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It has been a cold and snowy winter in the North East and there is a sense of a slow down, as people prefer to stay indoors than brave the layers of thick lumpy ice, black slush and garbage strewn black and yellow pitted snow mountains that have graced our streets for weeks. Time seems to have stopped, and not in a good way. But here it comes, any minute, in a marathon week, the Armory Show and other art fair exhibitions joined this year by the opening of the 2014 Whitney Biennial–some people love it, to others it is a professional duty and a physical endurance test, to be survived as best as possible. Let's hope for decent weather at least. The proximity of this New York artworld spring ritual makes this an interesting moment to catch the last few days of The Armory Show at 100 in 2013 at the New York Historical Society Museum and Library on Central Park West and 77th Street. Incredibly, considering that I live four blocks away, I only just saw the show today. Sunday February 23 is the last day.
The show presents a historical overview of the exhibition, recreating in a limited manner the experience viewers would have had at the original exhibition, which was open from February 17, 1913 through March 15, 1913, held at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets, which in recent years has occasionally housed spill-over exhibitions from the Armory Piers shows. Considering that efforts to interior decorate fairs today are usually confined to VIP lounges and seating areas scattered here and there, and that visitors are usually disoriented by the profusion of booths, merchandise, confusing layouts across miles of space, it is amusing to read this description of the exhibition:
Armory show visitors entered the enormous drill hall of the 69th Regiment Armory and were overwhelmed by a cavernous, light-filled divided into eighteen octagonal galleries with burlap covered panels. It was decorated with greenery, pine tress, flags, and yellow streamers that formed a tent-like cap….The paintings were hung in two frenzied days before show opened, but the lay-out was planned in advance. The galleries were arranged so that visitors could not wander laterally through the space. Rather they had to choose a route and follow it through to the end. The organizers laid out the space according to their vision of modern art: the galleries progressed roughly from American to European art, and from revolutionary movements of the past to the current French avant-garde.
Thus, although the works were for sale and 274 works were sold, mostly prints of European artists, the layout was primarily educational, to tell the story of modernism in a manner that seems to have offered the first draft of Alfred Barr's instructional layout of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, which for years functioned as a walk-in text book whose chronology and stylistic connections now are much eroded by more recent fashions in museumology but were very useful to get at least one idea of how the thigh bone connects to the knee bone. The floor plan of the Armory show oriented visitors towards the art in Gallery I, which critics termed "the chamber of horrors," where one found what the organizers considered the culmination of modern art, Fauvism and Cubism, with Matisse's Blue Nude and Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase (No.2) attracting the most notoriety. Apparently critics found Cubism easier to deal with because it was fun to make fun of it—the cartoons of the period are wonderful as drawings in themselves!–whereas Matisse was seen as barbaric.
This show is worth seeing, in particular because it is an opportunity to see Nude Descending A Staircase in New York, and hung as it was at the Armory show, next to Albert Gleizes' Man on a Balcony (1912), a much larger canvas so that, here in this exhibition perhaps even more than on the larger wall of the Armory, the placement highlights the delicacy of the Duchamp, modest in scale, with a smooth surface and precise yet clearly hand made lines and even a few areas of slightly oilier paint, where there is perhaps some ever so slight impasto (gasp!) or perhaps a bit more oil burbled up to the surface creating a painterly blemish right near the center of the work (gasp!). These painterly incidents are not apparent in reproduction so it is really very useful to see the painting and I recommend the exhibition if only for that opportunity. Comparing it to the Gleizes is also instructive. A big handsome painting, Man on a Balcony is also an illustration of how Cubism, almost immediately after the works of Picasso and Braque done between 1909 and 1911 yet still radical today, could easily be recuperated to traditional representation, becoming a cosmetic device over essentially unchanged notions of representation of objects and space. The figure in the Gleizes painting is basically a recognizable male figure in a contrapposto pose set against a landscape. He has a face, hands, he's wearing a shirt and pants. The Cubism is just style not performative substance. Duchamp's Nude is barely figural, there is no facial information, barely any anatomical representation, it is a representation of motion, clinical and scientific. Next to the bold and superficially impressive Gleizes, Duchamp's Nude is obdurate and inscrutable.
If you see the show don't miss the separate room of ephemera from the exhibition, letters, loan forms, telegrams. It is possible to miss, because the museum signage is a little confusing and the room is darkened for preservation purposes, but it's always good to be reminded of the nuts and bolts of events and artworks that have since become iconic or legendary. Nude was purchased for 324 dollars.
The ephemera also include imaginary telegrams from such luminaries as Gertrude Stein and Roger Fry:
Everyone's a critic!
