by Lise Funderburg | Oct 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Black, White, Other received some unexpected love in 2012 when Drexel University chose Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home as its Freshman Summer Read. Not for nothing, Drexel’s campus overlaps (now more than ever) with Powelton Village, the...
by Lise Funderburg | Jun 27, 2011 | Food, Word Up
Snack Time, Chang-style Three months ago, summer in the 6th Borough was shaping up to be one of the stay-at-home kind (which would not have been too shabby, given the full-of-fun household we have these days, the capacity for last-minute cookouts with equally...
by Lise Funderburg | May 2, 2009 | Word Up
Check out this new Q&A with the esteemed indie bookseller, Powell’s. When I was at Reed College, in Portland, OR, Powell’s was my bookstore. Even then, so many moons (and decades) ago, it was a treasure trove for booklovers. Still is. The wacky...
by Lise Funderburg | Apr 21, 2009 | Food, THE NEXT 4 YEARS, THRIFT, Word Up
When Pig Candy came out last May, of course John roasted a pig for me…and 150 of our closest 6th Borough buds. To further celebrate the book’s release, our poet/chef friend Sebastian (author of To the Bone) made collards, my mom’s neighbor Jim made...
by Lise Funderburg | Apr 16, 2009 | THE NEXT 4 YEARS, Word Up
In a shameless effort to gin up traffic for my life in a cyber-nutshell blog, the 1st, 10th, and 20th person to leave a comment anywhere on the site (I’m not talking offers for “grannyporn” or “kim kardashian nude”), will get an...
