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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

NEW PROJECT by Leigh Hile

Check it out! I’m starting a new blog:foodrulesforreals.blogspot.comEarlier in the year, I mentioned that at the end of January, this blog would go into retirement – or at least hiberna…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:31AM
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Making the World a Little Bit Better (Or: Leigh Is a Huge Sucker) by Leigh Hile

I'm about to do something that I usually don't do on this blog: I'm going to make a personal plea.Here's the deal. Because I just don't think it's enough to be working at Farm and Table and…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:01AM
Monday, February 20, 2012

Further On Food: My New Job by Leigh Hile

Until recently, I've been sort of at a loss as to what to do with my love of food and my investment in making and eating food more mindfully. I love to cook, but don't want to go to culinar…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 09:46PM
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Things That I Love III: Social Media (After Susan G. Komen) by Leigh Hile

On January 31st, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it would halt grants to Planned Parenthood.I know this because on the 31st my Facebook page was saturated with the news. In the n…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 10:34PM
Friday, January 27, 2012

The Volunteering Blues by Leigh Hile

On Tuesday of this week, I showed up to BikeABQ's first meeting of 2012, with no idea what to expect.Volunteering for the advocacy group has been slow-going so far. Soon after volunteering …

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 07:41PM
Monday, January 23, 2012

Things I Love, Part II: Food by Leigh Hile

One night, not long before I moved to Albuquerque, I cooked a sort of goodbye feast for me and my ex-boyfriend. The meal was made from the spoils of a day up on Arthur Ave, and contained un…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 04:26PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

An Impromptu Jam Session Is Worth A Thousand Tweets. by Leigh Hile

(Or: Lessons That Should Have Been Fairly Obvious, But Somehow Weren't.)The lesson? Get off your ass and go out and talk to people.I've been spending a lot of quality time with a cup of cof…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 08:39PM
Friday, January 13, 2012

New Year's Evaluation: Where Is This Going, Anyway? by Leigh Hile

It's a new year and a new slate, and I'm starting it out the traditional way - with a look back at this blog over the past year, and some subsequent thoughts about the future. The year star…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 08:03PM
Monday, December 12, 2011

Things That I Love: Biking by Leigh Hile

Biking?Of all things, biking is a new and altogether unexpected discovery. When I decided, upon returning to Albuquerque, to ride my bike everywhere in an effort to save 1) money, 2) the en…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 08:48PM
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Why Breaking Dawn Is the Worst Movie Ever by Leigh Hile

I'm taking an immediate break from my new task to find what I love to do in order to tell you why Breaking Dawn was the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life. That is not a hyperbole…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:59AM
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What Next? by Leigh Hile

Something I read while meandering the interwebs struck me recently. I thought it was from this inspirational poster: But I guess I'm reading/latching on to way more inspirational garble th…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 10:52PM
Monday, November 7, 2011

Rose in Harlem by Leigh Hile

Look up and just a little to the left.  Unless you’re reading this from an RSS feed (in which case, hey, thanks for adding me) you’re going to see a little picture of a yellow rose …

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:00PM
Monday, October 31, 2011

It Is What It Is. by Leigh Hile

In the end, though, it doesn't matter whether New York was a toxic prison or spiritual haven or both.  It's New York.  It simply is.One of my favorite books is the Time Traveler's …

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 01:00PM
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Closing Doors by Leigh Hile

On Saturday, September 25th, I shut the door and switched off the lights for the very last time in the place I've called my home for the past four and a half years.After we left, Andrew and …

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:58PM
Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Benefits of Twitter, Part 2 by Leigh Hile

Slowly but surely, I'm coming out of my fog and getting back into my old groove. The first loose end I want to tie up here: finishing my little manifesto on Twitter.  A little over a mo…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 05:47PM
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

But You Can See The Whole Sky by Leigh Hile

Well, I did it. I came back.  I don't think I really believed I would do it until I stepped of the plane in Albuquerque.  Maybe I still don't believe it.  I have a hard time w…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 02:45PM
Monday, September 12, 2011

