November 29 • 1995
Success by Design: Unmasking Jager DiPaola Kemp; A Fry-by-Night Visit to Al’s; Nora Jacobson Is Reel Serious; Scorsese SCores With ‘Casino;’ Getting Personal, One Date at a Time
Cover Story
Success by Design: Unmasking Jager DiPaola Kemp — where capitalism meets the cutting edge
Dad trusts Black & Decker like it was made by God. Mom thinks Macintosh is de rigueur. Sis won’t even look at jeans that don’t say Guess? and her brother is hooked on Nintendo. Eighty-seven cereals on the grocery shelves fail to woo grandma from her Quaker Oats. And you? Bet you’ve got your must-have…
Reel Woman: A Vermont filmmaker comes home to shoot
Filmmaker Nora Jacobson waves me into her office. She’s on the phone, smoothing out an equipment deal. I sit on the couch next to a pile of scripts. Empty reels and film canisters litter the floor. This is the archetype of an independent movie-making base camp. Nothing decorative. Nothing superfluous. Nothing Hollywood — including lunch.…
A Stitch in Time… An activist wonders, ‘Does the Quilt measure up?’
Picture a quilt 180 times larger than the one on display this week at St. Michael’s College. Measure it in football fields, in field houses, in individual panels — however your mind can picture 300,000 AIDS deaths in America. Then remember that fewer than one in 10 AIDS cases happens in this country, that most…
Tarnished Jewel
The Fletcher Free Library on College Street is one of the jewels in the Queen City’s crown. Besides the books, magazines and programs, the staff is talented and user-friendly. So a lot of people held their breath last week when Channel 3 reporter Brian Joyce reported a story on one of the library’s darker secrets:…
