanks to my friend Bob Elisberg for recommending this sublime video!
Posted on April 15, 2010 at 3:57 pm
A preview of next week’s all-Madonna episode of “Glee” — with Sue Sylvester starring in “Vogue!”
One thing I especially love about this show is is agnosticism about music — it makes no distinction between classic rock (“Somebody to Love”), Broadway show tunes (“Defying Gravity”), 60’s pop (“Don’t Make Me Over”), or current hits (“My Life Would Suck Without You”). I love the mash-up episodes, combining songs like “Smile” (Lily Allen) with “Smile” (composed some 80 years earlier by Charlie Chaplin). It is a hallmark of adolescence to be exclusionary and to define people by what they like, with absolute and rigid categories for indie, metal, emo, and especially NOW vs. THEN. So I am very happy to see this show not just introduce its audience to music they may have thought of as outside their sphere but to the very idea of openness to great songs, wherever they come from.
Posted on March 13, 2010 at 8:00 am
Posted on March 5, 2010 at 1:08 pm
This joyous salute to books and reading is guaranteed to cheer your day. Bravo to the teachers, the administration, the librarians, and most of all the kids at the Ocoee Middle School. Keep reading!
Thanks to the wonderful Jennifer Farrington of the fabulous Chicago Children’s Museum for sharing this with me. And props to the Black Eyed Peas for giving permission to use their song.
I was very happy to hear that response videos are coming in. I’ll update you on the best ones I see. If your school makes one, send it to me!
Posted on February 14, 2010 at 12:19 pm
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