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I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
This is absolutely stunning. I especially like that they haven’t updated projects under construction, so I can fly around town in a simpler time, before the Sculpture for Living(tm) besmirched our fair town.
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Criticism’s a beach.
I hate it when facts go and ruin a perfectly good screed. But being self-righteous means always finding new ways to gripe. This started out as a perfectly fine complaint about Nicolai Ouroussoff and practice of critics — online at least — who talk and talk about things you can’t see, but they can. I’m […]
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George Pataki, Curator: I know, the first show at the Freedom Center can be about censorship in the arts!
Is it possible to make a rational comment about this? Is it fair to force me to give up a Saturday morning to explain how absurd this is? That I need to point out that the specious politicking that purports to draw a connection between criticizing torture at Abu Ghraib is somehow to equivalent to […]
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Come celebrate ‘I’m a Socialist for the Day’ Day.
It’s that semi-annual (or is it bi-annual?) time again. You know, when those people you know who never seem to have full-time jobs but own country homes — or maybe it’s the long suffering tenant who has been complaining about the quality of their kitchen since the Ford administration — take up in arms with […]
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That she doesn’t have her own yet is another clear sign of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Two recent street sightings remind me what’s great about this town and that ‘street art’ isn’t simply something designed to end up on a Threadless tee shirt: 1. At Forsyth and Stanton (maybe Rivington), both the north and south crossing signals (east side) have stickers affixed to them that, upon the illumination of the ‘walk’ […]
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A void.
The Times provides a by-the-numbers nostalgia piece on 130 Liberty Street (the Deutsche Bank/1 Bankers Plaza building). For a long time, much of their coverage of the WTC attacks evidenced a strong, restrained tone that was good reportage with a minimum of pap. Their commitment to publishing the stories of those who died and its […]
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Trash Talkin’.
After a spike in his approval numbers, a newfound love for outer boroughs, and this week’s flipping of the bird at City Council, it looks like hizzoner is making a play for the now apparenly vacant title of Iron Mike. Fixing a steely gaze on the perpetually seeming like he is running Student Council Gifford […]
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You are already dating someone? Well, do you have a sister?
It seems New York really is the ‘can-do’ town that every seems to imagine we are. Sure, after ten years we still can’t seem to Penn Station on track, and Governor’s Island languishes while we remain starved for green space, but we did redesign two of the largest pending projects in the area in under […]
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Leavin’ on a jet plane; don’t know when I’ll be back again.
Do you hear that? Quiet. Well, not really. There’s still plenty of complaining and veiled threats, the usual din of a New York morning. But it feels different here. Aside from the unseasonable heat, what makes today special? Well, when you talk, or just think, about how you live in a town that’s different, a […]
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Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.