| Imagination and taste blend at Pink Cake Box
Customers who arrive for a tasting at the Pink Cake Box in Denville sit at a custom pink granite table across from Pastry Chef Anne Heap. Between them: a place setting and a single tray of cupcakes. They represent a smattering of the myriad flavors her cake studio creates. In cake, chocolate fudge, red velvet, vanilla. In toppings/fillings, vanilla, Oreos and cream, dark chocolate, raspberry Chambord, hazelnut Frangelico, peanut butter, lemon cream cheese. If the place feels like a cross between an upscale restaurant and an art gallery, there's a reason. It is. For the 28-year-old Heap, who left the advertising world for the Pastry Arts Program at the French Culinary Institute in New York City, cakes are sculpture and canvas. Pretty as pictures, they emerge from the Pink Cake Box.
Food notes for March 26
The Rhode Island Historical Society and 3 Steeple Street Bistro & Bar will host a Dining with History Walking Tour and dinner event Saturday at 4 p.m. beginning at The John Brown House, 52 Power St., Providence, and ending at the bistro for dinner. Learn about how Providence was a food town from the days of Roger Williams to the 18th-century open air markets. See www.rihs.org for the full menu. The cost is $50. For tickets, call (401) 272-3620 or e-mail info@3steeplestreet.com. Local 121, 121 Washington St., Providence, hosts a workshop tomorrow from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Shape Up RI co-sponsors "Health in the Balance: The Wonders of Olive Oil," presented by Mary M. Flynn of Miriam Hospital and Brown University, who has a Ph.D. in nutrition and is a registered dietitian. The event is free.
AUB finds new president after year-long search
The American University of Beirut's board of trustees has unanimously voted to elect Peter F. Dorman as the 15th president of AUB, the university announced on Friday. Dorman is professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute and in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Dorman will succeed John Waterbury, who has served since 1998. The announcement follows a year-long international search that solicited the input of consultants, faculty, staff, students, and alumni worldwide, the statement said. "The search demanded intense coordination of our constituencies and a unique understanding of AUB, its goals and future needs. I would particularly like to recognize the diligent work of the presidential search committee led by Board of Trustees vice chair Philip S.
On view: Mark Hooper, John Calvelli
Mark Hooper's new show at Quality Pictures is a continuation of a kind of performance art photography: staged tableaux set in the ruins of buildings or in slightly ravaged patches of nature. The mood is always quiet and desolate, with usually a sole individual peering intently at something, somewhere. Mysterious and creepy in the way that Gregory Crewdson's terribly affected images are, Hooper's photographs evoke the lovely surreal, bending reality into a dream world signifying the vague. Is he trying to express something profound or just an ironist speaking through the language of ennui? Quality Pictures, 916 N.W. Hoyt St. Continues until April 26. John Calvelli is the prototype of the kind of Portland transplant that has enriched and deepened the local cultural scene in the past decade.
Avenue of the Arts takes ambitious step this year.
It's back. Now in its eighth year, the Avenue of the Arts program is getting an injection of ambition. Since 2000, the annual summer project has granted selected local artists the means to create temporary installations along Central Street downtown. Recently this outdoor array has been bogged down by conservative ideas and small projects. The mostly young artists chosen this year promise to break the streak. Our hope rests with Matthew Burke, Sarah Kephart, Colin Leipelt, Angela Lopez, Juniper Tangpuz and Brian Zimmerman. Each received $5,000 to realize designs reviewed by a panel of seven judges, including Kansas City public art administrator Porter Arneill and Kate Hackman, associate director of the Charlotte Street Foundation. The opening is set for May 16.
Cardiovascular and metabolic issues in patients with thyroid dysfunction
Thyroid experts will present the latest information on cardiovascular and metabolic issues in patients with thyroid disorders, including those who have an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) or an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism), at a day-long scientific meeting on Friday, March 28, 2008 at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington, DC. The scientific meeting, "Cardiovascular and Metabolic Issues in Patients with Thyroid Dysfunction: Implications for treating Hypo- or Hyperthyroidism," is sponsored by the American Thyroid Association (ATA), the lead organization in promoting thyroid health and understanding thyroid biology. Journalists are invited to attend a media roundtable discussion with thyroid experts from 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. on March 28 at London 1 Room at the Marriott Metro Center.
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