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...Joan Wichmann, from one of Albert Lea’s original “walking moai” support groups — a Okinawa concept — says she still walks daily with another member, and adds “you have to make it fun”....
...Patti made so much money she was able to commission Morin-Blossier, a leading Parisian couture house, to make her onstage costumes....
...“This is a true writer,” wrote Patti Smith following Didion’s death in December 2021. “Farewell brave sister, master of pain and ink.”...
...A minute later I opened the cover of a signed copy of Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids. “Patti’s here,” a stranger told me. “She’s just . . . walking around.”...
...There she blossoms as a singer-songwriter: first a folksy, Joan Baez-like minstrel, then a maverick Georgian-British answer to Patti Smith....
...(A small amount of credit was later claimed by Patti Smith, who advised him to “use your fists”.) His look is carnivalesque: whiteface make-up, ethnic scarf, flower-bedecked hat....
...And why, for instance, only a clarinet of Patti Smith’s has been included instead of one of her many guitars. “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” asked The Guerrilla Girls in 1989....
...Ms Goldstein’s book takes its place alongside those other essential tomes of the Trump era, JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and Joan Williams’ White Working Class:...
...Women like Simone Veil, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Davis and Patti Smith.”...
...Patti Waldmeir is the FT’s North American correspondent....
...Patti Smith had been chosen to perform at the ceremony before Dylan’s literature prize was announced. When Dylan’s prize was revealed, she decided to sing “Hard Rain”....
...It is safe to say that Patti Smith was the only person in Greenwich Village who knew that the date of our interview, January 6, was also the birthday of Joan of Arc....
...I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography, by Richard Hell, Ecco, RRP$25.99 New York punk pioneer Hell follows his peer Patti Smith’s Just Kids with his memoir of 1970s East Village low-life,...
...Patti Smith worked in the basement. Tom Verlaine, of the band Television, worked here. Cool people. And I was such an uncool person, having grown up in the suburbs....
...The soothing voice of Karen Carpenter gave way to a throatier, tougher type of vocalist: Suzi Quatro, Patti Smith, Joan Jett....
...Anna Calvi is a newcomer, one of the BBC’s Sound of 2011 choices and championed by Brian Eno as “the biggest thing since Patti Smith”. But she’s also a latecomer....
...The list of sopranos who have counted the role their own includes some of the most famous in operatic history – Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Joan Sutherland, and now surely Natalie Dessay....
...The Saturday night finale looks particularly strong, with performances by Joan Armatrading, Blacknuss and the Funky Avant Garde Allstars....
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