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(Community Matters) Jack offers his Perspective on the European economic & political climate after a recent trip to the company’s UK headquarters – and he notes possible implications for our own

another important posting about Narrators – strategic communications and creative thinking (this would be my husband)

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(Community Matters) favorite tweet:

@nickducoff: How many retail investors will learn this weekend they can place a market order & buy $FB at IPO price Monday am? My guess: lots. Expect pop

(Community Matters) the Entrepreneurs Foundation is gathering 600 volunteers this morning to help the Sustainable Food Center build the first Austin teaching community gardens at the MLK Jr Park.

Thank you Convio and Blackbaud for sponsoring today and thank you Meredith Family & MFI Foundation for contributing the land and the park!

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(Community Matters) yum, another potential adventure

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(Community Matters) Hannah Tomlinson – we’re here celebrating her high school graduation. What started as an intimate trip evolved into a family reunion for Carol & Phil’s immediate family. We’re having a blast

Staying on île de la Cité, a great big apartment w/ a nice kitchen at the Pont Saint Michel. Enjoyed cooking dinner in our first night, all huddled in the kitchen eating, laughing, drinking and catching up. Hannah, Carol, Phil, Hilary, Delise, Craig, Steven and me. Today to Montmarte, the Paris flea market, and of course lunch at Chez Eugene.

Last night Eiffel Tower – my first time to the top during night.

(Community Matters) Three days, four shows – that’s how Steven rolls in London; I made three.

Misterman (at the Royal National Theatre): Steven saw this in matinee. A one-man play about grief & loneliness. Steven noted some good parts but maybe they didn’t all come together.

Detroit (at the Royal National Theatre): Steven knows playwright Lisa D’Amour from playwriting courses at UT. She was a student of David Marc Cohen. Steppenwolf first presented Detroit. Raw & honest characters who had conversations outside my increasingly rarefied bubble – made me mindful of this. Major career coup to have her show presented at the National; Broadway appears to be in negotiation.

Collaborators (at the Royal National Theatre): a fun and fantastical play about Josef Stalin and the writer MIkhail Bulgakov.  They just don’t miss on the acting and staging at RNT.

Tenet (at the Gate Theatre); loved entering the theatre while offered tea & biscuits. The show was fun. More opportunities than seized to promote how the truth is achievable with a little radicalism.

(Community Matters) Minimalist food – the place would easily fit in Marfa, though I can’t imagine the challenges of sourcing.  Next to Spitalfields Market, it was my & Steven’s first time to St John Bread & Wine, the more casual cousin of St John Bar & Restaurant.  Playwright Lisa D’Amour and her boyfriend composer & new york theater company founder Brendan Connelly (Two-Headed Calf) met us. 

Cauliflower, Chickpeas & Leeks; Globe Artichoke Vinaigrette; Brown Shrimp Salad; Mussels, Cider & Tarrago; and a Barley Rabbit – we shared. Felt like a traditional English theme but one doesn’t think of traditional English as so well seasoned & spiced. We’ll definitely be back – it’s up there with Amoul’s as one of our favorite London lunch spots. (of course we had lunch at Amoul’s yesterday)

(Community Matters) on the way to celebrate our niece’s (Hanah Tomlinson) graduation from high school in Paris, we decided on a few days of theater. Thursday: Misterman (matinee), then the preview of Austinite Lisa D’Amour’s  new play, Detroit. Friday: John Hodge’s Collaborators, and tonight: Tenet (the story about the revolutionary politics of telling the truth). This evening, after a 2 hour conference call – an MPR board meeting. Hate missing but we set date to coincide with Spring Fundraiser and  celebration for Marianne Stockebrand and I’d already committed to this trip.

We always have the best time traveling together

(Community Matters) Fascinating admonishment from a GOP pollster to the party – “advising Republican candidates to emphasize the conservative nature of gay marriage, to say how it encourages personal responsibility, commitment, stability and family values.”

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