The show also includes a luminous painting by Walt Kuhn,one of the organizers of the exhibition, a delightful painting by Maurice Prendergast, Albert Pinkham Ryder's Moonlit Cove, whose surface condition is so extreme that the pattern of the craquelure is a textural, sculptural cousin to the large organic abstracted shapes of sky, cove, beach. Matisse's Blue Nude and Van Gogh's Mountains at Saint-Rémy still are bold and challenging, and if they no longer have the power to shock, they do retain the ability to awaken your eyes, the Van Gogh in particular benefits from the context of this show: like so many of his paintings, it looks as fresh as if it had been painted yesterday, and the whole future of expressionism through the Twentieth century is in the brushwork/drawing-painting marks .
And if you haven't seen Nude Descending A Staircase in the, you should pardon the expression, flesh, and don't know when you will get to Philadelphia Museum of Art where it lives, go see it, it is extremely important to know from your own experience that this strange, infinitely analyzed artwork, is among other things, a painting.


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I first became acquainted with Deborah Heal through her delightful historic/fantasy Time and Again Trilogy. Now, I'm excited to learn she has a new series out. Recently Deborah Heal released Only One Way Home, book 2 in her Rewinding Time Series. Enjoy this excerpt from her book.
At the end of the excerpt, "My Cherokee Roots" tells about Deborah's personal connection to the story.
Finally, enter the contest at the bottom to win a copy of Only One Way Home.
From Professor Randall's Notebook…
FIELD RESEARCH SITE: Golconda, Illinois.
GOAL: Trace client's Frailey ancestors—back to Scotland if possible—and get home in time for dinner.
NOTE to SELF: Do NOT fall in love with Matthias Frailey—even though he is was quite wonderful. Remember, idiot, he's been dead for over 175 years.
Professor Merrideth Randall's latest after-hours genealogy consulting gig takes her and friends Abby and John to the small southern Illinois town of Golconda on the Ohio River. She expects to have to research the old-fashioned way at the courthouse. But thankfully, her client's ancestor Matthias Frailey once hung out in Golconda's ancient Ferry House Inn, and that means Beautiful Houses, Merrideth's time-rewinding software, will work after all.
It doesn't take Merrideth and her friends long to time-surf back to find out what they need to know about Matthias Frailey and his family. But when they become eyewitnesses to the arrival of the Cherokee on the Golconda Ferry on December 3, 1838, they cannot tear their eyes away from the tragedy that unfolds—nor from Matthias Frailey's heroic response to it. The people are herded down Main Street on their Trail of Tears, bound for the Oklahoma Country, while the townsfolk only watch, or even cheer. But not Matthias Frailey. He does what he can to help them, especially a very spirited—and very pregnant—woman named White Dove who insists on walking so others may ride in the wagons.
Spending so much time inside Matthias' head, Merrideth has no doubt that he is the kind, selfless man he appears to be. It's impossible not to fall a little in love with him—despite the fact that he is from another century. Meanwhile, in the here and now, handsome Golconda historian Aaron Landis is doggedly pursuing her. And back home her McKendree College colleague Brett Garrison keeps calling while he waits for her return. But are they—or any man—worthy of her trust? Too bad there isn't a way to time-surf in their heads. Now that would be a dating tool she could really put to good use.
Only One Way Home is available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.
by Deborah Heal
"Cherokee blood, if not destroyed, will win its courses in beings of fair complexions, who will read that their ancestors became civilized under the frowns of misfortunes & the causes of their enemies."
—John Ridge, Cherokee chief
Fortunately, John Ridge's fear of his people's extinction or total assimilation did not come true. However, there are plenty of blond-haired pale-skins like myself with Cherokee blood "coursing" through their veins. I grew up knowing there was Cherokee in my ancestry. You can see it clearly in this photograph of my grandma Ethel Woods. My siblings and I took great pride in this, considering it a mark of distinction. I found out much later that Grandpa sometimes called her "Squaw" in a pejorative way that indicated he didn't feel quite the same way about her Indian heritage as we did.
This is her grandma Mary Ann Jones Bohannon, who was born in 1827 in Nash County, North Carolina, to Jesse and Susan Jones. In case you're wondering, many Indians by that time had taken on English surnames in their conscious efforts to become "civilized." Indeed, the Cherokee were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the southeast.
In the early 1800s the Cherokee made tremendous social and cultural progress in a very short time, successfully transitioning from a hunter-gatherers society to an agrarian one. With Thomas Jefferson's guidance, they gave up their ancient blood-feud system for a representative form of government with a constitution and court system. They tended their farms well and lived in homes every bit as nice as most of their white neighbors. Furthermore, their literacy rate was climbing fast, and they even had their own newspaper, printed in both English and Cherokee. Plans were in the works for a Cherokee museum.
