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How quickly one hundred years pass, huh? It seems like only yesterday that we were posting on our UnBeige Teletype Newsletter that Frank Lloyd Wright‘s historic Taliesin project was finally being completed way out there in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Now it’s the 100th anniversary of the famous piece of architecture and the landmark site has a year of events planned (though starting in April, because we can’t blame anyone for not wanting to be in the Midwest in the winter). Here’s where you can find the full list of activities, dates, and locations, and here’s a quick rundown on some of the bigger events they have planned:

The program of events will be concentrated within the Taliesin tour season which runs May through October. It will include a series of concerts, performances, lectures, exhibits, artist workshops and a closing gala to pay tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and legacy. Several performances will take place at the Taliesin Estate’s Hillside Theater, including concerts by the Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Third Coast Percussion Ensemble, and dance performances under the direction of University of Wisconsin dance professor Li Chiao-Ping. Wright’s personal photographer, Pedro E. Guerrero, will exhibit a limited-edition series of his photographs titled Wright and Taliesin: a Retrospective.

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We’ve got a bridge to sell you—or at least an event about a bridge. The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) continues its public programs juggernaut with “The Bridge as Muse,” a January 26 discussion of artists’ and photographers’ enduring fascination with the beloved Brooklyn Bridge. Warhol was a fan (as evidenced at right), and last year Alien Workshop introduced a swell skateboard deck printed with the artist’s silkscreens of the New York icon. Leading the MCNY chatfest will be Richard Haw, author of Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History (Routledge). Among the bridge-inspired artists confirmed to participate are Bascove, painter and author of Stone and Steel: Paintings & Writings Celebrating the Bridges of New York City (David R. Godine) and Jonathan Smith, photographer of The Bridge Project. Meanwhile, MCNY curator Sean Corcoran will be on hand to bridge the art and the history with the museum’s own collection of bridge images as well as the current exhibition, “Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman’s New York,” on view through February 21.

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Today is Unclutterer’s fourth birthday! As part of the celebration, Fujitsu has generously provided three of their new, ultra-portable, S1100 ScanSnap scanners for us to give away to three lucky Unclutterer Twitter followers.

We’ve teamed up with Fujitsu to help our readers cut back on paper waste, digitize clutter, better organize work/home offices, and celebrate our big four. We will give away three ScanSnap S1100 scanners next Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. EST.

How to enter to win: Entering to win is simple. All you need to do is follow us on Twitter. If you aren’t already on Twitter, create an account and then follow us @Unclutterer.

We will randomly select three winners from our Twitter followers. You only need to follow us once (and please, only once), to participate in the giveaway. If you already follow us on Twitter, then you are already participating and need not do anything more. Winners of the giveaway will have 24 hours to respond to a direct message from @Unclutterer to claim their new scanner. Failure to respond within 24 hours will disqualify you from the giveaway.

While you’re following @Unclutterer, consider also following Fujitsu @ScanSnapIT for scanning tips and news. I know that some of you aren’t interested in social media and will complain about having to sign up for Twitter to participate in the giveaway — however, this is the easiest way for us to manage the giveaway and it ensures that many of our readers are already entered to win with no additional effort on their part. Also, if you’re an avid Wired magazine reader, you know that social networking sites can help increase worker productivity if used efficiently. If you still wish to complain, well, please don’t because you can always cancel your account after the contest has ended. This is simply the easiest way for us to conduct the giveaway.

I am so exited about this birthday event and cannot wait to give away three Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 scanners. Remember, you have until 10:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday, January 11, to follow us on Twitter for the scanner giveaway. Good luck, and again a special thanks to Fujitsu for their amazing generosity!

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The Unclutterer family is growing, and I am elated to share with you the incredible news. Today, Dancing Mammoth (our parent company) is launching a new website that hopes to end mealtime stress. I would like to introduce you to our new sister site:

SimpliFried’s motto: “If your nerves are fried, we’ll be your simple, delicious, and nutritious cooking guide.” Our goal is to make feeding yourself and your family as painless as possible.

Similar to Unclutterer, there will be daily content posted to the site. Topics will range from simplifying and improving your cooking skills to food science to recipes that get you quickly in and out of the kitchen. Once a month there will be meal plans and shopping lists that make your life in the kitchen easier. Check out SimpliFried’s manifesto and About page to learn more.

I’m on board as the site’s Editor-in-Chief, and Matt Fetissoff joins me as our senior writer. Matt has lived for more than an year in an RV, and he knows a thing or two about cooking incredible meals in small spaces with low-tech equipment. Consulting to the site are a couple farmers (one in a major city and one on a large Midwest family farm), a butcher, a nutritionist, a self-declared foodie, and my very picky husband and even more picky peanut-allergic son who test drive every meal plan and recipe.

You can key in the URL by hand, subscribe to SimpliFried’s RSS feed, or get daily updates by e-mail. We also have a Twitter account @SimpliFried that regularly posts links.

Although there are only four posts currently live on the site, we’ve been working on SimpliFried for more than four months getting ready for the launch. I’m honestly surprised I was able to keep it a secret for so long. I am thrilled to finally be able to introduce it to you. The new logo even makes me smile, and I’m so glad we were able to have the same artist make him.

If you are looking for simplification strategies for your kitchen and cooking, I hope that SimpliFried can be a positive resource for you.

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If you’ve found that traveling to New York or Chicago or Miami for their various furniture and interior design expos has become routine, with all those same exhibitors every year and all the regulars wandering the booths, maybe you should start thinking about booking a flight to Iran. The nation is trying their hand at inviting foreign producers as part of their “first technical exhibition of office furniture and interior decoration,” held for three days at the end of the month at the Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds. Reportedly, in addition to local designers, via the Iran Furniture Manufacturers and Exporters Union, they already have 145 foreign firms lined up to participate, coming from both Europe and Asia (no mention of US involvement, which doesn’t come as too great a surprise). There isn’t much more information available beyond those few details, but we’re going to keep our eyes peeled for when photos, post-exhibition, are hopefully posted. We’re curious to see what an Iranian international furniture/interior fair looks like.

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