The Benefits of Twitter, Part 1 by Leigh Hile

Last night, after seeing his wonderful show in the Philly Fringe, I went out for a drink with my friend Ben along with the rest of the cast and crew.  "What's going on?" he asked me.&nb…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 09:52AM
Friday, September 2, 2011

Harlem Grey Gardens by Leigh Hile

Our downstairs neighbors are gone. Evicted -- I saw the notice go up on their door at the beginning of August, and now, at the beginning of September, they have long disappeared. I've been…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 02:34PM
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Sobbing My Guts Out (Or: Observations in Storytelling and Catharsis) by Leigh Hile

Here's a thing that happened to me during the Lab, that I meant to write about but didn't, because, you know, my life had been swallowed. On the evening second day off, after nearly 13 days…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 02:18PM
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Leaving on the Midnight Train. Or More Probably, an Early Morning Flight by Leigh Hile

This afternoon, I told my sister news which I've known to be true for almost a year, and still the telling of it made me want to double over and breathe into a paper bag. Yes, I'm leaving N…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 06:54PM
Monday, August 8, 2011

Cowboys and Aliens by Leigh Hile

I saw Cowboys and Aliens last week at the drive-in movies in New Jersey. It was my first drive-in movie experience, and despite the beautiful immensity of the movie projected in front of da…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 11:24AM
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

That's Art For You (Richard Avedon, and Failure) by Leigh Hile

On Sunday afternoon a friend and I traveled out on a whim to the Nassau County Museum of Art. The museum is currently displaying the work of photographer Richard Avedon, much of which quite…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:10PM
Saturday, July 30, 2011

My Favorite Urban Legend UPDATE by Leigh Hile

This happened a few months ago, and somehow slipped through the cracks, but I feel it's still significant enough to mention:The dead-dog urban legend has once again been spotted!That's right…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 03:24PM
Friday, July 29, 2011

Tales From an Ex-Waitress by Leigh Hile

With my waitressing days behind me, as I stumble into the next phase of my life, I'm beginning to suspect that the name of this transition time is: Babysitting. In fact, as I type, I have o…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 03:40PM
Friday, July 22, 2011

"I'm Really Into Curation Lately." by Leigh Hile

I once heard this spoken by one of the members of the Women's Project labs (forgive me, I can't remember who). I was just out of college at that time, and happened to be lucky enough to bri…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 02:41PM
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Lab is Over, Alas for Mankind. by Leigh Hile

The Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab has come and gone, and after doing nothing but wrangling with Strindberg's A Dream Play for three weeks straight, now that it's over, it already feel…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 03:14PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Some More Really Good Theater by Leigh Hile

The Directors' Lab has begun, and after just two days, I am already exhausted, terrified, excited and inspired. But more on that later. Before I my head goes completely below water, though…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 06:12AM
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Ajax In Iraq by Leigh Hile

Flux Theater Ensemble's Ajax in Iraq closes on June 25th, so you still have time to catch this earnest, provocative and visually stunning play. Ajax in Iraq tells the parallel stories of th…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 07:38PM
Monday, June 20, 2011

We're Going Up by Leigh Hile

Today at 3 we'll tech for Captain Moonbeam & Lynchpin, and tomorrow we open.I'm really excited. Like, REALLY excited. I can't wait for all of the exciting things we've been exploring in re…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 02:16PM
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Nothing But Filler by Leigh Hile

In Boston this weekend, while visiting with old friends, one of them asked me jokingly about my blog, "Do you ever begin posts with the line, 'Sorry I haven't posted in a while...'?""I have …

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 11:47AM
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

What Happens in the Rehearsal Room by Leigh Hile

Rehearsals for Captain Moonbeam & Lynchpin began this week. Things are going great so far. Our first full cast rehearsal is, I believe, tomorrow night, which is something to look forward t…

SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 05:13PM

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