blog (April, 2006)
capoeira in kentuck'
Heading out now with os meus amigos to Lexington, Kentucky, (my first intentional trip to Kentucky) for a weekend Capoeira workshop led by my instructor's master, Mestre Beiçola.
corrido
Our bi-weekly lunch presentation, usually put on by a member of the company about a project or practice, was today conducted by a representative of the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project, which will extend Cleveland's public transit system to include high-speed hybrid busses travelling Euclid Avenue, connecting downtown's Public Square with the University Circle area.
We're on Euclid, smack-dab in the middle of said districts, and therefore suffering from this beginning phase of the project's road construction, commotion, upheaval. We also stand to gain a lot. I wish this existed now. Or better, seven years ago, when I lived at Case in the Circle. Just wait til 2008.
Even more exciting to me, though, was that the speaker mentioned Curitiba, Brazil, whose bus-based public transport system is second to few, if any other cities. Curitiba has my curiosity caught -- radar-popped, cropped-up, attention pique-a-booed three times this month. Thrice means gods conspiring. It seems like an amazing city; check out: Curitiba: Story of a City or Curitiba: Jaime Lerner’s Urban Acupuncture.