Soulati, and DJ Excess working the laptop and the mixers, Joseph makes the case that both he and hip-hop exist in that interstitial space. Joseph takes the audience on a trip through space and time to bring key moments of his and hip-hop’s life together. Once, in Haiti, his ancestral home, he fainted - maybe, he suggests, like “a little Beyoncé,” the sight of blood threw him - and the Haitians thought he was possessed by a spirit. He watches an African woman biting off European performance art in the worst possible way (going in and out of a bag for around half an hour) and ponders his place as another neutered black American in Paris, coming from a long line of “experiments” in cultural exchange. In a bizarre imagining of a journey to Prince’s house, where Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is on the wall, Joseph uses his whole body to tell the story, from a dead-on Prince imitation, to the voice and form of a modern-day Mona Lisa, a waitress at a diner, to an oddly perfect da Vinci as some kind of math nerd trying to pick her up.
TORONTO - A French inventor who claimed last fall to have revealed secrets about the “Mona Lisa” now says his technology has led to the authentication of a Leonardo da Vinci colour drawing owned by a Swiss art collector. Cotte used a “multi-spectral” camera to digitalize the chalk drawing, which was done between 1482 and 1485 and restored in the 19th century. Cotte and his business partner Jean Penicaut are in Toronto for Idea City, a gathering of thinkers from various disciplines that is organized by media guru Moses Znaimer. The Lumiere technology made headlines last fall when Cotte claimed it had uncovered secrets about the “Mona Lisa,” including why Leonardo’s famously enigmatic subject has no eyebrows.
Family Days, a monthly program at Birch Aquarium that embraces family learning and togetherness by blending arts and crafts, science, special tours and activities for all ages, will take place from 11 a. Inquiring minds can follow in the inventive footsteps of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Leonardo da Vinci at “Tinkering,” a new hands-on exhibition opening at the Reuben H. The San Diego Brain Injury Foundation will host a meeting for brain injury survivors, family members and professionals from 10 a. The free exhibit, which is open to the public, runs through July 15 in the first-floor lobby of the library, 820 E St.
But Peck, which opened in 1883 as a namesake for a Prague grocer who decided to sell “German-style smoked salami and meats” to Italians, has evolved as a worldly grocery with a distinct Milanese flavor. Stefano, in charge of all pastries, sweets, coffees and teas, climbs the stairs to the cafe bar and in-house restaurant and greets a few regulars. The Stoppani family capitalized on the boom years, maintaining Peck as the place in Milan to find the best cheeses and meats, from sausage to poultry to pig’s cheek. But even as inflation in Italy has hit a 12-year high and gas prices are up 11 percent in the past year, the upscale market maintains its share of choosy buyers. In the 1990s, as the Mediterranean diet became the rage, the Stoppanis began catering to discerning foodies wherever they hungered or thirsted. In the sleek cellar, 14,000 bottles of wine are on display and 60,000 in stock, 75 percent of which are Italian vintages.
