Profile for dixiechick

Biography
Raised in a literary southern college town, spent my first adult decade in NYC (the 80's). B'flo since 1989. Eventuallly fell in love with the City, but when I fell, I fell hard!
3 days, 19 hours ago
User Rating
3.25 (62 votes)
Interests:
Arts, Music, Photography, Nature, Family, the City, Education, Good Food, Health, Creative-Progressive Thinking.
Favorite Movies:
Freeway, Big Bad Love, From Dusk Til Dawn, Blade Runner, Because of Winn Dixie, Under the Tuscan Sun, Key Largo...and more.
Favorite Music:
Almost everything!
Favorite Books:
Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Dark Eros (Moore), The Doors of Perception (Huxley), Hopscotch (Cortazar), Memory Gardens (Creeley), Woman (Angier), The World According to Garp (Irving), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) , and anything by Larry Brown. Plus too many more to mention!

dixiechick's Comments

  • Elmwood Festival Continues To Inspire

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    Aug 24th, 20:18

    Oh, yeah...and the festival organizers are very aware of not letting it get too big. There has been the opportunity to do that....but instead they have lent their expertise to other neighborhood venues to help get those off the ground. This is a …

  • Elmwood Festival Continues To Inspire

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    Aug 24th, 20:15

    Not only do I think that this festival far surpasses the Allentown festival, both in art and crafts (more really good art and really good crafts) But listening to the conversation around me as I walked through the festival, I overheard many many p…

  • That Whole "If You Build it..." Thing

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    Aug 15th, 00:18

    how much nicer would it be to ditch the skyway, and have a lovely boulevard with access to the inner and outer harbour? Skyway...from a driver's point of view,...yep, you get a second of view before someone cuts you off. Ground level, water level…

  • Planning Board Gives Rock Harbor Thumbs Up

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    Jul 30th, 01:39

    chrishawley, Agree with you on most points. The only issue is "Is the owner ashamed this is a stark industrial building? Does he not realize that's what's hip these days? Why so behind the times?" Have you seen/investigated the building? …

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