February 2010
January 2010
“Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge.”
The New York Times on Crash Blossoms: ambiguous, double-meaning headlines.
Some good ones: “McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers” and “British Left Waffles on Falklands.”
“solastalgia,” a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root –algia (pain), which he defined as “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault …
Albrecht, a dark, ebullient man with a crooked aquiline nose, was known locally for his activism. He participated in blockades of ships...
Commenter 1 - ANIMAL 0
“She starts her shift at 4AM after possibly finishing another shift from some other shitty job; so she can just barely pay rent and the heating bill’; then some self righteous prick with a cell phone camera and a blog snaps a photo of her “napping in public”- oh the horror- and she loses her job. You should be proud. Another example of feigned outrage over something completely benign. Maybe...
92y:
“Di Palo which is in Little Italy…they import the best Parmigiano [Reggiano] in the world there.” —French Culinary Institute founder and CEO Dorothy Hamilton.
Related: Di Palo Selects Parmigiano Reggiano
Renowned foodies Tom Colicchio, Dan Barber, Jacques Torres and Andre Soltner and Dorothy Hamilton will be at 92Y on Feb 3 for Doing What You Love, talking about their careers and...
Excerpt from Edmund White’s City Boy:
In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation. To us, however, it...
I'm having an increasingly hard time reconciling...
ryanbrown:
chrismohney:
This includes people who share the last opinion. Maybe even especially them. I’ll be first over the edge.
AND he’s hiring!
If krucoff and brown will wear white nikes and pull the plug, i will too.
Ca$h For Guns! Nets 1,186 Guns →
Guns brought to Bronx churches Saturday by citizens participating in the NYPD buy back program / Credit: NYPD Twitter New York City held a gun buy-back program last Saturday…
NYPD Police Commisioner Ray Kelly prefers a Rolex GMT Master II
Howard Zinn's [depressing] contribution to The...
thinice:
youngmanhattanite:
ferrrn:
“I’ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies. As far as disappointments, I wasn’t terribly disappointed because I didn’t expect that much. I expected him to be a traditional Democratic president. On foreign policy, that’s hardly any...
Howard Zinn's [depressing] contribution to The...
youngmanhattanite:
ferrrn:
“I’ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies. As far as disappointments, I wasn’t terribly disappointed because I didn’t expect that much. I expected him to be a traditional Democratic president. On foreign policy, that’s hardly any different...
Paul Richard - NW Corner of Elizabeth at Prince →
Previously:
Paul Richard - SE Corner of Spring and Mulberry
Paul Richard - Spring and Broadway
The internet seems awfully white lately, in a really gross way. Or is this just a result of me spending more time on Tumblr?
The designers gazed upon the pair with the longing and appreciation a Victoria’s Secret model might shoot at Melania Trump: Oh, honey, you bagged it and you will never have to hail a taxi in the rain again.
via: The New York Times, obviously.
The Muscular Stained Glass Of Joseph Cavalieri →
Commuters coming into Manhattan on the Metro-North Hudson Line might have seen Joseph Cavalieri’s work in the Philipse Manor station. Known for his creative stained glass, Cavalieri…