But their efforts to become "civilized" were in vain. During the Indian Removal of 1838, over 16,000 Cherokee were forced from their Georgia and North Carolina homes and herded into military stockades where they were confined until they could be sent to Oklahoma. Their time there was a horrible ordeal, and that was just the beginning of their suffering. They called the trip to Oklahoma Nunahi-Duna-Hilu-I, the trail where they cried.
Learn more about Cherokee culture and the political maneuvering that led to their plight in my blog post "Jackson's Indian Removal Policy." And you can read first-hand accounts of the Trail of Tears in my article "The Trail Where They Cried." Bring your tissue.
The worst part of the journey was the time they spent in southern Illinois that December of 1838. Only One Way Home tells that story. As always, I tried to be as accurate as possible. White Dove's experiences at Golconda represent many actual circumstances that the Cherokee endured during their time in my state. I suspect some readers will think I exaggerated their suffering, but if anything, I downplayed it to prevent the story from becoming too painful to read. Naturally, with the Trail of Tears topic, the story is sad, but there are also moments of shining joy and hope, so don't think it's too depressing to read.
As for my Great, Great Grandmother Mary Ann Jones, she would have been eleven when the soldiers came to North Carolina to round up the Cherokee. Somehow her family escaped the fate of the others so perhaps they hid in the mountains, as some reportedly did. By 1845, Mary Ann was in Benton, Co., Tennessee, where she married James Henry Bohannon, a man of Scottish descent. (His ancestor Duncan's ordeal is another story I plan to tell one day.)
Mary Ann's white neighbors referred to her as the "Indian Woman," because she retained many of her Cherokee customs. I don't know if she was full-blooded Cherokee, but I do know that when Mary Ann died in Sugar Tree, Tennessee in 1882, they buried her outside the cemetery fence because she wasn't white enough to qualify for a proper spot inside it. When I visited her grave ten years ago, I found that the cemetery had expanded to the point that now she lies pretty much at its center, a fact that causes me to smile every time I think about it.
It was with great happiness and respect that I dedicated Only One Way Home to her.
For my Great, Great Grandmother Mary Ann Jones Bohannon, the "Indian Woman,"
and for my brother Kenny Woods who inherited his dark good looks from her.
Although the details of this family history were deconstructed and woven into the warp and weft of the story in a completely fictional way, they truly were the inspiration for Only One Way Home, the story I wanted—needed—to tell.
Book 1 in the Rewinding Time Series is also available on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback.


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Acquire more new technologies, MTI tells companies.
Firms in the city-state will now be racing to develop pioneering activities in Singapore, as sweeter tax incentives await.
According to a the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the pioneer incentive is designed to attract and anchor new economic activities with significant economic benefits to Singapore, driving the growth of high value-added or high-technology industries in the country.
"A company can be awarded multiple Pioneer Certificates (PCs) when it anchors different qualifying economic activities in Singapore over time," the MTI said.
While the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act (EEIA) currently only allows for each company to enjoy a maximum tax relief period of 15 years regardless of the number of PCs awarded to the company, the MTI says it will be amended to make clear that that the maximum tax relief period is to be applied on the incentivised pioneer activity instead of the company as a whole.
The MTI also explained that this is to encourage all companies, including existing ones, to continue to anchor more pioneering activities in Singapore.
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Bruno Mars to Tour With Janelle Monáe
Shortly after teaming up for a performance at the Grammy Awards, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe have announced that they will be heading out on tour together this summer. Specific dates for their Hooligans in Wondaland tour have not yet been announced, but it has been confirmed that they will be on the road in May and June. [Idolator]
Foo Fighters Reveal New Album Details
The Foo Fighters have announced that the title of their seventh album is Wasting Light. The disc's first single "Rope" will come out on March 1st as a free download with pre-orders of the record, which will hit stores on April 12th. [Billboard]
Marvin Gaye Biopic in the Works
Julien Temple is set to direct a film based on the life of soul legend Marvin Gaye. This project is notable for being the first time a filmmaker has been given official permission to tell the singer's story on screen. Temple is n known for his documentaries about the Sex Pistols and Joe Strummer of The Clash. [Guardian]
The Flaming Lips Release Song Meant to Be Heard on 12 Computers
The Flaming Lips have released "Two Blobs Fucking," a new song that is broken up into 12 YouTube videos intended to be played simultaneously on 12 computers and/or phones. This is similar to the band's 1997 album Zaireeka, which was four CDs meant to be played at once on four stereos. [Pitchfork]
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Colleagues, family remember Hoxie Smith
Published 5:32 am, Tuesday, February 3, 2015
From the Permian Basin oil fields to the Kairos Prison Ministry, Hoxie Smith left his mark on a variety of interests.
