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By Paige Smith Orloff
LAST YEAR, WE loved profiling prolific, artistic sisters Daisy and Poppy de Villeneuve. Poppy was kind enough to email us about the completion of her latest project, a series of short films for the New York Times, called The Park. If you, like me, have any nostalgia for Manhattan, these may just be your cup of tea. Congrats, Poppy, and sisters: enjoy. (The photo above will click you over to The Times site.)
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OUR SISTER PAIGE’S FAVORITE CITY IN THE WORLD IS PARIS. She went there for the first time at 13, and fell in love. She hasn’t had chance for travel much of anywhere lately, though, so her Francophilia has mostly been fulfilled, you guessed it, by blogs…food blogs. Would you like to join Paige’s armchair voyages? You can almost taste the butter, smell the Gitanes, and hear the symphony of urban sounds a la français. And did we mention, bon appétit? Read on.
SISTER PAIGE WAS COMPLETELY CHARMED the other morning by a profile she heard on NPR of Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar. Three guesses as to who they are. And if you’re a Bollywood connoisseur, sorry, you’re disqualified. Get the scoop from Paige.
TSP SISTER MARION IS NOT the only one who’s got Oscars, and Oscar hairstyles, on the brain. The impending threat of a weekend of red-carpet coverage of a zillion visions of celebrity loveliness has Sister Paige thinking, too, about yes, her hair. “My hair, it seems, is a metaphor for grown-up life, which is messy and unpredictable and full of twists and turns,” she says. Read on, sister.
YOU PROBABLY KNOW by now that here at The Sister Project, we can’t resist a good sister story, and we love the sisters known as nuns, but this particular piece of news took us by surprise. Bill Murray is one of our favorite actors and comedians (seen his hilarious turn as himself in last year’s Zombieland?) but we didn’t know that one of his eight siblings is a Catholic nun, and a dramatic one at that. Our Sister Paige has the story.
WE TRY to keep track of notable sisters’ birthdays, so that we can remind ourselves (and you, of course) of all the women we admire, and acknowledge them on their special days. But as we were putting together our plans for this month, we noticed that an awful lot of spectacular sisters were born this month. This Friday is the birthday of Indy car racing pioneer Janet Guthrie, and next week, we’ll be celebrating actress Lynn Redgrave, Civil War heroine Harriet Tubman, singer Liza Minnelli and photographer Diane Arbus. That’s a whole lot of talent packed into seven days. As with everything around here, Sister Paige has her theories about why.
SOMETIMES WHEN SHE’S HOMEBOUND with cabin fever, Sister Paige says, she finds friends and sisterhood in unlikely places. Where does she go for a sense of community with hobby chicken farmers and collage artists and writers and other moms–all her kinds of people–when she can’t leave the driveway? Get the roadmap here.
ON THE POSITIVE side: No one threw up. But what happens when you pack two not-so-copacetic siblings into the car for a four-hour ride? In Sister Paige’s family: headphones, iPods, and a whole lot of discussion of just what makes boys so gross, anyway. The lowdown from the road.
PAIGE’S GOOD FRIEND told her that Mary Karr’s Lit was the best non-fiction she’d read in years, that while she couldn’t bear to put it down, the prose was so divine it made her want to stop after each passage just to savor it. This friend is no easy sell when it comes to writing and reading, so OK, said TSP’S Paige: “add that book to my reading list, stat, and here’s why.”
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By Marion Roach Smith
OUR FAVORITE NEW BOOK is the exquisite Monday Hearts for Madalene by San Francisco disc jockey Page Hodel. The images in the video above are from a series of handmade hearts created by Hodel in memory of her partner, Madalene Rodriguez, lost to ovarian cancer. Each Monday, Hodel, 53, makes and photographs a one-of-a-kind valentine crafted from everyday objects, and then emails them to friends and family as a reminder and celebration of their love for one another. The result? This book and website, as well as other products, a portion of the sale proceeds going to The Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland, California. Now that’s all heart.
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RAISE A CUPCAKE today to Laura Ingalls Wilder, memoirist and chronicler extraordinaire, says Sister Paige, for whom the Little House books were a staple of childhood (and probably yours, too). More from Paige on this treasured “sister” on her birthday.
BRRR. BLECCH. IT’S FEBRUARY, SAYS SISTER PAIGE. In college, this meant something called “Feb Club,” an organized party every single night of the year’s bleakest, longest-feeling month. In real life, this means an escape from the winter blues comes through cooking and reading. Thanks to the net, Paige has found an incredible web of foodie blogging sisters and brothers whose recipes and reminiscences spirit her away to places much brighter and warmer. Come away with her to visit bloggers whose words and pictures are an escape as good as any exotic vacation, and a lot easier to come by.
THIS IS IT, dear sisters, says TSP’S Paige. It’s now or never. Do or die. What’s so urgent? You have to sign up this week in order to participate in our first-ever Sister Project Cookbook Swap. Join us, and you’ll clean off a space on your own bookshelf just in time to receive a surprise cookbook from another TSP reader/cook. But wait, Ginsu Knife fans! That’s not all: Get the whole deal from Paige.
IN THE GALLERIES: The papercuts of ELSA MORA.
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
