------------------------------------------------------- Goanet recommends, and is proud to be associated with, 'Domnic's Goa' - A nostalgic romp through a bygone era. This book is the perfect gift for any Goan, or anyone wanting to understand Goa. Distributed locally by Broadway, near Caculo Island, Panjim & internationally by OtherIndiaBookStore.Com. For trade enquiries contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- Karen Sandstrom Plain Dealer Reporter Chinese astrology gave the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood in Cleveland an inspiration for its 2007 Year of the Pig public art campaign, but none of us needs a reason to paint a pig.
No disrespect intended concerning the public display of guitars (love guitars!) or dogs (some of our best friends are dogs!). Still, when it comes to objects deserving of a pedestal, nothing can better the pig. But that doesn't fully explain our enthusiasm for the 40 pigs that have been interpreted by local artists. Throughout history, pigs have brought joy to our hearts, bacon to our cheeseburgers and punch lines to our Saturday morning cartoons. The pig is the ultimate good sport, which is not such a surprise. In this beauty-obsessed culture, graceful suffering may be the only option open to a creature that starts with a cork-stopper snout, ends with a corkscrew tail and contains a veritable deli case of cold cuts in between. We never have to worry about them getting all full of themselves, do we? Yet popular culture has worked hard to celebrate swine, giving us such memorable characters as Wilbur, the lovable runt from "Charlotte's Web"; Olivia, the spunkiest of spunky girl-pigs, immortalized in books by artist Ian Falconer; and the n-n-n-never-to-be-f-f-f-forgotten animated Porky. One more thought, "Sopranos" worshippers. Tony's undeniably porcine features make the killer seem almost cuddly, don't they? Love 'em. Love 'em all. The St. Clair Superior Development Corp. tapped artist Viktor Schreckengost to design the fiberglass sculpture used as a starting point for the pig designs. They'll be on view until the week before Labor Day inside and outside businesses in the neighborhood, which is bordered by East 30th Street on the west, Martin Luther King Drive on the east, Superior and Payne avenues on the south and Lake Erie.