Smith, director of Midland College's Petroleum Professional Development Center, lost his battle with cancer in early January. He was 60.
"Hoxie was the most kind and gentle man of integrity I've ever met. He loved people and loved helping people. He had a deep enjoyment of working with oil industry professionals and helping them be successful in their careers and businesses. We were only married for four years, but they were the happiest of my life. We cherished each other and every day we had together. His death is not only a deep loss for me, but also for Midland," said his wife, Sally.
Born in Illinois, Smith earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Colorado State University and began his career with ARCO in Denver, where he oversaw oil and gas exploration in the overthrust region of western Montana. He was transferred to Midland in 1986.
Shortly thereafter, he was among those laid off at ARCO as oil prices sank to $10 a barrel and soon joined Dawson Geophysical. While at Dawson, he earned his master's degree in geology from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. In 1996, he and his partners founded GeoSpectrum Inc., a reservoir development company. He was named director of the PPDC in 2003.
"Hoxie was one of the very first friends I met when I moved to Greenwood in 1989, and we shared our friendship and kindred spirits ever since," said Gil Van Deventer, partner, project manager and senior hydrologist with Trident Environmental. Van Deventer is very active in the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Environmental Study Group, which met monthly at the PPDC offices, 105 W. Illinois Ave.
"Just about every professional in the oil and gas business knows who Hoxie Smith is and vice versa," said Van Deventer, who also collaborated with Smith on the annual Permian Basin Environmental Regulatory Workshop.
He went on to note that, for his efforts, Smith was recognized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers for his contributions in the area of health, safety, environment and social responsibility.
Smith served as regional coordinator of the West Texas efforts to secure the federal clean coal-burning power generation project, FutureGen. Laura Miller, former Dallas mayor and Summit Power's director of projects in Texas, asked if there might be room at the Penwell site for Summit's similar Texas Clean Energy Project.
Shortly after Illinois was chosen for the project, he approached Summit about bringing the project to Texas.
"He used to always tell me what a great day that turned out to be — even though he was crushed to have lost FutureGen to Illinois after two years of work — because he began a wonderful seven-year relationship with us, and he met his future wife that same night at a friend's dinner party. That was so like Hoxie — finding the good in what others would have seen as a major disappointment," Miller recalled.
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What Spiritual Gifts Does God Give?
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The Bible indicates that God gives Christians special help through His Spirit to serve His Church and to accomplish His work. The New Testament mentions numerous gifts, some that helped the ministry in their tasks and some that helped the lay members of the Church in their Christian service. One of many helpful scriptures on the subject is 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as you were led.
3 Why I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
American King James Version×.
The Bible addresses the gift of "tongues" (the ability to speak in different known languages of the day) in the books of Acts and 1 Corinthians. What many churches call "speaking in tongues" today is nothing like what the Bible records. The miracle that occurred on the Day of Pentecost in A.D. 31 (Acts 2:4-8 Acts 2:4-8 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
American King James Version×) was one of communication—apparently both in the speaking and the hearing. The Greek word translated "tongues" is glossa and means "languages." The miracle of speaking in tongues meant that every member of the audience could hear in his or her native tongue (language, see Acts 2:9-11 Acts 2:9-11 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
American King James Version×).
Also, some in the early Church, particularly in Corinth, had the ability to speak in different languages. In that case, it seems that people were showing off their abilities, speaking every language they could, regardless of whether the people who heard them could understand. They were caught up in their vanity, having lost sight of the fact that one should always use spiritual gifts to serve others. Paul wrote chapter 14 of 1 Corinthians specifically to deal with this problem. He pointed out that the proper use of the gift of languages would be to speak the language or languages that the congregation could understand. It would be like speaking Spanish to a Spanish-speaking audience or French to a French-speaking audience.
Paul reminded the Christians in Corinth that speaking different languages was of no real value if an audience could not understand the words. He admonished them to concentrate more on understandable communication than on their linguistic abilities.
All biblical examples of speaking in tongues stand in stark contrast to the type of "speaking in tongues" done in some churches today, where the speaker utters a "language" that sounds like gibberish, not an actual human language.
We see that spiritual gifts did not control the person who had them, forcing themselves to the fore. Rather, every individual was responsible for how he or she used those gifts (1 Corinthians 14:32 1 Corinthians 14:32And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
American King James Version×).
A genuine spiritual gift aids a Christian in the service of the Church.
A lesson we learn from the mistakes of the Corinthians is that Christians should be on guard against becoming vain over their individual abilities. Paul explained in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.
American King James Version×that godly love must inspire the person using a gift. That is, an authentic spiritual gift is not for the sake of enhancing one's personal standing or reputation.
How can we know and use what gifts we have? Most should be self-evident. Others may become apparent by looking into our natural abilities. Matthew 25:15 Matthew 25:15And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
American King James Version×indicates that God enhances our innate abilities with His power. The principal point is that, as we become aware of our gifts, we should seek God's help to use those talents to serve others.


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We must discover a means of subsidy by which music and parallel arts may thrive unapologetically.
Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.
To be sure, Ryan offers Americans under 55 years old a subsidy to buy private health insurance and the "choice" of Medicare.
And so, if a late 20-something decides to work fewer hours, but play more Xbox One, and get an Obamacare subsidy why not?
The man who is honest in his dealings with his fellowman has a subsidy which money cannot buy.
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Prussia had agreed in the spring to accept an English subsidy.
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Autumn in Melbourne can be brutal. Okay, not as brutal as a Soviet winter but when you're walking down Chapel Street juggling 10 billion shopping bags, you kinda don't want Melbourne's harsh elements to get in the way of all things fun. Or maybe I'm just a whiny brat. Whatever. After spending a few hours tearing down the South Yarra end of Chapel Street in the cold and somehow ending up at the Windsor end, BFF Marty and I stumbled across Borsch Vodka & Tears, a joint that has always been on my 'to do' list for quite some time. Vodka and borsch was never on our agenda that afternoon but Marty, the Gorbachev to my Perestroika and the Vronsky to my Anna, suddenly decided that he had a craving for borsch so in we went.
It was just after 4pm when we walked in, with a smattering of loved-up couples making their nests between empty tables with 'RESERVED' signs plonked on them. Luckily, our friendly hipster (plus the 'steez' and minus the pretentiousness) was able to locate a spare table by the bar which was lined with many, many bottles of different shapes, sizes and colours.
Mmmm vodka.With a drinks list spanning many, many pages, it was hard to narrow our choices down. I mean, we could have been courageous and opted for a set of three plum vodkas each (three for $14.50), leaving it up to the waiter to choose a selection of vodkas but we only wanted a couple to nip on. After all, it wasn't even dark yet. Plus, we didn't want to limit ourselves to plum vodkas.
In the end, Marty chose a rich and creamy advocaat ($6.50), an eggnog creme liqueur with brandy and vanilla; and a winter romance ($8), a spicier blend of rose petal and wild forest flower in one little shot glass. The shot glass in flames (courtesy of Marty's cigarette lighter) is my passover Slivovitz ($11), a kosher plum vodka from Poland. Aged for 12 years and with an alcohol content of 70%, it was as strong and brutal as Simon Kołecki but was kept sweet with traces of prunes and vanilla. Not pictured was my sweet and earthy cocktail called The Cure ($11). Consisting of piołunówka absinthe and espresso, it's not normally a cocktail I would order (I'm more into fun, citrus-y Jessica Wakefield-type cocktails) but as it says on the menu, the cocktail is "go0d for what ails you" and plus, I like Robert Smith so shut up.
Eeek! Flash! To soak up all the alcohol, we had food. Of course, we had food. This is a food blog, duh. Marty had the Russian borsch ($14.50), a rich, soulful mixture of beetroot, carrots, tomatoes and beans peppered with bits of bacon, apple and a dollops of sour cream. If we could find a Soviet equivalent of a bowl of pho, this would be it. Tasty, soothing and full of flavour, he totally lapped it up and scooped the remaining dregs with the slices of rye bread provided.
Meanwhile, I had an entree-sized plate of cheese and potato pierogi (four for $17). I must say that I felt ripped off, receiving only four dumplings for seventeen-frucking-dollars. I mean, I know that pierogi ain't cheap for dumplings, but at Court Jester, they charge something like $7.50 for six pieces so what the fruck, dudes? Still, I was too hungry and too tipsy to care (after all, that plum vodka was SCULLED, baby) so I eagerly dug into my crispy cocoons of cheesy, potato-ey (with a bit of fried onion-y) goodness along with the rocket salad that came with it. Not bad, but not worth the price.
Had we been a little hungrier and had our tables not been reserved for another party, we would have probably stayed for a proper meal – perhaps some Polish sausages or some salmon and steak. Sadly, it was time to leave the Eastern Bloc and time to head back to the city for more shenanigans. I can see myself coming back for more as it's the perfect place for a drink and a light feed on a cold Winter's night. Just stay away from the pierogi if you're looking for value for money.